UserLock, a software solution that limits concurrent logins, restricts access, monitors, alerts and reports on session activity throughout the corporate Windows network, has been picked by PC Mag to be part of their “25 excellent applications for small-to-mid-sized businesses to consider in 2012”. 
The December issue of IS Decisions Wire, our bimonthly E-newsletter is out. Drawing inspiration from Microsoft’s Metro design language, IS Decisions Wire celebrates an elegant and clean look & feel that we hope you will find pleasant to look at and interesting to read. 
RemoteExec will allow you to deploy Internet Explorer 9 on (tens of) thousands Windows workstations in minutes. 
Everyone will agree that application deployment, remote server reboots, emergency updates, user session locking, etc. are tedious, time consuming chores without the help provided by efficient tools.
IS Decisions prides itself in building top notch solutions for IT pros. Its remote deployment and execution solution is called RemoteExec and here’s a comparison with Microsoft’s PsExec. 
O RemoteExec é uma ferramenta que permite administradores de sistema fazerem as seguintes tarefas remotamente: istalar facilmente pacotes MSI, Service Packs, patches, hotfixes, ..... 
Simon Passmore, Senior Development and Support Officer (Systems Team) ICT, Corporate Information and Technology Department at South Wales Police, has been using UserLock since 2006 and shares his opinion about IS Decisions software solution to secure and control access to Windows-based networks. 
Academic institutions (universities, colleges, schools, training centers…) have a very specific IT challenge: In addition to their application environment, usually they also have to manage a network of free access workstations for the students / trainees.
For the larger establishments, this network can range anywhere between a few hundred and thousands of systems, rendering security and optimization essential.
UserLock, a software solution from IS Decisions, gives organizations the ways and means to efficiently enforce network access security as well as optimize workstation usage. 
Installation, configuration, and management of software are large part of most system administrator’s jobs. 
Derek Schauland reviews the RemoteExec 5 utility for performing remote administration tasks. 
UserLock has a number of new features listed here which make it a great product, it provides a feature that most AD tools and AD itself overlook – controlling the number of concurrent sessions users can have at one time ... |
According to a report recently issued by Cisco Systems, 7 out of 10 young employees frequently ignore IT policies and two-thirds said they believe their company’s policies need to be modified. About 61 percent said corporate IT security isn’t their responsibility, believing it is that of their employer or the maker of their devices. 
When migrating to Windows Server and Active Directory, former Netware network administrators are therefore surprised to discover that Windows offers no native feature to prevent or limit simultaneous logins to their new network. That is where UserLock comes in handy, with concurrent logins limitation features even more powerful than Netware’s native features. UserLock allows you to limit or prevent simultaneous logins to a Microsoft Windows network, per user, user group or per session type (workstation, terminal, interactive or VPN/RAS). How well do you know IS Decisions? Check it out with this (hopefully funny) 2-minute presentation ... 
At IS Decisions, we believe that customers, prospects, partners and more widely IT professionals in the field provide the best source of ideas for enhancing our software solutions and improving the quality of our service. 
UserLock 6.0 is a major update and comes with important additional features and enhancements that significantly improve the protection of corporate Windows networks against insider threat. 
"UserLock locks down PCs, and does it well. This lightweight supplements Windows' Group Policy abilities and it does so via a familiar interface. Changes happen quickly, and the app also lets you record session histories.
It's an impressive product." 
I have large number of lab systems — physical and virtual — and fortunately all running Windows OS. I use all these systems to run multiple SharePoint 2010 farms and a large test bed for load testing the SharePoint farms. So, when I perform load testing, I need to perform several tasks before I initiate the load tests. This includes anything from just remote restart of these systems to deploying software, etc. Also, for tasks such as starting physical machines on-demand, initializing virtual machines, and performing update operations, etc.
I needed a simple, light-weight software to do all this in an automated manner. IS Decisions RemoteExec 5.0 is a best fit here. 
Deploy MSI packages on a Windows network in a couple of clicks and get instant info about the results. 
Trace all access to your Windows network and get real-time info about where and when users log on/off. |
