New IT Technology and Progent IT Solutions
Microsoft Unveils Latest Release of Small Business Server
Microsoft began shipping the most recent version of Small Business Server and Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). These solutions bring the power of Windows enterprise-grade server technologies to small businesses in a cost-effective package. Targeted for organizations with up to 75 PC users, Windows SBS is an integrated server platform created to help businesses make their information more secure and make their workers more productive.
Microsoft SBS 2008 is available in basic and premium versions. The standard package features Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services. The premier version adds MS SQL Server 2008.
Windows EBS 2008 is intended for businesses with as many as 75 desktops and offers network staff easier control over their information system by reducing complexity and streamlining common tasks. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by allowing connectivity to corporate e-mail, calendars, contacts and files to users who are not at the office. To see Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Releases Windows SBS 2008 and EBS 2008.
How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Help Your Company to Deploy Microsoft Small Business Server
The most productive deployment of Windows SBS 2008 calls for a network support company with real-world expertise and an extensive background in planning and building data-driven end-to-end business technology applications. The background of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team, with an average of over a decade of consulting in Microsoft products, ensures you results in designing, deploying and administering Microsoft Small Business Server solutions that are thoroughly integrated with Microsoft's product family of servers.
Progent's IT professionals can assist you to integrate the main components of the MS Windows SBS and Microsoft EBS 2008 packages and can also offer a range of other low-cost support options to improve the productivity, dependability, security, speed, and maintainability of information systems built around
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent provides a variety of Windows Server 2008 planning and integration support that can assist small companies to benefit from Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to understand the areas where Windows Server 2008 could enhance the productivity of your information network so that you can rationalize an upgrade. Progent can help you pilot Microsoft Windows Server 2008 so that you can determine its reliability, performance, and operability handling your workloads. Progent can help with creating a deployment strategy, evaluate and enhance existing network environment, document archiving and recovery processes, evaluate security architecture and guidelines, help in integrating physical and virtual machines, design high-availability strategies including server and storage clustering with Hyper-V, educate your internal IT management team, and set up proactive round-the-clock monitoring processes to ensure system protection and efficiency.
Exchange Server 2007 Design, Installation, and Maintenance Services
Progent's Microsoft certified support team can help you define and implement an efficient Microsoft Exchange 2007 migration plan that avoids productivity downtime, reduces ongoing support requirements, and makes your Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server easy to manage. Progent's Exchange Server 2007 support, troubleshooting, and design offerings include expertise with the integration of third-party add-ons to Exchange Server 2007 and the design of unified messaging implementations based on Exchange 2007 Server. Services include complete incorporation with your business network, access to mobile communication products, continual tracking of performance and security, spam protection, patch and service pack control, Help Desk services, per-day data backup, and full messaging administration support.
SharePoint Server 2007 Consulting and Support
Progent can provide help for planning, deploying, and maintaining successful Microsoft Office SharePoint Server solutions that can significantly improve important areas of your company's information system such as teamwork, web portal, enterprise search, forms-driven business processes, access to actionable information, and document management. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your company to evaluate the business case for implementing SharePoint Server, provide setup and installation support, assist you to configure SQL Server as a back-office database, enhance your network architecture, set up your standard and specialized business software to operate with Microsoft SharePoint Server, create a comprehensive security strategy that includes web portal solutions, and deliver online and on-premises repair and Help Desk Call Center support.
SQL Server 2008 Consulting Services
Progent's SQL Server engineers can help your company configures Microsoft SQL Server 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL-powered database system is integrated effectively with your applications. Progent can provide 24x7 network tracking to make sure your business information system is healthy, and Progent's online Technical Response Center is ready to provide quick remediation for SQL database issues. Progent's certified network security consultants can assess your business-wide security processes and technologies and recommend improvements for better regulatory compliance. Progent's programmers can assist your company to develop or customize business applications or eCommerce sites rely on information controlled by SQL Server 2008.
PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support experts offer a wide range of cost-effective services to assist your business to deploy, configure, repair, and manage workstations and notebooks powered by Windows. Progent can offer onsite or remote help for individual computers or laptops or help you to plan and carry out a network-wide migration to the most current release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics business applications on your client PCs so they communicate efficiently with all Microsoft applications, products from popular vendors, business servers, and line-of-business services network-wide. Progent can also provide consultants and technical workers to assist your company to prepare for and implement an office move or consolidation designed to produce minimal interruption to your productivity.
Security Inventory Packages
Progent offers two low-cost service packages intended to allow small businesses to receive an objective security evaluation from a CISM and CISSP-premier security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security expert administers an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewalled perimeter to determine possible weaknesses in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer runs a network scan from an authorized machine within your firewall to evaluate your exposure to internal assaults. The two security inventory packages are set up and executed from a protected remote site. The process is implemented by an engineer with high-level security accreditations who produces a document that details and interprets the information captured by the scan and suggests practical remediation where appropriate.
Live Virtual Instruction for Workstation Applications
Progent provides online virtual education for an array of client applications and environments including Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, Visio, Acrobat Writer, Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Windows XP and Vista. Live online training provides the benefits of conventional in-person sessions, including instant communication between clients and teachers, but avoids the costs of travel and the challenge of attempting to accommodate the schedules of multiple trainees. Available to single students or groups of all sizes, live online education allows the teacher to run the seminar from an online facility and the students can be spread throughout an office or all over the the U.S. Virtual training supports powerful learning tools like virtual white boards, real-time questions, and shared applications. Sessions can be brief and targeted for specific topics or longer in time and wider in scope. Instructors and clients can go through problems one-on-one or as a class.
Emergency Online Troubleshooting
Progent's National Support Center offers national remote support for Windows and Cisco-based small business information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service engineers provide telephone support and remote direct network access to isolate and resolve network problems quickly and affordably. The scope of technical expertise available from Progent's team of nationwide support engineers makes it possible to escalate even the toughest problems to competent specialists as required.
To find out more information about Progent's support services for MS Windows SBS, call
Select Topic: