Archive RDP Traffic for Future Playback
TSFactory helps confirm that your Windows network is secure and compliant with the release
of RecordTS, an RDP-recording solution that tracks the actions users take when connected to a Windows server with Terminal
Services or RDP enabled. Tracked information includes which users connect to a Terminal Server, what actions they take while
connected, and the duration of their connection. RecordTS can record user activity at specific times of the day, monitor access
to sensitive information such as financial records, and save server access and time/date data to digitally signed files for storage or secure playback. The software also records administrator activity on domain controllers (DCs) and Microsoft Exchange
Server machines.
www.tsfactory.com,
919-677-8091, 866-344-6267
Optimize SAN Connectivity for
Microsoft Virtual Server
Emulex released VMPilot, which provides a virtualized host bus
adapter (HBA) connection for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
environments to simplify the creation and migration of SANbased virtual machines (VMs). The SAN connectivity virtualizes
a connection to SAN-attached storage, which saves time and
costs because you can migrate VMs without reconfiguring storage or copying files. VMPilot's wizard creates VMs with SAN
connectivity according to industry-standard N-Port ID Virtualization and deploys and migrates SAN-based VMs while leveraging your existing SAN management tools and best practices,
such as fabric zoning at the VM level.
www.emulex.com,
714-662-5600, 800-368-5391
Provision and
Maintain Extranet
SharePoint Sites
SharePoint Solutions announced Extranet Collaboration
Manager (ExCM) for SharePoint 2007, add-on software for
Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint
Portal Server. The software helps you collaborate effectively by providing your partners, customers, and suppliers with access to sensitive information and maintaining
security, audit ability, and accountability. "SharePoint has
become the leading tool for intranet collaboration," said
SharePoint Solutions Founder and President Jeff Cate in a recent briefing. "But more and more IT professionals are
being asked to open up their SharePoint sites to enable collaboration with people and partners outside the company
firewall." Creating and maintaining these sites can greatly
increase an IT department's workload. According to Cate,
ExCM leverages new capabilities in SharePoint 2007 to
provide provisioning, security, and monitoring functionality
to extranet sites to help reduce this burden.
ExCM takes advantage of SharePoint 2007's form-based
authentication and provides a wide range of options for
storing extranet user data separately from your internal
user accounts. It also gives SharePoint administrators the
ability to delegate user management of an extranet site to a
member of the external organization. Giving external business partners the ability to manage their own user accounts
can significantly reduce headaches for the internal IT staff.
The standard version of ExCM sells for $995; the enterprise version sells for $2995 per Web front-end server.
www.sharepointsolutions.com,
615-515-0210
Reduce Help Desk Calls and
Increase User Productivity
NetPro Computing announced SelfServiceADmin, an addition
to the company's Active Directory Administration Suite that
lets end users reset their password and unlock their account
without violating data-security standards. The software's
Web-based portal audits and tracks end-user activity and
delivers notification of successful or unsuccessful password
reset results. The portal also gives admins secure access to
user configuration settings across multiple domains and is
available to users or administrators any time of the day. You
can purchase SelfServiceADmin as a single solution or as
part of NetPro's Active Directory Administration Suite.
www.netpro.com, 602-346-3600, 800-998-5090
Continuously Monitor
Your Web Site Applications
and Network Infrastructure
ExclamationSoft announced WebWatchBot 5.0, software
that monitors Web-based applications from an end-user
perspective and also monitors network infrastructure
components such as routers, servers, databases, and
processes. WebWatchBot monitors Windows performance
counters on local and nonlocal Windows systems, including
counters for CPU and memory usage, SQL Server, Microsoft
IIS, physical disks, and processes and services on most
devices. The software also monitors IP addresses or host
names by looking for an excessive number of hops or
timeouts. The software includes SNMP-enabled monitoring,
which allows monitoring of hardware and software regardless
of OS. Pricing for WebWatchBot starts at $1249.95.
www.exclamationsoft.com, 267-895-1726,
866-489-0111
Protect the
Integrity of
Your Network
Infrastructure
SmoothWall announced updates to its network security solution, Advanced Firewall 2.0. The software is a firewall and VPN system that can automatically fail over to a standby Advanced Firewall system in the event of a hardware problem.
Improved load-balancing features allow a network's outgoing and incoming traffic to be load balanced across multiple
Internet connections. Advanced Firewall also includes VoIP
gateway protection and improved antispyware, antivirus,
and browser-exploit detection capabilities. The software
integrates the Mailshell spam detection engine, which blocks
spam email, and new authentication supports two-factor
tokens and ISP authentication.
www.smoothwall.net, 800-959-3760
Ensure Optimum
Network
Utilization
GFI Software announced GFI EventsManager, a centralized networkwide
event-log management and reporting
solution that ensures maximum network
uptime. GFI EventsManager scans and
collects information from Windows event
logs, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
logs, and syslog events and translates
cryptic events. Captured events are
stored in a SQL Server database that can
be offsite, and you can schedule backups
of your event logs. The software also
alerts you to potential hardware failure,
detects intruders and security breaches,
and proactively monitors servers. For
pricing information, contact GFI Software.
www.gfi.com, 919-379-3397,
888-243-4329
NetApp Adds Fibre Channel and Replication
Support to Its SMB Storage Solution
Network Appliance announced updates to its all-in-one network storage appliance
solution, StoreVault S500, which provides NAS, SAN, and DAS out of the box. StoreVault S500's StoreVault Replication software copies file and block data over a WAN
between multiple StoreVault S500 appliances by using the StoreVault Manager 2.0
interface. StoreVault Replication replicates only changed data, which reduces network
bandwidth requirements. The software also provides replication checkpoints to reduce
data loss in case a data transfer is interrupted. NetApp also announced the StoreVault
Fibre Channel Starter Kit, which includes a factory-installed host bus adapter (HBA), a
ten-port 4GB Fibre Channel switch, and QLogic SANsurfer Express software.
www.storevault.com, 877-278-7858