CISCO and Security should not be uttered in same sentence. They are definately not a Next Generation Firewall... (or at least not that IDC or Gartner recognize... not to mention the fact that the Security industry does not recognize any work they have done since the PIX... and that gentleman now works for SonicWALL)
If you are looking for something used by the large companies... government agencies.. etc... look at SonicWALL email appliance (can also be run as a Virtual Machine)... it provides Anti-Spam, Anti-Phising, Anti-Virus, DHA/DoS protection, Policy Violations to enforce Email Compliance. For small businesses this is hard to beat... it works traditional email servers and hosted email solutions. Even provides for freeword text searches within email to determine if someone is mailing your company secrets outside the company. (or if a botnet virus is doing so...)
If you combine this with SMARSH, you can have full Secure Archiving for email, urls, SMS, IMs.
VMWare is not the only solution and it is quite expensive. Why not run "compatibility mode"? and if a person's Security is the END POINT... then we have even worse of problem... if you recall about 80-85% of all medical devices are expected to be infected with some soft of Malware as they don't have end point security on them. I hope you looked at a "real" firewall... not CISCO...
Most of the posts here are not helpful. They appear to be by quite a few people who are trying too hard to be "cute" and not provide any real information.
I have had quite a few years with this "EXACT" problem. The issues does not appear to be with the operating system as much as the people supporting the "cheap / inexpensive" applications. as a matter of fact in the last 10 or 12 Medical offices that I have installed, the software manufacturer either TOLD/WROTE or tried to write install scripts that would only work with XP. It turns out not only did the applications work fine, they even worked faster.
The main issue is that the support staff did not realize applications install differeently on Networks and Windows 7 from how Windows XP stand alone machines install. Once you are able to explain that the application data lives in "XYZ" location rather than the local user, it is simple to repoint the application hard coded environmental variables. Most, if not all, of the software manufactuerers that "mandate Windows XP" are excited and truly appreciative of real documentation that shows how to install their application successfully in a new OS environment. Tigerview (for instance) - just purchased by Televere Systems - mandated for years that it would only work on XP. Before purchase they were completing work on the documentation based on what was taught to them over the phone and what documentation was sent to them.
It helps if the posting people are trying to be helpful and not just "cute".
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CISCO and Security should not be uttered in same sentence. They are definately not a Next Generation Firewall... (or at least not that IDC or Gartner recognize... not to mention the fact that the Security industry does not recognize any work they have done since the PIX... and that gentleman now works for SonicWALL) If you are looking for something used by the large companies... government agencies.. etc... look at SonicWALL email appliance (can also be run as a Virtual Machine)... it provides Anti-Spam, Anti-Phising, Anti-Virus, DHA/DoS protection, Policy Violations to enforce Email Compliance. For small businesses this is hard to beat... it works traditional email servers and hosted email solutions. Even provides for freeword text searches within email to determine if someone is mailing your company secrets outside the company. (or if a botnet virus is doing so...) If you combine this with SMARSH, you can have full Secure Archiving for email, urls, SMS, IMs.
VMWare is not the only solution and it is quite expensive. Why not run "compatibility mode"? and if a person's Security is the END POINT... then we have even worse of problem... if you recall about 80-85% of all medical devices are expected to be infected with some soft of Malware as they don't have end point security on them. I hope you looked at a "real" firewall... not CISCO...
Most of the posts here are not helpful. They appear to be by quite a few people who are trying too hard to be "cute" and not provide any real information. I have had quite a few years with this "EXACT" problem. The issues does not appear to be with the operating system as much as the people supporting the "cheap / inexpensive" applications. as a matter of fact in the last 10 or 12 Medical offices that I have installed, the software manufacturer either TOLD/WROTE or tried to write install scripts that would only work with XP. It turns out not only did the applications work fine, they even worked faster. The main issue is that the support staff did not realize applications install differeently on Networks and Windows 7 from how Windows XP stand alone machines install. Once you are able to explain that the application data lives in "XYZ" location rather than the local user, it is simple to repoint the application hard coded environmental variables. Most, if not all, of the software manufactuerers that "mandate Windows XP" are excited and truly appreciative of real documentation that shows how to install their application successfully in a new OS environment. Tigerview (for instance) - just purchased by Televere Systems - mandated for years that it would only work on XP. Before purchase they were completing work on the documentation based on what was taught to them over the phone and what documentation was sent to them. It helps if the posting people are trying to be helpful and not just "cute".