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Microsoft made available the newest version of Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Essential Business Server. Microsoft's software platforms deliver the power of Windows high-end server platforms to small organizations in a cost-effective package. Designed for companies with as many as 75 desktops, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 is a cohesive server platform engineered to help businesses keep their information more secure and their workers more productive.

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

Microsoft Windows EBS 2008 is targeted for organizations with up to 75 PCs and provides IT staff more control over their information system by reducing complications and streamlining many processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by facilitating connectivity to business e-mail, scheduling, addresses and files to users when they are not at the office. To see Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Introduces Windows SBS 2008 and EBS 2008.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Experts Can Assist You to Integrate MS Windows SBS
The most productive deployment of Windows SBS calls for an IT support firm with real-world expertise and a broad knowledge-base in designing and building data-driven end-to-end business technology solutions. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team, with more than a decade of working in Microsoft products, ensures you success in designing, deploying and administering Small Business Server solutions that are well integrated with the Microsoft line of servers.

Progent's IT professionals can assist you to integrate the main pieces of the MS Windows SBS 2008 and Microsoft Windows EBS 2008 packages and can also offer a range of other low-cost support options to improve the productivity, dependability, security, speed, and maintainability of information systems based on SBS 2008 or Essential Business Server 2008:

Windows Server 2008 Expertise
Progent offers a variety of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting and integration services that can assist small businesses to get the most from Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to understand the ways Windows Server 2008 could enhance the productivity of your information network in order to cost-justify a migration. Progent can help you test Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in order to assess its reliability, speed, and operability running realistic applications. Progent can provide consulting for developing a rollout strategy, assess and enhance your current network infrastructure, document archiving and restoration processes, analyze security mechanisms and policies, help in setting up physical and virtualized machines, design high-availability strategies such as server clustering, educate your in-house IT management staff, and set up automated 24x7 monitoring processes to track your information system's security and efficiency.

Exchange Server Planning, Setup, and Maintenance Support
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help you define and deploy an efficient Exchange Server 2007 migration strategy that avoids network downtime, reduces ongoing support demands, and makes your Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. Progent's Exchange 2007 support, troubleshooting, and design services include assistance with the integration of third-party enhancements of Exchange Server 2007 and the creation of unified messaging solutions powered by Exchange Server 2007. Progent's services include complete incorporation with your business network, access to mobile computing products, automated tracking of performance and network security, spam and virus filtering, patch and service pack management, Contact Center support, per-day data backup, and comprehensive email administration services.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Consulting and Support
Progent can offer help for planning, configuring, and maintaining successful SharePoint Server installations that will dramatically enhance important areas of your information system including teamwork, web portal, enterprise search, forms-based business processes, access to business intelligence, and document control. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to assess the business case for adopting SharePoint Server 2007, deliver configuration and integration expertise, help your business to set up SQL Server 2008 as a back-end database, optimize your network infrastructure, set up your off-the-shelf and custom application software to operate with Office SharePoint Server, create a comprehensive security strategy that incorporates web portal solutions, and deliver remote and in-person troubleshooting and Help Desk Call Center services.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming and Support
Progent's SQL Server engineers can help your organization installs Microsoft SQL Server 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL-powered database system is integrated thoroughly with your business applications. Progent offers automated network tracking to make sure your business network is healthy, and Progent's online Technical Response Center is ready to offer fast solutions for SQL problems. Progent's certified data protection engineers can evaluate your business-wide security policies and mechanisms and suggest improvements for more complete regulatory compliance. Progent's application developers can help your company to develop or customize line-of-business applications or eCommerce sites rely on databases managed by Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support experts offer a broad range of affordable support services to assist your business to install, integrate, repair, and administer desktop PCs and laptops based on Windows. Progent can offer onsite or remote technical support for single machines or notebooks or work with your business to design and implement a company-wide rollout of the most current version of Windows. Progent can also install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics business applications on your workstations so they integrate efficiently with other Microsoft programs, software from third-party publishers, SQL databases, and line-of-business services network-wide. Progent can also supply engineers and technicians to assist your company to prepare for and complete a site move or merger designed to produce minimal interruption to your business.

Network Security Inventory Bundles
Progent has put together two low-cost service bundles designed to enable small companies to receive a professional security assessment from a GIAC, CISA and CISM-premier security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs a comprehensive examination of your network from outside your firewalled perimeter to uncover possible weaknesses in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert executes a system scan from a secure machine within your company firewall to uncover the risk to inside threats. Both security inventory services are configured and run from a secured remote location. The process is managed by an engineer with high-level security accreditations who produces a document that summarizes and interprets the data collected by the scan and suggests practical remediation where call for.

Virtual Training for Desktop Programs
Progent offers online virtual learning for a range of client programs and environments such as Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat Writer, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Windows XP and Vista. Live online education provides the advantages of traditional in-person sessions, including instant communication between clients and teachers, but eliminates the costs of transportation and the hassle of trying to accommodate the availability of multiple workers. Available to individuals or groups of any size, virtual education allows the instructor to run the seminar from an online facility and the students can be dispersed across an office or across the country. Live online instruction deploys powerful teaching tools such as broadcast white boards, electronic hand-raising, and shared applications. Classes can be brief and personalized for specific topics or extended in duration and broader in scope. Teachers and students can work through problems individually or as a group.

Urgent Remote Technical Support
Progent's Technical Response Center offers national remote support for Windows and Cisco-based small business information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier service engineers offer telephone support and online direct network connection to troubleshoot and resolve technical problems quickly and economically. The scope of technical expertise represented by Progent's team of country-wide support professionals makes it possible to escalate even the most difficult network issues to competent specialists as required.

To find out more details concerning Progent's consulting and support services for MS Windows SBS 2008, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.