Expanding your at-home workforce can have a major impact on network infrastructure, security/compliance, and company processes. Progent has two decades of background helping SMBs to plan, deploy, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that support a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Montreal organization to pick the appropriate technologies and follow best practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and delivers top value. Progent can provide services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you over occasional IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can help Montreal, Quebec organizations to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-functioning work-at-home environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud integration, Help Desk outsourcing, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and unified management.

Unified Management for an At-Home Workforce
Microsoft has rebranded and reshuffled its endpoint management products under the name Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud management of mobile and remote devices and Configuration Manager for managing on-premises computers. Endpoint Manager provides a unified platform for protecting critical information by controlling on-premises, mobile, and home-based endpoint devices.

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 securing remote computers and applications. Managed endpoint computers can be personally owned or business owned. Network administrators managing the endpoint devices of at-home workers can use Intune to provision and validate apps on managed devices, push updates and certificates, set up policies for accessing information and resources, manage passwords, create VPN connections, control how telecommuters share information, set up threat protection, ensure security compliance, and wipe sensitive data from lost, stolen or deactivated devices. Microsoft Intune can be used with iOS/iPadOS, Google Android, Windows, and macOS/OS X endpoints. For information about Microsoft Intune and how Progent can help you to use this platform to manage the endpoint computers of your at-home workforce, go to Intune remote endpoint management consultants.

VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced unified Mobile Device Management (MDM) product that allows network managers to keep remote endpoint devices current and secure. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch technology for unified endpoint administration along with VMware's Horizon virtual software delivery technology for identity control, app management, and configuration management of endpoint computers. Workspace ONE runs with endpoints powered by Windows 10, macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-site product via a perpetual license. Key capabilities of Workspace ONE include rapid over-the-air deployment of new laptops, quick onboarding of new users, policy setting and enforcement for all categories of devices, unifies reporting and analytics, email encryption, and integration with Microsoft applications and cloud services. For information about Progent's support services for VMware Workspace ONE, see VMware Workspace ONE remote endpoint management expertise.

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
To contact Progent about building and managing a productive telecommuter environment for your Montreal, Quebec business, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.