ITExpertVoice screencast: Using Windows 7 Bitlocker
Do you worry that if your PC is stolen someone can steal all of your data? Then you should encrypt your hard drive. In this screencast, we look at how Windows 7 has beefed up BitLocker, its built-in encryption program.
http://itexpertvoice.com/home/i-know-i-can-find-it-in-here-somewhere-using-windows-7-bitlocker/
ITExpertVoice screencast: Using Windows 7 Applocker
My latest video screencast review for the Dell sponsored site ITExpertVoice has been posted, on using Windows 7 new whitelisting feature called Applocker. You can watch it here:
http://itexpertvoice.com/home/i-know-i-can-find-it-in-here-somewhere-using-windows-7-applocker/
Windows 7 LIbraries and Backup Features How-to
My latest screencast video on how to use Windows 7 libraries and built-in backup features has been posted to IT Expert Voice here;
http://itexpertvoice.com/home/windows-7-libraries-and-backup-features-explained/
Managing your firewalls with McAfee Firewall Enterprise Profiler
Profiler makes it easier to troubleshoot and manage up to five McAfee Enterprise firewalls from one central console and help you keep up with changes to your network and applications. You can examine the implications to real-time changes in your network before you commit them and also quickly do ad hoc analysis on rule sets.
Version 1.5.1
Price: $19,500 for appliance model
http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/datasheets/ds_fw_profiler.pdf
Windows 7 networking controls
This week I begin a new series of video screencasts for Dell’s IT Expert Voice Web site. The site has all sorts of useful information for corporate IT folks that are interested in migrating and using Windows 7, and my humble part will be to produce a regular series of videos similar to what I have been doing on my own here. Do check out this video which talks about the differences between Windows 7 and earlier versions when it comes to networking controls.
Using OpenXchange to manage your communications
A flexible unified communications service for collaborative workgroups that can share files, import and export contacts and calendars from a wide variety of data sources and Web services, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google’s Gmail. Entirely open-source based.
Price: Begins at $5/user/month for hosted version; $1095/yr for 25 users for server-based software version
Requirements: Works on a wide variety of browsers and operating systems. We tested it on IE 7, Firefox 3 and Mac Safari 4 in October 2009.
OpenXchange Inc.
303 South Broadway
Tarrytown, New York 10591
914 332-5720
http://ox.io
Find and manage your enterprise desktops with Altiris Client Management Suite from Symantec
An enterprise desktop discovery, inventory, remote configuration, deployment, and patch management utility that supports a wide range of client operating systems.
Pricing: $95 per client, quantity discounts available
Desktops: Windows client versions support XP with SP2, 2000 with SP4, Vista with SP1, Server 2003, 2008 and Mac OS with 10.3.9 or later, Red Hat and SUSE Linux as well
Management console has special requirements that include IE7 and .Net framework 3.5
Symantec Corp.
20330 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Cupertino, CA 95014
http://www.symantec.com/business/client-management-suite
We tested version 7.0 in September 2009 on a small network of mixed Mac and Windows machines with purposely really old application versions.
New features in Altiris Client Management Suite from Symantec
This is the second of two videos on Altiris CMS, an enterprise desktop discovery, inventory, remote configuration, deployment, and patch management utility that supports a wide range of client operating systems. This video goes into more detail on three of its newer features.
Pricing: $95 per client, quantity discounts available
Desktops: Windows client versions support XP with SP2, 2000 with SP4, Vista with SP1, Server 2003, 2008 and Mac OS with 10.3.9 or later, Red Hat and SUSE Linux as well
Management console has special requirements that include IE7 and .Net framework 3.5
Symantec Corp.
20330 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Cupertino, CA 95014
http://www.symantec.com/business/client-management-suite
We tested the latest SP1 version 7.0 in September 2009 on a small network of mixed Mac and
Painless offsite online backups using 3X Backup
The 3X Systems Backup appliance is a great way to automatically backup a collection of PCs and servers across the Internet at reasonable cost.
We tested version 2.1.6 in August 2009 on a small network of Windows clients and servers.
Windows agents available for 2000 and later versions, including both servers and 64-bit OS’s.
Pros:
• Easy to setup and operate
• Simple and effective offsite backups
• Can scale up storage as disk requirements grow
Cons:
• Only Windows agents supported
• Require recent browser versions such as IE v7 and Firefox v2
• Restoring full domain controller or specific email messages could be easier
Price: base system starts at $2,495.00
3X Systems
1275 Kinnear Road,
Columbus Ohio 43212
614.372.6868
http://3x.com
Using Sendmail’s Sentrion for enterprise messaging management
A fairly sophisticated messaging server that has wide-ranging policy management for data leak protection, message encryption, email sender reputation, and message routing purposes.
Price: Less than $13 per user, with a minimum of 1000 users.
Pros:
- Very complex message routing processes can be constructed for a wide variety of purposes
- Compliance and governance can be built into messaging infrastructure
- Sendmail is a leading email server software and supports a large number of third-party applications
Cons:
- Still some integration into a single Web server for management purposes
- Policies can be fairly complex and require careful debugging
Version 4.0 was tested on a small network in August 2009.
Sendmail Inc.
6475 Christie Ave., Suite 350
Emeryville, CA 94608
510-594-5400