Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers powerful, standardized tools to IT professionals as well as to network users, reducing the difficulty of designing, deploying, managing, and accessing enterprise data and database programs on platforms ranging from mobile devices to enterprise information systems. The complexity and integration demands of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 require a network consulting firm with real-world experience and broad knowledge in designing and deploying data-driven, end-to-end business technology solutions. The expertise of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of over 10 years of professional work involving Microsoft technology, ensures you success in designing, deploying and managing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 applications that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
Progent can help your organization in any facet of your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 such as deploying Windows Server 2019 Core as a host for Exchange; designing high availability infrastructure for an on-premises, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid deployment; moving mailboxes; planning and configuring Windows Hyper-V; configuring HLB; configuring DAG groups with MCDB caching; integrating with Skype for Business 2019 for voicemail; integration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; preparing firewalls; integration with Microsoft 365 and configuring Outlook.
Progent can provide fast online access to Cisco CCIE networking experts. Progent's CCIE experts can link to your network using advanced remote support utilities to deliver quick and affordable analysis and repair of critical network infrastructure problems.
Progent offers two low-cost service bundles intended to allow small businesses to receive an impartial security assessment from a premier security consultant. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert administers a comprehensive test of your network from beyond your firewall to determine possible risks in the security profile you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs a system scan from an authorized computer within your firewall to assess the risk to inside assaults. The two security inventory packages are configured and run from a secured external site.
Progent offers small and medium size companies expert consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and VPN security companies such as Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive security strategy and choose appropriate products from a variety of vendors to support your security goals while sticking within your budget limits.
Altaro VM Backup from Hornetsecurity provides small and mid-size businesses a dependable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and restoring Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be used for local, offsite, distributed, and cloud environments and also enables low-cost cloud backup to Microsoft Azure storage. Altaro VM Backup protects against ransomware via Immutable Cloud Storage. This creates tamper-proof backup data that cannot be erased or modified by anyone including administrators. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers a broad array of remote or onsite consulting services to help you to plan, install, optimize and debug a modern backup/restore system based on Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent delivers a fully managed backup/recovery service based on Altaro VM Backup technology.
Progent's Reseller Program for IT Service Providers lets you use Progent's consulting engineers under your own service brand as a transparent arm of your network services team.
Progent's Cisco-certified wireless networking experts offer online and on-premises consulting and support services to help your organization to design, install, manage, optimize, and repair Wi-Fi networks that incorporate Cisco's Meraki access points. Progent can also assist you to design and deploy hybrid networks that combine on-premises and cloud-hosted services and that deliver easy access, advanced security and compliance, unified management, and dependable performance for all your wired and wireless devices.
Progent provides small organizations two low-cost network security inventory scanning packages that include, for a preset fee, remotely administered scans of your security profile which are evaluated by expert information security specialists who assess the data collected by the remote scan, deliver unbiased evaluations of your existing security vulnerability, and offer recommendations for remediation. Progent offers two complementary network security inventory packages for external and internal scanning that are priced to fit the budgets of small businesses while offering enterprise-quality assessments of your network's exposure to assault.
Exchange 2013 incorporates significant enhancements to the capabilities of Exchange Server 2010 and introduces important innovations as well as a revamped architecture. These improvements affect vital areas including ease of administration, availability, compliance, operational costs, collaboration, extensibility, performance, cross-version interoperability, and productivity. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange 2013 consultants can assist your organization to understand the potential advantages of upgrading to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, design a cost-effective validation and rollout plan, and educate your IT team to manage your Exchange 2013 environment. Progent can also provide ongoing remote consulting and support and management services for Microsoft Exchange 2013.
Cisco's Meraki MS family of access and distribution switches are designed for sites ranging from small branches to campuses. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE consultants can provide cost-effective remote consulting expertise to assist you to plan and implement an efficient network architecture that incorporates Meraki switches, simplify network administration with Meraki's cloud-centric management tools, set up policies to ensure security, create and validate a disaster recovery strategy, and troubleshoot technical issues associated with any facet of your Meraki deployment. Progent can also assist you to integrate Meraki switches with Cisco's Nexus or Catalyst data center switches and with Meraki wireless access points to create a cohesive networking solution.
Progent's consultants can provide online and on-premises consulting services for organizations of all sizes to evaluate the benefits of migrating to Skype for Business from any release of Lync Server or Microsoft Office Communications Server. Progent can assist you to design a local, cloud-based or mixed deployment; interface Skype for Business with Microsoft SQL Server,Exchange Server, SharePoint and Microsoft or Microsoft 365; configure high-availability solutions; interface Skype for Business with your PBX system and PSTN gateway; and interface with other communication platforms like Cisco Video Interop Server. Progent's certified network security experts can help you create and verify a security strategy for your Skype for Business solution that is compliant with government and industry standards.
For companies with a combination of Apple Mac and Windows desktops, there exist two basic alternatives for using Windows-only applications on a Mac: remote access to a physical Windows computer or local simulation of a Windows operating system on a computer. Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection for Apple Mac enables you to connect an Apple Mac to a networked Windows-based PC to run Microsoft Windows programs and access network resources. Microsoft's Virtual PC for Apple Mac simulates Microsoft Windows on a Mac system so that you can run Microsoft Windows applications locally. Progent's macOS and Mac OS X technology consultants can assist your company to manage these solutions for running Microsoft Windows programs on your Macs and can in addition help your organization to evaluate and configure other products for Microsoft Windows platform simulation.
Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi integration experts can help organizations to deploy, administer, and debug Cisco wireless devices including Cisco's Aironet and Meraki 802.11ac wireless access points (APs) plus Cisco's Wireless Network Controllers.
Progent can assist your organization to deploy Cisco's networking products to create a robust foundation for your onsite, cloud-centric, or hybrid data center and improve operations in key areas including compute and storage consolidation, security and compliance, manageability, reliability, and recoverability.
Progent's Microsoft-certified relational database developers can provide businesses of any size remote support for leading database products such as MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and Office Access. Support services offered by Progent include installation and configuration, application design and coding, administration services, synchronization strategies, capacity planning, tuning, migration, information security, backup and recovery options, problem solving, and training.
Progent can help you with any aspect of Microsoft Azure migration including requirements analysis, readiness assessment, solution architecture, pilot testing, deployment, centralized management, performance optimization, software license controls, disaster recovery preparedness, security planning, and compliance assessment. Progent can assist your IT staff to set up and troubleshoot firewalls and VPN tunnels so that your users can safely access to Azure services, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can assist you set up key Microsoft platforms to work in the cloud including Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server and Skype for Business. Progent can also help your organization to set up a hybrid cloud ecosystem that transparently combines on-premises datacenters with Azure resources.
Progent's SonicWall firewall experts can help you integrate, maintain, and update SonicWall firewall appliances including the newer SonicWall TZ, NSa and NSsp Series of appliances and the legacy SonicWall PRO 2040 products. Progent's CISSP and GIAC-certified cybersecurity consultants can help you incorporate SonicWall firewalls into an end-to-end network protection solution and build protection into your business processes.
Progent's Cisco-Certified network engineers can help you to run Cisco's network management tools alongside a variety of specialized third-party products to build a complete network management strategy to keep your environment running reliably, conserve expensive resources, guard your data, recover rapidly from device failure or malicious assaults, and enable you to expand or repurpose valuable resources intelligently and affordably as your company grows.
Progent's Juniper Networks-certified NetScreen engineer can assist you to install and integrate NetScreen 5000 series routers, migrate from previous NetScreen devices to more current Juniper technologies, and troubleshoot infrastructure problems in all-Juniper or mixed-vendor environments.
Progent's Technical Response Center (TRC) offers national extended hours remote help for information systems based on Windows and Cisco technology. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier service professionals provide after-hours telephone support and online secure network connection to isolate and repair network problems quickly and affordably. The breadth of IT experience available from Progent's team of nationwide service engineers makes it possible to escalate even the most difficult problems to competent specialists as required. For critical issues, the TRC endeavors to answer your request for support within one hour.
Progent's Palo Alto Networks firewall experts can show you how to select, deploy, and manage Palo Alto Networks firewalls to provide a next-generation cybersecurity solution that extends across your on-premises and cloud-based resources and protects all users anywhere with any endpoint device.
SQL Server 2005 delivers powerful, standardized tools to computer professionals as well as to network users, reducing the complexity of designing, deploying, administering, and using company information and database programs on platforms ranging from handheld devices to enterprise data networks. The complexity and integration demands of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 call for an IT consultant with hands-on experience and broad knowledge in designing and building information-based, comprehensive business IT applications. The knowledge and experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified engineering staff, with an average of over 10 years of professional work supporting Microsoft technology, ensures you success in designing, deploying and supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2005 applications that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET environment.
Progent's Cisco-Premier network engineers can help you to run Cisco's network management utilities alongside a variety of specialized third-party products to create a complete network management strategy to keep your network operating smoothly, fully utilize expensive resources, guard your data, revive quickly from hardware failure or malicious assaults, and enable you to add or reassign network resources sensibly and affordably as your business grows.
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that combines array-based storage clustering with replication to provide rapid, zero data loss disaster recovery between sites that are as far as 185 miles apart. Progent's team of veteran IT consultants can help your business to design, deploy, administer, upgrade, test and troubleshoot a disaster recovery system built around NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to select a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that aligns with your functional needs and IT budget. Progent can ensure you adhere to best practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by providing help with procedures like assigning shelf IDs, arranging aggregate and plexes layout, provisioning NetApp FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, installing switches, implementing a tiebreaker, setting up a configuration replication network between your peered clusters, and testing your DR system to prove adherence with information assurance standards and regulatory mandates.
For small companies interested in Progent's network support outsourcing, consulting, or troubleshooting services, phone 800-993-9400 or e-mail information@progent.com.
Progent provides consulting services for WatchGuard Firewall security appliances including the WatchGuard Firebox and XTM lines of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL Core VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard consultants can help you select, configure, and maintain a WatchGuard Firewall/VPN product that aligns with your security needs and budget. Progent can help you to manage legacy WatchGuard firewall appliances or upgrade smoothly to modern WatchGuard firewall solutions.
E-Mail Guard represents a comprehensive solution for blocking spam and virus attacks. E-Mail Guard addresses the protection and administration of corporate email by providing continually improved spam and virus blocking, policy management, content testing, and defense against email-based directory harvesting and Distributed Denial of Service attacks. E-Mail Guard also includes monitoring, administration and reporting tools plus outgoing email testing to help you troubleshoot your email system and specify and enforce company email policy.
Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified risk management consultant to assist your company to design and deploy an enterprise risk management solution following best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget.
Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 builds on the proven security technologies of Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server and offers a easily managed web gateway that delivers a one-server platform for a variety of security features such as an application and network layer firewall, URL monitoring and filtering, malware inspection, intrusion protection, reputation services, VPN management, plus HTTP/HTTPS inspection. Forefront Threat Management Gateway provides advanced web security logging and reporting capabilities, allows customized reporting generated by Microsoft SQL Server, integrates with Active Directory to simplify authentication and policy enforcement, and can be installed as a virtual server to lower costs and improve availability. Progent's Microsoft engineers can assist your company to design and carry out pilot and production implementations; integrate Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 with Windows Server 2008, Active Directory, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and Microsoft SharePoint; install Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway to run on a virtual server with Microsoft Windows Hyper-V; and provide continuing consulting and troubleshooting. Progent can also help you to migrate smoothly to Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway from Microsoft ISA Server 2006 or 2004.
Progent's wireless VoIP phone configuration consultants offer online and on-premises assistance to help you create and manage a Cisco Wi-Fi IP phone deployment by providing services that range from troubleshooting the set up of a wireless IP phone or AP to offering project management outsourcing or co-sourcing services for modernizing the wireless infrastructure of a campus.
Cisco has developed an extensive array of routers including routers built to deliver the protection, bandwidth, and availability demanded by customers from small businesses to global enterprises and service providers. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, transparent failthrough, and backup power for improved reliability and system uptime. Progent can help you select and configure Cisco routers to establish a reliable infrastructure for your network and to make it economical to grow as you support new users, start new offices, install new services, extend your network to clients and partners, and support a more mobile workforce. Progent can provide help with a variety of routers powered by Cisco's IOS operating system, including Cisco's 800 series of small business routers, Cisco 1800 and 2800 ISR routers, Cisco 2900 and 3900 Generation 2 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 routers for wide area network edge applications, CRS Carrier Routing System for the network core, plus older 3600 and 3700 Series Routers.
ISA 2006 is a comprehensive gateway that offers a powerful application layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN), proxy, and Web caching platform for safeguarding the Internet-facing applications of any organization against a wide range of attacks. Progent's Microsoft ISA Server 2006 consultants can help you design, cost-justify, pilot, implement, configure and support the Standard or Enterprise edition of ISA Server 2006 on your network.
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 R2 (formerly Great Plains) features a revamped architecture that enhances cloud integration, supports the most popular smart phones and tablets, allows one-time login with Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and strengthens security and compliance. Dynamics 2015 R2 also streamlines reporting, includes nine new Workflows, extends the Web Client, and delivers over 100 improvements to various applications. Progent's Microsoft-certified and Cisco-certified consultants have the broad technical skills and hands-on experience to resolve the critical technical and business challenges involved with deploying and managing Dynamics GP 2015 R2 and can assist you to perform an efficient migration that will optimize the business value of your investment in this powerful platform.
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting and Management outsourcing offers complete hosting of a small or mid-size organization's servers in an environment that delivers the highest degree of dependability and scalability and is in addition easy to migrate to another host. ProSight Virtual Hosting options are based on proven virtualization architectures that enable small and midsize businesses with multi- platform environments to save significantly on the costs of capital investments, infrastructure maintenance, and network administration while benefiting from world-class fault tolerance and an unprecedented degree of vendor flexibility.
Progent can help your business in all facets of your migration to Exchange 2016 such as designing high availability architecture for an on-premises, Microsoft cloud connected or hybrid deployment; server and CAL licensing compliance for Exchange 2016 and Windows Server 2012 R2 or later; moving mailboxes; Hyper-V strategy; determining mass storage capacity required for your virtual machines (VMs), databases and logs; setting up HLB for fault-tolerant client access services; planning, setting up and validating Exchange Servers and Windows Servers and DAG groups; setting up collaboration with SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online; preparing the firewall; resolving SSL issues; performing client remediation with Office desktop or Microsoft 365; and setting up Outlook on the web (formerly Outlook Web App).
Progent's experts offer Mac users a range of services such as desktop support, Apple macOS and OS X expertise, Mac co-existence with Windows environments, Microsoft Entourage and Exchange Server help, network protection services, and custom training. Progent can assist businesses to upgrade to macOS from Mac OS X or earlier editions of Apple OS X and Progent can provide help with macOS and Mac OS X applications. Progent can also assist your business with Apple iPhone integration and Apple iPad synchronization, or migrating to Apple's iCloud. For computer environments built exclusively on macOS or OS X or for systems incorporating a mix of Mac, Linux and Windows based servers and desktops, Progent's Apple, Cisco, and Microsoft consultants have the background and depth to deal with the complexity of designing, configuring and maintaining a network infrastructure that is available, secure, efficient and aligned with your organization's objectives.
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a seasoned ransomware recovery expert who can help you to halt the spread of an active ransomware attack. Call 800-462-8800
Progent's certified Windows Server 2019 consultants can assist your organization to plan and carry out an efficient migration to Windows Server 2019 using existing system architecture or a new cloud-hosted or hybrid model. Windows Server 2019 delivers significant improvements in capacity, performance, ease of management, Hyper-V virtualization, security and compliance, hybrid local/cloud integration, resilience, and Linux support.
Progent's consultants can assist you to evaluate the benefits of Lync Server for your environment and can help you to design and carry out an installation of Microsoft Lync Server that consolidates the management of IM and Presence and improves the productivity of your in-house employees, telecommuters, and smartphone users. Progent's consultant's can in addition help you to perform a smooth upgrade to Lync Server from Office Communications Server or Microsoft Live Communications Server, integrate Microsoft Lync Server with Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Microsoft SQL Server, show you how to run Lync Server to enhance the team-computing capabilities of Microsoft Office applications, and offer online seminars and ongoing support for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and other Microsoft products.
Progent's certified Windows Server 2019 consultants can assist your organization to plan and carry out an efficient migration to Windows Server 2019 using existing system architecture or a new cloud-based or hybrid deployment model. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 offers significant improvements in capacity, speed, ease of management, virtualization, security and compliance, hybrid local/cloud integration, availability, and container support.
Configuration Manager automates application and device deployment at scale, centralizes security and compliance settings management, keeps track of network assets, protects against company data leakage, provides network health reporting, allows secure self service, and offers a common point of control for managing multi-OS ecosystems based on on-prem, cloud-centric, or hybrid deployment models. Progent's Microsoft-certified SCCM consultants and Microsoft Azure cloud specialists can help your organization with any aspect of planning, installing, operating and repairing a System Center Configuration Manager solution for on-premises, cloud, or hybrid networks.
If you are a network consultant with technical support experience, teaming with Progent and assisting Progent's customers will expand your abilities via interaction with Progent's team of motivated, high-output consulting experts. Progent's commitment to offering IT expertise and technical support to small businesses will give you the opportunity to work closely with business leaders and contribute tangibly to the growth of exciting companies. In addition, Progent's virtual office network provides state-of-the-art technology for remote service and wireless access to help you to come up with fast fixes when you take on mission-critical problems.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is a rich, Web-enabled database and data analysis solution that opens the door to the rapid development of cutting-edge high-end programs that can give your business a significant competitive edge. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 features built-in support for XML and the capability to query across the Internet and beyond the firewall. The expertise of Progent's certified SQL Server 2000 engineers, averaging more than over 10 years of background helping with Microsoft integration, assures you success in planning, installing and managing Microsoft SQL Server solutions that are seamlessly integrated with other applications based on Microsoft's .NET platform.
The Contact Center support delivery model used by Progent's Technical Response Center offers small and midsize organizations an dependable option to reliance on freelance consultants by offering extensive expertise accessible to numerous support teams, optional 24x7 access to urgent help, escalation capability to appropriate experts for handling even the most difficult problems, service consistency and reliability, prompt follow-up overseen by veteran support administrators, a selection of easy-to-use techniques for initiating support tasks, and excellent progress visibility made possible by ticket tracking and available through a web-based portal.
Progent's Cisco-certified Catalyst 9100 Series 802.11ax AP experts offer economical remote and on-premises support for Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E wireless access points.
Progent can help your organization to utilize Cisco's infrastructure products to build a robust foundation for your local, cloud-centric, or hybrid data center and streamline operations in vital areas including compute and storage utilization, security and compliance, manageability, availability, and disaster recovery.
Cisco has developed an extensive product line of routers that includes routers built to deliver the protection, performance, and reliability required by customers from small offices to worldwide enterprises and service providers. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, transparent failover, and backup power for improved fault tolerance and network uptime. Progent can show you how to choose and configure Cisco routers to establish a solid foundation for your network and to make it economical to expand as you add new users, open new offices, install new services, open your network to customers and partners, and support a more mobile workforce. Progent offers help with a variety of routers based on Cisco's IOS platform, including the Cisco 800 series of small business VPN routers, Cisco 1800 and 3800 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco 1900 and 2900 G2 ISR routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 routers for WAN edge environments, CRS Carrier Routing System for core Networks, plus legacy 3600 and 3700 Series Routers.
Lync Server 2013, rebranded Skype for Business, allows businesses of all sizes to create a manageable and secure communications ecosystem that supports the modern BYOD computing style with IM, presence, audio/video and web meetings with application sharing, as well as IP and PSTN telephony across a broad range of stationary PCs and handheld clients. Progent's certified Lync Server 2013 experts and network integrators can help you to assess the business benefits of Lync Server 2013, create an in-house, cloud-resident (with Lync Online) or mixed model suitable for your present and future plans, deploy Lync Server 2013 so as to speed up your return on investment, and provide custom webinar and onsite training to your management team and end users. Progent offers expertise in critical components of a Lync 2013 deployment that include Windows Server, SQL Server Express and Exchange Server, and Progent can help your organization to integrate Lync Server 2013 with popular Office and Microsoft 365 apps including Outlook and PowerPoint.
Progent's certified SonicWall firewall experts can help you integrate, maintain, and tune SonicWall firewall appliances including the current SonicWall TZ, NSa and NSsp Series of firewalls and the legacy SonicWall PRO 2040 devices. Progent's CISSP and CISA-certified network security consultants can show you how to incorporate SonicWall firewalls into a complete network protection solution and design security into your corporate practices.
Progent offers quick access to the expertise of veteran Wi-Fi consultants who can help organizations to determine the advantages of Ubiquiti UniFi Wi-Fi access points for your company and help you to design, install, manage, and troubleshoot your UniFi network. Progent can also conduct a wireless site survey to help you to select, configure, and place Ubiquiti UniFi wireless APs for optimal coverage and throughput.