March 1, 1997
Sunbelt Windows NToolstm Electronic
Newsletter
Vol. 2, # 5
USA:
www.ntsoftdist.com
EUROPE:
www.sunbelt.co.uk
Sunbelt Windows NTools E-News Sunbelt
Windows NTools E-News is the world's largest E-newsletter
designed for NT System Managers that have the job of getting and
keeping WinNT up & running in a production environment.
Sunbelt launched this electronic newsletter so that we could keep
members of the Windows NT community informed and aware of what is
happening with 3-rd party NT System Management Tools, and to
provide hints and tips that will enable you to better understand
and utilize Windows NT. You'll find general Windows NTools
related and third party news, technical information, and 3-rd
party beta and release information. By subscribing to NTools
E-News, you are
also a charter member of the Sunbelt Field Test Bonus Program.
Sunbelt Software is the first and largest distributor worldwide
of Third Party System Management Tools for Windows NT.
This Issue of Windows NToolstme-news contains:
2. "TECH
BRIEFINGS"
* NEW VERSION OF SENTRY READY FOR DOWNLOAD
* UPDATED VERSION OF SUPERDISK AND SUPERCACHE
3.
"NT RELATED NEWS"
* WIN NT MAGAZINE HAS UPDATES ABOUT SP2
* UNDO DEPT:
* NEW NT RESOURCES FOR YOU
4.
"THIRD PARTY NEWS"
* LATEST RELEASE OF DISKEEPER 2.0
AVAILABLE
* NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: RAS MANAGER
5. "HINTS
AND TIPS"
"COOL DEAL OF THE MONTH"
* Sunbelt Security Suite: KSA / Fortress-NT / TEM
6. "HOW
TO USE THE MAILING LIST"
*Instructions on how to subscribe, sign off
and change addresses.
"EDITORS
CORNER"
Dear NT-ers,
This newsletter has been issued for a year without interruptions
and we have just broken the 15,000 subscribers! Thank you for
your support and the many acknowledgements we have received
from you. It is a pleasure to provide this service to the NT
community, and highly instructive for us as well.
This time you will find the newsletter is a little shorter
than usual, and the simple reason is that your editor has
some family over from Europe and is taking a little time off
to show them the lovely area of Tampa Bay in Florida!
But we _do_ have some interesting news, not the least that we
are organizing our first Virtual Conference coming Thursday
in the Sunbelt Cafe! In the Fault Tolerance ChatRoom, 5 to 6pm
US Eastern Time on March 6-th we'll have two heavyweights
from the world's leading vendor of NT Fault Tolerance Software
OCTOPUS TECHNOLOGIES. On-Line in the Sunbelt Cafe will be CEO
Dave Crocker and Senior Vice President for Technology Alan
Rabinowitz. These guys are complete experts regarding NT Fault
Tolerance Technology and future directions. Here is your chance:
"everything you wanted to know about it but were afraid to
ask"
MARCH 6, 5 TO 6 PM EST AT http://www.ntsoftdist.com/suncafe.htm
<<< BE THERE! :-) >>>
Last but not least, I have changed my email address for this
newsletter. The old one was stu@3adata.com which was an old
domain I was using. The NEW one is stu@ntnews.com which is the
same domain name as the website where this newsletter resides.
Could you make a note of it? Thanks!
Warm regards,
Stu
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2. "TECH
BRIEFINGS"
* NEW VERSION OF SENTRY READY FOR DOWNLOAD
Serverware announces the immediate availability of Release 1.7
of SeNTry ELM - now available at http://www.ntsoftdist.com
for downloading as a fully functional 30 day evaluation. This
is an optimized interim release including some new features.
Click on the hypertext links below for more detail.
New Features Include :-
*HTML browser monitor for IE3.0 with NT IIS (server) for the
SeNTry
database http://www.serverware.com/SenHTML.htm
*SNMP Traps to NT Event Log conversion
http://www.serverware.com/SenSNMP.htm
*Events alerted to pagers and GSM phones
http://www.serverware.com/sentplug.htm
*Optional Security Module comprising fifteen reports
http://www.serverware.com/SenSecur.htm
Further modules available shortly :- Final Candidate Release
available
now on email request.
*Performance Monitoring http://www.serverware.com/SenPerf.htm
*Trend Analysis
Existing Features Include:-
*Microsoft Exchange integration providing auto email escalation
of
alerts
*Monitoring and Reporting of WNT Processes and Task Lists
*NT Events forwarded as SNMP Traps to SNMP Consoles - e.g.
OpenView.
*Named Pipes implementation
*Remote installation and administration
*Utility to write to Windows NT Event Log
Specific uses of SeNTry include :-
1)Early detection of Network, System, & Application issues /
problems
2)Security / Audit Monitoring, Alerting & Reporting
3)Windows NT Services & Processes monitoring
The major benefits of SeNTry include :
1)Major problem pre-emption=20
2)Underlying problem identification
3)Significant saving of network personnel time
4)Enhanced & Extended 'NT Security / Audit reporting
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* UPDATED VERSION OF SUPERDISK AND SUPERCACHE
These two products are being worked on very hard, and an
aggressive development schedule is maintained. This means that
there will be relatively short intervals between new releases
and here is another point release that fixes a few bugs and
adds a few new features. If you have purchased either product,
download these new versions and reinstall with your existing
key. http://www.ntsoftdist.com
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3. "NT RELATED NEWS"
* WIN NT MAGAZINE HAS UPDATES ABOUT SP2
There are several new and/or updated references on Windows NT
Magazine's web site that will help you sort through the benefits
of SP2 and potential SP2 pitfalls.
For example, did you know that the original Kernel hotfix has
been
changed? There is a new Kernel hotfix that replaces the old one
and
fixes some problems with anti-virus software! The SP2 Info Center
on
WinNTMag.com has been updated to include this hot tidbit as well
as
information on new hotfixes, bugs, and workarounds.
From the March issue of Windows NT Magazine, there are two
articles
that have been posted on WinNTMag.com and address SP2; a feature
article
by Jonathan Chau, and a commentary by Mark Smith on why SP2 has
had so
many problems. (Lookout Microsoft!)
http://www.winntmag.com
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* UNDO DEPT:
One of our attentive readers sent me the following and of course
he is right. My youthful enthusiasm carried me away. I have to
eat
a healthy dose of crow <grin> Some other readers commented
as well.
"There is a big difference between outshipping Novell 6 to
1, and
growing 6 times faster than Novell. The text seems to say the
latter,
while your headline says the former." Peter
Thanks Pete! I'm always ready to be corrected when I go off the
rails.
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* NEW NT RESOURCES FOR YOU
Rusten@flinet.com sent me the following:
"We run the largest Windows NT Links and Internet Related
Resources
site on the Internet. We have recently integrated custom HTML
BBS,
and added several other features. Although we receive over 5,000
unique page requests daily, our sites are 100% non-commercial.
I hope you will consider visiting the our page, and adding us to
your list of Windows NT Resources on the Internet. The URL's for
the site are:
Windows NT Links - The largest collection of Windows NT products
and
Internet related resources on the Internet
http://www.activexserver.com/bbs1/links.asp
Active Server BBS - Microsoft Technology Professionals discussion
forum in
HTML format. Geared for NT and Web professionals.
http://www.activexserver.com/
Thank you for your time. rusten@flinet.com
4."THIRD
PARTY NEWS"
* NEW RELEASE OF DISKEEPER 2.0 AVAILABLE
Our contact at Executive Software wrote us the following good
news:
The new release of Diskeeper 2.0 is now on the Executive Software
Web
site. I apologize for the delay. There were a couple of errors
that
had to be fixed. These were not in the actual code, so they don't
apply to the Diskeeper Lite. This release contains the fix for
the
problem of Diskeeper freezing during operation. Go here to get
your
latest version: http://www.execsoft.com
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* NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: RAS MANAGER
Control your remote clients with RAS Manager.
Every day in the networking world, one truth holds self-evident:
There are never enough resources to go around. That's why RAS
Manager[tm]
was created. What is RAS? Whether your people are on a plane to
Paris
or in a basement in Boston, Microsoft's Remote Access Service
(RAS)
gives them the ability to logon to your network through any phone
line. Your people can have full use of your network resources if
they
can get a RAS connection.
Why Manage RAS? Phone lines are limited. It only takes a few
careless
users to tie up ALL your RAS resources. Uncontrolled long
distance
charges can chip away at your organization=92s profits.
RAS Manager is a client/server application that provides
full-time
control, real-time monitoring, and session-by-session accounting
for
RAS connections on a user-by-user basis. RAS Manager lets you:
- Establish and automatically enforce a RAS management policy
- Generate RAS use information for your corporate charge back
system
- Allow or deny RAS access to users
- Control the length of RAS sessions
- Limit RAS access to specific servers
- Specify network peak- and off-hour time limits
- Create custom time remaining online messages
RAS Manager gives you control of your RAS resources, and
automatically
enforces your policies. RAS Manager sets the standard for
controlling
remote access to Windows NT networks.
30-day Beta Eval now downloadable at:
http://www.ntsoftdist.com/rasman.htm
(RAS Manager is a trademark of NTP Software.)
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5."HINTS
AND TIPS"
* Sunbelt Security Suite: KSA / Fortress-NT / TEM
This month we have a special offer where we combine 3 useful
tools
in a package that covers all your basic NT security needs.
1) KSA is a terrific tool that allows you to run an audit and get
a report card where the vulnerabilities in your network are
exposed
so you can correct them.
2) Fortress-NT allows you to automatic log-off idle users and set
log-on and log-off times for each nt-workstation. This ensures
internal security policies are complied with, and resources are
freed up.
3) TEM allows you to delegate tasks to trusted local system
admins
to perform security related jobs like resetting passwords and
creating new users.
The three bought together gets you a very attractive discount.
Call
your Account Rep at 1-800-688-8404 and ask for the Security
Suite!
6. "HOW TO
USE THE MAILING LIST"
Instructions on how to subscribe, sign off
and change addresses
TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE LIST
send the command 'subscribe nt-list firstname lastname'
as the first line of your message to listproc@intnet.net
_____________________________________________________
TO QUIT THE LIST
send the command 'signoff nt-list' or 'unsubscribe nt-list'
as the first line of your message to listproc@intnet.net
_____________________________________________________
TO CHANGE YOUR ADDRESS
First unsubscribe and then resubscribe as per the
procedure above.
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