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Microsoft Introduces Latest Edition of Windows SBS
Microsoft unveiled the newest release of Windows Small Business Server and Windows Essential Business Server (EBS 2008). These products deliver the power of Windows enterprise-grade server platforms to smaller companies in an economical package. Intended for organizations with as many as 75 users, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server is a cohesive server platform created to enable businesses make their information safer and their network more productive.
MS Small Business Server 2008 is offered in standard and premium editions. The basic edition features Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint 3.0, and Windows Server Update Services. The premium edition also includes MS SQL Server 2008.
Windows Essential Business Server is meant for organizations with up to 75 users and gives network administrators more control over their environment by eliminating complications and automating many processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by providing connectivity to corporate messaging, calendars, contacts and information to users when they are not at the office. To read Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Ships Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008.
How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Assist You to Deploy MS Windows Small Business Server 2008
The most productive deployment of Microsoft SBS 2008 requires a network consulting company with real-world experience and an extensive knowledge-base in designing and building data-driven strategic business IT applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-authorized consulting team, with an average of over a decade of consulting in Microsoft products, ensures you results in designing, deploying and managing Small Business Server 2008 applications that are well integrated with the Microsoft line of servers.
Progent's consulting experts can help you to deploy the major pieces of the Microsoft SBS and Windows EBS 2008 bundles and can also provide a variety of other low-cost support options to enhance the productivity, dependability, protection, performance, and maintainability of information networks built around
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Support
Progent offers a variety of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting and maintenance services that can assist small companies to get the most from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help you to understand the areas where Microsoft 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 pilot Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in order to assess its reliability, responsiveness, and compatibility handling realistic workloads. Progent can help with developing a deployment plan, evaluate and improve your current network infrastructure, document archiving and restoration procedures, evaluate security architecture and policies, assist in installing actual and virtual machines, design fault-tolerant solutions such as failover server clustering, educate your in-house IT administration team, and deploy automated server and network monitoring processes to ensure your information system's protection and performance.
Exchange Server Design, Installation, and Maintenance Support
Progent's expert support team can show you how to define and implement an efficient Exchange Server 2007 upgrade plan that avoids network disruption, simplifies long-term service demands, and makes your Exchange Server 2007 easy to administer. Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2007 help, troubleshooting, and consulting offerings include assistance with the configuration of outside vendor add-ons to Exchange 2007 Server and the design of unified messaging solutions based on Exchange 2007 Server. Progent's services feature complete incorporation with your business network, access to mobile communication devices, continual tracking of performance and security, spam protection, security update and service pack management, Helpdesk support, per-day backup, and full email administration support.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Integration Services
Progent can offer assistance for designing, configuring, and managing productive Microsoft SharePoint Server solutions that can dramatically improve key areas of your company's information environment including teamwork, intranet portal, corporate-wide search, forms-driven business operations, access to business intelligence, and content management. Progent's Microsoft-qualified consultants can assist you to assess the business benefit for deploying Office SharePoint, deliver setup and integration expertise, assist you to set up Microsoft SQL Server as a back-office database, optimize your network architecture, set up your off-the-shelf and custom business programs to work with Office SharePoint Server, create a comprehensive security plan that incorporates web portal solutions, and provide online and on-premises troubleshooting and Call Center services.
SQL Server Programming and Support
Progent's SQL Server consultants can help your organization installs Microsoft SQL Server 2008 properly, and that your SQL-based RDBM solution is integrated effectively with your business applications. Progent can provide continuous network tracking to ensure your business network is working efficiently, and Progent's remote Help Desk is ready to offer quick resolutions for SQL-related issues. Progent's certified network protection engineers can assess your company-wide security policies and technologies and recommend enhancements for better regulatory compliance. Progent's application developers can assist your company to create or customize line-of-business applications or web sites rely on databases managed by Microsoft SQL Server.
Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support consultants offer a wide range of cost-effective services to assist your business to deploy, configure, repair, and manage workstations and laptops powered by Microsoft Windows. Progent can offer on-premises or remote help for single machines or laptops or help you to design and implement a company-wide migration to the latest version of Microsoft Windows. Progent can also configure Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your client PCs so they integrate productively with all Microsoft applications, products from third-party publishers, SQL databases, and line-of-business solutions throughout your network. Progent can also supply consultants and technical workers to help your company to prepare for and complete an office move or merger organized to produce minimal disruption of your business.
Network Security Inventory Packages
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable service packages intended to allow small businesses to receive a professional network security evaluation from a GIAC and CISA-certified security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer administers a comprehensive test of your network from beyond your firewalled perimeter to determine potential risks in the security profile you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a certified security professional runs a system scan from a secure machine inside your firewall to assess vulnerabilities to inside threats. The two security inventory packages are set up and run from a secured remote location. The process is implemented by a consultant with high-level security credentials who produces a document that summarizes and analyzes the information collected by the security scan and proposes cost-effective improvements where call for.
Live Virtual Training for Desktop Applications
Progent offers live virtual instruction for an array of desktop applications and operating systems including Microsoft Office Excel, Word, Access, Visio, Adobe Acrobat Writer, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Live online training offers all the advantages of traditional in-person sessions, such as immediate interaction between students and teachers, but eliminates the costs of travel and the challenge of trying to accommodate the schedules of many trainees. Offered to individuals or classes of all sizes, live online training allows the trainer to run the class from a remote office while the students can be spread across an office or all over the the U.S. Virtual training deploys proven teaching aids such as virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and shared desktops. Classes can be brief and targeted for specialized topics or extended in duration and wider in coverage. Instructors and clients can go through problems one-on-one or as a group.
Urgent Online Technical Support
Progent's National Support Center offers national remote help for Windows and Cisco-based small business IT networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service engineers provide telephone support and remote secure network connection to isolate and resolve technical problems rapidly and economically. The scope of IT expertise represented by Progent's staff of nationwide service engineers allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult network issues to competent specialists as needed.
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