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Microsoft Announces 2008 Edition of Windows SBS
Microsoft began shipping the 2008 version of Windows Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Windows Essential Business Server. These products offer the power of Windows enterprise-class server technologies to small and midsize businesses in an affordable package. Designed for businesses with up to 75 desktops, Windows Small Business Server 2008 is an integrated server platform engineered to enable businesses make their information more secure and make their network more efficient.
Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 is offered in standard and premier editions. The standard package features Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft SharePoint 3.0, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The premier edition adds MS SQL Server 2008.
Windows Essential Business Server is designed for businesses with as many as 75 workstations and gives network staff greater manageability of their environment by eliminating complexity and automating many processes. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by providing access to corporate e-mail, calendars, addresses and information to users when they are away from the office. To see Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft Releases Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.
How Progent's Microsoft-certified Experts Can Help Your Company to Benefit from Microsoft Windows Small Business Server
The most productive deployment of MS Windows SBS calls for an IT support firm with hands-on expertise and a broad background in designing and implementing data-driven strategic business technology applications. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-authorized technical team, with more than 10 years of working in Microsoft products, assures you success in designing, executing and managing MS Small Business Server 2008 applications that are well integrated with Microsoft's line of servers.
Progent's consulting experts can assist your company to integrate the main pieces of the Microsoft SBS and Windows EBS 2008 bundles and can also offer a variety of other affordable services to enhance the productivity, dependability, protection, speed, and maintainability of information systems built around
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent provides a range of Windows Server 2008 planning and maintenance support that can help small companies to get the most from Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your company to understand the areas where Windows Server 2008 could improve the business value of your network so that you can cost-justify an upgrade. Progent can show you how to test Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in order to determine its stability, throughput, and compatibility running your applications. Progent can help with creating a deployment plan, evaluate and enhance existing network infrastructure, document backup and restoration processes, analyze security mechanisms and guidelines, help in setting up physical and virtual machines, design fault-tolerant solutions including server clustering with Hyper-V, educate your in-house IT administration staff, and set up automated server and network monitoring operations to ensure your information system's protection and performance.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Planning, Setup, and Maintenance Support
Progent's expert support team can help you design and deploy a smooth Exchange Server 2007 upgrade strategy that minimizes network downtime, simplifies long-term support requirements, and makes your Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 easy to administer. Progent's Exchange 2007 support, troubleshooting, and consulting offerings include assistance with the configuration of third-party enhancements of Exchange 2007 Server and the creation of unified messaging implementations based on Exchange Server 2007. Progent's services include complete incorporation with your business network, connectivity with handheld computing products, automated monitoring of efficiency and security, spam and virus protection, patch and service pack management, Help Desk services, daily data backup, and full messaging management services.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Consulting and Support
Progent can offer assistance for designing, deploying, and maintaining productive SharePoint Server installations that will dramatically enhance key areas of your company's IT environment such as teamwork, intranet portal, corporate-wide search, forms-driven business processes, access to actionable intelligence, and content management. Progent's Microsoft-qualified engineers can help your company to evaluate the business case for implementing SharePoint Server, deliver setup and integration expertise, assist your business to set up Microsoft SQL Server as a back-office database engine, optimize your network infrastructure, set up your off-the-shelf and specialized application programs to work with Microsoft SharePoint Server, develop a comprehensive security strategy that includes portal technology, and deliver online and on-site troubleshooting and Call Center services.
SQL Server 2008 Integration and Maintenance
Progent's SQL Server consultants can make sure your business installs Microsoft SQL Server 2008 properly, and that your SQL-powered RDBM system is integrated thoroughly with your application software. Progent can provide 24x7 network tracking to make sure your corporate network is always available, and Progent's remote Help Desk Call Center is available to offer quick resolutions for SQL database problems. Progent's certified data security consultants can evaluate your business-wide security policies and mechanisms and suggest improvements for better protection. Progent's developers can help you to create or personalize business programs or eCommerce sites utilize information managed by SQL Server.
Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support consultants can deliver a wide range of cost-effective services to help your company to install, integrate, repair, and manage workstations and notebooks powered by Windows. Progent can offer onsite or remote help for individual machines or notebooks or work with your business to design and carry out a large-scale rollout of the newest release of Windows. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your workstations so they integrate productively with all Microsoft applications, products from popular vendors, SQL databases, and key solutions throughout your network. Progent can also supply consultants and technical workers to help you to prepare for and implement a company relocation or merger designed to cause minimal interruption to your productivity.
Network Security Inventory Bundles
Progent offers two low-cost service packages intended to enable small businesses to receive an independent security assessment from a CISA, CISM and CISSP-certified security consultant. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer runs a comprehensive test of your network from beyond your firewall to determine possible weaknesses in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer executes a network scan from an authorized machine within your company firewall to assess the risk to inside assaults. The two security inventory services are set up and run from a protected external location. The project is implemented by a consultant with top security credentials who produces a document that details and analyzes the data captured by the scan and proposes practical improvements if appropriate.
Live Virtual Education for Workstation Programs
Progent provides live virtual training for an array of desktop programs and operating systems such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Publisher, Visio, Acrobat Writer, Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Windows XP and Vista. Live online training offers the advantages of conventional in-person seminars, such as instant interaction between students and trainers, but avoids the costs of travel and the hassle of attempting to synchronize the schedules of multiple workers. Available to single students or groups of any size, virtual education allows the trainer to conduct the class from an online office and the students can be dispersed throughout an office or across the country. Virtual training deploys proven teaching mechanisms like virtual white boards, real-time questions, and shared desktops. Classes can be short and targeted for specific subjects or extended in time and broader in scope. Instructors and clients can go through problems individually or as a group.
Emergency Online Technical Support
Progent's National Support Center provides national remote help for Windows and Cisco-based small office information networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service experts provide phone help and remote secure network access to isolate and repair technical problems rapidly and affordably. The breadth of IT expertise available from Progent's staff of country-wide service engineers allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult problems to appropriate experts as required.
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