Submitted by Patrick Klages

A great tool to replace mstsc. It allows me to have several servers up and accessable at noe time and easily move btw them.

Publisher’s description:

Terminals is a multi tab terminal services/remote desktop client. It uses Terminal Services ActiveX Client (mstscax.dll). The project started from the need of controlling multiple connection simultaneously.

General Networking Tools added: Ping, Trace Route, WMI Explorer, TCP Connections, Network Interfaces, Whois, DNS Lookups, CPU History Graph, Shares List, Time Syncronization, Servers List

Terminals

Michaels’s note: Please check out this comparison of six free terminal services tools.

Rate this tool: (8 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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As promised, I added a feature that allows you to rate the free admin tools that were submitted so far. You can assign 1-5 stars to each of the tools, with 5 starts as the highest. There are now two lists. One list has all the details of each free tool. It is sorted in the order the tools were submitted. You can use this list to rate a tool. The other list only displays the name of the tools with their ratings. The most popular tools are on top. Those tools which were not yet rated are not displayed here.

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It seems as if Microsoft is making progress with Service Pack 1 for Vista. Technet and MSDN subscribers can download it now. According to Computerworld, it will be available next week. But just like before with SP1 Beta, there is also a little hack that allows you do download it right from Windows Update. Since it is a release candidate it might make sense to check it out to see if the problems you had with Vista are solved now.

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You can download Windows Server 2008 RC1 now. Its most interesting new feature is the Group Policy Preferences. Microsoft integrated PolicyMaker in Windows 2008, a tool from DesktopStandard. They acquired this company in 2006. I had a quick look at it today and I must say it is an absolute killer feature.

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You probably heard that Microsoft is going to release Office 2007 SP1 next Tuesday. That is certainly good news to those of us who are planning to deploy Office 2007 soon. However, I find it remarkable that so little is known about the new features of this service pack. Microsoft doesn’t even tell us what kind of updates will be included.

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Almost all the IT news sites covered this great news. I think it was predictable that Microsoft would remove Reduced Functionality Mode (RFM) sooner or later. I am just a little surprised that they gave up so soon. My personal term for RFM and Vista activation in general is Windows Genuine Activation mess (WGA). If you have been reading this blog for some time now, then you know what I am talking about.

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Even though USB memory sticks are quite reliable, there still is the risk of losing it, or even worse, that somebody might steal it from you. The data, you store on your memory stick is probably vital to you; otherwise you wouldn’t bring it with you always. Hence, it is important to backup your memory stick regularly and make sure that nobody is able to access the data on it, if it gets into the wrong hands. It is certainly no solution to just copy all files manually every now and then. It is the first law of any backup strategy: Never backup manually! The reason is obvious. It is easily forgotten, and the probability is high that if you ever need the backup its data is outdated.

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The apc magazine has a good article explaining Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) a.k.a. Centro. In a way, this is the big brother of Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS). SBS targets small businesses that have up to 75 clients and EBS is for organizations that have 25 to 250 computers. In this post, I summarized the apc article.

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Update: RSAT is ready for download.

The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) Beta is now available for participants of the Windows Beta program. This tool set will replace the famous Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack aka Adminpak. It allows you to remotely manage a Windows server without logging on via RDP.

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23 great free Windows management utilities have been submitted. Thanks a lot! Since it is a bit cumbersome for you to check whenever there is a new tool, I will post the new submissions in an article every now and then. This post contains all the tools submitted so far, but if you want to link to them, you should take the original article because that will be updated continuously.

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I have been reviewing ADMX Migrator some time ago. This free Microsoft tool isn’t just useful to migrate your ADM files to ADMX templates. In my view, its biggest value is that you can create and edit Group Policy templates with a GUI tool without having to deal with XML. That is you won’t have to see one single angle bracket. There are no revolutionary new features in the version 1.2. But I would recommend getting it anyway since it also fixes some bugs.

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Can’t wait to try the performance boost that Service Pack 3 brings for Windows XP? Then you can download XP SP1 right now with this little hack.

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Some days ago I blogged about a questionable performance test of Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. The same organizations just tested the performance of Windows XP SP3. The “Researchers” wrote that they measured a “performance boost” of, well, 10%.

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I wrote a review about VMRCPlus a while ago. It is a nifty free tool from Microsoft that can replace the Web interface of Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. VMRCPlus has a graphical user interface that allows you to manage Virtual Server in a much more convenient way than with the original Web-based user interface. Version 1.6 has some new interesting features.

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You can now download the service packs for the .NET Framework:

.NET 2.0 SP1 x86 .NET SP1 x64 .NET 3.0 SP1

They were already released two days ago. I find it interesting that almost nobody seems to care about it. I mean, if you compare it with the stir that Vista SP1 has already caused . When Microsoft introduced .NET, I got the impression that in the future the underlying OS won’t play such an important role anymore. It seems that this is not going to happen any time soon.