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Microsoft announced the newest version of Small Business Server and Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). These products deliver the capabilities of Windows high-end server technologies to small organizations in an economical package. Designed for companies with up to 75 desktops, Windows Small Business Server 2008 is a cohesive server platform engineered to help businesses make their data more secure and their workers more efficient.

MS Small Business Server 2008 is offered in basic and premium editions. The basic package features MS Windows 2008 Server, Exchange 2007 Server, Microsoft SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services 3.0. The premium version also includes MS SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Essential Business Server is intended for businesses with up to 75 desktops and gives network administrators easier manageability of their environment by eliminating complexity and automating common processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by providing connectivity to corporate e-mail, calendars, addresses and files to users when they are not at their desks. To read Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Ships Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Engineers Can Help You to Benefit from Microsoft Windows Small Business Server
The optimal installation of Microsoft Small Business Server requires a network support firm with real-world experience and an extensive knowledge-base in designing and implementing data-driven end-to-end business IT applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting group, with an average of over a decade of consulting in Microsoft technology, assures you success in planning, executing and administering MS Small Business Server applications that are well integrated with the Microsoft line of system and application servers.

Progent's consulting experts can assist you to deploy the major components of the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server and Essential Business Server 2008 bundles and can also provide a variety of other low-cost services to improve the efficiency, dependability, security, performance, and manageability of information systems based on Windows SBS 2008 or Windows EBS 2008:

Windows Server 2008 Planning and Support
Progent provides a range of Windows Server 2008 planning and integration services that can help small organizations to take advantage of Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your company to evaluate the areas where Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could enhance the productivity of your information network in order to cost-justify an upgrade. Progent can show you how to test Microsoft Windows Server 2008 so that you can determine its reliability, speed, and compatibility handling your workloads. Progent can assist with developing a deployment strategy, evaluate and enhance existing network infrastructure, document backup and recovery processes, analyze security mechanisms and policies, help in setting up actual and virtual machines, develop fault-tolerant solutions such as server and storage clustering with Hyper-V, train your in-house network administration team, and deploy automated server monitoring operations to track system security and efficiency.

Microsoft Exchange Server Design, Installation, and Maintenance Support
Progent's Microsoft certified support team can show you how to design and deploy an efficient Exchange Server 2007 upgrade plan that avoids network disruption, reduces long-term support requirements, and makes your Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server easy to manage. Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2007 support, repair, and consulting offerings include assistance with the configuration of third-party add-ons to Exchange 2007 Server and the design of unified messaging solutions powered by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Services include complete incorporation with your network, access to mobile computing products, automated monitoring of efficiency and network security, spam and virus filtering, security update and service pack control, Help Desk Call Center services, per-day data backup, and full messaging administration services.

Office SharePoint Server Consulting and Support
Progent can offer help for planning, deploying, and maintaining successful Microsoft SharePoint Server solutions that will dramatically improve important aspects of your company's information environment such as teamwork, web portal, company-wide search, forms-driven business processes, access to management intelligence, and content management. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your company to evaluate the business benefit for deploying SharePoint Server, deliver setup and installation expertise, help you to configure Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as a back-end database, optimize your network architecture, set up your standard and custom business software to operate with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, create a comprehensive security plan that incorporates portal technology, and deliver remote and in-person troubleshooting and Help Desk Call Center support.

SQL Server Programming and Support
Progent's SQL Server consultants can help your company configures Microsoft SQL Server 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL-based data management solution is incorporated effectively with your application software. Progent offers automated server tracking to ensure your business network is always available, and Progent's remote Technical Response Center is available to provide quick resolutions for SQL issues. Progent's certified data protection engineers can assess your business-wide security processes and technologies and recommend enhancements for more complete protection. Progent's developers can help you to create or customize business programs or eCommerce sites utilize databases controlled by SQL Server 2008.

PC Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts offer a broad range of cost-effective services to help you business to install, integrate, repair, and manage desktop PCs and notebooks powered by Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide onsite or remote assistance for single machines or notebooks or help your business to design and implement a large-scale migration to the latest release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also configure Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your client PCs so they communicate efficiently with other Microsoft programs, products from third-party publishers, database servers, and key solutions throughout your network. Progent can also supply consultants and technicians to assist you to plan for and implement an office relocation or merger organized to produce the least possible interruption to your productivity.

Network Security Inventory Bundles
Progent offers two low-cost service packages designed to allow small businesses to get an impartial security evaluation from a GIAC and CISA-certified security consultant. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer administers an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewall to determine potential risks in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer runs a network scan from an authorized machine within your company firewall to evaluate vulnerabilities to inside threats. Both security inventory packages are configured and run from a secured external site. The project is implemented by an engineer with top security accreditations who produces a report that details and analyzes the information collected by the scan and suggests practical remediation where appropriate.

Live Virtual Education for Workstation Programs
Progent offers live virtual instruction for an array of client applications and environments such as Excel, Word, Publisher, Outlook, Acrobat, Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Virtual instruction provides all the benefits of traditional classroom sessions, such as immediate interaction between students and trainers, but avoids the costs of travel and the challenge of trying to synchronize the availability of many trainees. Offered to individuals or classes of all sizes, live online learning permits the teacher to conduct the class from a remote facility while the clients can be dispersed throughout a campus or all over the the U.S. Live online learning utilizes proven learning tools like broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative applications. Classes can be short and targeted for specialized subjects or longer in duration and broader in scope. Teachers and clients can work through problems one-on-one or as a group.

Urgent Online Technical Support
Progent’s National Support Center provides nationwide remote help for Windows and Cisco-based small business IT networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service professionals offer telephone support and online secure network access to troubleshoot and resolve network problems rapidly and affordably. The breadth of IT experience available from Progent's staff of nationwide service engineers allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult problems to appropriate experts as needed.

To find out additional details about Progent's consulting services for MS Windows SBS 2008, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.