New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Microsoft announced the latest edition of Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Essential Business Server. Microsoft's products offer the power of Windows high-end server platforms to small businesses in an economical bundle. Designed for organizations with up to 75 workstations, Microsoft SBS is a cohesive server platform created to help companies make their data more secure and make their network more productive.

MS SBS 2008 is available in basic and premier editions. The standard edition features Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server, SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services. The premier version also includes MS SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft Windows EBS 2008 is targeted for businesses with as many as 75 PC users and gives IT administrators greater control over their information system by eliminating complexity and automating common processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by allowing access to business e-mail, scheduling, contacts and files to workers when they are not at their desks. To read Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Unveils Small Business Server 2008 and EBS 2008.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Experts Can Assist You to Deploy Windows Small Business Server
The optimal configuration of Microsoft Small Business Server calls for a network consulting company with real-world experience and a broad knowledge-base in planning and building data-driven strategic business technology solutions. The background of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting group, with more than a decade of working in Microsoft products, ensures you success in designing, executing and administering MS Small Business Server solutions that are well integrated with Microsoft's line of system and application servers.

Progent's consulting experts can help you to integrate the main pieces of the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server and Windows EBS 2008 packages and can also offer a variety of other affordable services to improve the productivity, reliability, security, performance, and manageability of IT networks built around Windows Small Business Server 2008 or EBS 2008:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Expertise
Progent offers a range of Windows Server 2008 planning and integration services that can help small businesses to get the most from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help you to evaluate the ways Windows Server 2008 could improve the business value of your IT system in order to cost-justify an upgrade. Progent can show you how to test Windows Server 2008 in order to assess its stability, responsiveness, and operability running realistic applications. Progent can assist with developing a deployment plan, evaluate and enhance existing network infrastructure, document backup and restoration processes, analyze security architecture and guidelines, help in installing actual and virtual servers, design high-availability strategies including server clustering with Hyper-V, train your in-house IT management staff, and set up proactive round-the-clock monitoring operations to track your information system's security and performance.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Planning, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Services
Progent's expert consultants can show you how to define and implement an efficient Exchange Server 2007 migration plan that minimizes network downtime, reduces long-term support demands, and makes your Exchange 2007 Server easy to administer. Progent's Exchange Server 2007 help, troubleshooting, and design offerings include expertise with the configuration of outside vendor add-ons to Exchange 2007 Server and the creation of unified messaging solutions based on Exchange Server 2007. Progent's services feature complete incorporation with your network, connectivity with handheld computing devices, continual monitoring of efficiency and security, spam and virus filtering, patch and revision management, Contact Center services, per-day data backup, and full email administration support.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Help
Progent can offer assistance for designing, deploying, and maintaining successful SharePoint Server solutions that can dramatically improve key areas of your organization's information network including teamwork, intranet portal, company-wide search, forms-driven business operations, access to management intelligence, and document control. Progent's Microsoft-qualified engineers can assist your company to assess the business benefit for deploying SharePoint Server 2007, provide configuration and integration expertise, assist your business to set up SQL Server as a back-end database, enhance your network architecture, set up your off-the-shelf and specialized application software to work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, create a company-wide security strategy that incorporates portal solutions, and provide online and on-premises repair and Call Center support.

SQL Server Consulting Services
Progent's SQL Server experts can make sure your company configures SQL 2008 properly, and that your SQL-based DBM system is incorporated effectively with your application software. Progent offers continuous network tracking to ensure your corporate network is working efficiently, and Progent's remote Technical Response Center is ready to provide rapid remediation for SQL problems. Progent's certified network security engineers can evaluate your company-wide security processes and technologies and recommend improvements for more complete protection. Progent's developers can help your company to develop or customize line-of-business applications or web sites utilize information managed by Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support experts offer a broad range of cost-effective support services to help your company to install, integrate, troubleshoot, and administer desktop PCs and notebooks based on Windows. Progent can offer onsite or remote help for single machines or notebooks or help you to design and carry out a network-wide rollout of the latest release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your workstations so they communicate efficiently with all Microsoft programs, products from third-party publishers, business servers, and line-of-business services network-wide. Progent can also provide consultants and technical workers to help you to plan for and complete an office relocation or consolidation designed to produce the least possible interruption to your productivity.

Network Security Inventory Bundles
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable service bundles intended to enable small businesses to get a professional security evaluation from a CISM and CISSP-premier security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer administers an extensive test of your network from beyond your firewalled perimeter to uncover possible risks in the security posture you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer runs a system scan from a secure machine within your firewall to evaluate vulnerabilities to internal attacks. The two security inventory packages are set up and run from a secured external location. The project is implemented by an engineer with top security accreditations who produces a report that summarizes and analyzes the data captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation if appropriate.

Virtual Education for Desktop Applications
Progent provides live virtual instruction for an array of desktop programs and environments such as Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Virtual instruction offers all the benefits of conventional in-person seminars, such as instant interaction between clients and teachers, but avoids the expenses of transportation and the challenge of trying to accommodate the schedules of many trainees. Available to individuals or groups of any size, live online learning allows the instructor to run the class from a remote office and the students can be dispersed throughout an office or across the country. Live online instruction utilizes powerful learning mechanisms like broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative applications. Classes can be brief and personalized for specific subjects or longer in time and wider in scope. Instructors and students can go through problems individually or as a class.

Urgent Remote Technical Support
Progent's Technical Response Center offers nationwide remote support for Windows and Cisco-based small business information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier support professionals provide phone help and remote direct computer connection to troubleshoot and repair network problems rapidly and economically. The scope of IT experience available from Progent's team of country-wide service professionals allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult network issues to qualified specialists as required.

For more information concerning Progent's consulting and support services for MS Windows SBS, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.