New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Microsoft unveiled the next version of Windows Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Windows Essential Business Server. Microsoft's software platforms offer the power of Microsoft's advanced server technologies to small and midsize companies in an economical bundle. Targeted for businesses with as many as 75 PC users, Microsoft Windows SBS 2008 is a cohesive server solution engineered to help businesses make their data more secure and their network more productive.

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

Windows Essential Business Server is designed for businesses with as many as 75 workstations and provides IT staff easier control over their information system by eliminating complications and automating common processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by allowing access to corporate e-mail, scheduling, addresses and information to users when they are not at the office. To view Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Releases Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Professionals Can Assist You to Deploy Microsoft Windows SBS 2008
The optimal installation of Windows SBS requires an IT support company with real-world expertise and a broad background in planning and implementing data-driven strategic business IT applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical group, with an average of over a decade of working in Microsoft technology, ensures you success in designing, executing and managing Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 solutions that are well integrated with the Microsoft line of system and application servers.

Progent's IT professionals can assist you to integrate the main pieces of the Windows SBS and Windows Essential Business Server bundles and can also provide a variety of other low-cost services to improve the efficiency, dependability, protection, performance, and maintainability of IT systems built around SBS 2008 or EBS 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Expertise
Progent provides a variety of Windows Server 2008 planning and integration support that can assist small businesses to benefit from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help you to understand the ways Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could improve the business value of your information network in order to cost-justify a migration. Progent can show you how to pilot Windows Server 2008 in order to assess its stability, speed, and compatibility handling realistic workloads. Progent can provide consulting for developing a deployment strategy, evaluate and enhance existing network environment, document archiving and restoration processes, evaluate security architecture and guidelines, help in integrating physical and virtual servers, develop fault-tolerant solutions including server and storage clustering with Hyper-V, train your in-house IT management team, and deploy automated round-the-clock monitoring operations to ensure system protection and performance.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Design, Setup, and Troubleshooting Support
Progent's expert consultants can show you how to design and deploy an efficient Exchange Server 2007 migration plan that avoids network downtime, simplifies long-term support demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 easy to administer. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 support, repair, and design services include assistance with the integration of third-party enhancements of Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server and the design of unified messaging implementations powered by Exchange 2007 Server. Services feature complete incorporation with your network, access to handheld computing products, continual tracking of performance and security, spam and virus protection, patch and service pack management, Help Desk services, per-day data backup, and comprehensive messaging management services.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Help
Progent can provide help for designing, deploying, and maintaining successful SharePoint Server installations that will dramatically enhance key areas of your organization's information network such as collaboration, intranet portal, company-wide search, forms-driven business processes, access to actionable information, and content control. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your company to evaluate the business case for adopting SharePoint Server, provide setup and installation expertise, assist your business to set up SQL Server as a back-office database engine, optimize your network architecture, integrate your standard and custom business software to operate with Microsoft SharePoint Server, create a comprehensive security strategy that includes portal solutions, and deliver remote and on-premises troubleshooting and Help Desk Call Center support.

Microsoft SQL Server Programming and Support
Progent's SQL Server experts can make sure you installs SQL Server 2008 properly, and that your SQL Server database solution is integrated seamlessly with your application software. Progent offers automated network tracking to make sure your corporate information system is always available, and Progent's online Help Desk is available to provide rapid solutions for SQL problems. Progent's certified data security experts can assess your business-wide security processes and technologies and recommend improvements for better regulatory compliance. Progent's programmers can help your company to develop or customize line-of-business programs or eCommerce sites utilize information controlled by SQL Server 2008.

PC Desktop Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support experts can deliver a wide array of affordable services to help your company to deploy, integrate, repair, and manage desktop PCs and notebooks powered by Windows. Progent can provide onsite or online technical support for individual machines or notebooks or work with your business to plan and carry out a large-scale migration to the newest release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also configure Office or Microsoft Dynamics business applications on your client PCs so they communicate productively with other Microsoft programs, products from popular publishers, business servers, and line-of-business services network-wide. Progent can also supply engineers and technical workers to help you to prepare for and implement a company move or consolidation designed to produce the least possible interruption to your productivity.

Security Inventory Packages
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service packages designed to allow small businesses to receive an independent network security assessment from a CISM and CISSP-premier security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs an extensive examination of your network from outside your firewalled perimeter to determine potential risks in the security profile you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer runs a network scan from an authorized machine inside your firewall to uncover vulnerabilities to internal attacks. The two security inventory packages are configured and run from a secured remote location. The project is managed by an engineer who has earned top security credentials who generates a document that summarizes and analyzes the data collected by the scan and suggests cost-effective improvements where appropriate.

Live Virtual Training for Workstation Programs
Progent offers online virtual learning for a range of desktop applications and operating systems including Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Acrobat Writer, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. Virtual instruction provides all the advantages of traditional classroom sessions, including immediate interaction between clients and trainers, but avoids the costs of transportation and the hassle of trying to synchronize the availability of multiple workers. Available to individuals or groups of all sizes, live online learning allows the teacher to run the seminar from a remote office while the students can be dispersed throughout an office or across the country. Virtual training supports proven teaching aids such as virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and collaborative applications. Classes can be brief and personalized for specialized subjects or extended in time and broader in scope. Teachers and clients can work through problems one-on-one or as a group.

Urgent Online Troubleshooting
Progent's Technical Response Center offers nationwide remote support for Windows and Cisco-based small office information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service experts provide telephone help and online direct network connection to troubleshoot and resolve technical problems rapidly and economically. The scope of technical experience available from Progent's team of nationwide service engineers makes it possible to escalate even the most difficult network issues to competent specialists as required.

For additional information concerning Progent's support for MS Windows SBS, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.