New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Microsoft debuted the most recent edition of Windows Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Windows Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). These products deliver the capabilities of Windows high-end server platforms to smaller companies in a cost-effective package. Targeted for companies with as many as 75 workstations, Windows SBS 2008 is an integrated server platform engineered to enable companies make their information more secure and their workers more efficient.

MS Small Business Server 2008 is available in basic and premier versions. The standard package features MS Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server, Microsoft SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The premium edition also includes MS SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Essential Business Server is intended for businesses with as many as 75 workstations and gives network staff greater manageability of their information system by eliminating complications and streamlining common processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by allowing access to corporate messaging, scheduling, contacts and information to workers when they are away from their desks. To see Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Releases SBS 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Certified Experts Can Assist Your Company to Deploy Microsoft SBS
The most productive deployment of Microsoft Windows SBS 2008 requires a network support company with hands-on expertise and an extensive knowledge-base in designing and implementing data-driven end-to-end business IT solutions. The background of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical group, with more than 10 years of working in Microsoft technology, ensures you success in planning, executing and managing MS Small Business Server 2008 applications that are thoroughly integrated with the Microsoft line of system and application servers.

Progent's consulting experts can help you to deploy the major components of the Microsoft Windows SBS and Microsoft EBS 2008 packages and can also offer a variety of other low-cost support options to enhance the productivity, reliability, security, performance, and maintainability of information systems built around Windows SBS 2008 or Windows EBS 2008:

Windows Server 2008 Support
Progent provides a variety of Windows Server 2008 planning and integration support that can assist small businesses to take advantage of Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft Gold certified engineers can assist your company to understand the ways Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could improve the productivity of your IT system in order to cost-justify an upgrade. Progent can show you how to test Microsoft Windows Server 2008 so that you can determine its stability, speed, and operability handling realistic workloads. Progent can provide consulting for creating a deployment plan, evaluate and improve your current network infrastructure, document archiving and restoration procedures, evaluate security architecture and guidelines, help in installing physical and virtualized machines, design high-availability solutions including server and storage clustering, educate your internal network administration team, and deploy proactive server monitoring operations to ensure system security and performance.

Microsoft Exchange Server Design, Installation, and Maintenance Support
Progent's expert support team can help you define and deploy an efficient Exchange Server 2007 upgrade strategy that avoids productivity disruption, reduces long-term support requirements, and makes your Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2007 help, repair, and design offerings include assistance with the integration of third-party add-ons to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the creation of unified messaging solutions powered by Exchange 2007 Server. Progent's services feature complete incorporation with your network, connectivity with handheld communication products, continual monitoring of performance and security, spam filtering, security update and revision control, Helpdesk support, daily backup, and comprehensive email management support.

Office SharePoint Server Integration Services
Progent can offer assistance for planning, configuring, and managing productive SharePoint Server installations that can dramatically enhance key aspects of your information network including teamwork, intranet portal, enterprise search, forms-based business processes, delivery of business information, and content control. Progent's Microsoft-qualified engineers can assist your company to evaluate the business case for adopting SharePoint Server 2007, deliver setup and integration support, assist you to set up SQL Server as a back-end database, enhance your network architecture, set up your off-the-shelf and custom application programs to operate with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, create a company-wide protection plan that includes web portal technology, and deliver remote and on-premises repair and Call Center services.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming and Support
Progent's SQL Server experts can make sure you configures SQL Server 2008 properly, and that your SQL-powered database system is incorporated thoroughly with your application software. Progent offers continuous server tracking to make sure your corporate network is working efficiently, and Progent's remote Help Desk is ready to provide quick resolutions for SQL-related issues. Progent's certified network protection experts can assess your business-wide security processes and mechanisms and recommend improvements for better protection. Progent's programmers can assist you to create or customize business applications or web sites rely on databases controlled by SQL Server.

Desktop Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support consultants offer a wide range of cost-effective support services to help you company to deploy, configure, repair, and manage desktop PCs and notebooks based on Windows. Progent can offer on-premises or remote technical support for single computers or notebooks or help you to design and carry out a network-wide rollout of the newest release of Windows. Progent can also configure Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your workstations so they integrate efficiently with other Microsoft programs, products from popular vendors, database servers, and key services network-wide. Progent can also supply consultants and technicians to assist your company to plan for and implement an office relocation or consolidation organized to cause minimal disruption of your business.

Network Security Inventory Bundles
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service packages intended to allow small businesses to get a professional network security assessment from a CISA, CISM and CISSP-certified security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs an extensive examination of your network from beyond your firewalled perimeter to determine potential weaknesses in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer executes a network scan from a secure computer inside your firewall to assess vulnerabilities to inside assaults. The two security inventory services are configured and run from a protected remote site. The process is implemented by a consultant with high-level security accreditations who generates a document that details and interprets the data collected by the scan and proposes cost-effective improvements if appropriate.

Virtual Learning for Desktop Programs
Progent offers live virtual training for an array of desktop applications and operating systems such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Live online instruction offers the advantages of conventional classroom seminars, including immediate communication between clients and trainers, but eliminates the expenses of travel and the challenge of attempting to synchronize the availability of many trainees. Available to single students or classes of all sizes, virtual learning allows the trainer to run the class from a remote facility while the clients can be dispersed throughout a campus or across the country. Virtual learning utilizes powerful learning aids such as virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and collaborative applications. Classes can be short and targeted for specific topics or longer in duration and broader in scope. Teachers and clients can go through problems individually or as a class.

Emergency Online Technical Support
Progent's National Support Center offers nationwide remote help for Windows and Cisco-based small office information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier support professionals offer telephone support and remote direct network connection to isolate and repair technical problems rapidly and affordably. The scope of technical expertise represented by Progent's team of nationwide service engineers allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult network issues to appropriate specialists as needed.

For additional details about Progent's consulting support for Microsoft Windows SBS 2008, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.