New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Microsoft unveiled the newest release of Small Business Server and Windows Essential Business Server. These products bring the power of Windows enterprise-level server technologies to small and midsize organizations in a cost-effective package. Intended for companies with up to 75 desktops, Windows Small Business Server 2008 is an integrated server solution engineered to enable companies keep their data more secure and make their organization more productive.

MS Small Business Server 2008 is offered in standard and premier editions. The basic package features MS Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007 Server, Microsoft SharePoint 3.0, and Windows Server Update Services 3.0. The premier edition adds Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Windows EBS 2008 is intended for organizations with as many as 75 workstations and provides network administrators greater manageability of 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 allowing connectivity to business messaging, calendars, contacts and information to workers when they are not at the office. To read Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Releases Windows Small Business Server 2008 and EBS 2008.

How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Help Your Business to Integrate Microsoft Windows Small Business Server
The most productive configuration of Microsoft Windows SBS 2008 calls for a network support company with real-world expertise and an extensive background in designing and implementing data-driven end-to-end business IT applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-authorized technical team, with an average of over a decade of working in Microsoft products, assures you results in planning, executing and administering Small Business Server 2008 solutions that are thoroughly integrated with the Microsoft line of system and application servers.

Progent's IT professionals can help you to integrate the main components of the MS Windows Small Business Server and Windows EBS 2008 packages and can also provide a variety of other affordable support options to improve the productivity, reliability, protection, speed, and manageability of IT systems based on SBS 2008 or EBS 2008:

Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent offers a variety of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting and integration support that can assist small organizations to get the most from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help your company to understand the ways Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could improve the productivity of your network in order to cost-justify a migration. Progent can help you pilot Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in order to assess its stability, throughput, and operability handling your workloads. Progent can help with developing a rollout plan, assess and enhance existing network environment, develop archiving and restoration procedures, analyze security architecture and guidelines, assist in integrating actual and virtual machines, develop fault-tolerant strategies such as server clustering, educate your internal IT management team, and deploy proactive server and network monitoring operations to track system security and efficiency.

Exchange Server Design, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Services
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can show you how to define and deploy a smooth Microsoft Exchange 2007 migration plan that avoids productivity downtime, simplifies long-term support demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. Progent's Exchange Server 2007 support, troubleshooting, and consulting services include assistance with the configuration of third-party add-ons to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the creation of unified messaging implementations based on Exchange Server 2007. Progent's services include integration with your business network, connectivity with mobile computing products, continual monitoring of performance and network security, spam filtering, security update and service pack management, Helpdesk services, per-day backup, and full email administration services.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Integration Services
Progent can provide expertise for designing, configuring, and maintaining successful Microsoft Office SharePoint Server installations that will dramatically enhance key aspects of your IT system such as collaboration, web portal, company-wide search, forms-driven business processes, delivery of business information, and content control. Progent's Microsoft-qualified consultants can help your company to assess the business case for adopting SharePoint Server 2007, provide configuration and integration expertise, assist you to set up Microsoft SQL Server as a back-end database, enhance your network architecture, set up your standard and specialized application software to operate with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, develop a company-wide security plan that incorporates web portal technology, and deliver online and in-person repair and Call Center support.

SQL Server 2008 Consulting Services
Progent's SQL Server engineers can make sure your business installs SQL 2008 properly, and that your SQL Server DBM system is incorporated thoroughly with your applications. Progent can provide automated network tracking to make sure your corporate network is always available, and Progent's remote Help Desk Call Center is ready to provide rapid resolutions for SQL-related problems. Progent's certified data security engineers can evaluate your company-wide security processes and technologies and recommend enhancements for better regulatory compliance. Progent's programmers can help your company to develop or personalize business applications or web sites rely on databases managed by Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts can deliver a wide range of cost-effective support services to help your business to deploy, configure, repair, and manage workstations and notebooks powered by Windows. Progent can offer onsite or remote help for individual computers or notebooks or help you to plan and implement a company-wide rollout of the most current release of Windows. Progent can also install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics business applications on your workstations so they integrate productively with all Microsoft programs, products from third-party vendors, business servers, and key services network-wide. Progent can also supply consultants and technical workers to assist you to prepare for and implement an office move or consolidation organized to produce minimal interruption to your business.

Security Inventory Packages
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service bundles designed to allow small businesses to get an independent network security evaluation from a GIAC, CISA and CISM-certified security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, an engineer administers an extensive test of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewalled perimeter to determine potential weaknesses in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer executes a system scan from a secure machine within your company firewall to assess your exposure to internal assaults. The two security inventory services are configured and executed from a protected external site. The project is implemented by a consultant who has earned high-level security accreditations who produces a document that details and interprets the information captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation if call for.

Live Virtual Instruction for Workstation Programs
Progent offers live virtual learning for a range of desktop applications and environments including Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Adobe Acrobat Writer, Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. Live online instruction offers the benefits of conventional classroom sessions, such as immediate communication between clients and teachers, but avoids the costs of transportation and the challenge of attempting to synchronize the availability of multiple trainees. Available to single students or groups of all sizes, live online education permits the instructor to run the seminar from an online facility and the clients can be dispersed throughout an office or across the country. Live online learning supports proven learning tools like broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative applications. Sessions can be short and targeted for specialized subjects or extended in duration and broader in coverage. Instructors and clients can work through examples one-on-one or as a class.

Emergency Remote Technical Support
Progent's Technical Response Center provides national remote assistance for Windows and Cisco-based small business information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service professionals offer phone support and online secure network access to isolate and repair technical problems rapidly and affordably. The scope of technical experience available from Progent's team of nationwide service engineers makes it possible to escalate even the toughest network issues to qualified specialists as required.

For additional details concerning Progent's support for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.