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Microsoft introduced the 2008 edition of Small Business Server and Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). These solutions deliver the power of Microsoft's enterprise-class server platforms to small and midsize businesses in an affordable package. Designed for organizations with as many as 75 users, MS Windows SBS 2008 is a cohesive server solution created to help businesses make their data more secure and their network more efficient.

MS SBS 2008 is offered in standard and premium editions. The basic edition features MS Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services. The premium version adds MS SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Windows EBS 2008 is intended for organizations with as many as 75 users and offers IT staff more control over their environment by eliminating complexity and streamlining common tasks. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by allowing access to corporate messaging, calendars, addresses and files to users who are away from their desks. To see Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Announces Availability of SBS 2008 and EBS 2008.

How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Assist You to Take Advantage of Microsoft SBS
The optimal deployment of Windows SBS 2008 calls for an IT consulting company with real-world expertise and an extensive background in designing and implementing data-driven end-to-end business IT solutions. The background of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with more than a decade of working in Microsoft technology, assures you results in designing, deploying and administering Small Business Server 2008 applications that are thoroughly integrated with Microsoft's line of system and application servers.

Progent's consulting experts can assist you to deploy the main pieces of the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server and Microsoft Windows EBS 2008 packages and can also provide a variety of other affordable support options to improve the efficiency, dependability, protection, performance, and manageability of information networks based on Small Business Server 2008 or EBS 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Integration
Progent offers a variety of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting and integration support that can assist small businesses to take advantage of Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to understand the areas where Windows Server 2008 could improve the productivity of your IT system in order to rationalize a migration. Progent can show you how to test Windows Server 2008 so that you can determine its reliability, speed, and operability running realistic workloads. Progent can help with creating a rollout plan, evaluate and improve your current network environment, document backup and restoration processes, evaluate security architecture and policies, assist in installing actual and virtualized servers, develop high-availability strategies including server clustering with Hyper-V, educate your in-house network management team, and set up automated 24x7 monitoring processes to track your information system's security and efficiency.

Exchange Server Design, Configuration, and Maintenance Services
Progent's expert consultants can help you define and implement an efficient Microsoft Exchange 2007 upgrade plan that avoids productivity disruption, simplifies long-term service demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. Progent's Exchange 2007 help, troubleshooting, and consulting offerings include expertise with the configuration of outside vendor add-ons to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the design of unified messaging implementations based on Exchange Server 2007. Services include integration with your business network, access to mobile communication products, continual monitoring of efficiency and security, spam protection, patch and revision management, Help Desk support, per-day backup, and full messaging management support.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Help
Progent can provide assistance for planning, deploying, and maintaining productive Microsoft Office SharePoint Server solutions that will significantly enhance important aspects of your company's information network including teamwork, intranet portal, company-wide search, forms-driven business operations, delivery of management intelligence, and content control. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your company to assess the business case for deploying SharePoint Server, deliver setup and integration expertise, help your business to set up Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as a back-end database engine, optimize your network architecture, set up your standard and specialized business software to work with SharePoint Server 2007, develop a comprehensive protection plan that includes web portal solutions, and deliver remote and on-premises troubleshooting and Call Center support.

Microsoft SQL Server Design and Support
Progent's SQL Server engineers can make sure your business configures SQL 2008 properly, and that your SQL-based DBM solution is integrated effectively with your applications. Progent offers continuous network tracking to make sure your business network is always available, and Progent's online Technical Response Center is available to offer rapid solutions for SQL-related issues. Progent's certified data protection engineers can evaluate your company-wide security policies and technologies and recommend improvements for more complete protection. Progent's developers can help you to develop or customize line-of-business applications or web sites rely on databases managed by Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts offer a broad array of cost-effective consulting and support services to assist your business to deploy, integrate, troubleshoot, and manage desktop PCs and notebooks based on Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide on-premises or remote assistance for single computers or laptops or help you to design and implement a network-wide migration to the most current release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics business applications on your workstations so they integrate efficiently with all Microsoft applications, products from third-party publishers, business servers, and key services throughout your network. Progent can also supply engineers and technical workers to help your company to prepare for and complete a site move or consolidation designed to produce the least possible interruption to your productivity.

Security Inventory Bundles
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service packages intended to enable small businesses to get an impartial network security evaluation from a GIAC and CISA-certified security consultant. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs an extensive examination of your network from beyond your firewalled perimeter to uncover potential weaknesses in the security profile you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs a system scan from an authorized computer inside your firewall to assess your exposure to inside assaults. The two security inventory packages are configured and executed from a secured external location. The process is managed by a consultant with high-level security credentials who produces a report that summarizes and interprets the information collected by the security scan and suggests cost-effective improvements where call for.

Virtual Training for Workstation Applications
Progent provides live virtual learning for an array of client programs and environments including Office Excel, Word, Access, Visio, Acrobat Writer, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Virtual training offers the advantages of traditional classroom sessions, such as instant communication between students and teachers, but avoids the costs of travel and the challenge of trying to synchronize the availability of many trainees. Offered to single students or classes of all sizes, live online learning allows the trainer to conduct the seminar from an online facility and the clients can be dispersed throughout an office or all over the the U.S. Virtual education supports powerful learning aids like virtual white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative applications. Classes can be brief and targeted for specific topics or longer in duration and wider in coverage. Teachers and students can work through problems one-on-one or as a group.

Urgent Online Troubleshooting
Progent's Technical Response Center provides national remote support for Windows and Cisco-based small business information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier support professionals offer phone support and remote secure network connection to troubleshoot and repair network problems rapidly and affordably. The scope of IT experience represented by Progent's staff of nationwide service engineers makes it possible to escalate even the toughest network issues to competent specialists as needed.

For additional details concerning Progent's consulting and support services for Microsoft SBS 2008, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.