And here a short list of my favorites tools :
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- 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
