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Ideal Administration

Company: Pointdev
Pricing: €380 per licence ($400)

This application offers centralised control and administration for Windows domain. It does this by putting all the essential tools needed to manage domains, computers, users and groups in one place.

 

Ideal Administration

Company: Pointdev
Pricing: €380 per licence ($400)

This application offers centralised control and administration for Windows domain. It does this by putting all the essential tools needed to manage domains, computers, users and groups in one place.

 

VigilEnt Policy Center (Policy Management group test)

Company: NetIQ
Pricing: from $10,000

Recently acquired by NetIQ, VigilEnt Policy Center provides a policy management tool that ensures users are aware of their responsibilities while providing solid policy control across the company network.

This is a corporate-level security solution and requires a user database to allow you to import users so that user groups ...

 

Active Administrator (Policy Management group test)

Company: Small Wonders Software
Pricing: $6 (per user)

In this Group Test we have looked at a number of solutions, all designed to manage your critical policy management and to ensure corporate policy is adhered to across even the largest networks.

This particular solution is for Windows 2000 users only; it sets, manages and backs up policies across ...

 

Easy Recovery Lite (Disaster Recovery group test)

Company: Ontrack
Pricing: $89

Easy Recovery Lite is just one of Ontrack's solutions for recovering data. This solution does not repair lost or corrupt computer hardware settings, nor does it repair registry and configuration settings, but it does concentrate on data recovery. With an emergency boot disk to hand, even when you cannot access ...

 

LANDesk Patch Manager (Patch Management group test)

Company: LANDesk Software
Pricing: $12 p.a. per node
This is an add-on module for the LANDesk Management Suite 8, which could explain why it needs at least five patch management-related components on each monitored machine.
 

Sophos Enterprise Manager and Sophos Anti-Virus (AV Management group test)

Company: Sophos, Inc.
Pricing: Free (included with AV license; $600 for 10 users)

Sophos sent us the Sophos Enterprise Manager suite, which really consists of two components. SAVAdmin controls client activities, and the Enterprise Manager collects updates and software packages for deployment.

 

Active Folders Content Manager (Group Test: Policy management)

Company: C2C
Pricing: $4,160 for 500 users

Active Folders is an email search engine that looks for multiple attributes. It automates the manual task of finding unwanted attachments or abusive emails, or can be used to bring together all communications on a specific subject.

 

BlackSpider MailControl (Anti-spam group test)

Company: BlackSpider Technologies
Pricing: 500 users costs $1.42 per user per month ($8,520 p.a.)
MailControl is a managed service offered by BlackSpider and it was quick and easy to set up.
 

Policy Commander (Group Test: Policy management)

Company: New Boundary Technology
Pricing: from $22 per workstation, $395 per server

Configuring the security settings on Windows servers, desktops and notebooks is an overly complex chore. Ensuring that the users do not reset any of the settings just adds to the headache. Policy Commander automates this task using predetermined policies.