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.

Network and application monitoring – Verax NMS – Sensor summary

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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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NetWrix Privileged Account Manager is a free password manager that maintains and protects the privileged user accounts in Active Directory, servers and other systems that are commonly used by multiple members of an IT department to manage hardware devices, servers or applications.

Submitted by Stephen Schimmel

NetWrix Privileged Account Manager (offered as a standalone or as a part of NetWrix Identity Management Suite) provides a secure web-based portal for accessing and automatic maintenance of administrative user accounts, thus ensuring that all privileged user accounts are routinely updated with strong and secure passwords.

Free password manager NetWrix Privileged Account Manager

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XIA Configuration Server is a network documentation and audit software that supports Windows servers and workstations, Active Directory and Group Policy, Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, Clusters, DNS, WINS and VMware.

Submitted by David Homer

CENTREL Solutions raffles off an Enterprise license of their centralized network documentation and audit software – XIA Configuration Server, to 4sysops readers. The winner will receive an enterprise license worth $1,000 USD. The deadline of this contest is August 11, 2011. If you want to take part in this raffle, please send an email with the subject “XIA Configuration” to .

XIA Configuration Server – Network documentation and audit software

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The freeware tool Softerra LDAP Browser allows you to search and view LDAP directories and includes a set of built-in reports.

Submitted by Denis Roman

With a vast variety of LDAP management software, it is complicated to choose one product that would correspond to all needs of an enterprise network. At one side, native LDAP administration toolset covers most of necessary challenges, but when appears the necessity to cover a load of tasks within a short period of time, addressing reliable third party software could be the way out. Softerra LDAP Browser is an easy-to-use tool designed to browse, view and search LDAP directories.

Softerra LDAP Browser – Main console

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EMCO Remote Console is a free remote command tool with a GUI that provides access to the interactive command-line prompt on remote PCs.

Submitted by Igor Vinnykov

For many years, network administrators who need to execute commands and processes remotely have had to setup a Telnet or SSH access or use a remote desktop connection. Those approaches have some limitations, so the PsExec utility released by the Sysinternals team managed to gain its current popularity very quickly as an easy-to-use solution with zero configuration required. A similar light-weight remote command-line access is also provided by a free EMCO Remote Console tool introduced in this article. EMCO Remote Console’s extended functionality includes a graphic user interface to make the use of a remote command prompt even easier.

EMCO Remote Console – Remote command execution

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