Tiger and Windows XP on Apple machine

Apple Boot Camp software is used for dual-booting Windows XP (SP2) and Mac OS X (Tiger) on a Mac computer. Boot Camp is currently a beta software with no support. However it will be part of Apple 2007 Leopard OS. It is not an emulation software, so the windows OS views the actual hardware and performs as on a normal PC. Switching between the two OS can be done via Windows control panel and Mac System Preferences. Both tools also allows choosing a default OS. Alt key at boot time allows run-time choice between the two OS. Bootcamp creates a windows driver CD to enable XP support.

Mac OS supports read/write access to FAT32 partitions but only read access to NTFS.

A product MacDrive can be used to allow read/write access to Mac-formatted disc from Windows XP. It serves to share data between the two OS.

A freeware application 'Input Remapper' can be used to support right mouse clicking, Page Up/Down, Home/End, Volume and brightness keys and Print screen button.

Mac and Windows interpret system clock differently. Therefore it is advisable to sync time from a time source using NTP. 'Time Synchronizer' from Softnik allows automatic syncing of time.

Apple iLife suite includes iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD and iTunes music player.

Microsoft outlook on Windows and Microsoft Entourage can be used. Both work with Exchange server and other common messaging protocols.

Google's Browser Sync extension for Mozilla's Firefox synchronizes bookmarks and settings, including cookies and saved passwords. Firefox is available for both Windows and Mac OS.

GFiLANguard Security Event Log Monitor

GFiLANguard Security Event Log Monitor

GFiLANguard Security Event Log Monitor is a windows event log management tool. It collects event logs from remote computers, consolidates, analyzes and filters them, alerts administrator based on severity of event and security level of computer, and provides an overview of security situation by generating built-in and customized reports. It can help monitor modification to important files, intrusion attempts, unauthorized logons etc. It has three primary functions of collecting data, analyzing and archiving it. No agent/client is required on remote computers. Supports collecting system and application event log, in addition to security log. It uses SMB over RPC and requires opening of ports 139 and 445 to remote computer

Implementation starts with selecting the computer to monitor, categorizing events based on time of occurrence and security level of the computer. It then sends alert for all critical events. Custom alerts can be created for other events.

Apart from windows OS, IIS, exchange, SQL and ISA server events can also be monitored.

LANguard generates alerts in real time using email and SMS (email-to-SMS).

Supports advanced filtering of events based on ID and content. LANGuard event viewer is more advanced version of windows event viewer. It has a powerful filter that can drilled down to specific user, computer and event types with a condition builder

Supports SQL, MSDE and Access as back-end database for archiving events.

Allows remote event log management tasks such as backup and purging of event log