Configuresoft ECM Repeats Best of Tech-Ed Award in Systems Management and Operations.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Superior Endorsement from Penton's Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine Confirms Configuresoft's Technology Leadership as the Standard for Continuous Compliance

Penton Media Inc.'s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine announced the winners of the Best of Tech-Ed 2006 awards in Boston, MA. Windows IT Pro Group Publisher Kim Paulsen presented awards to Windows technology vendors in 9 categories and announced that Configuresoft's flagship Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) won the Best of Tech Ed award in the Systems Management and Operations category for the second consecutive year.

"The winners at Tech Ed 2006 each represent best-in-class technology products. After closely evaluating all entries, our team of editors chose winners based on the products' strategic importance to the market, competitive advantages, value to the customer and value in the marketplace," said Mike Otey, technical director for Windows IT Media.

"For systems administrators who want not only complete control but also remediation capabilities, Configuresoft's Enterprise Configuration Manager is a solution that answers the questions you don't know to ask. This enterprise configuration management product enables cross-platform management and can monitor, manage and audit hardware and software configurations for the servers and clients in the organization," said Amy Eisenberg of Windows IT Pro.

"Earning the Best of Tech Ed award for systems management and operations for the second consecutive year is a significant honor to Configuresoft because it endorses the tremendous value we are delivering to our customers, who are leaders in their respective industries. We sincerely appreciate the recognition from Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine," said Andrew Bird, vice president at Configuresoft. "Configuresoft continues to innovate ECM solutions that improve operational integrity and drive the complexity and cost out of operational, security and compliance management. New modules for Active Directory and Exchange received immediate customer endorsement at Tech Ed."

This unprecedented recognition immediately follows the Overall Best of MMS 2006 Award by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine announced at the Microsoft Management Summit exposition in San Diego, CA. Additionally, eWeek magazine recently honored ECM with its "Analyst's Choice" designation. The May 1st review, titled "Keeping Systems in Check," (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1954181,00.asp) lauded ECM 4.8 as a "well-conceived, very usable configuration management tool" that "excels at tracking server, workstation and laptop configurations."

About Enterprise Configuration Manager

By standardizing and monitoring server and client configurations by role, ECM ensures continuous operational compliance with regulatory, industry and corporate standards throughout a computing infrastructure. Sustained by a proven and scalable architecture, ECM collects tens of thousands of detailed asset, security and configuration settings from each Windows, UNIX and Linux server and workstation--storing that information in a centralized configuration management database (CMDB) for immediate access, analysis and reporting. ECM can enforce security policies by automatically resetting configurations to their desired state when an unauthorized change (or deviation) occurs. These capabilities help IT organizations keep their mission critical systems properly configured, while ensuring security compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI DSS and FISMA.

About Configuresoft

Configuresoft is an innovator in systems management technology, ensuring continuous compliance with internal policies and external regulations across today's heterogeneous computing infrastructures. Spanning both security and operations, the Company's configuration management, compliance and remediation products are used by 11 of the world's 25 largest companies to keep their critical systems properly configured, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA, GLBA, Basel II, HIPAA and DISA, and industry standards such as ISO 17799, PCI DSS and Microsoft Security Hardening Guides. To contact Configuresoft, please call (888) U-CONFIG or visit www.configuresoft.com.

About Windows IT Media

Penton's Windows IT Media, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, includes flagship print publication Windows IT Pro. First published in 1995, Windows IT Pro is the editorial leader in its field and has a paid subscription base of 105,000. The magazine is published in 13 languages and has an international reach into 160 countries. Windows IT Pro UPDATE, the group's flagship email newsletter, is the only e-newsletter to make BtoB Magazine's Media Power 50 list.

Windows IT Media also includes SQL Server Magazine and MSD2D. SQL Server Magazine has 30,000 paid subscribers, and three email newsletters sent to more than 130,000 opt-in subscribers. MSD2D is a rich online information resource for IT professionals, with a focus on the software developer community. MSD2D has a robust product mix that includes a vertical search engine, Web sites, partner directories, email newsletters, trade show programs and Web seminars.

The Windows IT Media network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its websites each month, and more than one million (gross) subscribers who opt-in to one or more of our email newsletters. Windows IT Media is the world's leading producer of custom roadshows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT professionals.

For more information visit: www.windowsitpro.com/pressroom, and www.windowsitmedia.com.