MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS

 Windows is the cornerstone in most datacenters. Managing such an environment in a simple, consistent fashion can be complex, leading to poor utilization of assets and tremendous administrative effort. epiSolve solutions extends beyond Windows storage consolidation, making the overall Windows enviroment simple, efficient, and available,with Microsoft products along with the proficient advice is what we offer. This solution comes with our commitment in bringing you, our valued customers, and the best effective and creative outcomes for all your business needs. To help you choose the most effective option for your company, we take detailed care on how to approach your business individual needs.

Small Business Server Solutions:

Keeps Your Business Up and Running by helping secure your network and protecting your business information. This allows you to spend more time focusing on your business and less time and money on technology issues by offering the technology and tools to help you run your business more efficiently. It will also improve employee productivity, and reduce costs. The benefits that will come with the new features will ensure the productivity and success of your business with Simplified update management. This will keep your PCs and servers current with the latest updates, enhancing the security of your network, so you can have peace of mind. Other features included are the improved e-mail productivity, with increased mailbox limits from 16 gigabytes (GB) to 75 GB, so you can get more from your e-mail communications.  With a powerful feature that integrates data management and reporting solution along with the support of large business applications.

2007 Microsoft Office system solutions for business executives:

Is a complete business system that simplifies the challenges of today's workplace and enhances organizations' ability to increase their effectiveness. With the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, advanced collaborative and workflow tools, enterprise content management system, and easy-to-use business intelligence tools, the 2007 Microsoft Office system goes beyond the desktop to deliver broader, immensely powerful capabilities that can help you and your people truly impact business performance. Office system makes creating powerful, persuasive documents a snap. Plus organizing and searching email, calendar, and tasks is now easier than ever. It lets your people and teams connect more effectively through group workspaces, automated alerts, integrated messaging, and Web-based meetings. With innovative workflow tools and electronic forms in the new 2007 Microsoft Office system can reduce manual and unnecessary tasks while an end-to-end system for creating, managing, and storing enterprise content helps you effectively manage your compliance and security needs. Allows powerful enterprise search, personalized portals, and easy-to-use business intelligence tools such as dashboards and scorecards, the new 2007 Microsoft Office system makes it easier and faster for people across your organization to find and utilize the information they need.

Microsoft SharePoint Server:

Is a new server program that is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Your organization can use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes. Provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions. Microsoft SharePoint Server features include:

Collaboration

•    Empower Teams Through Collaborative Workspaces
•    Connect Organizations Through Portals
•    Enable Communities with Social Computing Tools
•    Reduce Cost and Complexity for IT

Portals

•    Connect your people to information and expertise
•    Connect your people to key business applications
•    Connect your people to role-specific resources

Enterprise Search

•    Built for the enterprise
•    Unlock data and expertise
•    Integrated user experience

Enterprise Content Management

•    Manage diverse content
•    Satisfy compliance and legal requirements
•    Efficiently manage multiple Web sites

Business Process and Forms

•    Browser-based forms with InfoPath Forms Services
•    Integrated workflow and document information panel
•    Custom workflow design

Business Intelligence

•    Microsoft Office Excel-based Business Intelligence
•    Dashboards and Report Center
•    Business data integration and discovery

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007:

Is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. Exchange's major features consist of electronic mail, calendaring, contacts and tasks, and support for the mobile and web-based access to information, as well as supporting data storage. Features included are:

Anti-spam and Antivirus

•    Edge Transport server role
•    Anti-spam: Connection Filtering
•    Anti-spam: Sender and Recipient Filtering
•    Anti-spam: Safe Sender List Aggregation
•    Anti-spam: Sender ID
•    Anti-spam: Content Filtering
•    Anti-spam: Outlook E-Mail Postmark
•    Anti-spam: Spam Assessment
•    Anti-spam: Service Resilience
•    Anti-spam: Anti-spam Stamp
•    Anti-spam: Two-Tiered Spam Quarantine
•    Anti-spam: Consolidated Management
•    Antivirus Extensibility: Attachment Filtering
•    Antivirus Extensibility: Edge Protocol Rules
•    Antivirus Extensibility: Antivirus Stamp
•    Antivirus Extensibility: Deep Integration for Antivirus Scanning
•    Hosted Filtering Integration

Confidential Messaging

•    Intra-Org Encryption
•    SSL Certificates Automatically Installed
•    Opportunistic TLS Encryption
•    S/MIME Support

Compliance

•    Transport Rules
•    Messaging Records Management
•    Messaging Records Management
•    Multi-Mailbox Search
•    Archive Integration

Business Continuity

•    Local Continuous Replication
•    Cluster Continuous Replication
•    Standby Continuous Replication
•    Fast and Fewer Backups
•    Database Portability

Anywhere Access

Exchange Server 2007 offers features that allow you and your employees anywhere access to e-mail, calendaring, and more. See what features are included with Exchange Server 2007 for anywhere access in the table below.

Calendaring

•    Calendar Attendant
•    Resource Booking Attendant
•    Scheduling Assistant
•    Schedulable Out of Office

Mobile Messaging

•    Search
•    Direct Push
•    Rich Experience on a Breadth of Devices
•    Device Security and Management
•    LinkAccess
•    Calendaring and Out of Office

Web-based Messaging

•    Outlook 2007 Experience
•    Access Security
•    Self-Service Support
•    Outlook Web Access Light
•    Search
•    Remote Document Access: LinkAccess
•    Remote Document Access: WebReady Document Viewing

Unified Messaging

•    Voice Messaging System
•    Fax Messaging System
•    Speech-Enabled Automated Attendant
•    Self-Service Voice Mail Support
•    Outlook Voice Access
•    Play on Phone
•    New Voice Mail Alerts
•    Direct Dial into Outlook Voice Access

Operational Efficiency

Exchange Server 2007 helps IT professionals administer, automate, and deploy more efficiently. See what features are included with Exchange Server 2007 for operational efficiency in the table below.

Administration and Automation

•    Exchange Management Console
•    Exchange Management Shell
•    Extended Integration with Active Directory
•    Exchange Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager
•    Exchange Troubleshooting Tools
•    Public Folder Management Console
•    Flexible Permission Model
•    Automatic Server Updates

Deployment

•    Server Roles
•    Setup
•    Exchange Best Practices Analyzer
•    Autodiscover
•    Single Migration Engine

Scalability and Performance

•    Native x64
•    Windows Server 2008 Support
•    Storage Optimization
•    Optimized Browser Access
•    Simplified Routing and Optimized Bandwidth

Extensibility and Programmability

•    Web Services Application Programming Interface (API)
•    OWA Web Parts
•    Free/Busy Web Service
•    .NET Integration

Windows Based Security Systems:

Firewalls and VPNs: Windows Firewall is a host-based state full firewall that is enabled by default and configured to reject unsolicited incoming IP traffic unless exceptions are configured to allow such traffic for specific applications or on specific ports. While Windows Firewall represents a significant advancement in ensuring the security of Windows XP machines, it also presents a problem to enterprise administrators. Specifically, if administrators deploy Windows Firewall in its default configuration on their corporate networks, the result may be failure of business-critical applications that require specific TCP or UDP ports to be open in order to function properly. VPN is an abbreviation for Virtual Private Network. The majority of typical VPN-related documents define VPN, as the extension of a private network. Creation of a VPN may be less expensive than maintaining leased lines, although the cost of VPN firmware may appear to be enormous. In fact, lost data may turn out to be far more expensive. Costly equipment is rarely needed to implement a VPN. In practice, any Microsoft Windows machine can be used as the VPN client and any Windows 2000 or Windows .NET computer can be configured to be the VPN server.
Intrusion Detection: are used to detect malicious activity on your network. This Intrusion Detection Systems explains different types of network attacks and how to detect them. One may categorize intrusion detection systems in terms of behavior i.e., they may be passive (those that simply generate alerts and log network packets). They may also be active which means that they detect and respond to attacks, attempt to patch software holes before getting hacked or act proactively by logging out potential intruders, or blocking services. This is discussed in Part III of the cycle. Depending on the type of approach taken in intrusion detection, various processing mechanisms (techniques) are employed for data that is to reach an IDS Below, several systems are described briefly:

•    Expert systems
•    Signature analysis
•    Colored Petri Nets
•    State-transition analysis
•    Statistical analysis approach
•    Neural Networks
•    User intention identification
•    Computer immunology
•    Machine learning
•    Data mining

Wireless security:

According to a December 2004 study, 60 to 70 percent of all wireless networks are insecure. Although there is lots of information on securing wireless networks, most of this information focuses on corporate networks. Wireless security is important in the home for the same reasons why it is important in corporations. If you have an unsecured wireless network in your home, anyone in close proximity can spy on your online activities. Depending on how your home network is configured, someone could even gain full access to your computer’s hard drive over an unsecured wireless network. By far the most important thing that you can do to secure your wireless network is to use encryption. Almost every wireless access point has some type of encryption mechanism built in. Most older access points offer WEP encryption, and newer access points offer a choice between WEP and WPA. Another thing that you can do to help secure your wireless access point is to limit which computers are allowed to use it. Every network interface card (including wireless cards) has what’s known as a Media Access Control (MAC) address associated with it. Most wireless access points contain a mechanism that you can use to tell the access point that only network cards with these specific MAC addresses are allowed to use the network. A hacker can use an insecure wireless network to spy on you, steal files off of your hard drive, plant files onto your hard drive, or even to steal Internet access. I then went on to discuss several security mechanisms that you could implement to help secure your home network.
Content Security (Email, FTP, SQL, II):

Big Brother seems to get more aggressive every day. The U.S. government recently commissioned a study on chat room surveillance. The Patriot Act authorized law enforcement agencies to obtain blank warrants allowing surveillance at ISPs. Large companies snoop in their employees' e-mail as a matter of policy. Surveillance tools that can be used by curious co-workers or suspicious spouses are widely available on the Web. It's enough to make the most laid-back sender of the most innocuous messages a little paranoid. Things are no better (and in some cases, are much worse) in other countries. Electronic mail was not initially designed to be a secure means of communication. Another big risk is e-mail forgery; spammers, “phishers” and others can forge e-mail headers to make it look as if your incoming messages are from someone else, or to send messages that look as if they came from you. Public key cryptography can solve both of these problems. E-mail encryption technologies generally use asymmetric encryption based on a pair of mathematically related keys, one of which is used to encrypt and the other of which is used to decrypt the binary data. The key pair consists of a public key that is distributed openly to others and a private key that is available only to the user. This same key pair can be used to provide authentication of the sender’s identity, confidentiality of the message content, or both.
Windows 2003 security: A secure computing infrastructure is a strategic business asset. As a leader in the computing industry, Microsoft works to deliver more secure products and to help customers deploy and efficiently maintain those products more securely.

Security Services Technologies

•    Kerberos Authentication: Kerberos authentication for Windows Server 2003 is used to verify user or host identity.
•    Network Access Protection: Network Access Protection is a policy enforcement platform built into the Windows operating system that allows IT professionals to set policy
•    Public Key Infrastructure: Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for Windows Server 2003 provides an integrated public key infrastructure that enables you to secure and exchange information with strong security and easy administration across the Internet, extranets, intranets, and applications.
•    Security Configuration Wizard: Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) allows you to quickly and easily configure Microsoft Windows servers based on your functional requirements—Web server, domain controller, or other—while simultaneously authoring security policies to minimize attack vulnerability.
Web Server Security:  Helps to harden computers that run Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) in three distinct enterprise environments—one in which older operating systems such as Windows NT® 4.0 and Windows® 98 must be supported, one in which Windows 2000 is the earliest version of the Windows operating system in use, and one in which concern about security is so great that significant loss of client functionality and manageability is considered an acceptable tradeoff to achieve maximum security. These three environments are respectively referred to as the Legacy Client (LC), Enterprise Client (EC), and Specialized Security – Limited Functionality (SSLF) environments throughout this guide.
Guidance about how to harden computers in these three environments is provided for a group of distinct server roles. The countermeasures that are described and the tools that are provided assume that each server will have a single role. If you need to combine roles for some of the servers in your environment, you can customize the security templates that are included in the downloadable version of the guide to create the appropriate combination of services and security options. The server roles that are referenced in this guide include the following:
•    Domain controllers that also provide DNS services
•    Infrastructure servers that provide WINS and DHCP services
•    File servers
•    Print servers
•    Web servers that run Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
•    Internet Authentication Services (IAS) servers
•    Certificate Services servers
•    Bastion hosts

Significant efforts were made to make this guidance well organized and easily accessible so that you can quickly find the information that you need and determine which settings are suitable for the computers in your organization. Although this guide is intended for enterprise customers, much of the information that it contains is appropriate for organizations of any size.