Dan DiNicolo, Author at TechGenix

Add mail archiving to Exchange: GFI MailArchiver Review

Articles, MS Exchange Server, Reviews / By Dan DiNicolo / February 15, 2005

You remember Steve, right? That’s Steve from Sales, the guy who needed access to an email that he deleted over a year ago. You probably remember the hassles of having to first find and then restore his mailbox. Perhaps you even recall sifting through his messages, trying to find that single, solitary email, and dedicating a whole afternoon to the process. Thankfully, things don’t have to be this way. I’m talking about a product called GFI MailArchiver, a message archiving solution that makes searching through internal and external email as simple as firing up your web browser and searching for the message in question.

Product Review: GFI MailEssentials 8 – Anti-Spam and Mail Monitoring

Articles, MS Exchange Server, Reviews / By Dan DiNicolo / May 18, 2003

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.

Just the FAX – Are you still faxing manually?

Exchange 2000, Planning & Architecture / By Dan DiNicolo / October 7, 2002

Most companies still rely on traditional manual faxing using a dedicated fax machine, though a popular, more efficient and cost-effective solution in recent years has been to use network fax servers as a replacement for the traditional fax machine.

Securing Windows 2000 Using an event log monitoring system

Hacking & Cyberattacks / By Dan DiNicolo / September 6, 2002

As a network administrator, I’m sure you understand the critical nature of security event ID 529. Well, possibly not. If you have Windows 2000 auditing enabled, you’re probably very familiar with the incredible number of event types that you come across when viewing your Security logs.

Secure Your Mail Server: GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP

Exchange 2000, Security & Message Hygiene / By Dan DiNicolo / May 31, 2002

Implementing network security is like trying to chase a moving target at the best of times. Where most companies today would consider it incomprehensible to not have a properly configured firewall, many of these same companies still overlook the single biggest source of their problems – their email systems.