In-Depth
Editor's Choice: Products We Love
</i>MCP Magazine<i>'s</i> experts name the products they can't live without.
See what you may want to add to your Windows network management operations.
- By Kristen McCarthy
- December 01, 2002
WE ASKED A GOODLY NUMBER of our contributing
editors and expert reviewers to name the products they can’t live without,
the products they dream about at night, the ones that cause a Pavlovian
drool reflex when they think about them awake. Remember, it’s not “Products
We Like,” or “Products That Get the Job Done Acceptably.” Besides being
a boring headline, those products simply don’t cut the mustard. “Good
enough” products just aren’t good enough for this compendium. Of course,
as in all matters of love, you don’t always get what you want. Sometimes,
you get what you need. Therefore, in the interest of playing the field,
we also offer alternatives that we’d be perfectly happy to work with.
They too deserve your admiration, respect and consideration. Try any of
the 22 products mentioned in this roundup on your Windows network, and
you just might fall in love, too:
NT 4.0
to Windows Migration: Tranxition Software Personality Tranxport
Professional 3.0/Altiris eXpress Migration Suite
IIS
Monitoring: Parker Software Ltd. Who's On/NetIQ WebTrends
Exchange
Anti-Virus: GFI Ltd. MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 7/Network
Associates McAfee GroupShield
Security:
@stake LC4/Microsoft Corp. MSDN Universal Subscription
Backup:
CommVault Systems Galaxy/Ultrabac Software UltraBac 7
Windows
2000 Administration: Microsoft Press Windows 2000 Resource Kit/Aelita
Software Aelita ERDisk
Scripting:
Sapien Technologies Primalscript/Adersoft VbsEdit
Defragmentation:
O&O Software O&O Defrag 4 Professional/Executive Software Diskeeper
DNS
Name Resolution: Visualware VisualRoute 6.1a/Nessoft Ping Plotter
Active
Directory Management and Migration: Full Armor Software FAZAM
2000 3/Aelita Controlled Migration Suite
Training:
DameWare Development DameWare NT Utilities/VMware Workstation
(Products listed indicate winner/honorable mention. Click on a category
to view.)
About the Author
Kristen McCarthy is Senior Editor, Reviews of MCP Magazine.