Your only true defense against spam mail using Microsoft Exchange is to install third-party solutions. With this article, we are going to compare and evaluate four products, each of them somewhat differentiated by its mode of operation and email filtering techniques.
Looking for a dedicated VPN Server for your Microsoft Network? If so, you're in for a treat! Check out this review of the Celestix RAS3000 and see how it just might be the perfect VPN solution for you.
Instant messaging (IM) is one of the most popular Internet applications today, but in a business environment, it can also be one of the most troublesome. In addition to wasting time and decreasing employee productivity, the use of IM software can also put your organization in a precarious legal position if your company is in an industry that falls under certain regulations, such as HIPAA (health care industry), SEC Rules (financial services industry) and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (public company accounting oversight). Check out this review to see how Akonix beats down the dreaded Instant Messengers.
Have you locked down your network against IM and file sharing applications? Find out for sure with the help of Rogue Aware. How does it work? Check out this article and find out.
Out of the box, most email server products provide limited monitoring, security, and anti-spam functions. In those that do, the feature set tends to be weak and seemingly implemented as an afterthought. However, the new GFI MailEssentials 8 product from GFI Software not only provides the most comprehensive anti-spam capabilities currently available, but also industrial-strength mail monitoring, the ability to add disclaimers to all outgoing messages, and more. Impressively, GFI provides many of the product's best features as freeware, making GFI MailEssentials 8 a must-evaluate product for administrators of both large and small networks alike.
The need for email disclaimer messages is now fairly well established, yet there is still no built-in facility for configuring them in Exchange 2000. For this review, I have chosen to look at eXclaimer, a product that receives regular mention in the Exchange Usenet newsgroups.
Uptime is the clarion call of the network admin. File servers need to be up, mail servers need to be up, Web servers need to be up and database servers need to be up. All these servers need to be up and doing their jobs around the clock. These days the life’s blood of your business is your Internet connection, which means you also need your firewall to be fault tolerant. But is NLB enough or do you need something beefier to do the heavy lifting? Find out here!
Security scanning & patch management is essential to prevent vulnerabilities on your network. Patch management in particular has become a hot topic and I review some of the leading security scanning & patch management tools available today. This review gives you a ‘birds eye’ view of each tool, to give you an idea how they work and what they they’re meant for. I also compare tools so you can decide which would be best for your network.
Looking for a quota management tool for ISA Server? If so, you might want to check out TrafficFilter. Syed Jahanzaib does a quick review of the product in this article.
Those of you who already use Ontrack PowerControls v1.0 will know what a powerful utility it is, but just how useful has this power been to you? With the release of v1.1, Ontrack has added a feature that greatly increases both it’s power and it’s usefulness in one go.
