Winternals Defrag Manager 3.0 Features Industry's Only Enterprise Defragger With 100% Windows File System API Compliance.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Microsoft Tech-Ed 2004

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2004

New Manageability Features Include Enhanced Active Directory

Integration, Mobile System Support

Winternals, a leading provider of Microsoft systems infrastructure availability and performance solutions, today announced the release of Defrag Manager 3.0 at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2004 in San Diego, Calif.

Defrag Manager provides advanced management capabilities that completely automate the defragmentation process throughout the Windows enterprise. Version 3.0 takes advantage of technology licensed from Microsoft Corporation to provide safer, Windows file system API-compliant offline defragmentation.

"Defrag Manager maintains Windows file system compliance in every mode of operation, so there's never a need to perform additional backups before using any Defrag Manager feature," said Mark Russinovich, chief software architect at Winternals. "By maintaining 100% compliance with native Windows file system APIs, Defrag Manager delivers thorough, safer defragmentation."

"Microsoft is pleased that its relationship with Winternals has enhanced the safety and flexibility of Defrag Manager," said Paul Sausville, senior director, Windows Product Management Group at Microsoft. "The use of Microsoft Windows PE technology in a defragmenter gives Windows customers the benefit of a solution that's fully compliant with Windows file system APIs."

Defrag Manager 3.0 includes new ease-of-use management features to make it a fully automated network defragmentation solution. With SmartBind(tm) scheduling administrators can drag or copy an Active Directory Organizational Unit (OU) onto a schedule, and bind the schedule to the OU. Once schedules are bound, Defrag Manager automatically defragments every computer in the OU, and recognizes changes as machines are added or retired, freeing up Defrag Manager licenses for future use.

Mobile client mode, another manageability enhancement, defrags mobile systems on schedule, even when they are disconnected from the network. It does this through the native Windows Task Scheduler, without adding resource-consuming, full-time services to mobile machines. Mobile client mode takes advantage of Windows power management features to conserve battery life, defrag at only idle times, and wake up computers for defragmentation.

In addition to mobile client mode and SmartBind scheduling, new features in Defrag Manager 3.0 include:

-- The SmartPhase(tm) defrag engine -- delivers fast, thorough

performance regardless of Windows version, volume size or free

space available on disk. New for Defrag Manager 3.0,

SmartPhase supports parallel defragmentation of different

physical disks, user-selectable free space consolidation

settings, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Prefetch 

compliance, and defragmenting of NTFS alternate data streams.

-- Certified for Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition -- Defrag

Manager 3.0 achieves Microsoft standards for security,

reliability and manageability in the Windows Server 2003

environment.

-- Advanced Mode(tm) defragmentation -- an offline environment

that safely defragments all Windows files, folders and

metadata regardless of Windows version, cluster size or

permission settings.

-- Automatic boot-time optimization -- with a single mouse click,

administrators can automatically defrag the paging files and

Registry hives of multiple remote systems, using a process

that's 100% compliant with Windows file system APIs for

safety.

-- History nodes and event logs -- display detailed information

about previously run defrag schedules to help users quickly

identify any issues, and provide options to log defrag events

for historical viewing and integration with third-party

monitoring tools.

About Winternals Defrag Manager

Defrag Manager remotely schedules, deploys, monitors and controls defragmentation throughout a Windows-based network from a single console, without any manual installations on client systems. It deploys a low-system-overhead defrag agent to each client according to a schedule that the administrator designates. The agent utilizes a proprietary defragmentation algorithm that automatically completes the defrag process, and then removes itself from each system. No new, continuously running services are required.

All defragmentation tasks can be controlled and configured from one system -- regardless of the number of computers in the network or the physical location of the machines. Administrators can schedule defragmentation for a single PC, a group of computers, an Active Directory Organization Unit or an entire domain with a single drag-and-drop. Every version of Windows NT, 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003 is supported, so separate defragmenter products do not have to be maintained.

Defrag Manager eliminates end-user interaction in the defragmentation process, thereby reducing costly desk side support and the time and effort required for manual client installations. Results are seen in the form of better application and system performance, averted hardware upgrades, shorter start up times and reduced workload for IT staff.

About Winternals

Founded in 1996, Winternals is a leading provider of systems infrastructure availability and performance solutions for Microsoft-based enterprises worldwide. Winternals solutions empower IT professionals to rapidly resolve the daily emergencies that arise when administering Windows systems and maintain high availability of mission critical systems. By accelerating recovery, improving data integrity, increasing productivity and optimizing performance, Winternals reduces the total cost of ownership for the Microsoft-based enterprise. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Winternals counts among its customers 48 of the Fortune 50 and 95 of the Fortune 100. For more information on Winternals visit www.winternals.com.