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Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews

Lansweeper: The Network Admin’s Best Friend: Date - Aug 17, 2009; Author - Thomas Shinder; Product Review for Lansweeper’s freeware Network Inventory Tool, a powerful and effective solution to your inventory needs.
SpamTitan Product Review: Date - Mar 17, 2009; Author - Thomas Shinder; In this review for SpamTitan’s Virtual Anti Spam Software I will walk you through the SpamTitan interface so that you can see the myriad of options available and how easy it is to configure.
A fully featured free IP PBX & SIP Server – 3CX Phone System Product Review: Date - May 22, 2007; Author - Ricky M. Magalhaes; This article reviews the 3CX free edition PBX. In this review we will cover the various features of the software based PBX from 3CX.
Product Review: Desktop Authority: Date - Aug 30, 2006; Author - Ricky M. Magalhaes; This article reviews Desktop Authority, a desktop management tool for Windows-based networks, which enables administrators to secure, manage, support and inventory desktops and applications. By integrating configuration, inventory, reporting, patch management, anti-spyware, power management and remote management into a single solution, administrators can efficiently and effectively manage the desktop environment from one console, thereby lowering the total cost of desktop ownership.
Load Balance Terminal Services & Citrix Servers: 2X LoadBalancer Software Review: Date - Feb 21, 2006; Author - Michel Roth; In this review I will take a look at 2X LoadBalancer. My review of 2X LoadBalancer was performed with three Windows 2000 Server systems. One server acted as the “gateway” and the two remaining servers acted as the Terminal Servers.
Software Review: Network Server Monitor 5.5: Date - Jul 08, 2004; Author - Lee Derbyshire; As Network Administrators, we are usually expected to keep our servers up and running without interruption for as long as we possibly can. Of course, no-one knows as well as we do just how temperamental those servers can be. To help you in your quest for high server availability, there are a number of utilities out there that will automatically monitor your server activities every few minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. One such product is GFI Network Server Monitor, and that is what I shall be looking at in this review.