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NightWatchman Console Security
In my post regarding what’s new in NightWatchman 5.5 I talked about the new NightWatchman Console . I want to cover the security aspect of the console in this post to show some of the flexibility of the console as well as explain how to set the proper security. In the NightWatchman Console the last tab on the right is Security , this is to manage the security of the console specifically, not...
NightWatchman 5.5 New Features
Right before Christmas 1E released not only the free tool Service Window that I mentioned in my last post but also new versions of NightWatchman now version 5.5, 1E WakeUp version 5.5, Nomad Enterprise 3.2 and our first version of the NightWatchman console. Over the last 18 months I had been working with AT&T® to prove out the 1E Power and Patch Management Pack, which is a combination of...
More MMS Goodness
This is from the 1E site, but down towards the bottom you can see the schedule for demos at the 1E stand. I will be presenting at least a couple times. Brian Tucker and Neil Kimberly will also be presenting at the stand on other topics. If you think I know SMS/ConfigMgr then you haven't spent much time talking to Brian and Neil these guys are AMZAZING! 1E MMS Focus 1E will be exhibiting as a Gold...
Hibernation Hotfix for Windows XP and Vista and Insomnia Madness
I have read of reports where systems will not resume from hibernation but have not seen it replicated myself. Well if you have seen this problem in your environment this patch , released on April 7th by Microsoft (KB 951126), may be just what the doctor ordered. Insomnia? Ambien... I have also heard reports of a software vendor that claims to have a patch for a situation they refer to as insomnia....
Attending MMS 2008? Yes I Am - We Are
I have gotten a ton of emails asking me if I am going to be at MMS this year and when and up until now I have held off because I was waiting for some things to finalize. But today 1E sent out an email to customer letting them know the booth number, and when Sumir, one of the founders of 1E, was going to speak. Which is right after the State of the Union, and also at the same time as Paul Thomsen is...
How Verizon Is Saving Millions Using NightWatchman And Other Technologies
If you didn't believe me when I said reducing your power consumption could save you millions? Would you will believe the CIO of Verizon? In the article below he explains how 1E's NightWatchman alone is going to save them $500,000 per year! Through NightWatchman, application rationalization, and thin client technology they have saved $20 million so far. How Verizon Does Green Computing John...
How To Save Your Company Millions Of Dollars The Easy Way!
What would your IT Director and CIO say if you ran into them in the elevator and asked them "What would you say if I could save the company a half a million dollars a year?" Not too long ago one of the projects I was managing was a TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) project. We looked for the highest costs for desktop support and focused in on those areas only, so we left out things like training...
What Are Your Computers Doing At Night?
If you are using SMS to install patches or applications at night do you leave them on all the time? Do they stay on 24 hours a day? Seven days a week? If you leave your computers on at night they are only actually being used for 8, maybe 9 hours a day but are on for 24, and don't forget the weekends! And its not just the CO2 and the electricity that computer uses, but they have to pay to cool that...
