New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions

Microsoft began shipping the most recent version of Windows Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Windows Essential Business Server. These software platforms bring the power of Microsoft's enterprise-class server platforms to smaller businesses in an affordable bundle. Targeted for companies with as many as 75 users, Microsoft SBS is an integrated server solution created to help companies make their data more secure and their organization more efficient.

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

Windows EBS 2008 is intended for organizations with as many as 75 PCs and gives network staff more manageability of their information system by reducing complications and automating many processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by facilitating access to corporate messaging, scheduling, addresses and information to workers who are away from the office. To read Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Ships Windows SBS 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Help Your Company to Benefit from Microsoft SBS 2008
The most productive installation of Microsoft SBS requires a network consulting firm with hands-on experience and an extensive background in designing and implementing data-driven end-to-end business IT solutions. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-authorized technical group, with an average of over a decade of working in Microsoft technology, assures you success in designing, deploying and managing Small Business Server solutions that are well integrated with Microsoft's product family of system and application servers.

Progent's consultants can help your company to integrate the major components of the MS Windows SBS and Microsoft Windows EBS 2008 packages and can also offer a variety of other affordable services to improve the productivity, dependability, security, speed, and manageability of IT networks based on Small Business Server 2008 or Windows Essential Business Server 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent offers a variety of Windows Server 2008 planning and integration services that can help small companies to take advantage of Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your company to evaluate the areas where Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could enhance the productivity of your network so that you can rationalize a migration. Progent can show you how to pilot Windows Server 2008 so that you can assess its stability, responsiveness, and compatibility running your workloads. Progent can help with developing a deployment strategy, assess and improve your current network infrastructure, develop backup and restoration procedures, evaluate security architecture and guidelines, assist in installing actual and virtualized servers, develop fault-tolerant strategies such as server and storage clustering with Hyper-V, train your internal network administration team, and set up automated 24x7 monitoring operations to ensure system security and performance.

Exchange Server Planning, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Support
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help you design and deploy an efficient Exchange Server 2007 migration plan 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 help, troubleshooting, and consulting offerings include assistance with the integration of third-party enhancements of Exchange 2007 Server and the creation of unified messaging solutions powered by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Services include complete incorporation with your network, connectivity with mobile computing devices, automated tracking of performance and network security, spam filtering, patch and service pack management, Contact Center services, daily data backup, and full messaging administration support.

Microsoft SharePoint Server Integration Services
Progent can provide help for planning, configuring, and managing productive Microsoft SharePoint Server installations that can significantly enhance important aspects of your organization's IT environment such as collaboration, web portal, company-wide search, forms-based business operations, delivery of business intelligence, and document control. Progent's Microsoft-qualified consultants can assist you to evaluate the business case for deploying Office SharePoint, deliver configuration and integration support, assist your business to configure SQL Server as a back-end database, optimize your network infrastructure, set up your off-the-shelf and custom application software to operate with Office SharePoint Server 2007, develop a comprehensive security strategy that includes web portal technology, and provide remote and in-person troubleshooting and Call Center services.

SQL Server 2008 Programming and Support
Progent's SQL Server engineers can help your company configures Microsoft SQL 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL Server data management system is integrated seamlessly with your applications. Progent offers automated server monitoring to make sure your business information system is healthy, and Progent's online Technical Response Center is ready to offer fast resolutions for SQL database issues. Progent's certified data security consultants can evaluate your company-wide security processes and mechanisms and suggest improvements for better protection. Progent's programmers can assist you to develop or customize line-of-business applications or eCommerce sites rely on databases managed by SQL Server.

PC Desktop Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support experts can deliver a wide array of cost-effective consulting and support services to help you company to deploy, configure, repair, and manage workstations and notebooks powered by Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide onsite or remote technical support for single computers or laptops or help your business to plan and carry out a large-scale migration to the most current version of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your client PCs so they communicate efficiently with all Microsoft programs, software from popular vendors, database servers, and key services network-wide. Progent can also provide consultants and technical workers to assist you to prepare for and complete an office relocation or consolidation organized to cause the least possible disruption of your business.

Network Security Inventory Packages
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service packages designed to enable small businesses to get an impartial network security evaluation from a CISA, CISM and CISSP-certified security consultant. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer administers a comprehensive examination of your network from outside your firewalled perimeter to uncover possible risks in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer executes a network scan from a secure computer inside your firewall to assess your exposure to internal attacks. Both security inventory services are set up and executed from a secured remote location. The project is managed by an engineer with high-level security credentials who produces a report that details and interprets the data collected by the scan and proposes cost-effective improvements if appropriate.

Virtual Training for Workstation Applications
Progent offers online virtual instruction for an array of desktop applications and operating systems such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Publisher, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat Writer, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Virtual learning provides the benefits of traditional classroom sessions, such as instant interaction between clients and trainers, but eliminates the costs of travel and the hassle of trying to accommodate the availability of many trainees. Available to single students or groups of any size, live online instruction allows the trainer to conduct the seminar from a remote office while the clients can be spread throughout a campus or all over the country. Virtual training deploys powerful teaching tools such as virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and collaborative desktops. Classes can be brief and targeted for specialized topics or longer in duration and wider in scope. Instructors and clients can work through problems one-on-one or as a class.

Emergency Remote Troubleshooting
Progent's Technical Response Center offers national remote assistance for Windows and Cisco-based small business computer networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified support professionals offer phone support and remote direct computer connection to isolate and repair technical problems quickly and economically. The scope of technical expertise represented by Progent's team of nationwide service engineers allows Progent to escalate even the toughest network issues to qualified experts as required.

To find out additional information concerning Progent's consulting expertise for MS Windows SBS 2008, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.