NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON NOVELL NETWARE TIPS
06/14/05
Today's focus: Bindview releases admin and security compliance
tools for NetWare
Dear security.world@gmail.com,
In this issue:
* Bindview adds to bv-Control for eDirectory and bv-Control for
NetWare
* Links related to Novell NetWare Tips
* Featured reader resource
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Today's focus: Bindview releases admin and security compliance
tools for NetWare
By Dave Kearns
Bindview of Houston got its start with utilities for NetWare.
The company name, in fact, came from its then flagship product,
a BINDery VIEWer for NetWare 3 (the Bindery was the place where
authentication information was stored, the predecessor of
eDirectory).
Four or five years ago, though, Bindview "followed the money"
and started taking a much stronger interest in Windows networks,
even going so far as to produce utilities designed to ease the
migration from NetWare to Windows after acquiring Entevo, a
successful developer of Windows NT to Windows 2000 migration
tools. Bindview even went so far as to conduct a nationwide
seminar series (along with Microsoft and ePresence) designed to
show you how easy it was to move to Windows and why continuing
to use NetWare was a bad idea.
The company recently announced new versions of its bv-Control
product for NDS eDirectory and bv-Control for NetWare products
(which had been semi-comatose for a while) in an effort to
secure more regulatory compliance business. According to the
press release, the new products provide "organizations with the
most comprehensive administration and security compliance
solutions for Novell operating environments." Well, maybe.
Turns out that these really aren't stand-alone solutions, but
require additional functionality (that is, additional licensed
products) from Novell. The new bv-Control for NetWare is really
"bv-Control for NetWare with Nsure Audit," while the new tool
for eDirectory carries the full name of "bv-Control for NDS
eDirectory with ZENworks and Nsure Audit Reporting."
If you're already using bv-Control, and you already have Nsure
Audit and ZENworks, then the new releases may be useful to you.
They do add improved auditing and reporting tools that
bv-Control, Nsure Audit or ZENworks don't provide on their own,
so that's a plus. But if you have ZENworks and Nsure Audit, all
the new utilities do is to automate things you can configure
manually and add some canned reports.
Still, on the plus side, it's one of the few new releases of any
third-party product for NetWare and Novell environments and
should be encouraged on that score. Take a look and, even if
it's not for you, you might drop Bindview a note to encourage
the company to release more NetWare utilities. It couldn't hurt.
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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:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.
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:info@vquill.com>
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This newsletter is sponsored by Concord Communications
Network World Executive Guide: The Evolution of Management
Technologies
Network and systems technologies have an important new role -
helping networked systems live up to new business realities.
With growing and shifting demands, network executives are
balancing business goals with prioritizing IT projects. Read
about the 'Future of Management', 'IT Service Management',
'Managing Security', and 'Best Practices'.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=106667
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