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Message Security

Abdul Saleem — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:13:35 +0000

Last a month period I was working to get a suitable message security solution. Quite couple of thought process come in to discussion. Weather we a have appliance for message security or hosted service. List the pros and cons of both. That brought us hosted messaged security is ideal. Considered major factors are management, maintenance, availability, future road maps, CAPEX and OPEX.

Message Security

Hosted message security services one of the service organisations can choose. It covers all the areas of message security, plus out of the box add-ons. In that area after the review I found Google Positini doing its best. Touch wood with best cost.

Microsoft Exchange Server Reporting Tool

Abdul Saleem — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:08:40 +0000

Exchange administrator required a tool for reporting. This gives traffic, storage, billing, mailbox content analysis, and outlook web access. Reporting tool should be very convenient, easy to use. Provide reports in various file types, agent installation not required in server, both graphical and tabular output, and individual mailbox selection. Also need to consider the costing of tool and easy to administration.

In this category I can recommend PRAMODAG. Gives all the reporting features, cost savings and easy administration. Below listed key features:-

The product is designed for simple, convenient, and effective user interaction.
• Reports come in tabular or graphical format with many configuration options to suit specific information requirements.
• Reports can be exported to different formats: HTML, PDF, XLS, CSV, RTF, MHT.
• Reports can be sent by email, published in a public folder, a Web site or to a SharePoint document library.
• Individual mailbox reports can be automatically sent to the user or manager.
• Reports options can be saved for instant access using the Favorites menu.
• Mailboxes can be selected based on various Active Directory attributes (server, OU, department…).
• Reporting period can be restricted to specific days or business hours.
• Data collection, report generation, export and publication may be automated and scheduled.
• Data repository can be an Access or SQL Server database.

Read More:- PRAMODAG

BARRACUDA SPAM & VIRUS FIREWALL

Abdul Saleem — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:12:25 +0000

Managing and protecting spam & virus of mail is very tough job for administrator. Day by day the treat is increasing. New methods of delivering spam mails. If you use any mail server or any size we required a spam & virus firewall solution. In market you receive different products; some of them are very difficult to administer, others slow down you mail transport, commercials of product (per mail box / per domain charges), lack of spam scoring, etc.

The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution for complete protection of your email server. It provides a powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solution to eliminating spam and viruses from your organization by providing the following protection:

• Anti-spam
• Anti-virus
• Anti-spoofing
• Anti-phishing
• Anti-spyware (Attachments)
• Denial of Service
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall protects your email server with twelve defense lawyers:
• Network Denial of Service Protection
• Rate Control
• IP Reputation Analysis
• Sender Authentication
• Recipient Verification
• Virus Scanning
• Policy (User-specified rules)
• Spam Fingerprint Check
• Intent Analysis
• Image Analysis
• Bayesian Analysis
• Rule-based Scoring

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Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall

Google Apps to Business

Abdul Saleem — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:02:11 +0000

All the business organisations looking to reduce the investment and expenditure. Try to cut the capx and opx. Here more focus is opx. There are technologies solutions to help business to reduce the cost and get best breed solutions. One in this category is Google apps for business. Google Apps offers an interesting way to reduce the costs of a business.
What Google Apps Are Offered?
• Gmail
• Google Docs
• Google Calendar
• Google Talk and Many More.
Advantages of Google Apps
1. Accessible everywhere – No longer will you be tied down to a particular computer. Any computer that has the internet can access your documents.
2. Doesn’t require installation – If you frequently bounce between different computers, you may soon grow tired of installing the same applications over and over on each computer. Since these apps are online, all you need is a web browser.
3. Collaboration – If two people want to work on the same document, traditionally they have to email it back and forth. After 10 rounds of back and forth, they may have a finished product. Google Apps allow people to edit the documents simultaneously and save changes as different revisions.
4. Many more features.

To Know More:-
a) your company goes Google
b) Reliable, secure web-based office tools for any size business
c) Rajen Sheth Demonstrates Google Apps
d) Switch from Microsoft® Exchange

Tools / Utilities for System / Network Administrators

Abdul Saleem — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:51:19 +0000

LANguard Network Scanner – LANguard network scanner is a freeware security scanner to audit your network security. It scans entire networks and provides NETBIOS information for each computer such as hostname, shares, logged on user name. It does OS detection, tests password strength, detects registry issues and much more. Reports are outputted in HTML.
HotFix Control – Tells you what hotfixes and service pack you have applied, neat utility. (163K)
Disk Investigator Disk Investigator is a program that allows you to see everything on your computer’s hard disk, undelete previously deleted files, and recover lost data
PRTG Network Monitor Full featured and easy to use network monitoring software for bandwidth, usage, and availability monitoring. Freeware supports up to 10 sensors. Learn more about PRTG Network Monitor. (The most popular of our free network monitoring tools)
PRTG Traffic Grapher Small footprint MRTG-like network tool for bandwidth monitoring. Also known as “MRTG for Windows”. Freeware supports up to 10 Sensors. Learn More about PRTG Traffic Grapher. (The second most popular from our free network monitoring tools)
Card Packet Counter Shows short term statistics about the network data packets passing a local network card using PRTG.
Local IP Lister Local IP Lister shows the list of IP addresses that are configured on your PC.
Process Explorer Freeware process viewer for Windows, which displays much more information on each running process than the built-in Windows task manager.
DNS Tools Resolve/reverse lookup, whois (domain name), whois (ip owner), check port, ping.

More Resources – AdminFavorites

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Features

Abdul Saleem — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:23:54 +0000

Every organization requires cost-effective and flexible communication tools. With Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 you can achieve new levels of reliability and performance with features that simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater mobility.

Microsoft Exchange Server, the cornerstone of Microsoft’s Unified Communications solution, is a flexible and reliable messaging platform that can help you lower your messaging costs by 50-80%, increase productivity with anywhere access to business communications, and safeguard your business with protection and compliance capabilities that help you manage risk.

1. OWA (Outlook Web Access) support for Multiple Browsers
2. Improved Storage Reliability
3. Mail Tips
4. Conversation View
5. Sharing
 Calendar Sharing:
 Contact Sharing:
6. Voice Mail Preview
7. Exchange Control Panel (ECP)
8. Critical Security
 Mobile Device Block/Allow List:
 Protected voice mail:
 Outlook protection rules:
9. Distribution Group Management