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Dear Sir, dear Madam, Beginning spring 2007, Daylight Saving Time start and end dates for the United States (the Canadian government plans to match the change, and the Mexican government has not yet decided) will transition to comply with the Energy Policy Act of 2005. You will therefore have to support the DST changes on all your Windows operating systems and Microsoft applications (Exchange Server, Outlook, etc.). IS Decisions leverages RemoteExec’s deployment features to provide you with a cost-effective and efficient solution to remotely update your relevant servers, desktops and laptops: please see our offer hereunder! Warm regards, François Amigorena President & CEO |
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A solution to remotely deploy DST updates The U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed by the U.S. Congress July, 2005, extended Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the U.S. by approximately four weeks. As a result, beginning in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier on March 11, 2007, and end one week later on November 4, 2007, resulting in a new DST period that is four weeks longer than previously observed. Unless certain updates are applied to the systems in your environment, their time zone settings will become incorrect during this four week period. Resulting problems will be: database synchronization issues, erratic service startup/shutdown, incorrect document dating, batch/script delays, disrupted appointments and meetings… Microsoft has provided free updates for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP in order to solve this issue. Nevertheless, the updates still need to be deployed on all relevant servers, desktops and laptops. In order to allow you to deploy the free 2007 Time Zone Update for Windows OSs rapidly, efficiently and cost effectively, IS Decisions is offering 15 day temporary RemoteExec licenses at an exceptional rate. Detailed info on IS Decisions Web site N.B1: if you already are a RemoteExec customer, you will find comprehensive instructions about DST updates deployment on your Windows systems here N.B2: you can also take advantage of this offer to deploy the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack on all your relevant workstations. Check out how |
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Are your prospects fit for Vista? Windows Vista's enhanced functionality and snazzy Aero Glass visual effects will demand steeper hardware requirements for the systems your customers support. Microsoft has created two distinct hardware classifications for PC manufacturers to use for their new systems. A PC can be either "Vista Capable" or "Premium Ready." The standard Vista Capable machines have more scaled down hardware requirements than the Premium Ready machines, and the biggest difference between the two systems is that Vista Capable machines cannot use the new Aero Glass graphics. Here are 4 main factors to address as your prospects prepare their existing computers to run Windows Vista: 1) Check the CPU To be considered Vista Capable, their computers must have a CPU of at least 800 MHz. Those that are Premium Ready require a processor of at least 1 GHz. 2) Check the RAM To be considered Vista Capable, their PC must have at least 512 MB of RAM. Premium Ready machines must have a minimum of 1 GB of system RAM. 3) Check their graphics adapters If your customers are looking forward to the new 3-D Aero Glass graphics, they will need to make sure that their graphics adapters is DirectX 9 capable. WDDM (a Windows display driver model for writing drivers) compatibility is also recommended. To be considered Premium Ready, the graphics adapters must have a minimum of 128 MB of video RAM. Vista Capable cards require only 64 MB of video RAM. 4) Check their free disk space To install Windows Vista, their hard drives must be at least 40 GB in size and have a minimum of 15 GB of free space. Using WinReporter, they will quickly obtain a comprehensive inventory for these resources, and be able to generate a full report of their network(s) in anticipation of their Windows Vista migration project. WinReporter overview and free trial version download |
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LimitLogin vs UserLock: Competitive Analysis Simultaneous logon (same ID, same password) limitation or prohibition has recently become a recurrent topic on forums, newsgroups and blogs dedicated to IT security. Many ITpros struggle with Microsoft LimitLogin to try and implement this feature and rapidly ask for alternative solutions. As Bill Boswell wrote in MCP Magazine (“Keeping users at bay“): “LimitLogin requires a bit of effort to deploy. For one thing, it performs a Schema modification. For another, it creates a new partition in Active Directory. It also requires configuring a Web server with the .NET Framework and ASP.NET and setting it up to do delegated Kerberos authentication. Finally, it requires distributing client packages that support communicating with the Web server via SOAP (a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a distributed environment). Whoa. Don't stop reading. It's complicated, but not impossible. Really.” On the other hand, IS Decisions’ UserLock provides concurrent connection restriction functionality as well as additional features to optimize and secure user network access. How do these 2 solutions compare? Check out LimitLogin vs UserLock Competitive Analysis |
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At a glance UserLock 4.0 Beta Program You are invited to participate in the Beta Program for UserLock 4.0! UserLock is a unique software solution that secures access to Windows networks by restricting simultaneous sessions, by limiting user access to the network and by providing administrators with remote session control, alert options and advanced reporting for session analysis. A beta version of UserLock 4.0 will be released shortly. If you are interested in participating in the beta program – or for more information – please send an Email to: support@isdecisions.com. In IS Decisions they trust… More prestigious international organizations became IS Decisions’ customers in the past weeks, including: Bank of Guam, Hewlett Packard, Hong Kong Cable TV, LVMH, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Sanofi Aventis, University of Pennsylvania… |
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