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Microsoft debuted the 2008 release of Windows Small Business Server and Windows Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). These products bring the capabilities of Microsoft's advanced server platforms to small and midsize companies in an economical package. Targeted for organizations with up to 75 PC users, MS Windows SBS 2008 is a cohesive server platform engineered to enable companies make their data safer and make their network more efficient.

MS Small Business Server 2008 is offered in basic and premium editions. The basic edition features Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services. The premier version adds Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft EBS 2008 is meant for organizations with as many as 75 users and provides network staff easier control over their environment by eliminating complexity and automating common tasks. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by facilitating access to corporate e-mail, calendars, addresses and files to workers who are not at their desks. To see Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Releases Windows SBS 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Help Your Company to Benefit from MS Windows SBS 2008
The optimal configuration of Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 calls for a network support firm with hands-on experience and a broad background in designing and building data-driven end-to-end business technology solutions. The background of Progent's Microsoft-authorized technical team, with an average of over a decade of working in Microsoft technology, ensures you results in designing, deploying and managing MS Small Business Server solutions that are well integrated with Microsoft's line of servers.

Progent's IT professionals can help you to deploy the major pieces of the MS Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Microsoft Essential Business Server bundles and can also provide a range of other low-cost support options to improve the productivity, reliability, protection, speed, and manageability of information systems based on Windows SBS 2008 or Essential Business Server 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent provides a range of Windows Server 2008 planning and integration services that can assist small organizations to benefit from Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to understand the ways Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could improve the productivity of your IT system so that you can cost-justify a migration. Progent can show you how to test Windows Server 2008 so that you can determine its stability, speed, and compatibility running your workloads. Progent can help with developing a rollout strategy, assess and enhance your current network infrastructure, document backup and restoration procedures, evaluate security mechanisms and guidelines, assist in setting up physical and virtualized machines, design high-availability solutions including server clustering with Hyper-V, train your in-house IT administration staff, and set up automated 24x7 monitoring processes to track your information system's protection and performance.

Exchange Server 2007 Planning, Installation, and Maintenance Services
Progent's Microsoft certified support team can help you define and implement an efficient Exchange Server 2007 upgrade strategy that minimizes network disruption, simplifies ongoing service requirements, and makes your Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server easy to manage. Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2007 support, troubleshooting, and consulting offerings include expertise with the configuration of outside vendor enhancements of Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server and the design of unified messaging implementations powered by Exchange 2007 Server. Progent's services include complete incorporation with your network, connectivity with handheld communication products, continual monitoring of efficiency and network security, spam and virus protection, security update and revision control, Help Desk services, daily backup, and full messaging management support.

Microsoft SharePoint Server Consulting and Support
Progent can provide assistance for planning, configuring, and maintaining successful SharePoint Server solutions that can dramatically enhance important aspects of your company's information system such as teamwork, web portal, company-wide search, forms-driven business processes, access to business intelligence, and content management. Progent's Microsoft Gold certified consultants can help your company to evaluate the business benefit for implementing SharePoint Server, provide setup and installation support, help you to configure SQL Server as a back-office database engine, optimize your network infrastructure, set up your standard and specialized application software to work with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, create a company-wide protection strategy that includes web portal technology, and deliver online and in-person repair and Call Center support.

SQL Server Consulting Services
Progent's SQL Server engineers can help you installs SQL 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL-powered data management system is integrated seamlessly with your applications. Progent offers automated network tracking to ensure your business network is working efficiently, and Progent's online Technical Response Center is available to provide fast solutions for SQL issues. Progent's certified network protection experts can evaluate your business-wide security processes and technologies and recommend enhancements for more complete protection. Progent's application developers can help you to create or customize business programs or eCommerce sites utilize databases controlled by Microsoft SQL Server.

PC Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft Gold certified desktop support consultants can deliver a wide range of cost-effective services to help your company to install, configure, troubleshoot, and administer desktop PCs and notebooks based on Windows. Progent can offer onsite or online assistance for single machines or laptops or help your business to plan and implement a company-wide migration to the newest version of Windows. Progent can also install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your client PCs so they communicate efficiently with all Microsoft applications, products from third-party vendors, database servers, and line-of-business solutions throughout your network. Progent can also provide engineers and technical workers to help you to plan for and complete a site relocation or consolidation organized to cause the least possible disruption of your business.

Network Security Inventory Packages
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service bundles intended to allow small companies to get a professional security assessment from a CISA, CISM and CISSP-certified security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs a comprehensive test of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewalled perimeter to determine possible weaknesses in the security profile you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs a system scan from a secure computer inside your company firewall to uncover vulnerabilities to internal assaults. The two security inventory services are set up and executed from a protected remote location. The project is implemented by an engineer with high-level security accreditations who produces a report that summarizes and interprets the information collected by the security scan and proposes cost-effective improvements where appropriate.

Virtual Education for Desktop Applications
Progent offers online virtual learning for popular client programs and environments including Office Excel, Word, Access, Outlook, Acrobat Writer, Adobe Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Windows XP and Vista. Virtual education offers all the benefits of traditional in-person sessions, such as instant interaction between clients and trainers, but avoids the costs of transportation and the challenge of trying to synchronize the availability of many students. Available to individuals or classes of all sizes, virtual training allows the trainer to run the seminar from a remote facility while the students can be spread across a campus or all over the country. Live online learning supports proven teaching tools like virtual white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative applications. Sessions can be short and targeted for specific topics or longer in time and broader in scope. Teachers and students can go through examples individually or as a group.

Emergency Remote Troubleshooting
Progent's Technical Response Center provides nationwide remote support for Windows and Cisco-based small office IT networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service engineers provide phone support and online secure computer access to troubleshoot and resolve technical problems rapidly and affordably. The scope of IT experience available from Progent's team of nationwide support professionals makes it possible to escalate even the toughest problems to qualified experts as required.

For additional information about Progent's consulting expertise for MS Windows SBS, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.