Fast and effective deployment of your Microsoft technologies shortens the time it takes to see value from your investment. And when your people use those technologies fully, they help grow their skill set — and your business.

SA IT Services, a Microsoft Gold Partner and a US Microsoft Partner Seller, has the Microsoft-certified expertise to work with your organization to deploy and adopt Microsoft technologies efficiently and cost-effectively.

Our Professional Services team can help you minimize risk in your most complex initiatives, including providing Planning Services to help you get the most out of your on-premise or cloud software deployment.

Even Microsoft turns to us for help — as Partner Sellers, our badged Partner Technology Solutions Professionals (P-TSP) are called upon to support Microsoft’s own technical pre-sales efforts by helping to position, demonstrate, design and implement Microsoft solutions.

Our experience with the Microsoft platform and collaboration with our global network of partners fuel our ability to create possibilities and drive innovation through Microsoft technologies and platforms.

Office 365

Office 365 gives you virtually anywhere access to the latest Office applications, plus cloud-based IT services including business email. With Office 365, even the smallest businesses can take advantage of the benefits of cloud in a scalable, affordable model that includes best-in-class performance, accessibility, storage, security and compliance.

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Watch a quick video on what Office 365 is and how it works:
Download the SMB “Get to Modern” Guide
Watch a video on optimizing network performance for Office 365

Azure

Want to develop – and possibly market — cloud solutions? Windows Azure is designed to offer a simple, reliable, and powerful platform for creating web-based applications. With Windows Azure, SA can implement the best model to deploy applications to your organization – whether hosted on your own servers, hosted by Windows Azure, or using a hybrid model. Either way, SA will help you speed application development, simplify deployment, and allow you to respond quickly to business needs without managing technology infrastructure.

Active Directory Architecture & Remediation

SA’s Microsoft-certified consultants have over 25 years of experience designing, installing and supporting Microsoft Windows Active Directory for some of the largest companies in the world. Let us properly configure and structure access to your data assets to enhance information security and compliance, improve efficiency, and safeguard information from unauthorized use. With Active Directory, SA also allows you to set policies behind information access that go beyond simple user identification, to allow security to reflect real-time scenarios. Our detailed analysis can improve your Active Directory performance; improve availability by eliminating single points of failure; and reduce downtime by identifying current or imminent issues.

Windows Server ® Configuration & Management

The complexity and integration requirements of Microsoft Windows Server calls for hands-on experience and broad knowledge in designing and building cohesive end-to-end business technology solutions. SA’s Professional Services team has the experience to align your Windows Server configuration to your business goals. Whether you’re having a server installed for the first time, migrating from an older server, or moving to the cloud, SA can help you plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot Windows Server solutions to maximize the business value of your IT network.

Systems Center (SCCM/SCOM)

Systems Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) is a unified IT management infrastructure encompassing mobile, physical, and virtual client environments. SCCM’s simplified administrative tools and improved capabilities for enforcing compliance also makes IT less complex and more efficient. Meanwhile, users are empowered through greater device freedom, optimized application performance and personalized, self-provisioned application access.

Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective; helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications; and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public.

OS Imaging & Upgrades

Outdated technology can seriously hamper productivity. Your employees might be able to get by with a five year-old computer or an obsolete operating system like Windows XP – but not without serious delays due to slow file access, machine reboots and system crashes. If you want to stop “getting by” and start getting ahead, it’s time to talk to SA about what updated technology can do for you. Our services include software, desktop, laptop, printer and server technology upgrades.

If your organization is under a Microsoft software Volume Licensing arrangement, you could even cover the cost of Desktop Deployment Planning Services (DDPS) from SA through consulting vouchers you received as a licensing benefit, worth up to 15 days. Take full advantage of the credit you’ve earned… talk to SA today about how to maximize the value of the planning and deployment days – and the Microsoft license – you already own.

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Desktop Deployment & OS Management

Our years of experience performing thousands of desktop migrations and upgrades make us true experts in deploying, upgrading and managing desktop systems and operating systems. We can help you automate parts of the process by deploying Microsoft System Center and other tools.

Application Compatibility Remediation & Virtualization

Virtualization and cloud computing allow you to take your computing capabilities, access and cost-efficiencies to the next level. Whether you are looking to harness these benefits for your organization’s internal users or want to host applications and extend software as a service to outside customers, SA can help.

Hyper-V

More and more organizations are using Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure to achieve superior performance and workload flexibility at the best possible price. SA can help you quantify the business benefits of Hyper-V and design a deployment strategy that consolidates server and storage hardware while improving security, reliability, performance, manageability, and recoverability.

Exchange

Microsoft Exchange Server is a powerful corporate communication tool that must be effectively designed and implemented to provide your company full and lasting value. SA has performed countless Exchange Server implementations for companies of all sizes. We can design a communications architecture that meets all your business requirements; plan the implementation or migration from start to finish; and either manage the project from beginning to end or assist on a time and materials basis.

SharePoint

SharePoint is an enterprise-grade collaboration platform that makes it easy to share ideas and track colleagues’ projects and progress. SA can help you use SharePoint to store, sync and share documents and create sites to keep teams in sync, and integrate with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Project to organize and prioritize tasks.

StorSimple

One of the biggest challenges facing enterprise storage customers is massive data growth and the amount of storage management work required to keep up with it. StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays excel at managing data growth and stopping the endless cycle of buying storage. StorSimple hybrid cloud storage allows you to manage data growth and lower storage costs up to 60%; streamline storage and management; improve disaster recovery and compliance; and migrate and copy data through the cloud.

Watch a brief whiteboard demonstration explaining the basic design and benefits of the Microsoft hybrid cloud storage solution based on technology from StorSimple and Windows Azure Storage.
Download the StorSimple Product Family datasheet
Download the ESG Azure StorSimple Hybrid Storage White Paper

SQL Server & Business Intelligence

Proper data management is key to the success of any IT organization. Turning that data into actionable information and strategic decisions is what brings real business value. Let our knowledge with SQL Server, SharePoint and business intelligence tools help you achieve your business goals and bring increased value to your organization.