Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi integration consulting experts can assist you to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Cisco Small Business 100/300/500 Wi-Fi APs.
Les Kent has a 35-year track record of successful network integration, corporate management, sales, and operations. He has shown a knack for creating sophisticated information technology solutions during his time as as a network architect, software developer, project manager, implementation expert, and troubleshooter for small companies, new ventures, and major enterprises.
Progent's webinars provide small companies the affordability, convenience, and flexibility of online seminars plus the proven pedagogic methods of expert instructors who employ advanced technology to reproduce live, participatory classes. Progent can provide webinar education for key desktop software including elements of Microsoft Office such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Publisher, and Visio: Microsoft Dynamics business accounting and management software including Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains); plus additional top desktop applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat Writer, and Crystal Reports.
Progent's Microsoft-certified SharePoint consultants can provide economical remote and onsite expertise, software development, and debugging services for organizations of any size who want to migrate to SharePoint 2016 or SharePoint Online from prior releases of SharePoint.
For custom program creation, Progent can supply programming experts to produce business software in areas such as eCommerce, web site design, Microsoft Business Solutions products including Microsoft Dynamics GP, and custom management reports based on Crystal Reports, Access Report, or FRx Reports. Progent's experts can use Internet Information Services to create company-specific eCommerce solutions based on Microsoft ASP.NET. In addition, Progent can provide expertise in a wide range of custom program development environments including SQL Server and Delphi. For made-to-order e-Commerce software, Progent also offers specialists in custom Microsoft Access, custom Microsoft Visual Basic, custom Excel, and any other specialized programming powered by any Microsoft development platform.
Microsoft supports transparent hybrid environments that combine Microsoft 365 and on-premises Exchange systems. This allows you to have certain Exchange mailboxes hosted at your physical datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's certified Exchange consulting team can assist you with any phase of planning, implementing and troubleshooting your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange solution. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver occasional expertise to help you resolve challenging technical bottlenecks and also offer extensive project management outsourcing to ensure your hybrid Exchange initiative is completed on schedule and on budget.
Microsoft Lync Server 2013, renamed Skype for Business, enables businesses of all sizes to build a manageable and secure communications environment that permits a BYOD computing style with instant messaging (IM), real-time presence, audio/video and web meetings with app sharing, and both IP-based and PSTN telephony across a broad range of stationary PCs and mobile devices. Progent's certified Lync 2013 experts and system integrators can help your company to assess the business benefits of Lync Server 2013, design an in-house, cloud-based (with Lync Online) or hybrid model suitable for your current and future plans, deploy Lync 2013 in a way that expedites your return on investment, and deliver live online and onsite training to your IT staff and users. Progent offers in-depth expertise in critical components of a Lync Server 2013 deployment including Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server and Exchange Server, and Progent can assist your organization to combine Lync Server 2013 with key Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 apps such as Outlook clients and PowerPoint.
ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure management service that makes it easy and affordable for smaller organizations to map, monitor, optimize and debug their connectivity hardware such as switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers plus servers, printers, client computers and other devices. Incorporating cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management technology, WAN Watch makes sure that network maps are kept updated, captures and displays the configuration of almost all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and sends alerts when potential issues are discovered. By automating complex management activities, WAN Watch can cut hours off common tasks like network mapping, reconfiguring your network, locating appliances that require important updates, or identifying the cause of performance bottlenecks.
The clustering technology built into the Datacenter and Enterprise versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is radically re-engineered to simplify the deployment, setup, and administration of clusters that offer greater levels of network availability, protection, performance, and versatility. New or enhanced capabilities include automated cluster Validation, revamped configuration and installation, improved cluster management, redesigned cluster infrastructure for maximum uptime, better security and quorum structure, fewer failure points, more disk and memory capacity, and improvements for geographically dispersed clusters. Progent's clustered server consultants can assist you evaluate the advantages of failover clusters, plan and implement an installation, educate your network support personnel to administer your failover clusters, provide continuing consulting and support services, and produce and test a disaster recovery procedure.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server 2019 consultants can help your organization to design and implement an efficient migration to Windows Server 2019 using your current system architecture or a new cloud-hosted or hybrid model. Windows Server 2019 delivers major enhancements in scale, performance, manageability, Hyper-V virtualization, security and compliance, hybrid local/cloud integration, resilience, and Linux support.
DoubleTake/Carbonite Software publishes a selection of tools intended to provide small companies a range of cost-effective solutions for backing up and recovering vital applications including Exchange Server, SQL Server, Blackberry, and SharePoint. Progent's disaster recovery planning experts have in-depth backgrounds integrating DoubleTake/Carbonite technology into small company IT systems to achieve an advanced level of fault tolerance and business continuity readiness at a budget-friendly cost.
Progent's certified ISA Server consulting experts have broad backgrounds developing Microsoft-based security designs for information systems with many locations, mobile workers, and mission-critical eCommerce applications. A Progent ISA 2004 Firewall consultant is ready to help your small business plan and implement a configuration of Microsoft ISA Server 2004 that supports your IT protection requirements without limiting your productivity.
Dynamics GP/Great Plains allows you to grow and manage your business better by offering easy access to strategic data and a rapid ROI. Dynamics GP/Great Plains confers major productivity benefits including its ability to extend the presence of your organization, handle your accounting, automate financial operations, unify procedures throughout your company, improve inventory control, enhance order accuracy, expand sales and shorten lead-time, and increase free cash flow. Progent can help you set up and manage a robust, safe server and communications infrastructure to support Great Plains, and can offer expert Dynamics GP/Great Plains consultants to make sure you derive all the advantages of your Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains software.
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, run on the Microsoft Windows Server platform and based on technology originally produced by Connectix, delivers the power needed to accomplish server consolidation, software migration, and server quarantine projects via virtualization techniques in an enterprise-class IT network with advanced scalability, manageability, and availability. Microsoft has targeted Virtual Server at companies who want to improve ROI in software development and piloting, upgrading from legacy line-of-business software, and hardware consolidation. Progent's skilled Virtual Server experts can assist your IT staff to assess and integrate Microsoft Virtual Server.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have over 10 years of experience planning, implementing, enhancing and fixing System Center Operations Manager solutions and can provide organizations of any size advanced remote or on-premises consulting support for System Center 2012 Operations Manager. Progent can assist you to design a topology for System Center 2012 Operations Manager servers that delivers the responsiveness and resilience required to monitor your IT resources effectively, whether your datacenters are onsite, in the cloud, or a mixed solution. Progent can also help you to install and customize System Center 2012 Operations Manager management packs based on industry best practices for tracking network fabric and both Microsoft and third-party applications and services. Also, Progent can provide responsive remote or onsite troubleshooting to assist you to remediate critical problems uncovered by SCOM 2012.
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Progent offers the support of CISM Certified security consultants. The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee describes the core competencies and international standards of skill that IT security professionals are expected to learn. CISM provides business management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM certification possess the experience and knowledge to deliver effective security management and consulting services.
Progent offers the expertise of Microsoft-certified consultants and experienced software developers, DBAs, project management experts, network infrastructure engineers, business continuity planning specialists, and certified security professionals to help your business to evaluate the likely benefits of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for your organization, set up test environments at your datacenter or at Progent's lab, design and carry out an efficient transition to SQL Server 2012 from previous versions of SQL Server or from legacy RDBMS platforms, and configure an efficient and safe network infrastructure that lets you realize the full strategic benefit of Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
Progent's Mac consultants can support the creative aspect of Mac computing by offering help services and education in imaging, sound, and video. Progent's support professionals offer help in a variety of Apple Mac programs including Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Apple Logic, MOTU Digital Performer, Digidesign Pro Tools, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and After Effects. Progent can also assist you with special jobs such as scanning or digitizing audio or video or setting up an audio/video post production studio.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist organizations of any size to follow best practices to set up SCVMM 2012 hosts and host groups, networking, storage systems, and libraries; design, implement, and manage private clouds, virtual machines, and VMM services in SCVMM 2012; and integrate SCVMM 2012 with SCOM 2012 for comprehensive reporting. Progent can help your company to migrate from an earlier edition of SCVMM or from another management platform, and Progent can assist you to enhance and troubleshoot your existing SCVMM 2012 ecosystem so you realize maximum business value.
Systems Management Server 2003 provides added functionality for change and configuration management of Windows-based systems via SMS Feature Packs. Feature Packs lower the overall administrative costs of managing and deploying software by making it easier to install system images, control mobile computers, and run management tools. In addition to advising you about ways to cut management costs by deploying SMS 2003 Feature Packs, Progent's consulting experts can help you plan and perform IT projects involving processes that Feature Packs are designed to streamline. Progent's adoption and upgrade services can lower spending and eliminate business disruption as you move to the latest operating systems and programs. Progent's wireless consulting experts can show you how to develop efficient processes and policies to manage handheld computers and smart mobile phones so your mobile workforce stays efficient and secure. Progent's CISSP-certified consultants and CISM-certified consulting professionals can show you how to design a security plan that incorporates standards, procedures and technologies to keep your IT network protected.
Progent is committed to knowledge transfer from Progent's consultants to clients. By educating clients to handle technical issues that are within their scope, Progent is able to focus on offering high-value skills where Progent has few competitors. Small companies who utilize trusted independent consultants or who employ in-house support personnel benefit when Progent passes on information about new technology and tested processes to make their IT environments more robust, protected, and efficient.
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Cisco offers an extensive array of routers that includes routers built to deliver the protection, bandwidth, and availability required by organizations from branch offices to global enterprises and service providers. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, transparent failover, and redundant power for improved fault tolerance and system availability. Progent can show you how to select and integrate Cisco routers to establish a solid foundation for your IT system and to make it economical to grow as you support new users, open new offices, install new services, open your network to clients and partners, and manage a more mobile workforce. Progent offers expertise in a variety of routers powered by the Cisco IOS platform, including Cisco's 800 series of small business routers, Cisco 1800 and 2800 ISR routers, Cisco 3900 and 4000 Generation 2 ISR routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 Aggregation Services Routers for WAN edge applications, Cisco CRS Carrier Routing System for the network core, as well as legacy 2500 and 2700 Series Routers.
Progent is a certified Altaro partner and can design and manage a deployment of Altaro O365 Backup to protect your Microsoft 365 user and group mailboxes, files residing within your company's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint sites, plus user and group Teams Chats.
Cisco's Catalyst family of wireless controllers streamline the management of wireless LANs by unifying the provisioning and control of wireless APs, tuning wireless performance by limiting the effect of RF congestion, enhancing wireless uptime with rapid auto-failover, and strengthening security by detecting threats and analyzing traffic content according to user type and locale. Progent's Wi-Fi consultants can help you to deploy Cisco wireless LAN controllers to manage wireless networks of any size. Progent can assist you to maintain and troubleshoot your existing Cisco-based Wi-Fi solution or implement an efficient migration to Cisco's modern Wi-Fi controller technology.
Progent can provide cost-effective remote support to assist companies to integrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services such as Amazon EC2 for virtual machine hosting, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Glacier. Progent can help your IT team with every phase of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including requirements analysis, preparedness assessment, architectural design, testing, deployment, administration, performance optimization, licensing management, backup/restore solutions, and security.
Progent's certified SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Online experts offer affordable online and onsite expertise, application development, and technical support services for businesses of all sizes who want to migrate to SharePoint 2019 or SharePoint Online from prior releases of SharePoint. Progent can help you design and execute an efficient migration to SharePoint 2019 on premises, SharePoint Online, or a hybrid network model that incorporates local and cloud-based resources into a seamless information management system.
Progent's Microsoft Certified professionals can provide expert consulting for enterprise-wide implementations of Microsoft Exchange 2007. Progent's consultants can show you how to plan multi-location Exchange installations or updates and can supply local technicians to help enterprises with deployments of Exchange Server 2007 in the or any area served by Progent's consultants.
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Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts have over 10 years of background planning, implementing, enhancing and troubleshooting Microsoft SCOM environments and offer companies of any size advanced remote or on-premises consulting support for SCOM 2012. Progent can help you to plan an architecture for SCOM 2012 servers that delivers the responsiveness and resilience required to watch over your datacenter efficiently, whether your infrastructure are on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid solution. Progent can also help you to install and set up Microsoft SCOM 2012 management packs according to best practices for tracking network infrastructure and both Microsoft and third-party applications and services. In addition, Progent can provide fast remote or on-premises troubleshooting to assist you to fix critical problems detected by System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
Altaro VM Backup software provides small and mid-size businesses a dependable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-based virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in on-premises, offsite, multi-site, and cloud-hosted environments and also supports low-cost cloud backup to Azure storage. Headline features include industry-leading inline deduplication to cut backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup spacing as low as five minutes for reducing your Recovery Point Objective (RPO), military-grade encryption, item-level recovery capability for individual files and emails, extensive support for Windows Server CSV and for VMware vCenter for managing large-scale deployments, and the ability to leverage Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to back up live virtual machines without downtime. Progent is a certified Altaro partner and offers a wide array of services to help you to design, install, manage and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution powered by Altaro VM Backup.
Progent offers consulting expertise for WatchGuard Firewall/VPN security gateways such as the WatchGuard Firebox and XTM series of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL Core VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard consultants can help you select, configure, and manage a WatchGuard Firewall/VPN product that fits your security requirements and budget. Progent can help you to maintain outdated WatchGuard firewall appliances or upgrade efficiently to modern WatchGuard firewall solutions.
Progent offers the support of a certified VMware VCDX consultant to help you plan, configure, manage and repair VMware vSphere and vCloud-powered virtualization ecosystem for local datacenters, private and public clouds, or hybrid cloud systems. Progent offers world-class knowledge for deploying and configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and VMware's NSX network virtualization system for disaster recovery. Progent offers in-depth understanding of VMware vCloud Director (vCD), vRealize Automation (vRA), vRO and vCloud used for managing private and hybrid cloud solutions that deliver maximum uptime, fault tolerance, and application mobility.
Progent's seasoned team of IT consultants and subject matter experts have extensive experience providing remote and onsite assistance for businesses of any size who need to incorporate Android phones and tablets into their information networks so that users can be productive from anywhere. Progent has the range of know-how to solve technical issues that involve numerous manufacturers and that represent a combination of legacy and current technology. Progent provides budget-friendly online technical support to assist you with any stage of planning, deploying, managing and troubleshooting your Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) solution. Progent can provide as-needed technical support to help you to resolve especially challenging IT problems, or Progent can provide outsourced or co-sourced project management services to ensure that you complete major IT initiatives on time and within budget. Progent can help with on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid networks and can provide support for all major operating systems, apps, management tools and hardware infrastructure. Progent also offers specialized group or one-on-one classes to show you how to manage and use Android phones to maximize their business value.
Microsoft Windows Server Update Services enables network administrators to install and monitor the most recent Microsoft patches and security updates to Microsoft Windows Server 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP operating systems. By using Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, network support staff can fully and effortlessly manage the distribution of patches that are published via Microsoft Update to servers and workstations in an organization. Progent can assist you with technical details of the initial configuration of Microsoft Windows Server Update Services such as designing the Microsoft WSUS deployment, configuring user's workstations, establishing the Group Policy parameters, and ensuring your Microsoft Software Update Services GPO is linked to an Active Directory container appropriate for your system environment.
Progent's Microsoft Premier professionals can provide world-class support for corporate-wide implementations of Microsoft Exchange 2007. Progent's consultants can show you how to plan multi-location Exchange Server rollouts or updates and can supply onsite technicians to assist enterprises with deployments of Microsoft Exchange in the or any region served by Progent's consultants.
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting offers proven virtualization architecture, a world-class data center facility, and the support expertise of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting group to provide small companies with a comprehensive IT outsourcing solution that improves network dependability and security, eliminates management hassle, and lowers expenses. With Progent's Private Cloud Hosting, a small or midsize business can have all of its operating system platforms and critical application servers hosted in a safe and fault tolerant data center on a high-performance, high-availability virtual machine set up and maintained by Progent's network service experts.
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts have two decades of background providing electronic messaging and unified telecommunications/email solutions for companies. Progent provides affordable Microsoft Exchange Server consulting services to enhance email security and virus defense, achieve high availability email, and implement remote and mobile email connectivity. Progent's Microsoft Exchange help and support offerings can aid you in planning and implementing a Microsoft Exchange update or a move from a legacy SMPT system or older Microsoft Exchange product such as Exchange 5.5 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.
Progent can provide onsite education customized for people who wish to broaden their knowledge of the Apple macOS and OS X operating system, Mac computers, or Mac office productivity applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook for Mac. Progent also can provide customized group or one-on-one online training for Mac applications.
Progent can provide a wide array of economical online and on-premises support services to assist your business to install, manage, and debug workstations and mobile devices powered by Windows, macOS/OS X, iOS, Google Android, or Linux.
The cluster technology built into the high-end versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is dramatically redesigned to simplify the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of server clusters that offer greater levels of network availability, protection, efficiency, and flexibility. New or improved capabilities include cluster Validation, revamped configuration and deployment, improved cluster management, redesigned cluster infrastructure for increased uptime, better protection and quorum structure, minimization of failure points, greater disk and memory capacity, and improvements for multi-site clusters. Progent's clustered server consultants can assist you assess the business benefits of failover clusters, plan and execute an installation, educate your IT personnel to manage your failover clusters, deliver continuing consulting and technical help services, and create and test a workplace recovery procedure.
Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi experts can help you to plan, deploy, enhance, manage and debug a Wi-Fi solution customized for your facilities. Progent offers online or onsite expertise for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi design and Ekahau Sidekick for onsite RF analysis.
Progent's Juniper-certified network engineers can assist your organization to design and carry out the installation of Juniper J Series firewall/VPN routers, configure security policies and fault-tolerant redundancy, and provide ongoing technical consulting and troubleshooting services.
Cisco's Meraki family of switches are designed for environments that go from small branches to large campuses. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE consultants offer cost-effective remote consulting expertise to assist your company to design and implement a productive network architecture that incorporates Meraki MS switches, streamline network monitoring and administration with Meraki's cloud-based management tools, define policies to ensure security, create and validate a disaster recovery strategy, and troubleshoot issues associated with any facet of your Meraki ecosystem. Progent can also assist your company to connect Meraki switches with Cisco's Nexus or Catalyst data center switches and with Meraki Wi-Fi APs to create a cohesive networking solution.
Progent's Microsoft certified support team can show you how to define and deploy a smooth in-place Exchange Server 2003 upgrade strategy that avoids network downtime, reduces ongoing service requirements, and makes your Exchange 2003 Server easy to administer. For complex multiple server or multi-site upgrades, Progent has the knowledge and experience to finish your project quickly and economically. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 support, repair, and design services include expertise with the configuration of third-party enhancements of Exchange 2003 Server that are best aligned to your business goals.
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants offer a variety of support services for Dynamics GP (formerly Great Plains). Dynamics GP/Great Plains is an accounting and business analysis platform based, like all Microsoft financial tools, on the scalable and familiar foundation of Microsoft Windows technology. Dynamics GP provides a cost-effective tool for managing and integrating finances, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, on-site support, and HR. Dynamics GP is easy to deploy and configure, and with its segmented design you are able to purchase only the functions you currently need, with the ability to add clients and increase capabilities when necessary. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP consulting experts can show you how to deploy, customize and manage the current version of Dynamics GP or migrate efficiently from an earlier version.
Exchange Servers and Apple Mac computers can work together efficiently. Progent's Mac and Microsoft certified consultants can show you how to set up Microsoft Entourage and Microsoft Exchange Server so your Apple Macintosh users are able to collaborate with colleagues who run Microsoft Outlook. With Microsoft Exchange and Entourage 2008 or 2004 for Mac, Exchange and Mac systems can coexist, enabling Mac users to get and transmit messages, examine the GAL, import addresses, sync up calendars, and invite people to conferences with your Exchange account. Progent will make sure that your Microsoft Server is appropriately set up and that WebDAV and Outlook Web Access are enabled. Progent also can provide customized onsite Entourage education.
Progent's Microsoft-certified ISA Server 2004 consultants have long experience with Internet Security and Acceleration Server developing Microsoft ISA Server-based security solutions for IT networks with many sites, mobile users, and mission-critical eCommerce applications. Progent's Microsoft Firewall consultants can help your small business in planning and deploying an installation of ISA 2000 Server or ISA 2004 Server that supports your information protection requirements without overly limiting your network accessibility. Progent's consulting professionals can help you migrate from Microsoft Proxy Server from ISA 2000 Server to Microsoft ISA 2004 Enterprise Edition Server, ISA 2004 Standard Edition Server, or other up-to-date editions of ISA Server.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts have more than a decade of experience designing, deploying, optimizing and troubleshooting System Center Operations Manager solutions and offer organizations of all sizes advanced remote or onsite consulting support for System Center 2012 Operations Manager. Progent can assist you to plan an architecture for System Center 2012 Operations Manager servers that provides the performance and availability needed to monitor your IT resources efficiently, whether your datacenters are onsite, in the cloud, or a mixed solution. Progent's SCOM consultants can also help you to install and customize Microsoft SCOM 2012 management packs based on leading practices for monitoring network fabric as well as both Microsoft and 3rd-party applications and services. Also, Progent can deliver responsive online or on-premises troubleshooting to assist you to remediate serious problems uncovered by Microsoft SCOM 2012.
Microsoft System Center 2016 delivers important enhancements for managing hybrid cloud networks through advanced support for Windows Server 2016, Windows 10; unified management of mixed-OS networks that include various Linux distributions, Hyper-V and VMware; and better cloud support including closer integration with Intune for iPhone and Android smartphone management plus native integration with Operations Management Suite for cloud-enhanced analytics. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team offers advanced remote and on-premises expertise for all elements of System Center 2016 including Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection Manager, Orchestrator, and Service Manager (SCSM). Progent can help you to plan and configure a new deployment of Microsoft System Center 2016, expand or optimize your current one, migrate efficiently from a prior version of System Center, or troubleshoot your System Center solution.