Saturday, March 14, 2020

What are your favorite SysAdmin tools for Windows?

And here a short list of my favorites tools :
  • Notepad++
  • RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10)
  • Tools from the Sysinternals Suite, AccessChk, Autoruns, Process Explorer, Process Monitor and others.
  • PingInfoView (Nirsoft), a small utility that allows you to easily ping multiple host names and IP addresses, and watch the result in one table
  • TreeSize
  • USB Disk Ejector, allows you to quickly remove USB (and firewire) drives in Windows.
    DeviceTool, a Device Manager for administrators. DeviceTool can enable and disable devices remotely – and run on Windows 10.
  • Rufus, a small portable tool to create bootable USB Flash drives, includes an option to download the Windows.
  • Microsoft WSUS Client Diagnostic Tool, designed to aid the WSUS administrator in troubleshooting client machines which may be failing to report back to the WSUS Server.
  • Putty
  • RVTools, windows .NET 4.6.1 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual environments. Interacting with VirtualCenter.
  • vCenter Converter, quickly converts local and remote physical machines into virtual machines without any downtime.
  • Starwind V2V Converter, makes VM and virtual disk migration between different hardware sets easier by booting the migrated VM in Windows Repair Mode.
  • mRemoteNG – Free tabbed remote desktop management tool.  Allows you to save different credentials for various machines.  I just wish they had a search.
  • SecureCRT – paid ssh management tool – remote into switches, routers, etc.
  • PDQ Deploy/Inventory – paid application management software, scan machines to see what’s out there, update install or remove software on a schedule.
  • ASG Remote Desktop – best RDP tool I know – free for max 3 connections, unlimited connections + option to have connections/credentials in SQL database in paid version
  • Powershell ISE
  • ISE-Steroids – paid plugin to ISE
  • Keepass – ultimate tool for password management, amazing auto-type feature
  • Greenshot – really nice, rich, easy and free print screen tool
  • f.lux – adapts screen color temperature based on day time – eye saver
  • Ditto  – easy clipboard manager
  • Filezilla – FTP client/server
  • WinSCP – transfer files over SSH
  • PAL 2.0 – performance log analyzer
  • Regshot – capture Registry snapshot allowing to compare the Registry before and after some changes
  • TreeSizePortable – disk space info
  • BlueScreenView – BSOD dump analyzer

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