Network Help for Small Companies

Windows 7 is a legacy release of Microsoft's signature operating system. In comparison to earlier versions, Windows 7 offers quicker initialization, shut down, and resumption from standby; hassle-free networking and resource access; consolidated device management; plus innovative touch-screen capability. Microsoft Windows 7 also ushered in a new era in 64-bit client computers and gave companies an excellent opportunity to take the leap into the new generation of information technology.

End of Support for Windows 7
Microsoft has placed Windows 7 on End of Support status. Consequently Microsoft will offer no technical assistance for any problems you encounter with Windows 7 and Microsoft no longer produces software or security updates. Even though computers running Windows 7 still function, End of Support can result in an expanding list of problems concerned with cybersecurity, compliance, operation with new versions of applications, and even liability. If your company is now considering an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 or 11, Progent's Windows 10 and 11 consultants can assist you to determine the potential benefit of a current version of Windows for your organization and can assist you to design and carry out an efficient migration to Windows 10 or Windows 11 that follows best practices.

How Progent's Consulting Professionals Can Assist You to Maintain Windows 7
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can assist your company to maintain your Microsoft Windows 7 environment and can also help you to assess the likely strategic advantages of moving to a modern release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide help with moving to Windows 10 or migrating to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or previous releases of Microsoft Windows.

Progent's consultants can provide a variety of low-cost services to improve the efficiency, reliability, protection, performance, and manageability of IT networks that incorporate desktops powered by Microsoft Windows 7:

Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support consultants can deliver a broad array of cost-effective consulting and support services to assist your business to install, configure, troubleshoot, and administer workstations and notebooks based on Microsoft Windows. Progent can offer onsite or remote assistance for single computers or notebooks or work with you to plan and implement a large-scale rollout of Microsoft Windows 7. Progent can also install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your client PCs so they integrate productively with other Microsoft applications, software from third-party publishers, SQL databases, and key solutions network-wide. Progent can also provide engineers and technical workers to assist you to prepare for and implement a site move or merger designed to produce the least possible interruption to your productivity.

Helpdesk Support and Expertise
Progent's Standard Help Desk Services offer smaller businesses a complete service desk solution that handles all aspects of online Level 1 desktop technical support from initial requests through ticketing, remote desktop control, status tracking, problem resolution, and management reports. Progent offers call desk services at a substantial discount from Progent's regular desktop support rates, and Progent offers the option of fast as-needed escalation to Level 2 and Level 3 experts to resolve the most issues. for more information, refer to Online Help Desk Services.

Configuration Management
Progent's IT management experts can show you how to set up a computer system built around Microsoft Windows 7 workstations that is easy to administer. Progent's engineers have in-depth experience providing companies of all sizes System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) consulting to streamline IT administration's workload, improve network security, improve productivity by ensuring that all patches and updates are current, police licensing adherence, and monitor patterns of application usage to allow a more efficient purchasing plan. In addition, Progent can assist your company to execute a smooth migration to an up-to-date version of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager for better management automation and can help you to plan and implement a Microsoft Windows Server 2022 migration or a Windows Server 2019 upgrade to create an up-to-date environment for change management. For Microsoft 365 environments, Progent's consultants offer Intune consulting services for comprehensive cloud-based management of Windows 7 computers along with mobile devices running Apple iOS, Google Android, or Windows.

Security Inventory Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's certified security consultants can deliver a range of budget-friendly network security inventory packages and enterprise network security evaluation service bundles designed to give organizations of any size a chance to get an objective look at the effectiveness of their protection profile. These packages vary from an ultra-affordable external security scan and evaluation package for small and midsize companies up to a high-level package for enterprises who need comply with security standards required by government regulators or by customers. For every security inventory or evaluation bundle, engineers with high-level security credentials analyze and summarize collected data and make suggestions for effective improvements.

Backup and Restore and Business Continuity Planning
Progent's consulting experts can assist your company to implement a high-availability system architecture that offers features such as Windows Server Hyper-V clustering, auto-failover Internet connections, network load balancing, and strategic colocation sites. Progent offers access to Microsoft and Cisco-Certified consulting professionals who can show you how to benefit from virtualization to improve fault tolerance. Progent can also show you how to develop a comprehensive business continuity strategy that incorporates periodic disaster response assessments and testing.

Wireless Smartphone Integration and Desktop Synchronization
Progent's smartphone and tablet specialists can help you to incorporate smartphones and tablets into your information network by delivering solutions for synchronization between handhelds and Windows 7 PCs and integration between handheld devices and Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server. Support offered from Progent includes iPhone integration and management, Android smartphone integration, and Blackberry troubleshooting. Progent's BlackBerry specialists can help you to design, install, manage, and maintain network environments that combine BlackBerry BES Server along with Windows 7 workstations.

64-bit Migration Consulting for Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Servers
Windows 7 is offered in a 64-bit edition that represents a new benchmark for desktop reliability and performance. However, for the majority of businesses the migration to 64-bit technology is problematic due to the need to perform a new installation on every workstation. This entails re-installing applications, saving and restoring data files, and running 64-bit device drivers. Though businesses in most cases already have 64-bit PCs, the work needed to take full advantage of these resources often seems excessively time-consuming. Yet since Microsoft Windows 7 often requires a clean installation, it represents a good opportunity to upgrade to 64-bit performance, which you can do with little if any extra work. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have in-depth backgrounds planning and implementing major, minimally disruptive OS upgrades of existing workstations and can assist your business leverage your IT budget by executing the move to Windows 7 and to 64-bit computing at the same time.

Live Online Education for Desktop Apps
Progent provides online training for popular client apps and environments including Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows 10. Virtual training provides the advantages of traditional classroom sessions, including instant communication between students and teachers, but avoids the expenses of transportation and the challenge of attempting to accommodate the schedules of many trainees. Available to individuals or groups of all sizes, virtual instruction allows the trainer to conduct the class from a remote office and the students can be dispersed throughout a campus or across the country. Live online instruction utilizes powerful learning aids like virtual white boards, real-time questions, and shared applications. Classes can be brief and targeted for specialized topics or extended in duration and wider in coverage. Instructors and clients can work through problems individually or as a group.

To learn additional details about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Windows 7, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.