OCS Inventory NG is a free, agent-based inventory software for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Submitted by Matthew Borcherding – BorchTech Consulting

The OCS Inventory NG backend can run on Windows or Linux. Inventories are done daily or on demand, and take very little CPU time. Inventories include very detailed lists of hardware and software components. The inventory software allows you to display all systems that have particular software installed.  Access to server is web-based, usually via Apache.

Free inventory software – OCS Inventory NG

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PAExec lets you run programs on remote Windows servers, without needing to first install something on the remote server.

Submitted by Doug – Website: Power Admin

The launched program can run as a specific user, or as the Local System account.  It can run visibly or silently.  It’s very useful for opening a quick terminal-like session to the server, checking configuration or remotely installing other software. Command-line options can be seen at the PAExec site.

PAexec – Run programs on remote Windows servers

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The free edition of Altaro Hyper-V Backup is a perfect backup software for small Hyper-V deployments. The free Hyper-V backup tool supports live backups, ReverseDelta ™, and Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).

Submitted by David Vella – Blog: Altaro Blog for Hyper-V & Windows Administration

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You want to know what are the NTFS permissions a particular user or group has to a directory? Then the free NTFS Permissions Reporter tool is what you need.

Submitted by Chris Wright – Website: Cjwdev

NTFS Permissions Reporter is a new tool from Cjwdev, with a completely free edition available for anyone to download and use without any registration or time limits imposed. It makes auditing and reviewing permissions on your file system quick and easy, as you can simply right click on any directory in Windows Explorer and choose Report Permissions to launch the program and instantly see how permissions are assigned to that directory and all of its sub directories.

What are the NTFS permissions? NTFS Permissions Reporter

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This article introduces a brand-new freeware utility from EMCO that can help you to collect information about installed programs and patches from network PCs and track installation changes remotely.

Submitted by Igor Vinnykov

According to the Windows 7 Programs and Components info, I have 85 applications and 118 updates installed on my PC. No doubt, it’s hard to keep in mind all these installed programs even for a single PC, and I have to open the Programs and Components view every time I need to check the software installed on the PCs in my network. If you use the same approach when you need to audit installed software, let me show how you can optimize your software inventory procedures using the free Network Software Scanner utility from EMCO Software.

The Welcome screen of EMCO Network Software Scanner

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Verax NMS is a network and application monitoring software running on Windows, Linux, Solaris and AIX. The free, “Express” version is limited to 25 managed elements.

Submitted by Eugene Rublovka

Verax NMS supports network elements (CISCO, Juniper, Adva, Foundry , etc.), applications (MySQL, Oracle RDBMS, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, etc.), and data center elements (IP cameras, power supplies, etc.) in a single, integrated system.

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SysAdmin Anywhere is a free Active Directory management tool for computers, user accounts, and groups. The tools also support Active Directory reporting.

Submitted by Igor Markin

The program allows you to manage users, groups, client computers, servers and domains. Metro interface makes the program easy. You do not need to install software on the server.

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SetACL Studio is a management tool for Windows permissions. It combines powerful features with an intuitive user interface.

Helge Klein, the author of this article, raffles off five licenses, each worth $14.95 USD of SetACL Studio. The deadline of this contest is November, 24. If you want to take part in this raffle, please send an email with the subject “SetACL Studio” to .

Set Windows permissions with SetACL Studio

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nspaces is a free Virtual Desktop Manager that allows you to password protect workspaces.

Submitted by Dion Zhu

Virtual desktops are always useful for separating your work into multiple workspaces for more efficiently organizing and managing your work. nSpaces is a virtual desktop manager application to manage multiple workspaces.

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vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer provides the capabilities to optimize the performance of Windows for use in VDI environments, with the possibility to dramatically increase the scalability of VDI environments.

Submitted Michel Roth

Quest just launched a new free tool on the vWorkspace Community called the vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer. It is important to note that this tool not only works for Quest vWorkspace but also works for other desktop virtualization product like Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View or other.

Tests have shown that the impact of the vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer can be quite big.

VDI performance -  vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer

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Zetetic.Events is a free command-line tool that can quickly scan and filter multiple running Windows Event Logs, and archived .evt and .evtx files, in parallel.

Submitted by Steve Kradel

It taps into the new 2008 / Windows 7 logging infrastructure when available, but will fall back to 2003 mode when necessary, and supports filtering on event IDs, and start and end dates, as well as text within the event message.

Zetetic.Events automatically discovers your environment’s domain controllers, which makes it especially valuable for diagnosing login failures, account lockouts, and security audit events.

Here is an example:

ZeShell -e 4728-4758,after=19-July-2011
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Event ID:    4728
Level:       Information
Keywords:    Audit Success
Publisher:   Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
Created:     7/20/2011 2:35:17 PM
Machine:     dc-1.demo.net
Log:         Security
Description: A member was added to a security-enabled global group.

Subject:
        Security ID:            S-1-5-21-950928700-2040260430-2032203972-500
        Account Name:           Administrator
        Account Domain:         DEMO
        Logon ID:               0x454d11

Member:
        Security ID:            S-1-5-21-950928700-2040260430-2032203972-187428
        Account Name:           CN=Uncle Fester,OU=ZetDemo,DC=demo,DC=net

Group:
        Security ID:            S-1-5-21-950928700-2040260430-2032203972-187514
        Group Name:             Global1
        Group Domain:           DEMO

Additional Information:
        Privileges:             -

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The free version of SetACL allows you to manage permissions for Windows objects such as folders or printers by manging their access control list on the command line.

Submitted by Helge Klein

If you look under the hood of Windows you find permissions everywhere. Files and folders, registry keys, network shares, printers, services and WMI objects – all of these have security descriptors storing ownership, permission and auditing information. That opens up powerful management options and SetACL is the great tool for the job. It sets and lists permissions practically anywhere in the system, locally and over the network, from the command line, scripts or programs.

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Delprof2 allows you to delete a user profile. It is an extended version of Microsoft's Delprof and works on all Windows versions including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Submitted by Helge Klein – Website: helgeklein.com

While user profiles are great for personalization, sometimes a cleanup is required and some or all profiles need to be deleted. As it turns out, Windows has no tool for automating this task from the command line. There used to be a tool called Delprof, but it does not work correctly on Windows 7 and Server 2008 (R2). Delprof2 does. It is a kind of unofficial successor to Delprof. Although it is more powerful than the original it is still syntax-compatible, so existing scripts can be reused without any change.

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The free TFTP Server from WhatsUp Gold allows you to securely transfer operating system software or device configuration files across computers and devices in your network.

Submitted by Ipswitch

Are you a network engineer who is looking for an always-on, service based tool to simplify and secure the transfer of system or configuration files across your network? The WhatsUp Gold free TFTP Server allows you to save time and effort while uploading and downloading files.

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Active Directory Telephone Book, or ADTB in short is a small and smart windows forms program that allows you to quickly find persons within your organization.

Submitted by Dennis Smith

Do phonetic searches, or find people based on their location, department or phone number. Help the people in your organization find each other!

Active Directory Phone Book

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