Out of all this, based on my understandings from the interactions with various Exchange administrators, the exchange disaster situations are the one that could cause maximum damage if one is not prepared for the same. In view of all these exchange-related planned and unplanned activities, Learn more

It is commonly observed that admin personnel of an organization often feel the overburden of requests that come from the users to change or reset their account settings. The administrators and helpdesk professionals are always loaded with the requests of updating profile information, resetting account password or unlocking a locked account. Learn more

The prime objective behind deploying Event Log Managers is to meet network security and compliance standards and thus simplify network administrator tasks. They help administrators with centralized and effective management of Windows and W3C event logs. An event can be interpreted in a variety of ways, based on circumstances. The default Event Viewer on Windows systems doesn’t provide any elaborate report to categorize every event specifically or takes proactive measures during infringement events. Moreover, they have to be collected from each system. Event log managers are smart software programs built specifically to centrally aid compliance and monitor security parameters. Learn more

As per leading analysts, many CIOs believe that around 20% of all installed desktop software is not used, often becoming “shelf ware.” This is because we often spend more than we use or need. Better management strategies provide better results with optimum usage at sustained expenses. Learn more

Active Directory is used for an array of network services to store information and data related to network and domains. Active Directory utilizes central database and enables administrators to assign policies, share software and perform critical updates for entire organization. Active Directory may consist of thousands of users and different domains and can be small, large or anything in between. AD controls access and sets security wall therefore, any unauthorized access can prove fatal for the information system of the organization. Learn more

As the number of users and volume of user-account related transactions carried out by them increases in an organization, enterprises are increasingly getting concerned about the manageability and security of account related data. Of all the Identity Management related challenges, password related Learn more

One of the toughest challenges for the Network Administrators is to implement network wide event collection and auto-correlation between them. Over a wide network spanning across different geographical areas, collection of event logs by moving from one machine to another could be a challenging and illogical task. Learn more

Self service Active Directory utility is very essential for those users who have configured AD database as it makes the tasks of administrators easier by effectively managing active directory. It has been experienced that administrators are often overburdened with the requests of updating profile information or resetting account password or unlocking a locked account. All these operations cause backlogs which further affects productivity. Using self service Active Directory systems, the end users can perform the tasks and modify their account settings at their own sides without requiring intervention of admin personnel. The administrators just have to keep a close tab on the changes and modifications incurred to the accounts. Learn more

In a Windows Server environment, audit policy settings define the categories of events that the server logs in the security log files of computers using which information administrators can track specific events. In an active directory all the events audited are written in the security log file Learn more

When we talk of Active Directory based reports the important topics which first comes to mind are the Active Directory configuration information, the AD operations and the disk space data. All these information are critical for administrators to diagnose network problems and execute internal Learn more