New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Microsoft made available the newest edition of Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Essential Business Server. These solutions deliver the power of Windows advanced server technologies to small and midsize organizations in an economical package. Targeted for companies with up to 75 PC users, Microsoft SBS is a cohesive server platform engineered to enable businesses make their information safer and make their network more productive.

Microsoft SBS 2008 is offered in basic and premier versions. The basic package includes Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services 3.0. The premium edition also includes MS SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Windows EBS 2008 is targeted for companies with as many as 75 users and provides network staff more manageability of their information system by eliminating complications and streamlining many tasks. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by facilitating connectivity to business e-mail, calendars, contacts and information to workers when they are away from the office. To see Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Introduces Small Business Server 2008 and EBS 2008.

How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Help Your Business to Deploy Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008
The optimal configuration of MS Windows SBS 2008 calls for a network support firm with hands-on experience and an extensive background in designing and building data-driven end-to-end business IT solutions. The background of Progent's Microsoft-authorized technical group, with more than 10 years of working in Microsoft technology, assures you success in designing, executing and administering Small Business Server 2008 applications that are well integrated with Microsoft's product family of system and application servers.

Progent's IT professionals can assist you to deploy the major components of the Microsoft Windows SBS and Microsoft EBS 2008 packages and can also provide a variety of other affordable support options to improve the productivity, reliability, protection, speed, and maintainability of information systems built around Windows SBS 2008 or Essential Business Server 2008:

Windows Server 2008 Planning and Support
Progent provides a variety of Windows Server 2008 consulting and integration services that can help small organizations to take advantage of Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help you to evaluate the areas where Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could enhance the productivity of your information network in order to cost-justify a migration. Progent can help you pilot Microsoft Windows Server 2008 so that you can determine its stability, throughput, and operability handling your applications. Progent can assist with developing a deployment strategy, assess and enhance your current network infrastructure, develop archiving and restoration procedures, evaluate security architecture and guidelines, help in setting up physical and virtual servers, develop fault-tolerant strategies including server clustering with Hyper-V, train your internal network administration staff, and deploy automated server and network monitoring operations to ensure system security and efficiency.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Design, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Services
Progent's Microsoft certified support team can show you how to design and implement an efficient Microsoft Exchange 2007 migration plan that minimizes network downtime, reduces long-term support requirements, and makes your Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 easy to manage. Progent's Exchange 2007 support, repair, and design offerings include assistance with the configuration of outside vendor add-ons to Exchange 2007 Server and the creation of unified messaging implementations based on Exchange 2007 Server. Progent's services include integration with your network, connectivity with handheld computing products, automated tracking of performance and security, spam protection, patch and service pack control, Helpdesk support, daily data backup, and full messaging administration support.

SharePoint Server Integration Services
Progent can provide help for designing, deploying, and managing productive Microsoft SharePoint Server solutions that can significantly enhance key aspects of your IT network such as collaboration, intranet portal, corporate-wide search, forms-driven business operations, delivery of business information, and content control. Progent's Microsoft-qualified engineers can assist your company to evaluate the business case for implementing Office SharePoint, provide setup and installation support, assist your business to set up Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as a back-office database, enhance your network infrastructure, integrate your standard and specialized application software to work with Microsoft SharePoint Server, create a company-wide security plan that includes web portal solutions, and deliver remote and in-person troubleshooting and Call Center services.

SQL Server 2008 Design and Support
Progent's SQL Server consultants can help your company installs SQL Server 2008 properly, and that your SQL-based RDBM system is integrated effectively with your applications. Progent can provide 24x7 server tracking to make sure your business network is always available, and Progent's online Help Desk Call Center is ready to provide quick remediation for SQL issues. Progent's certified data protection consultants can assess your business-wide security processes and technologies and recommend improvements for more complete protection. Progent's application developers can assist you to develop or customize business applications or web sites utilize information controlled by Microsoft SQL Server.

Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts offer a wide range of cost-effective support services to help your business to deploy, configure, repair, and manage desktop PCs and laptops powered by Microsoft Windows. Progent can offer onsite or remote technical support for single machines or laptops or work with you to design and implement a large-scale rollout of the most current release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your workstations so they integrate productively with all Microsoft programs, products from popular vendors, database servers, and line-of-business solutions network-wide. Progent can also supply consultants and technicians to help you to plan for and implement a company move or consolidation organized to produce the least possible interruption to your productivity.

Security Inventory Bundles
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service packages designed to allow small companies to get an objective network security assessment from a GIAC, CISA and CISM-premier security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer runs a comprehensive test of your network from beyond your company firewall to determine potential risks in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer runs a network scan from an authorized computer inside your firewall to uncover your exposure to internal attacks. Both security inventory packages are configured and run from a secured remote location. The process is implemented by a consultant with high-level security credentials who generates a document that summarizes and analyzes the information collected by the scan and suggests cost-effective improvements where appropriate.

Virtual Training for Workstation Programs
Progent provides online virtual learning for a range of desktop programs and environments such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Publisher, Project, Acrobat Writer, Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Windows XP and Vista. Virtual education offers the benefits of conventional in-person seminars, such as immediate interaction between clients and trainers, but eliminates the costs of transportation and the hassle of attempting to accommodate the availability of many students. Available to individuals or groups of any size, live online instruction permits the trainer to run the seminar from an online facility and the clients can be dispersed across an office or all over the the U.S. Live online training supports proven teaching tools such as broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative applications. Classes can be short and targeted for specialized topics or longer in time and broader in scope. Teachers and clients can work through problems individually or as a group.

Urgent Online Troubleshooting
Progent's National Support Center offers national remote assistance for Windows and Cisco-based small business information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified support engineers offer phone support and remote secure network access to troubleshoot and resolve technical problems quickly and affordably. The breadth of technical expertise available from Progent's staff of country-wide support professionals makes it possible to escalate even the toughest problems to qualified specialists as required.

To find out additional information concerning Progent's consulting services for Microsoft SBS, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.