NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON WINDOWS NETWORKING TIPS 10/04/04 Today's focus: ScriptLogic aims to ease security policy enforcement
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Sign up for Network World's Data Center Newsletter in which Johna Till Johnson and the team at Nemertes Research will provide an ongoing assessment of current data center business drivers and future trends; concrete advice and guidance for IT executives seeking to consolidate data centers, improve disaster recovery, and deploy virtualization techniques. Click here to subscribe: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=83572 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: ScriptLogic aims to ease security policy enforcement By Dave Kearns Just about every computer on your network is running multiple services. Some services are easy to identify but some are listed only with a cryptic name. Some run with limited privileges while others have full, unfettered, access to not only the computer they're running on but to every computer on your network. Back-up and archive services, anti-virus software and others are typically set up once and then left to run forever. Good security policies typically dictate changing the passwords to these service accounts on a regular basis - an interactive process that can be very time consuming when performed one service and one server at a time. So, also typically, the policy is ignored. That's bad management, bad administration and a bad security practice. Now there's help. I was chatting with ScriptLogic's founder, Brian Styles, the other day and he was enthusing about the new release (Version 2, out this week) of Service Explorer. Styles says that the company talked to users of Version 1 - as well as other network managers - and tried to discover their "pain points" with service administration. What they found, they rolled into Version 2. The "one at a time" problem that changing passwords presents is ameliorated by Service Explorer which addresses these time-consuming problems using a one-to-many centralized search and replace approach. It accomplishes this through a new multi-threaded architecture, which enables Service Explorer 2.0 to carry out search and update operations on many machines in parallel. The time savings can be enormous, according to Styles. The utility now has enhanced search capabilities that allow you to carry out searches across all computers on the network to find services and tasks based on combinations of a wide range of criteria. These criteria make it possible to carry out specific searches and cut through long lists of data from potentially thousands of services on the network. That's even more time savings. Service Explorer now also manages Service Access Control lists (Windows 2000 and 2003 servers) to monitor and maintain users rights and privileges to those services. Did I mention the new version was a real time saver? There's even more, including a much improved user interface, but it's the new time saving features that impressed me. After all, time is money, right? Head over to <http://www.scriptlogic.com/> and investigate Service Explorer 2. And while you're there, take a look at the new version (6.0) of Desktop Administrator. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Microsoft leaves colleges vulnerable Network World, 10/04/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/100404highered.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Dave Kearns Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>. Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management. Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these respective addresses: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books, manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing, technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Altiris In this era of online self-service, system availability is mission critical. Access to CRM, ERP and SFA systems are constant demands of the workforce. Ensure true 24/7availability and world-class customer satisfaction by learning about the Best Practices of automated Patch Management and Software updates. 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