Desktop Consulting and Support Expertise
Windows 7 Migration and Consulting Support
Microsoft Windows 7 is a legacy desktop operating system that introduced new levels of performance, security, and reliability. In comparison to prior releases of Microsoft's flagship OS, Windows 7 offered faster startup, better resource sharing, simpler networking, and streamlined administration. Windows 7 also represented a great opportunity for businesses to upgrade to 64-bit computing on the desktop.
End of Support for Windows 7
Microsoft has placed Windows 7 on End of Support status. This means that Microsoft offers no technical support for any issues and no longer provides software or security updates or patches. Although computers running Windows 7 can still function, End of Support status can bring about a growing list of undesirable issues concerned with cybersecurity, compliance, application compatibility, and even civil liability. If you are considering an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 or Windows 11, Progent's Windows 10 and Windows 11 consultants can help you determine the potential benefit of a modern version of Windows for your business and can help you plan and execute a cost-effective migration to Windows 10 or Windows 11 based on leading practices.
Progent's Services for Migrating from Windows 7
Progent's methodology for migrating to Windows 7 is based on proven best practices that contain costs and minimize service disruption. Progent can help you assess the business case for upgrading to
For large-scale migrations to Windows 7, the use of computer imaging is the recommended way to save time and avoid errors. This involves establishing baseline desktop configurations for different environments within a company network and capturing these configurations as images that can be replicated automatically to appropriate desktop PCs. images include the operating system, drivers, and core applications, making it possible to standardize the way your desktops are configured and avoiding the delay and errors associated with manual installation.
- Make an inventory of your hardware and software and determine the feasibility of deploying Windows 7
- Create a licensing and activation plan
- Evaluate and resolve application and driver compatibility issues
- Select and automate processes for capturing and deploying desktop imaging
- Set up image and deployment servers
- Specify the baseline image with core applications, group policy, and security settings
- Create a plan for installing supplemental applications and personal data
- Create custom Windows PE bootable images/
- Set up a pilot environment to test and validate the operation of imaging and deployment servers
- Test your key applications running on your pilot environment under Windows 7
- Deploy desktop images using automated tools to save time and reduce service disruption
Windows 7 Management and Support Services
Progent offers a broad range of support services that can help companies maximize the business value of their Windows 7 desktops:
Help Desk Call Center Services
Progent's online Help Desk Call Center support team, staffed with Microsoft-certified professionals, offers your Windows 7 users fast access to a reliable resource for phone support and remote troubleshooting. Progent focuses on giving the Help Desk a reputation as a solid contributor to your business success by solving problems rather than merely tracking them. You can outsource all your desktop Call Center support to Progent or use Progent as a seamless extension of your in-house Help Desk. Progent also offers consulting services to help you incorporate the most advanced technology and proven processes for building or enhancing your Help Desk Call Center.
Windows 7 Configuration Management Automation
Progent's desktop administration experts can show you how to streamline the management of your Windows 7 PCs. Progent's veteran engineers have in-depth experience providing Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager consulting to automate network management, increase security, improve productivity by ensuring that all application updates are current, track licensing compliance, and monitor usage patterns to drive a more efficient purchasing strategy. Progent can also help you upgrade to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager from Microsoft SMS Server or other legacy change management platforms. For Office 365 environments, Progent can help provide Microsoft Intune consulting for advanced cloud-based management of Windows 7 computers along with mobile devices powered by Apple iOS, Android, or Windows. In addition, Progent's wireless mobility consultants can help you create a secure Intune-managed Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) environment by providing services such as Apple iPhone and iPad integration, Google Android phone and tablet consulting, and RIM BlackBerry expertise.
Security and Compliance Consulting
Progent's security engineers offer a range of affordable network security vulnerability assessment service packages designed to give businesses an objective analysis of their network security profile. Progent's internal security assessment packages can automatically scan the Windows 7 desktop PCs within your network firewall to detect configuration issues which may become vectors for malicious attacks or data theft. For each security vulnerability scanning package, Progent's certified security engineers evaluate the collected data, create summary reports, and offer practical suggestions for efficient mitigation.
Disaster Recovery
Progent's consulting experts can assist your company to configure a fault-tolerant system architecture with features that can include Microsoft Windows Hyper-V failover clustering, auto-failover Internet connections, system load balancing, and strategic data centers. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified network engineers can show you how to utilize virtualization to enhance availability and optimize productivity by quickly restoring Windows 7 desktops. Progent can also help develop and document a comprehensive business continuity plan that includes near-continual online backup with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager.
Live Online Training for Windows 7 Desktop Applications
Progent provides live online training for an array of client programs and operating systems including Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Acrobat Writer, Adobe Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows 7. Interactive virtual classrooms offer the advantages of traditional classroom seminars, including immediate communication between students and instructors, but avoids the costs of transportation and the challenge of trying to synchronize the schedules of multiple students. Offered to individuals or groups of all sizes, live online training permits the trainer to conduct the class from a remote facility while the clients can be spread across a campus or all over the country. Progent's webinar classrooms utilize powerful learning aids such as virtual white boards, real-time questions, and shared desktops. Sessions can be short and targeted for specialized subjects or longer and broader in scope. Teachers and students can work through examples individually or as a class.
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Microsoft Dynamics GP ERP Support and Setup
Consulting Services Dynamics GP Accounting
Progent's Microsoft certified experts offer a range of support services for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Microsoft Dynamics GP is a financial and business analysis tool based, like all Microsoft accounting tools, on the expandable and familiar foundation of Windows technology. Dynamics GP provides a cost-effective solution for managing and integrating accounting, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, field service, and HR. Dynamics GP is simple to deploy and integrate, and with its segmented approach you can purchase only the functions you currently need, with the option to add clients and enlarge functionality in the future. Progent's Dynamics GP/Great Plains consulting experts can help you install, customize and manage the latest release of Microsoft Dynamics GP or upgrade smoothly from an earlier release.
Colocation Migration Remote Support Services
Internet Data Center Consultant Services
Colocation sites allow businesses to share enterprise-class data centers for hosting network equipment that runs vital applications and services. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco premier consultants can assist your company with all aspects of your colocation strategy including choosing and moving to a colo facility, designing system architecture, specifying required equipment, on-site and on-line maintenance, establishing offsite network management, and training your support staff.
Integration Support macOS Architecture
Open Now Apple Macintosh Infrastructure Consultancy
Progent's Apple Mac support engineers can help you with a broad array of system foundation areas including system architecture, off-site and mobile access, internetwork communication, security, and emerging technologies including VoIP and high-speed wireless networking. For company networks based exclusively on Apple Mac OS X or for environments that use a combination of Mac, Linux and Windows powered servers and workstations, Progent has the experience and size to deal with the challenge of planning, integrating, and maintaining a network infrastructure that is reliable, secure, efficient and supportive of your business goals. Progent can show you how to deploy Apple's Xserve enterprise servers, Xserve RAID fault-tolerant storage products, and Xsan storage area network solution. Progent can also provide certified professionals to support Cisco routers and switches.
CISSP Certified Security Manager Consult
CISSP Certified Cybersecurity Architect Consultant
Progent's CISSP-premier network security consultants can help organizations of any size with any facet of information system security. Progent can help implement efficient security systems that guard a small office from modern malware attacks or Progent can plan, deploy, and monitor a comprehensive security environment for hybrid enterprise networks that accommodate local, online, and mobile clients sharing network resources spread across a mix of physical datacenters and various clouds.
Online Microsoft Publisher Training Networking Services
Live Online Office Publisher Class
Progent provides live remote instruction for an array of desktop apps and operating systems such as Office and Microsoft 365 Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook plus Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Windows 10. Remote instruction offers the advantages of conventional in-person seminars, including instant interaction between clients and trainers, but avoids the costs of travel and the hassle of attempting to synchronize the availability of many students. Offered to single students or groups of all sizes, Progent's live online training permits the teacher to run the seminar from an online facility and the students can be dispersed throughout an office or all over the country. Virtual instruction supports powerful learning aids such as broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative desktops. Sessions can be short and personalized to specialized subjects or extended in duration and wider in coverage.
ProSight Endpoint Protection Network Engineer
Signature-matching Virus Protection Consultants
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning tools from SentinelOne to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats.
Windows 11 MDT Specialists
Microsoft Windows 11 Configuration Manager Consulting Services
Progent's Windows 11 consulting experts offer a variety of services to support Windows 11 such as cloud integration, mobile management, teleworker connectivity, data and identity security, centralized provisioning, and Help Desk support services.
Microsoft Certified Expert Windows Server 2019 Clusters Sets Online Technical Support
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Outsourcing
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server 2019 experts can help your company to design and implement an efficient migration to Windows Server 2019 using existing system architecture or a cloud-hosted or hybrid model. Windows Server 2019 delivers major enhancements in scale, performance, manageability, virtualization, security and compliance, hybrid local/cloud deployments, resilience, and Linux support.
Google Cloud integration Consulting
Google Cloud App Migration Specialist
Progent can provide affordable online and on-premises support to assist businesses to migrate any part of their critical network infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This can save management hassle and equipment expense and enable the use of Google's cutting edge AI and machine learning technology. Progent can assist your IT team with every aspect of Google Cloud Platform integration including requirements analysis, readiness assessment, architectural design, testing, deployment, administration, performance tuning, licensing management, backup/restore solutions, and security strategies.
24/7/365 Sodinokibi ransomware hot line Engineer
Professionals Ryuk ransomware hot line
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a experienced ransomware recovery expert who can help your business to halt the progress of an ongoing ransomware attack. Call 800-462-8800
Windows 2008 R2 Help and Support
Top Ranked Windows Server 2008 DirectAccess Online Support
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 features outstanding levels of speed, protection, availability, scalability, and flexibility that improve output of local, branch office, and mobile workers. Progent's network experts can provide affordable remote consulting, technical support, and training services to help you to design, execute, and maintain Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 to add substantial business value to your information system.
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FAQ about Cisco CCNA Jobs
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High-Availability Clustered Servers IT Services
Windows Cluster Integration Support
Progent offers Windows Cluster Server expertise to help your business deploy fault-tolerant clustered servers that can deliver 24x7 uptime. Windows cluster servers for zero-downtime networks include Windows Cluster Server, SQL Cluster, and Microsoft Exchange Cluster. By helping you build zero-downtime server clustering solutions powered by Windows Clustered Server 2003, Progent's Certified Windows consultants ensure that your non-stop server clusters are set up to maximize the strategic advantage of your information network.
24/7 PowerPivot for Excel Support Outsourcing
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Specialists
Progent offers the expertise of certified consultants as well as experienced database application programmers, DBAs, project managers, network infrastructure architects, disaster recovery/business continuity specialists, and certified security professionals to help you to evaluate the potential benefits of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for your organization, set up pilot systems at your site or at Progent's lab, design and execute out an efficient transition to SQL Server 2012 from previous versions of SQL Server or from legacy database platforms, and define an efficient and secure network infrastructure that helps you realize the full business benefit of Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
Small Business WAP100 AP Support Services
Small Business WAPs Specialist
Progent's Cisco-certified wireless integration experts can help you to deploy, administer, and debug Cisco Small Business 100/300/500 Wireless Access Points.
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