SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
Create Defined Event-Log Records
http://www.gravitysquare.com, 425-637-1443
Gravity Square released GSI Event Log Gatherer (ELG) 1.51, software that lets you define system alerts and receive instant notification about critical and predefined system conditions. ELG lets you create easily defined server event-log records and notifications to forward system information to specified mailboxes, cell phones, and pagers. ELG can speed up the process of filtering, viewing, and analyzing event-log records from Windows 2000 and Windows NT systems. With ELG, you can define parameters for the event-log data analysis, including server sources, date and time intervals, event-log and event-record types, IDs, application sources, and categories. For pricing, contact Gravity Square.
TECHNICAL RESOURCE
Implement Windows Server 2003
http://www.osborne.com, 609-426-5793, 800-227-0900
McGraw-Hill/Osborne released Nelson Ruest's and Danielle Ruest's Windows Server 2003: Best Practices for Enterprise Deployments, a book that provides advice about how to implement Windows 2003. The book provides installation information, discusses designing an Active Directory (AD), and outlines the tasks required to place an enterprise AD into production. You can also learn how to migrate data including users, passwords, groups, files, folders, security descriptors, printers, and applications. Topics covered in the book include planning for Windows 2003, preparing the user organizational unit (OU) infrastructure, managing enterprise security, planning for system redundancy, and putting the enterprise network into production. For pricing, contact McGraw-Hill/Osborne.
PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT
Tab Tag
http://www.tabtag.com, 360-344-4240
TabTag software links the ease of Microsoft Outlook to the full power of Microsoft SQL Server by combining database technology with an enhanced Outlook GUI. Users can access and manage a database from the Outlook GUI. Users can also use TabTag to share data in a small network without a server, in large networks with SQL Server, locally with remote users and partner organizations, and on the Web. TabTag can manage every detail of structured data (i.e., information that you can display in a table). Built-in functions cover most classification requirements such as working groups, memberships, subscriptions, and interrelations between items.
Michael Tissington, TabTag chief technology officer (CTO), said various kinds of businesses use the application. "On one hand there are small offices that want to share Outlook data without having to install Exchange Server. Then there are organizations that want to keep Outlook but find they have outgrown its data management capabilities and need a real database. And finally, there are enterprises that value TabTag from another perspective—for enabling Outlook as a familiar, user-friendly front-end to SQL Server."
TabTag saves data directly to a SQL Server database in real time so that users don't need to deal with .pst files or roundabout synchronization procedures. Users can synchronize the data to a PDA or laptop. Pricing starts at $145 for 1 user, $246.50 for 2 users, $1087.50 for 10 users, and $4350 for 50 users. Volume licensing is available.