TH Enterprises installs, configures, and supports a wide range of Microsoft products and tools to provide its clients with powerful automation systems. The following are some (and by no means all) of the Microsoft involvement in our client's installations; and, provides a glimpse into some of our areas of expertise:
Windows Servers
Windows Servers readily scales from one or two servers with a few dozen clients to hundreds of servers and thousands of clients. It's reliable—PCs, laptops, and servers running Windows stay up and running. It lowers cost because it simplifies management of users and computers. And it's the best operating system for taking advantage of all the latest hardware, from the smallest mobile devices to laptops to the largest, most powerful servers for e-commerce.
Small Business Server (SBS) is Microsoft's small business networking solution for businesses with 50 computers or fewer, featuring a bundle of software which includes e-mail, fax, database, and secure internet capabilities. This is an opportunity for a smaller organization to obtain the power of a large organization's information technology at a much lower cost.
Internet Information Services (IIS) - Integrated Web services enable users to easily host and manage Web sites to share information, create Web-based business applications, and extend file, print, media and communication services to the Web.
Index Server - A tool allowing for the storage and then easy and fast retrieval of documents of all types in a very rapid browser like manner.
Virtual private networking (VPN) - A full-featured gateway that encrypts communications to securely connect remote users and satellite offices over the Internet. Now with an updated PPTP support and advanced security with Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol encrypted by IPSec.
Proxy Server / ISA Server - Every day more and more companies connect their internal networks to the Internet for a variety of reasons—productivity, customer service, collaboration, and more. Some of the biggest issues these organizations face as they extend their networks to the Internet are security, manageability, and cost. Microsoft® Proxy Server's firewall security, content caching, and management tools help organizations address these issues effectively.
SQL Server - the relational database management system (RDBMS) of choice for building business applications.
Terminal Services - Run Windows-based applications on the server, and access from a remote PC, Windows-based Terminal or non-Windows device over LANs, WANs or low-bandwidth connections, through terminal emulation software. In Windows 2003, Terminal Services performance have dramatically improved for both high and low-bandwidth connections.
Exchange Server
Exchange Server - the messaging platform that provides e-mail, scheduling, online forms, and the tools for custom collaboration and messaging-service applications.
Overview
Exchange Server, seamlessly integrated with the Microsoft Windows® operating system, is designed to meet the messaging and collaboration needs for businesses of all sizes. Together with its client software, Microsoft Outlook®, Exchange provides a highly reliable, scalable, and easy to manage messaging and collaboration infrastructure.
Benefits
Windows platform
Exchange Server, designed specifically for Windows Server, delivers enhanced reliability, scalability, and performance with lower cost of ownership, which is derived through unified management of messaging, collaboration and network resources.
Collaboration
Exchange supports a wide range of collaborative activities, including group scheduling capabilities, discussion groups, and team folders. With built-in content indexing and search, users can find and share information quickly.
Web Applications
Exchange combines powerful workflow tools with Web standards like Extensible Markup Language (XML) and HTTP, resulting in a platform for high-performance Web applications such as knowledge management and e-commerce.
Anytime, Anywhere Communication
With features such as Instant Messaging and real-time data and video conferencing, Exchange enables access to the people and information you want, anytime and from anywhere.
Microsoft Outlook
Overview
Microsoft Outlook (which works directly with Exchange) provides a single, integrated solution for organizing and managing your digital communication tools such as e-mail and instant messaging, along with all your day-to-day information--—from calendars and contacts to task lists and notes. Outlook controls the deluge of e-mail, appointments, and contacts, helping you manage your time and tasks more effectively, while making it easier to synthesize information and share it with others.
Benefits
- Outlook makes working with e-mail, tasks, contacts, and appointments more intuitive without requiring users to learn new ways of accomplishing their tasks or spend time searching for these tools. The goal was also to eliminate the users' worry about whether they can access their information.
- Outlook enables users to spend time working rather than worrying about their software. With the reliability features in the newest version of Outlook, users can continue to work even in the unlikely event of an error. Furthermore, a variety of security enhancements have been included in Outlook to help users feel more secure when working with e-mail.
- Outlook makes sure setup and configuration was made simpler so that users could stay focused on being productive instead of worrying about their software. This is accomplished through a variety of different enhancements such as a single integrated e-mail mode, customization enhancements in the Custom Installation Wizard, and a simplified interface for setting up e-mail accounts.
- Outlook provides multinational organizations and multilingual users with a better experience when working with the application. This includes a variety of improvements when working with e-mail, contacts, appointments, and other data files.
Microsoft SharePoint™ - Digital Dashboard
Overview
Microsoft SharePoint™ is a flexible Web-based portal solution that you can use to find, share, and publish information easily.
SharePoint provides a rich, customizable out-of-the-box Web portal that gives users quick access to business-critical information throughout an organization. It integrates basic document management functions such as check-in, check-out, document profiles, and document publishing with Microsoft Office products used every day. In addition, users can create SharePoint workspaces to plan, share, and manage project documents.
Based on Microsoft Digital Dashboard technology, a SharePoint dashboard site offers a single customizable source for accessing information drawn from a wide variety of content sources, while maintaining the security of the documents. External content sources can include other SharePoint Server workspaces, intranet or Internet sites, Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Exchange public folder hierarchies, local file systems, and network file servers.
You can deploy SharePoint within a department or across an entire organization. It is designed to work seamlessly with familiar applications such as Office and Microsoft Internet Explorer, so employees throughout an organization can take advantage of the product immediately.
Benefits
Simplest access to business information
Index the most important enterprise content sources and content types; capture and respect security settings for Windows and Exchange.
Best results from search queries based on an industry-leading probabilistic ranking algorithm
Stay current on topics, documents and searches using subscriptions based on scalable persistent query technology
Classify similar types of content and group it appropriately through automatic categorization technology
Seamless knowledge portal integration with the Microsoft Office and Windows productivity desktop
Incorporate business processes around documents with check-in/check-out, versioning and approval routing functionality
Easily track document history and roll back to previous versions
Effectively classify documents by applying business relevant information to each document
Include people outside the enterprise in the document collaboration process with the web browser as an alternative user interface
The most effective way to build and extend intranet portals
Easily extend the digital dashboard-based portal UI by adding Web Parts
Easily create personalized Digital Dashboards and share them with other users
Built on Internet and industry standards such as XML, WebDAV, ADO/OLEDB and CDO
Using Visual Studio developers can write applications that leverage Active Server Pages and ADO to add collaboration functionality