New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

Microsoft made available the next version of Small Business Server (SBS 2008) and Essential Business Server. Microsoft's products bring the power of Windows advanced server technologies to smaller organizations in a cost-effective package. Designed for companies with as many as 75 workstations, Microsoft Windows SBS is an integrated server solution engineered to enable businesses make their data more secure and their workers more efficient.

Microsoft SBS 2008 is offered in basic and premier versions. The standard edition includes Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint Services, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The premium version adds MS SQL Server 2008.

Windows EBS 2008 is meant for organizations with up to 75 workstations and gives network staff easier control over their environment by eliminating complexity and automating many tasks. With support for Windows Mobile phones, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 can significantly help boost productivity by facilitating connectivity to corporate messaging, scheduling, contacts and information to users who are not at their desks. To view Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft Announces SBS 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008.

How Progent's Certified Engineers Can Assist Your Business to Integrate Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008
The most productive installation of MS Windows SBS 2008 calls for an IT support firm with real-world experience and an extensive background in designing and building data-driven end-to-end business IT solutions. The background of Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team, with more than a decade of working in Microsoft technology, ensures you success in planning, executing and administering Small Business Server 2008 solutions that are well integrated with Microsoft's line of servers.

Progent's consultants can assist your company to deploy the major pieces of the Microsoft Windows SBS 2008 and Microsoft EBS 2008 bundles and can also provide a range of other low-cost services to enhance the productivity, reliability, security, speed, and maintainability of IT networks based on Windows Small Business Server 2008 or Windows Essential Business Server 2008:

Windows Server 2008 Consulting
Progent provides a variety of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 consulting and maintenance support that can assist small businesses to take advantage of Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help your company to understand the ways Microsoft Windows Server 2008 could enhance the productivity of your information network so that you can rationalize a migration. Progent can show you how to pilot Windows Server 2008 in order to assess its stability, speed, and compatibility running your workloads. Progent can assist with creating a rollout strategy, evaluate and enhance existing network infrastructure, document backup and recovery processes, evaluate security architecture and guidelines, assist in integrating physical and virtual servers, design high-availability strategies including failover server clustering, educate your internal network management staff, and deploy proactive server monitoring processes to track system security and efficiency.

Exchange Server Planning, Installation, and Maintenance Services
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help you design and deploy a smooth Microsoft Exchange 2007 upgrade plan that avoids productivity disruption, reduces ongoing service requirements, and makes your Exchange Server 2007 easy to manage. Progent's Exchange Server 2007 support, repair, and consulting services include expertise with the integration of outside vendor add-ons to Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server and the creation of unified messaging solutions powered by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Services feature integration with your network, access to handheld communication devices, automated tracking of efficiency and security, spam and virus filtering, patch and revision management, Help Desk Call Center support, per-day data backup, and comprehensive email administration support.

SharePoint Server 2007 Consulting and Support
Progent can offer expertise for planning, configuring, and managing successful Microsoft Office SharePoint Server solutions that will significantly enhance important areas of your organization's information environment such as collaboration, web portal, enterprise search, forms-driven business processes, delivery of management information, and content control. Progent's Microsoft-qualified engineers can assist your company to assess the business benefit for implementing SharePoint Server 2007, deliver configuration and installation support, assist your business to set up Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as a back-office database engine, optimize your network infrastructure, set up your standard and custom application software to work with Office SharePoint Server, develop a comprehensive protection strategy that includes portal technology, and provide remote and in-person repair and Call Center services.

SQL Server Design and Support
Progent's SQL Server engineers can help your company configures Microsoft SQL 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL Server database system is integrated seamlessly with your applications. Progent offers 24x7 network tracking to make sure your business network is healthy, and Progent's remote Help Desk is available to provide rapid solutions for SQL-related issues. Progent's certified computer security engineers can assess your company-wide security processes and mechanisms and recommend improvements for better regulatory compliance. Progent's programmers can assist your company to create or customize line-of-business applications or web sites rely on databases managed by SQL Server.

Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support consultants offer a wide array of affordable services to help your company to install, integrate, troubleshoot, and manage desktop PCs and laptops powered by Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide onsite or remote assistance for individual computers or laptops or help you to design and implement a network-wide migration to the most current release of Windows. Progent can also configure Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your workstations so they communicate efficiently with other Microsoft applications, products from third-party vendors, SQL databases, and key services network-wide. Progent can also provide engineers and technical workers to help your company to plan for and implement a site relocation or consolidation organized to produce the least possible interruption to your productivity.

Security Inventory Packages
Progent has put together two low-cost service packages intended to enable small companies to receive an independent network security evaluation from a GIAC and CISA-certified security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer administers an extensive test of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewall to uncover potential weaknesses in the security profile you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a certified security professional executes a network scan from an authorized machine inside your firewall to uncover vulnerabilities to inside attacks. Both security inventory packages are configured and run from a secured external location. The project is managed by an engineer who has earned top security credentials who generates a document that details and interprets the data captured by the security scan and suggests cost-effective improvements where appropriate.

Live Virtual Instruction for Desktop Applications
Progent provides online virtual learning for popular desktop applications and operating systems such as Office Excel, Word, Publisher, Outlook, Acrobat Writer, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Windows XP and Vista. Virtual instruction offers all the benefits of conventional classroom seminars, including instant interaction between students and teachers, but avoids the expenses of transportation and the challenge of trying to synchronize the availability of many students. Offered to single students or classes of all sizes, live online instruction allows the instructor to conduct the seminar from a remote facility while the students can be spread throughout a campus or all over the country. Virtual learning utilizes proven teaching tools such as broadcast white boards, electronic hand-raising, and collaborative applications. Classes can be brief and targeted for specific subjects or extended in duration and broader in scope. Instructors and students can go through problems individually or as a group.

Emergency Remote Technical Support
Progent's National Support Center offers national remote support for Windows and Cisco-based small office IT networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier support professionals provide telephone help and online direct computer connection to isolate and repair network problems quickly and economically. The scope of technical expertise represented by Progent's team of country-wide service professionals allows Progent to escalate even the toughest network issues to appropriate experts as needed.

For more details about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.