New IT Technology and Progent Business Solutions

In a presentation at the 2009 CES Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the beta availability of Windows 7. The next incarnation of Windows was available temporarily for downloading at select Microsoft sites. During the CES talk, Balmer demonstrated new capabilities and key improvements built into Windows and driven by market feedback. Aspects addressed by Windows 7, according to Balmer, include speed, protection, reliability, compatibility, battery life, and intuitive operation. In all of these areas, Windows 7 offers significant advantages.

Microsoft Windows 7 includes faster startup, shut down, and recovery from standby; no-hassle networking and resource access; centralized device management; plus multiple finger multitouch support. To read Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft's Chief Executive Introduces Windows 7

Notice: End of Support for Windows 7
Microsoft has put Windows 7 on End of Support status. Consequently Microsoft offers no technical assistance for any problems you encounter with Windows 7 and Microsoft no longer produces software or security patches. Even though computers powered by Windows 7 still operate, End of Support status can bring about a growing array of undesirable issues associated with security, compliance, operation with new versions of apps, and possibly even liability. If your company is currently evaluating a migration from Microsoft Windows 7 to Windows 10 or 11, Progent's Windows 10 and Windows 11 consultants can help you to determine the possible benefit of a modern release of Windows for your organization and can help you to plan and execute an efficient migration to Windows 10 or Windows 11 that follows leading practices.

How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Help You to Maintain Windows 7
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help you to manage your Windows 7 deployment and can also help you to evaluate the likely business value of moving to a modern version of Windows. Progent can provide help with migrating to Windows 10 or moving to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or earlier versions of Microsoft Windows.

Progent's consulting experts can provide a variety of other affordable support options to enhance the productivity, dependability, security, speed, and manageability of information networks that include workstations powered by Windows 7:

Desktop Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support consultants can deliver a broad range of affordable support services to assist your company to install, integrate, repair, and administer workstations and notebooks based on Windows. Progent can offer on-premises or online technical support for individual computers or laptops or work with you to plan and implement a large-scale rollout of Windows 7. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your workstations so they communicate productively with other Microsoft applications, products from popular publishers, business servers, and line-of-business solutions throughout your network. Progent can also provide consultants and technicians to assist you to plan for and implement a company relocation or consolidation designed to produce the least possible interruption to your business.

Live Virtual Education for Workstation Programs
Progent offers live virtual learning for a range of desktop applications and operating systems including Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat Writer, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Windows Vista and Windows 7. Virtual learning provides the advantages of traditional in-person seminars, such as immediate communication between clients and trainers, but eliminates the costs of travel and the challenge of attempting to synchronize the schedules of multiple students. Offered to individuals or groups of any size, virtual learning allows the teacher to conduct the seminar from a remote facility while the clients can be spread throughout an office or across the country. Virtual education utilizes proven learning mechanisms such as virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and collaborative desktops. Classes can be short and targeted for specific topics or longer in time and wider in coverage. Instructors and clients can work through problems one-on-one or as a class.

64-bit Upgrade Help for Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Servers
Microsoft Windows 7 is offered in a 64-bit version that represents a new benchmark for workstation dependability and capacity. However, for the majority of organizations the upgrade to 64-bit technology is challenging because of the need to make a clean setup on each desktop. This entails reconfiguring programs, backing up and recovering data files, and running new device drivers. Though businesses typically are already using 64-bit computers, the work needed to benefit fully from this untapped potential can seem excessively time-consuming. But since Microsoft Windows 7 often calls for a clean install, it represents a great time to upgrade to 64-bit performance, which is possible with little incremental effort. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft} consulting experts have in-depth experience planning and performing major, minimally disruptive operating system migrations of existing desktops and can assist your business leverage your network budget by making the move to Windows 7 and to 64-bit computing simultaneously.

Update Automation
Progent's IT management experts can show you how to create an information system based on Microsoft Windows 7 workstations that is simple to manage. Progent's consultants have in-depth backgrounds providing small and midsize businesses SMS Server consulting to streamline IT management's processes, increase network protection, improve productivity by ensuring that all application updates are installed, enforce software licensing adherence, and track characteristics of application usage to enable a more efficient purchasing plan. In addition, Progent can help your company to make a smooth upgrade to System Center Configuration Manager from Microsoft SMS Server for more complete administration automation and can help you to move to Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

Network Security Inventory Scanning and Evaluation Packages
Progent's premier security consultants can deliver a selection of cost-effective security inventory bundles and security assessment service packages created to give organizations of all sizes a chance to receive an independent opinion about the quality of their protection profile. The packages range from an ultra-affordable external scan and assessment package for small companies up to a high-end solution for enterprises who need to meet security standards required by state regulators or by vendors. For every security inventory or evaluation package, engineers with top security credentials evaluate and summarize collected information and provide suggestions for efficient remediation.

High-availability Network Design
Progent's consulting experts can assist your company to configure a high-availability network architecture with features such as Microsoft Windows Hyper-V clustering, auto-failover Internet access, system load balancing, and dispersed data centers. Progent offers the expertise of Microsoft and Cisco-Premier consulting professionals who can help you benefit from virtualization to improve availability. Progent can also help you develop a complete business continuity strategy that incorporates scheduled disaster recovery assessments and drills.

Helpdesk Support and Consulting
Progent is a Microsoft and Cisco Certified Partner and Progent's online Help Desk support team of authorized technical professionals offers your customers convenient access to a dependable technical group with extensive background delivering phone support and online troubleshooting for IT systems based on Microsoft and Cisco products. Progent's concentration is on earning the Helpdesk a positive reputation as a solid contributor to business performance. Progent's goal is to fix rather than merely record problems. Progent offers full Helpdesk outsourcing or seamlessly reinforce your current Call Center. Progent can in addition help you to select and deploy the latest solutions for creating or improving your internal Call Center.

To find out additional details concerning Progent's support services for Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.