Expanding your at-home workforce may have a significant effect on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of background assisting businesses of all sizes to design, deploy, administer, tune, and troubleshoot IT environments that support work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Minnetonka company to select the right technologies and adhere to best practices in creating and operating a secure virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers top value. Progent can provide support services ranging from on demand guidance for helping you past challenging IT roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can assist Minnetonka, Minnesota companies to succeed with any facet of building a high-functioning work-at-home environment by providing network infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud integration, Call Desk outsourcing, security monitoring, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.

Unified Management for Remote Workers
Microsoft has rebranded and rebundled its endpoint management products under the name Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which includes Intune for cloud-based management of remote devices and Configuration Manager for managing onsite endpoints. Microsoft Endpoint Manager offers a centralized platform for protecting critical information by managing local, mobile, and home-based endpoints.

Microsoft Intune
Intune is part of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also includes Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and protecting off-premises devices and applications. Remote endpoint computers can be user owned or business owned. Network administrators managing the endpoint devices of telecommuters can utilize Intune to provision and authenticate applications on devices, push patches and certificates, set up policies for accessing information and networks, set passwords, create VPN tunnels, control how teleworkers share data, set up threat protection, verify security compliance, and delete corporate data from missing, stolen or decommissioned endpoint devices. Intune can be used with iOS, Google Android, Windows, and macOS/OS X devices. To learn about Intune and how Progent can help you to use this platform to manage the endpoint devices of your teleworkers, see Intune remote endpoint management expertise.

VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is a feature-rich centralized Mobile Device Management product that allows network administrators to keep remote endpoint devices current and protected. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch for centralized endpoint administration combined with VMware's Horizon virtual software delivery technology for access control, application management, and configuration management of endpoints. Workspace ONE operates with devices powered by Windows 10, macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, or popular distros of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud-based service or as an on-site product through a perpetual license. Key features of VMware Workspace ONE include rapid over-the-air provisioning of out-of-the-box notebooks, immediate onboarding of new users, policy set up and enforcement for all categories of devices, unifies reporting and performance analytics, an email encryption gateway, and seamless integration with Microsoft apps and cloud products. To find out about Progent's support for VMware Workspace ONE, see VMware Workspace ONE remote endpoint management expertise.

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
To contact Progent about creating and maintaining a productive work-from-home solution for your Minnetonka, Minnesota organization, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.