We are pleased to announce the release of

Desktop Authority V8.0!

Version 8.0 is the most powerful, and ground breaking release of Desktop Authority yet. While we’ve been talking about 8.0 for a long time, I’d like to review some of the big new features:

Computer based Management – Inventory and manage computers that don’t have logged in users, install software for all users and patch computers overnight

Server Management – Now collect hardware and software inventory from servers, change their registry, install software, launch applications and patch servers

Wake On LAN – Wake computers after hours to patch and update them. Bypass all of the router problems that plague traditional Wake On LAN solutions

Scheduled Elements – Need to do something every Tuesday at 4:45 pm? Need to have all of your standard maintenance tasks run on the same schedule? You can do that with scheduled computer?based management elements.

User Notifications – You can warn your users before taking action, give them the option to defer it, control reboots and more, all with customized notification text

New Remote Support Console – Now you can use the web based console from Remote Support Center to manage the ExpertAssist remote management clients included with DA 8.0

Improved Anti Spyware Engine – The SDR option now offers a much faster anti malware engine with smaller definition files for quicker downloads.

More information , Please visit ScriptLogic Website

The brand new Astaro Security Gateway V7.5 will be generally available starting October 1st, the soft-release is already available on Astaro’s FTP-servers for manual download (starting September 17th). It comes with more than 50 new features and improvements that are aimed at enhancing performance and usability, including:

• Upgraded Intrusion Protection Engine to increase performance when deploying multi-core CPUs. Moreover new sophisticated rules were implemented to extend the detection capabilities for the newest exploits.
• Real-time bandwidth monitoring instantly gives a detailed overview over the amounts of bandwidth utilized across all current connections.
• Transparent HTTP proxy now allows authentication of guest users across facilities such as stadiums, hotels or convention centers on a “captive portal” without changing browser settings.
• The possibility to import and export lists makes it easier to bring in configurations.

Customers with valid maintenance agreements will receive the V7.5 upgrade at no cost. The update function can be applied automatically via their Astaro Security Gateway.

This is great news and opens up lots of opportunities.  The SfA product is the only solution that integrates Asterisk directly with Skype with no external gateway hardware.  This is not a “proxy” solution and the call quality will be superior to anything else on the market.

Some of the features that are supported in this release are:

• Make Skype-to-Skype calls.
• Receive calls with online numbers (SkypeIn).
• Make and receive multiple concurrent Skype calls from the same Skype account.
• DTMF support for incoming and outgoing calls.
• Read Skype profile fields from incoming calls.
• Set and retrieve online status.
• Set privacy settings.
• Simultaneous access from both Asterisk and the Skype desktop client.
• Trunk calls between Asterisk servers over Skype.
• Support for G.711 and G.729 (included) codecs.