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Microsoft unveiled the most recent edition of Small Business Server and Windows Essential Business Server. Microsoft's solutions offer the power of Microsoft's enterprise-level server technologies to small organizations in a cost-effective bundle. Designed for companies with as many as 75 PCs, Microsoft Windows SBS is a cohesive server platform created to help businesses make their data more secure and their network more efficient.

Microsoft SBS 2008 is offered in standard and premier versions. The standard package includes Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services. The premier edition also includes MS SQL Server 2008.

Windows EBS 2008 is meant for companies with up to 75 workstations and gives network administrators more control over their environment by reducing complications and streamlining common processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by facilitating access to business e-mail, scheduling, contacts and files to workers when they are away from their desks. To see Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Ships Windows SBS 2008 and EBS 2008.

How Progent's Consulting Experts Can Help Your Business to Integrate Microsoft Windows Small Business Server
The most productive deployment of Microsoft SBS 2008 calls for an IT support company with hands-on expertise and an extensive knowledge-base in designing and implementing data-driven strategic business IT applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team, with an average of over a decade of working in Microsoft technology, ensures you results in designing, deploying and managing Small Business Server 2008 applications that are well integrated with Microsoft's product family of servers.

Progent's IT professionals can assist you to integrate the main components of the Microsoft SBS and Windows EBS 2008 bundles and can also provide a range of other low-cost support options to improve the productivity, reliability, protection, performance, and manageability of information networks based on Windows Small Business Server 2008 or EBS 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Integration
Progent provides a range of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting and integration support that can help small organizations to benefit from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to evaluate the ways Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could enhance the business value of your information network so that you can cost-justify a migration. Progent can help you pilot Windows Server 2008 so that you can assess its reliability, speed, and compatibility handling your workloads. Progent can help with creating a rollout strategy, assess and enhance existing network environment, develop archiving and restoration processes, analyze security architecture and guidelines, assist in setting up physical and virtual machines, design high-availability solutions such as failover server clustering with Hyper-V, educate your internal IT management staff, and deploy proactive round-the-clock monitoring operations to track system protection and performance.

Exchange Server Design, Installation, and Maintenance Services
Progent's Microsoft certified support team can help you define and deploy a smooth Microsoft Exchange 2007 upgrade plan that minimizes network disruption, simplifies long-term support requirements, and makes your Exchange 2007 Server easy to manage. Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2007 support, troubleshooting, and design services include assistance with the integration of third-party enhancements of Exchange Server 2007 and the creation of unified messaging solutions powered by Exchange 2007 Server. Progent's services include integration with your business network, access to mobile computing products, continual tracking of performance and network security, spam protection, patch and service pack control, Help Desk Call Center support, daily data backup, and full email management support.

SharePoint Server Consulting and Support
Progent can offer expertise for designing, deploying, and managing successful Microsoft Office SharePoint Server installations that can significantly improve key areas of your company's IT system such as teamwork, web portal, enterprise search, forms-driven business processes, delivery of management intelligence, and content management. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist your company to evaluate the business case for adopting Office SharePoint, provide configuration and installation expertise, assist your business to configure Microsoft SQL Server as a back-end database engine, enhance your network architecture, set up your standard and specialized application programs to work with Microsoft SharePoint Server, develop a comprehensive security strategy that includes web portal technology, and deliver remote and on-site repair and Call Center services.

SQL Server 2008 Programming and Support
Progent's SQL Server engineers can make sure you installs SQL 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL-based DBM solution is integrated effectively with your business applications. Progent offers 24x7 server tracking to make sure your corporate information system is healthy, and Progent's online Technical Response Center is ready to provide rapid solutions for SQL-related problems. Progent's certified data protection consultants can evaluate your business-wide security policies and mechanisms and recommend enhancements for more complete regulatory compliance. Progent's developers can help your company to develop or customize business programs or web sites rely on databases controlled by SQL Server.

Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts can deliver a broad array of affordable services to help you company to install, configure, troubleshoot, and administer workstations and laptops powered by Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide onsite or online technical support for single computers or notebooks or work with your business to plan and implement a large-scale rollout of the most current version of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your client PCs so they integrate efficiently with other Microsoft programs, products from third-party publishers, SQL databases, and key solutions throughout your network. Progent can also supply consultants and technicians to help you to plan for and complete an office relocation or merger designed to produce minimal disruption of your business.

Network Security Inventory Bundles
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service bundles designed to allow small companies to get an independent security assessment from a GIAC and CISA-certified security consultant. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer administers a comprehensive examination of your IT infrastructure from outside your company firewall to determine potential risks in the security profile you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a certified security professional 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 run from a secured external site. The project is managed by a consultant with high-level security credentials who produces a report that summarizes and interprets the information captured by the scan and proposes practical remediation if call for.

Virtual Learning for Workstation Applications
Progent offers live virtual learning for an array of client programs and operating systems including Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Adobe Acrobat Writer, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Windows XP and Vista. Live online learning offers the benefits of conventional in-person sessions, such as immediate interaction between students and trainers, but avoids the expenses of transportation and the hassle of trying to accommodate the schedules of multiple students. Offered to single students or groups of all sizes, virtual education allows the instructor to run the seminar from an online office and the clients can be spread throughout an office or across the country. Live online training supports proven learning aids like virtual white boards, real-time questions, and shared desktops. Classes can be short and personalized for specialized topics or longer in time and broader in scope. Teachers and clients can go through examples one-on-one or as a class.

Urgent Remote Troubleshooting
Progent's National Support Center offers national remote troubleshooting for Windows and Cisco-based small office information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier support experts offer phone support and online direct computer connection to troubleshoot and resolve network problems quickly and economically. The breadth of IT experience represented by Progent's team of nationwide support professionals allows Progent to escalate even the toughest problems to appropriate experts as needed.

To learn additional details about Progent's support for Windows SBS, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.