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Microsoft debuted the newest release of Windows Small Business Server and Essential Business Server. These software platforms deliver the power of Windows advanced server technologies to small organizations in a cost-effective bundle. Designed for businesses with up to 75 PC users, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 is a cohesive server platform engineered to help companies make their information more secure and make their workers more productive.

Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 is available in standard and premier versions. The standard edition includes MS Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007 Server, SharePoint 3.0, and Windows Server Update Services 3.0. The premier version adds Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Essential Business Server is meant for organizations with up to 75 desktops and offers network staff easier control over their information system by eliminating complexity and automating many processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by facilitating connectivity to corporate messaging, calendars, contacts and information to users who are away from their desks. To view Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Releases Windows SBS 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Help You to Deploy Microsoft Windows Small Business Server
The most productive installation of Windows Small Business Server calls for a network support company with real-world expertise and a broad knowledge-base in planning and implementing data-driven end-to-end business IT applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-authorized consulting team, with more than 10 years of working in Microsoft technology, ensures you results in planning, deploying and managing Small Business Server 2008 applications that are thoroughly integrated with the Microsoft line of servers.

Progent's consultants can help you to integrate the major pieces of the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows EBS 2008 bundles and can also provide a variety of other affordable support options to improve the efficiency, reliability, protection, performance, and manageability of information networks built around Windows SBS 2008 or Windows Essential Business Server 2008:

Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent provides a variety of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 planning and maintenance services that can assist small businesses to get the most from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist your company to evaluate the ways Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could improve the business value of your network so that you can cost-justify a migration. Progent can help you test Windows Server 2008 so that you can determine its stability, throughput, and operability handling your applications. Progent can assist with developing a rollout strategy, assess and enhance existing network environment, document archiving and restoration processes, analyze security architecture and guidelines, assist in installing actual and virtual machines, develop high-availability strategies such as server and storage clustering, educate your in-house network administration staff, and set up automated server and network monitoring operations to track your information system's protection and efficiency.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Planning, Installation, and Maintenance Support
Progent's Microsoft certified support team can show you how to define and implement a smooth Microsoft Exchange 2007 migration strategy that minimizes productivity downtime, reduces long-term support demands, and makes your Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 support, troubleshooting, and design offerings include assistance with the integration of outside vendor enhancements of Exchange 2007 Server and the design of unified messaging solutions powered by Exchange Server 2007. Services feature complete incorporation with your business network, access to handheld communication products, automated monitoring of performance and network security, spam protection, patch and revision management, Contact Center support, daily backup, and full email administration services.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Integration Services
Progent can provide expertise for planning, deploying, and maintaining successful SharePoint Server installations that will dramatically improve key areas of your company's information network including collaboration, web portal, corporate-wide search, forms-driven business operations, delivery of actionable information, and document control. Progent's Microsoft-qualified engineers can assist you to assess the business benefit for deploying SharePoint Server 2007, deliver configuration and installation expertise, assist you to configure SQL Server 2008 as a back-office database, optimize your network infrastructure, set up your off-the-shelf and specialized business software to operate with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, create a company-wide security strategy that incorporates portal solutions, and provide remote and on-premises troubleshooting and Help Desk Call Center support.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Consulting Services
Progent's SQL Server engineers can make sure your organization installs Microsoft SQL Server 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL-based data management solution is incorporated effectively with your applications. Progent offers continuous server monitoring to ensure your corporate information system is healthy, and Progent's remote Help Desk Call Center is available to provide fast solutions for SQL database issues. Progent's certified data security experts can assess your business-wide security policies and mechanisms and recommend improvements for more complete protection. Progent's developers can help your company to create or customize business programs or eCommerce sites rely on databases controlled by SQL Server.

Desktop Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support experts can deliver a broad array of cost-effective support services to assist your company to deploy, configure, repair, and manage desktop PCs and notebooks powered by Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide on-premises or online assistance for single computers or laptops or work with your business to plan and carry out a company-wide migration to the latest release of 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 vendors, SQL databases, and key solutions throughout your network. Progent can also supply consultants and technical workers to assist you to plan for and implement an office move or consolidation organized to produce the least possible interruption to your business.

Security Inventory Bundles
Progent offers two low-cost service bundles intended to allow small businesses to get a professional network security evaluation from a CISM and CISSP-certified security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs an extensive test of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewall to determine potential risks in the security profile you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer runs a system scan from an authorized machine within your company firewall to determine your exposure to inside attacks. The two security inventory packages are configured and run from a secured remote location. The process is managed by an engineer with top security credentials who produces a report that details and interprets the information collected by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation if appropriate.

Virtual Learning for Workstation Applications
Progent offers online virtual learning for an array of client applications and operating systems such as Excel, Word, Access, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat Writer, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Live online education offers the advantages of conventional classroom seminars, such as immediate interaction between students and teachers, but eliminates the expenses of travel and the challenge of trying to synchronize the schedules of many students. Offered to single students or classes of any size, live online training permits the trainer to conduct the class from a remote facility and the clients can be spread throughout an office or across the the U.S. Live online instruction utilizes proven learning tools like broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative applications. Sessions can be brief and targeted for specialized subjects or extended in duration and wider in scope. Instructors and clients can go through problems one-on-one or as a class.

Emergency Remote Technical Support
Progent's Technical Response Center offers national remote assistance for Windows and Cisco-based small business IT networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier service engineers offer telephone support and remote secure computer connection to isolate and resolve network problems rapidly and affordably. The breadth of IT expertise represented by Progent's staff of nationwide support engineers allows Progent to escalate even the toughest problems to competent specialists as needed.

For more details concerning Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft SBS 2008, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.