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Microsoft made available the most recent version of Windows Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). Microsoft's products deliver the capabilities of Windows enterprise-class server platforms to small and midsize companies in an affordable package. Targeted for businesses with as many as 75 PC users, Windows Small Business Server 2008 is an integrated server platform created to help businesses make their information safer and make their network more productive.

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

Microsoft Windows EBS 2008 is intended for companies with up to 75 PCs and gives IT staff easier control over their environment by eliminating complexity 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, contacts and information to users when they are away from the office. To read Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Announces Availability of SBS 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Consulting Experts Can Help Your Company to Take Advantage of Windows SBS 2008
The optimal configuration of Microsoft Windows SBS calls for an IT support firm with real-world expertise and an extensive knowledge-base in designing and building data-driven end-to-end business technology applications. The background of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with more than 10 years of working in Microsoft technology, assures you success in designing, executing and managing Small Business Server applications that are thoroughly integrated with Microsoft's product family of system and application servers.

Progent's consultants can assist you to deploy the major components of the MS Windows Small Business Server and Windows EBS 2008 packages and can also provide a range of other low-cost support options to enhance the efficiency, reliability, security, performance, and maintainability of IT systems built around Windows Small Business Server 2008 or Windows EBS 2008:

Windows Server 2008 Support
Progent provides a variety of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 planning and maintenance support that can help small businesses to take advantage of Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to understand the ways Windows Server 2008 could enhance the productivity of your information network in order to cost-justify a migration. Progent can help you test Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in order to assess its reliability, throughput, and operability handling realistic workloads. Progent can assist with developing a rollout strategy, evaluate and enhance your current network infrastructure, develop backup and restoration procedures, analyze security mechanisms and policies, help in setting up physical and virtualized servers, develop fault-tolerant strategies such as failover server clustering with Hyper-V, train your in-house IT administration team, and deploy automated 24x7 monitoring processes to ensure your information system's protection and efficiency.

Exchange Server 2007 Design, Setup, and Troubleshooting Services
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help you define and deploy an efficient Microsoft Exchange 2007 upgrade strategy that minimizes network disruption, simplifies long-term support requirements, and makes your Exchange Server 2007 easy to administer. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 support, repair, and consulting services include assistance with the integration of third-party add-ons to Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server and the creation of unified messaging implementations based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Progent's services feature complete incorporation with your network, connectivity with handheld communication devices, automated monitoring of performance and security, spam and virus filtering, security update and service pack control, Help Desk Call Center support, daily data backup, and full email management support.

SharePoint Server Integration Services
Progent can provide help for designing, configuring, and managing successful Microsoft SharePoint Server installations that can dramatically improve important aspects of your organization's information network such as teamwork, web portal, enterprise search, forms-driven business processes, delivery of management intelligence, and content control. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help your company to evaluate the business benefit for deploying Office SharePoint, provide configuration and integration support, assist your business to set up Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as a back-end database engine, optimize your network architecture, integrate your off-the-shelf and specialized application software to work with Microsoft SharePoint Server, create a comprehensive security plan that incorporates portal technology, and deliver online and in-person repair and Help Desk support.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Consulting Services
Progent's SQL Server experts can make sure you installs Microsoft SQL 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL-based database system is incorporated seamlessly with your business applications. Progent offers continuous network monitoring to make sure your business network is always available, and Progent's remote Help Desk is ready to offer rapid resolutions for SQL issues. Progent's certified network security experts can assess your business-wide security policies and mechanisms and recommend enhancements for better regulatory compliance. Progent's programmers can assist you to develop or personalize business programs or eCommerce sites utilize information controlled by SQL Server.

Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support consultants offer a wide array of cost-effective services to assist you business to install, configure, repair, and manage desktop PCs and notebooks powered by Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide on-premises or remote help for single computers or notebooks or work with you to plan and carry out a large-scale rollout of the most current version of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also configure Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your workstations so they communicate efficiently with other Microsoft applications, software from popular vendors, SQL databases, and line-of-business services throughout your network. Progent can also supply engineers and technical workers to help your company to plan for and implement a site move or merger organized to produce the least possible interruption to your productivity.

Network Security Inventory Packages
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable service bundles designed to allow small businesses to get an objective security evaluation from a GIAC, CISA and CISM-premier security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer administers a comprehensive examination of your network from outside your company firewall to uncover potential weaknesses in the security posture you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer executes a system scan from an authorized machine inside your company firewall to evaluate the risk to internal attacks. The two security inventory services are configured and run from a secured external location. The project is implemented by a consultant with high-level security accreditations who generates a document that details and interprets the data collected by the scan and suggests practical remediation where appropriate.

Live Virtual Education for Desktop Programs
Progent provides live virtual learning for popular desktop applications and operating systems such as Excel, Word, Publisher, Visio, Acrobat Writer, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Live online training provides the benefits of traditional classroom sessions, such as immediate interaction between students and trainers, but avoids the costs of travel and the challenge of attempting to synchronize the availability of many trainees. Offered to single students or groups of all sizes, virtual training permits the trainer to conduct the class from an online office while the students can be dispersed across an office or all over the country. Live online instruction utilizes proven teaching tools like broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and shared applications. Sessions can be brief and targeted for specific subjects or extended in time and broader in coverage. Teachers and clients can work through examples individually or as a group.

Emergency Online Technical Support
Progent's Technical Response Center provides national remote help for Windows and Cisco-based small office computer networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service experts offer telephone help and online secure computer access to isolate and repair network problems rapidly and affordably. The breadth of technical experience available from Progent's team of nationwide service professionals allows Progent to escalate even the toughest problems to qualified specialists as needed.

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