New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

Microsoft debuted the latest version of Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Windows Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). These products offer the power of Microsoft's enterprise-class server technologies to small and midsize companies in an economical package. Designed for organizations with up to 75 desktops, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server is a cohesive server solution engineered to help companies make their data more secure and their organization more productive.

Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 is available in standard and premier editions. The basic package includes Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services 3.0. The premium version also includes MS SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Essential Business Server is targeted for businesses with as many as 75 workstations and gives network administrators easier control over their information system by eliminating complexity and streamlining common processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by providing access to business e-mail, calendars, addresses and information to workers when they are away from their desks. To see Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Unveils SBS 2008 and EBS 2008.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Professionals Can Assist You to Take Advantage of Microsoft Windows SBS
The optimal deployment of Microsoft Small Business Server calls for a network consulting company with hands-on expertise and a broad background in planning and implementing data-driven strategic business technology applications. The background of Progent's Microsoft-authorized consulting group, with more than 10 years of working in Microsoft technology, assures you success in planning, executing and administering Small Business Server applications that are well integrated with Microsoft's product family of system and application servers.

Progent's consultants can help you to integrate the major components of the Windows SBS 2008 and Windows EBS 2008 packages and can also offer a range of other affordable services to improve the productivity, dependability, security, performance, and manageability of IT networks based on Small Business Server 2008 or EBS 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Support
Progent offers a range of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting and maintenance support that can assist small organizations to take advantage of Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your company to evaluate the areas where Windows Server 2008 could enhance the productivity of your IT system so that you can cost-justify an upgrade. Progent can show you how to test Windows Server 2008 so that you can determine its reliability, throughput, and compatibility handling your workloads. Progent can assist with developing a rollout strategy, assess and enhance your current network infrastructure, develop archiving and recovery procedures, evaluate security mechanisms and policies, help in integrating actual and virtualized machines, design high-availability strategies including failover server clustering with Hyper-V, train your internal network administration staff, and set up proactive 24x7 monitoring processes to track system security and performance.

Microsoft Exchange Server Design, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Services
Progent's expert support team can show you how to define and implement a smooth Microsoft Exchange 2007 upgrade plan that minimizes network downtime, simplifies ongoing support demands, and makes your Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. Progent's Exchange 2007 help, troubleshooting, and consulting offerings include assistance with the integration of third-party add-ons to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the creation of unified messaging implementations based on Exchange 2007 Server. Progent's services include integration with your business network, connectivity with handheld communication devices, automated tracking of performance and security, spam filtering, security update and service pack control, Helpdesk support, daily data backup, and full messaging management support.

Office SharePoint Server Consulting and Support
Progent can offer expertise for designing, configuring, and managing successful Microsoft Office SharePoint Server installations that can dramatically improve key areas of your organization's IT network such as collaboration, web portal, company-wide search, forms-driven business processes, access to management information, and document control. Progent's Microsoft-qualified consultants can assist your company to evaluate the business case for adopting SharePoint Server 2007, deliver configuration and integration expertise, help you to set up SQL Server as a back-office database, optimize your network infrastructure, set up your off-the-shelf and specialized business software to work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, create a comprehensive protection plan that includes web portal technology, and provide online and on-premises repair and Help Desk Call Center support.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming and Support
Progent's SQL Server engineers can make sure your business installs Microsoft SQL Server 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL-powered database system is incorporated thoroughly with your applications. Progent offers automated network monitoring to ensure your corporate information system is working efficiently, and Progent's remote Help Desk is available to offer quick resolutions for SQL database problems. Progent's certified network security experts can evaluate your company-wide security processes and mechanisms and recommend enhancements for better protection. Progent's programmers can help you to develop or customize line-of-business applications or web sites utilize information controlled by SQL Server.

Desktop Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support consultants can deliver a broad array of cost-effective support services to help you business to install, integrate, troubleshoot, and administer workstations and laptops based on Microsoft Windows. Progent can offer onsite or online technical support for individual machines or notebooks or work with you to design and implement a network-wide migration to the most current version of Windows. Progent can also configure Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics business applications on your client PCs so they communicate efficiently with other Microsoft programs, products from popular publishers, business servers, and line-of-business services network-wide. Progent can also provide consultants and technicians to help your company to prepare for and implement a company relocation or merger organized to cause the least possible disruption of your business.

Security Inventory Packages
Progent offers two low-cost service bundles intended to enable small businesses to get an independent network security evaluation from a CISA, CISM and CISSP-premier security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer runs a comprehensive test of your IT infrastructure from beyond your company firewall to determine possible weaknesses in the security posture you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a certified security professional runs a system scan from an authorized machine within your firewall to assess the risk to inside threats. Both security inventory services are configured and run from a secured external location. The project is implemented by an engineer with high-level security credentials who generates a document that summarizes and analyzes the information collected by the scan and suggests practical remediation if appropriate.

Virtual Education for Desktop Applications
Progent offers live virtual learning for an array of client applications and operating systems including Excel, Word, Publisher, Project, Acrobat, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Live online instruction offers all the benefits of conventional classroom sessions, including instant communication between students and teachers, but avoids the expenses of travel and the challenge of attempting to accommodate the availability of many students. Offered to single students or groups of any size, live online training permits the teacher to run the seminar from an online facility while the students can be dispersed across an office or all over the the U.S. Virtual learning supports proven learning tools such as virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and shared applications. Sessions can be brief and targeted for specialized subjects or extended in duration and wider in scope. Instructors and students can go through problems one-on-one or as a class.

Emergency Online Technical Support
Progent's National Support Center offers national remote support for Windows and Cisco-based small business information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier support experts offer phone support and remote secure network connection to isolate and resolve technical problems rapidly and affordably. The breadth of technical experience represented by Progent's team of country-wide service professionals makes it possible to escalate even the toughest network issues to qualified specialists as required.

For additional details about Progent's support services for Windows Small Business Server, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.