As a Windows administrator, what tools do you feel you cannot live without?
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Heh... Norton Comander.. I like console (since DOS/Windows 3.x) and i use FAR Manager (farmanager.com) as my file manager for a long time. Now new version (2.0) with Unicode support(!) is availible. And this version not shareware, it's FREE (BSD-like license). It's still in "alpha" and a bit tricky to install but fully working (even x64). | ||||
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nircmd.exe Invaluable command line tool I primarily use for killing programs and processes although it does allow a fairly high degree of control over hardware. | ||||
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XCopy (although RoboCopy is more capable) and Ping (cmd), along with .bat files for scripting. | ||||
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Richcopy, a released tool that used to be used internally in Microsoft. It's a ultimate copying tool that is much better than robocopy. | ||||
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I Carry an Ultimate Boot CD and a copy of Knoppix with me everywhere now. (would of added links, but apparently i am to new) | ||||
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Terracopy or Richcopy. Quick file transfers. Scored points at my new job by mentioning this to my boss! | ||||
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Ant or NAnt to run some kind of operations with easy way to check if the tasks runs ok or not, parallelize, and so on. | ||||
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A new open source to alternative to ProcessExplorer is ProcessHacker. You can install it or just run it off a thumb drive. If you install it you can take advantage of some of the special features. On such feature is a kernel mode driver that acts as a proxy to query process information. This is apparently to avoid UAC prompts in Vista. Another feature is the ability to launch ProcessHacker instead of task manager from the ctrl+alt+delete menu. Finally, you can set ProcessHacker to run at login. | ||||
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Bart PE, with a large assortment of plug-ins. Not so much for day-to-day use but for all those times when things go wrong and normal tools won't help or when something can't be achieved while the regular OS is running. Perl. Tools such as logparser might be OK for some jobs but Perl has no limits. Robocopy. In my opinion the best readily available copy utility for Windows. If you have a copy/move/sync operation that you can't do with Robocopy it's time to read the manual again. | ||||
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RD tabs http://www.avianwaves.com/Tech/Tools/RDTabs/ is a great RDP replacement. It allows saving connections like bookmarks, tabs, pop-outs, screen capture! Works really well! | ||||
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Well I'd say http://ratsauce.sourceforge.net/ but then I would say that, wouldn't I :-) | ||||
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A couple of things that make my life easier: Terminals - multi tab terminal services/remote desktop client. and Nmap - network scanner extraordinaire | ||||
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SciTE for text editing and Servant Salamander as file manager. Unfortunately, Salamander is a commercial product, but it is exceptionally good for working with files and folders. | ||||
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More votes for PowerShell, Notepad++, PuTTY, pscp, Cygwin, sdelete, WinDirStat, and System Internals. Also some sort of Remote control software be it UltraVNC, RDP, or whatever. | ||||
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For Sysadmins that have a laptop, I would add NetProfiles . Also, the website http://portablefreeware.com is absolutely awesome. | ||||
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TextPad is great. | ||||
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smsniff from NIRSOFT. The quick network sniffer. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/smsniff.html Fiddler a good HTTP debugging porxy with really good SSL support http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/ | ||||
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Remote Desktop Manager is awesome, It centralize all my remote connections (Including RDP, Putty, SQL Server, HTTP Interfaces, (S)FTP, CIFS shares, OpenVPN connections... It's really a must have, all this for free, but the enterprise edition allows you some nice thing like storing connections settings in a database to push modifications to the others admins) | ||||
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