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Microsoft debuted the most recent edition of Windows Small Business Server and Windows Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). These software platforms offer the capabilities of Windows enterprise-grade server technologies to small companies in an economical bundle. Targeted for businesses with up to 75 PC users, MS Windows SBS is a cohesive server platform created to help companies keep their information more secure and their organization more efficient.

MS Small Business Server 2008 is available in basic and premier versions. The basic package features Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server, SharePoint 3.0, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The premium version also includes MS SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Windows EBS 2008 is meant for organizations with as many as 75 users and provides network administrators greater manageability of 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 providing access to corporate messaging, calendars, contacts and information to users who are not at the office. To read Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Introduces Windows SBS 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Professionals Can Assist Your Company to Get the Most Out of MS Windows SBS
The optimal configuration of Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 requires a network consulting firm with hands-on expertise and an extensive background in planning and implementing data-driven strategic business IT applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team, with more than a decade of working in Microsoft products, assures you results in planning, executing and administering Microsoft Small Business Server applications that are thoroughly integrated with the Microsoft line of system and application servers.

Progent's consulting experts can assist you to deploy the major pieces of the Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows EBS 2008 bundles and can also offer a variety of other low-cost support options to enhance the productivity, dependability, protection, speed, and maintainability of information networks based on Windows Small Business Server 2008 or Essential Business Server 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Support
Progent offers a variety of Windows Server 2008 consulting and integration services that can assist small companies to get the most from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help you to evaluate the areas where Windows Server 2008 could enhance the business value of your network so that you can rationalize an upgrade. Progent can show you how to pilot Windows Server 2008 in order to determine its stability, responsiveness, and compatibility running your workloads. Progent can provide consulting for creating a deployment strategy, evaluate and enhance existing network infrastructure, develop archiving and restoration processes, analyze security architecture and guidelines, help in integrating actual and virtualized machines, design fault-tolerant solutions including server and storage clustering with Hyper-V, train your in-house network administration staff, and set up automated 24x7 monitoring operations to track your information system's protection and performance.

Microsoft Exchange Server Design, Configuration, and Maintenance Services
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can show you how to design and implement an efficient Microsoft Exchange 2007 migration strategy that minimizes network downtime, simplifies long-term service requirements, and makes your Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 support, repair, and design offerings include assistance with the integration of outside vendor add-ons to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the design of unified messaging implementations based on Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server. Progent's services include integration with your network, connectivity with handheld computing products, automated tracking of performance and network security, spam and virus protection, security update and service pack management, Help Desk services, daily backup, and comprehensive messaging management support.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Help
Progent can provide expertise for planning, configuring, and managing productive Microsoft Office SharePoint Server installations that will dramatically improve key areas of your company's information network including teamwork, intranet portal, enterprise search, forms-based business operations, delivery of actionable information, and document control. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist your company to evaluate the business case for implementing SharePoint Server 2007, deliver setup and integration support, assist your business to configure SQL Server as a back-end database engine, enhance your network infrastructure, integrate your off-the-shelf and custom business software to operate with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, develop a company-wide protection strategy that incorporates portal technology, and deliver online and on-premises troubleshooting and Help Desk Call Center support.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming and Support
Progent's SQL Server engineers can help your organization installs SQL 2008 properly, and that your SQL Server DBM solution is integrated thoroughly with your application software. Progent offers automated server tracking to make sure your business information system is always available, and Progent's online Help Desk Call Center is available to provide quick solutions for SQL issues. Progent's certified data security consultants can assess your company-wide security policies and mechanisms and recommend enhancements for more complete regulatory compliance. Progent's programmers can help you to create or customize line-of-business applications or eCommerce sites utilize databases controlled by Microsoft SQL Server.

PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support consultants offer a wide array of cost-effective consulting and support services to help your business to deploy, configure, repair, and administer workstations and notebooks powered by Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide on-premises or online help for single machines or notebooks or help your business to plan and carry out a network-wide rollout of the newest release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your workstations so they communicate productively with other Microsoft applications, software from popular publishers, SQL databases, and key services throughout your network. Progent can also supply consultants and technicians to assist you to plan for and complete an office move or consolidation organized to produce minimal disruption of your business.

Security Inventory Packages
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service packages designed to enable small companies to receive an impartial security assessment from a CISM and CISSP-premier security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security expert administers an extensive examination of your network from beyond your company firewall to uncover possible risks in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer executes a system scan from an authorized computer inside your firewall to uncover your exposure to inside assaults. The two security inventory packages are configured and executed from a secured remote site. The project is implemented by an engineer who has earned high-level security credentials who produces a document that summarizes and interprets the information collected by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation where appropriate.

Live Virtual Instruction for Desktop Programs
Progent offers online virtual education for an array of desktop programs and operating systems including Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Acrobat Writer, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Windows Vista and Windows 7. Live online training provides all the benefits of traditional classroom sessions, such as immediate interaction between clients and teachers, but avoids the expenses of transportation and the challenge of attempting to synchronize the schedules of multiple trainees. Offered to single students or groups of all sizes, live online instruction allows the trainer to run the class from an online office and the clients can be spread throughout a campus or across the the U.S. Virtual learning utilizes powerful learning tools such as virtual white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative desktops. Classes can be brief and personalized for specialized topics or extended in duration and broader in coverage. Teachers and students can go through examples individually or as a group.

Emergency Remote Technical Support
Progent's Technical Response Center offers national remote troubleshooting for Windows and Cisco-based small office computer networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified support experts provide telephone support and online secure computer access to isolate and repair network problems quickly and affordably. The scope of IT experience represented by Progent's team of nationwide service professionals allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult problems to appropriate specialists as required.

To learn additional details about Progent's support for Microsoft SBS 2008, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.