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19 dic 2012

SCCM by Davis: “Rod Trent posted an update in the group System Center Orchestrator/Opalis: EUPSCO is not a new country, but a free end user portal for […]” plus 19 more

SCCM by Davis: “Rod Trent posted an update in the group System Center Orchestrator/Opalis: EUPSCO is not a new country, but a free end user portal for […]” plus 19 more

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Rod Trent posted an update in the group System Center Orchestrator/Opalis: EUPSCO is not a new country, but a free end user portal for […]

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 06:08 PM PST

Rod Trent wrote a new post, EUPSCO is not a new country, but a free end user portal for Orchestrator

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 06:05 PM PST

ThumbnailI caught wind of this new tool during Dell World but only now had time to sit down and take a look at it.  This is pretty neat stuff. From the site:

SCO itself does not have the option of an end user portal. So […]

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Rod Trent posted an update in the group System Center Operations Manager: APM Agent Throttling settings and other APM Overrides in […]

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 05:44 PM PST

Rod Trent posted an update in the group System Center Configuration Manager 2012: Microsoft releases a KB Article with a registry band aid for […]

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 05:38 PM PST

Rod Trent wrote a new post, Microsoft releases a KB Article with a registry band aid for the WMF 3.0 issues with ConfigMgr 2012

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 05:35 PM PST

Nash Pherson has been on top of the WMF 3.0 incompatibility issue that is not just affecting ConfigMgr 2012, but also Microsoft Exchange, Small Business Server, and Sharepoint.  Read about the entire issue here: <a […]

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Rod Trent posted an update in the group myITforum Bug reports, Suggestions and Comments: Windows Live Writer and blogging on myITforum

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:36 PM PST

Admin for myITforum.com wrote a new post, Windows Live Writer and blogging on myITforum

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:31 PM PST

A few months ago we identified an issue with myITforum.com and Windows Live Writer (WLW) and even made some suggestions for alternate blogging clients.  We've been working on the issue since then (yes, it's […]

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Rod Trent posted an update in the group System Center Configuration Manager 2012: Allow Edit Access of SSRS Reports in Report Builder

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:09 PM PST

John Marcum wrote a new post, Allow Edit Access of SSRS Reports in Report Builder

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:07 PM PST

ThumbnailOut of the box in Configmgr 2012 is lacking a couple of RBAC roles that I'd think are fairly commonly required. This tutorial will step you through creating RBAC roles for reporting users and reporting […]

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Rod Trent posted an update in the group SolarWinds: SOLARWINDS CONTINUES PRODUCT FAMILY EXPANSION WITH ADDITION […]

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:55 PM PST

SOLARWINDS CONTINUES PRODUCT FAMILY EXPANSION WITH ADDITION OF NEW FILE TRANSFER MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

AUSTIN, Texas – December 18, 2012 – SolarWinds® (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, announced today that it is introducing two new file transfer management offerings, SolarWinds FTP Voyager and SolarWinds Serv-U Managed File Transfer Server, that answer the IT community's need for easy to use, purpose-built software that addresses the everyday challenges they face, without breaking the bank. SolarWinds acquired these products as part of its purchase of Rhino Software (RhinoSoft) this week.

The movement and transfer of sensitive company materials and business-critical information present a particularly challenging scenario for SolarWinds' users and IT pros. Currently, they find themselves trapped between expensive, per seat licensed products that strap already dwindling IT budgets, and a wild, wild west environment where security and compliance are compromised by employees using any service they can find to transfer data.

With this product release, SolarWinds believes that it can commoditize another space within IT management and deliver a truly useful and affordable set of services that make IT pros' very complex jobs easier.

"By adding FTP Voyager and Serv-U Managed File Transfer Server products to the SolarWinds portfolio, we are once again responding to our users' demands with easy to use, easy to afford, feature-rich solutions to their everyday problems," said Kevin Thompson, President and CEO, SolarWinds. "We do not believe that IT pros should be forced to take the lesser of two evils – exorbitant costs associated with per seat services, or compromised security and compliance. We want IT pros to have the peace of mind that comes with knowing they can meet their company's needs without sacrifice."

SolarWinds Serv-U Managed File Transfer Server provides a very cost-effective, secure managed file transfer solution with an intuitive, easy to use web interface as well as the ability to access files on the go through secure mobile access.

SolarWinds Serv-U Managed File Transfer Server highlights:
• Secure, Automate, and Manage File Transfers and Workflows
• Provide comprehensive enterprise security, tracking and reporting features to demonstrate compliance with SOX, HIPAA, and GLBA regulations, as well as any internal corporate standards
• Support multiple secure file transfer methods to quickly and easily manage and transfer files back and forth, increasing team and business productivity
• Reduce the risk and exposure of storing sensitive company information and files in the cloud

Pricing and Availability

SolarWinds Serv-U file transfer management products are available now. Pricing starts at $495 for SolarWinds Serv-U FTP Server, and as low as $1895 per server for SolarWinds Serv-U Managed File Transfer Server, with the first year of maintenance included.

SolarWinds FTP Voyager

Beginning today, SolarWinds will offer the SolarWinds FTP Voyager product for free, allowing every IT pro to take advantage of the leading secure file transfer client available in the market. FTP Voyager offers support features like drag-n-drop, scheduled transfers and folder synchronization from your Windows desktop.

The addition of the free FTP Voyager to the company's robust offerings of free tools is an example of the company's ongoing commitment to creating value and giving back to the IT community. Through its widely recognized and used TFTP Server and the new FTP Voyager, SolarWinds is the only company to offer such a valuable and compelling set of FREE products to support file transfer for any sized company.

For more information, visit the SolarWinds Serv-U website or call 866.530.8100.

Financial Impact of RhinoSoft Acquisition

SolarWinds does not believe the RhinoSoft acquisition will have a material impact on the company's Q4 2012 results and therefore, has not disclosed the terms of the transaction.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements, which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding SolarWinds' expectation of the financial results related to the acquisition of the RhinoSoft assets for the remainder of 2012. These forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and may be identified by terms such as "will," "expect" or similar expressions and the negatives of those terms. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) the possibility that general economic conditions or uncertainty cause information technology spending to be reduced or purchasing decisions to be delayed; (b) the inability to increase sales to existing customers and to attract new customers; (c) SolarWinds' failure to integrate acquired businesses and any future acquisitions successfully; (d) the timing and success of new product introductions by SolarWinds or its competitors; (e) changes in SolarWinds' pricing policies or those of its competitors; and (f) such other risks and uncertainties described more fully in documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this release is as of the date hereof and SolarWinds undertakes no duty to update this information except as required by law.

About SolarWinds
SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) provides powerful and affordable IT management software to customers worldwide from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses. In all of our market areas, our approach is consistent. We focus exclusively on IT Pros and strive to eliminate the complexity that they have been forced to accept from traditional enterprise software vendors. SolarWinds delivers on this commitment with unexpected simplicity through products that are easy to find, buy, use and maintain while providing the power to address any IT management problem on any scale. Our solutions are rooted in our deep connection to our user base, which interacts in our online community, thwack, to solve problems, share technology and best practices, and directly participate in our product development process. Learn more today at http://www.solarwinds.com.

SolarWinds and SolarWinds.com are registered trademarks of SolarWinds. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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Rod Trent posted an update in the group Veeam: Veeam offering up a bunch of stuff in their holiday giveaway

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:54 PM PST

Rod Trent wrote a new post, Veeam offering up a bunch of stuff in their holiday giveaway

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:52 PM PST

In December you may become the winner of the ULTIMATE NEW YEAR's RESOLUTION from Veeam which includes a VEEAM DREAM LAB and more!
Enter for a free chance to win – and WIN BIG:

TWO HP ProLiant ML 310e G8 […]

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Cisco Buys BroadHop for Network Policy Management

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:05 PM PST

The deal is aimed at carrier networks, and fits in with Cisco CEO John Chambers' promise of a more aggressive acquisition strategy.

Rod Trent posted an update in the group IT Fit: 11 Fascinating Facts about the McDonald’s McRib

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:27 PM PST

Rod Trent posted an update in the group SolarWinds: Part 3 of 4 LEM: Device Management Series

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:07 PM PST

SolarWinds Inc wrote a new post, Part 3 of 4 LEM: Device Management Series

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:02 PM PST

ThumbnailIn Part 1 of the Log & Event Manager Series on device management we identified three key risks associated with external data storage capabilities. In this third part we turn our attention to the risks associated […]

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Gary Blok commented on the post, WMF3.0 hits Microsft Update Catalog, Possible Issues with ConfigMgr 2012

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:37 AM PST

Installed the Patch yesterday on both my main Server and the DP Server, been having issues since. Running SCCM 2012. Currently I'm unable to edit OSD Task Sequences. Unable to Deploy Images, Unable to Deploy […]

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Gary Blok became a registered member

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:32 AM PST

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Rod Trent posted an update in the group System Center Configuration Manager 2012: ConfigMgr 101: Driver Management | All Things ConfigMgr

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:14 AM PST

Windows Management Experts posted an update: SCDPM Pros and Cons If you are a backup administrator […]

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:11 AM PST

SCDPM Pros and Cons
If you are a backup administrator chances are you have heard of System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) at some point. Also chances are you have heard of the many cool features and the functionality it has. If you have not SCDPM is Microsoft's entrance into the backup market. SCDPM's first release was back in 2006. Now SCDPM is up to version 2012. Many improvements have been made to the product since its 2006 release and it continues to improve. SCDPM is very strong when used for backing up data in Microsoft environments. Now we are going to review some of the highlights of SCDPM as well as some of the cons and how things compare to another backup product out there on the market.

Some of the limitations that continue to exist with DPM are: the limited reporting capabilities, ability to backup to USB, and NAS storage, protection of non-Microsoft workloads, direct access to the backup data, client protection without VPN, and deep tape management.

These are some of the areas where other backup products are succeeding over DPM. Even with the limitations of SCDM there are many pros that outweigh the cons. Here are some of the great improvements we have seen in SCDPM 2012 and SP1 beta.

SCDPM is the best supported backup option for Microsoft workloads. Have you ever tried calling Microsoft support when another backup product has issues recovering a Microsoft workload? The third party vendor is pointing fingers at Microsoft and Microsoft is pointing fingers at the other vendor. With SCDPM you do not have that issue. One vendor to call if you need support.

We will get to DPM SP1 in shortly but first let's look at the improvements in 2012 alone. Certificate based protection, role based access, remote console, and the central console to manage many SCDPM servers from one location. With the release of 2012 we have also seen improvements in the speed of SharePoint backups and item level recovery of Hyper-V virtual machines while DPM is running as a virtual machine itself.

As we have seen with System Center SP1 beta you can backup data to Windows Azure cloud. There are huge enhancements with SP1 to protecting Hyper-V these include: protection over remote SMB shares, protection of virtual machine live migrations without interruption and overall better performance of Hyper-V protection. Protection of Server 2012, SQL 2012 and Windows 8 including de-duplicated volumes on server 2012.

As with previous SCDPM versions protection Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, offsite replication, and Windows servers is a best of breed. SCDPM will continue to be a strong competitor to other data protection products on the market.

Now let's take a look at Symantec Backup Exec (BE). Some of the highlights of BE include offsite copy to FTP or secondary hard drive, Exchange protection and recovery at the email, folder, and mailbox levels, ILR protection of Active Directory, ILR of SharePoint data like SCDPM, de-duplication and one of the biggest edges over SCDPM is the protection of Linux and MAC based workloads. BE can take image based backups like the BMR in SCDPM however BE can convert the images into VM's for recovery of psychical servers as virtual machines. This includes VMware or Hyper-V virtual machine formats. BE can run on RHEL5 on SLES 10 and Windows. SCDPM can only run on Windows. Like SCDPM BE can protect data as often as every 15 minutes.

These two products are close in feature sets in several areas with the exception of BE being able to protect both Microsoft and non-Microsoft workloads, built-in de-duplication, and the ability to restore from an image based backup to a virtual machine. Over BE SCDPM offers client protection, SQL self-service recovery, integration into SCOM via the central console and role based security, lighter software footprint, easy to configure and use replication, support of Server 2012, SQL 2012, and well there will be support of all the new Microsoft products as time goes on, easy to configure and easy to use interface.

One thing to keep in mind is when you purchase SCDPM you get licensing to the other System Center products as well. Backup Exec on the other hand is a standalone product and much of the other licensing for application workloads such as Exchange and SharePoint will cost extra.

Overall Backup Exec has some very cool features and it would be nice to see Microsoft add some of these to Data Protection Manager. If you need to protect non-Microsoft workloads BE may be a good alternative. However if you have a Microsoft based environment SCDPM is less complicated to operate compared to BE and does a great job at protecting Microsoft workloads.

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