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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Introducing EMCO MAC Address Scanner - a brand new freeware tool for Windows that allows extracting MAC addresses from network PCs.

Submitted by Igor Vinnykov

As is well known, a MAC address is a unique serial number that identifies the network card and distinguishes it from all others. While most network operations use an IP address to identify the target, some require a MAC address as well. For example, you need to know the MAC address of the remote PC if you need to turn it on remotely using the Wake-on-LAN technology. Under Windows, you can find out the computer MAC address by using the standard ipconfig utility, but it can only work on a local PC. To extract MAC addresses from remote computers, you have to use specialized network utilities and EMCO MAC Address Scanner is one of them.

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StatWin Server Enterprise is an employee monitoring software which supports website logging, keystrokes recording, instant messaging recording and more.

Author: Vitaly Dvorak

SXR software raffles three licenses of their employee monitoring software StatWin Server Enterprise each worth $399 USD. You can monitor up to 25 employees with this license. The deadline of this contest is July 26, 2011. If you want to take part in this in raffle, please send an email with the subject StatWin to .

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VirtuAll User Environment Manager is free user environment management tool designed for virtual desktops but it can also centrally manage settings of traditional desktops.

Submitted by Pierre Marmignon – Website: VirtuAll Solutions

VirtuAll User Environment Manager (VUEM) allows you to eliminate login scripts and mange centrally manage user environments.

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EASEUS Todo Backup Free Edition is a free backup program that supports backups of disks/partitions and files/folders, clone disks/partitions, universal restores and disk upgrades under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7.

Submitted by Cindy Su

EASEUS Todo Backup Free is free for home and business users and offers many features that usually only commercial backup solutions have. The easy-to-use backup program doesn’t come with spyware or the need to install a browser toolbar.

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Group Manager allows end users to manage group membership for any groups that they are assigned as the manager of in Active Directory.

Submitted by Chris Wright – Website: CJWDEV

If you have ever assigned a user or group as the manager of a security/distribution group in Active Directory, you may have noticed the option “Manager can update membership list” which grants the user permission to add and remove members from this group. The only problem with this is that there is no easy way for the user to actually make these changes, other than through Microsoft Outlook.

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Network Infrastructure Change Reporter is a network device auditing and reporting tool that tracks changes to all network devices and their settings.

Submited by Stephen Schimmel

Network Infrastructure Change Reporter is a network device discovery and auditing tool, which is very similar to all other NetWrix Change Reporter products (offered standalone or as a part of NetWrix Change Reporter Suite). This product scans specified IP ranges for network devices, discovers new devices, reports disappeared devices, and more importantly audits network devices for configuration changes, such as changes in device parameters, routing tables, permissions, firewall rules and everything else exposed through SNMP protocol and device-specific MIB files.

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The free Remote Desktop Manager allows you to manage all your remote connections: Microsoft Remote Desktop, Terminal Services, VNC, LogMeIn and Team Viewer, Ftp, SSH, Telnet, VPN and more.

The free version of Remote Desktop Manager is already in the list of free Windows admin tools since 2009. Version 6.0 has been released recently with quite a few new interesting features. Of course, Remote Desktop Manager is fully compatible with Windows 7.

Submitted by David Hervieux

Remote Desktop Manager is a small application used to manage all your remote connections and virtual machines. Add, edit, delete, share, organize and find your remote connection quickly.

The Standard edition of Remote Desktop Manager is free for personal and commercial usage. Here is a list of all features available in this version:

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ABC Deploy is a free software deployment and Windows client maintenance tool. It can distribute all types of management tasks to computers as well as to end users.

Submitted by Flemming Varmer

ABC Deploy allows you to install any type of software to your client systems, and also to create and maintain user profiles for that software. The free tool supports all Windows 32 and 64 bit versions since Windows 2000.

Task definition is made real simple. In most cases installing software like Adobe Acrobat Reader only requires you to name the task, and supply the path to a .MSI file. Error handling and logging activity is fully automated. You can also monitor client activity in real-time.

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EMCO Remote Registry Exporter is a free tool that allows exporting registry keys or backing up the entire registry from network PCs.

Submitted by Igor Vinnykov

Windows registry is an important source of information for network administrators. Many of us have own stories telling how to extract some hidden information from the registry or apply registry tweaks to change the Windows or applications behavior. No doubt, accessing raw data stored in the registry requires some knowledge, but sometimes it is the only way to check the system or application settings. If you need a tool to help you with accessing registry information on remote PCs, a free EMCO Remote Registry Exporter is right for you.

EMCO Remote Registry Exporter

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Designed to be used in large corporate networks, a free Wake-on-LAN utility from EMCO allows network administrators to wake up multiple remote PCs.

Submitted by Igor Vinnykov

If you’ve ever tried to use Wake-on-LAN technology, you may know that its configuration can be confusing sometimes. You have to enable WOL in BIOS and motherboard settings and correctly specify the WOL command parameters. Wake-on-LAN utilities (see a review for one of them) usually allow waking up one remote PC and require that you specify its IP and MAC addresses in order to generate and send a magic packet to it. In order to wake up multiple PCs, you have to write scripts to detect MAC addresses of remote PCs and execute a WOL utility to send the magic packet to every PC. A free Wake-on-LAN tool from EMCO is specially designed to wake up multiple remote PCs and allows automating all required operations.

Free Wake On LAN utility – EMCO WakeOnLAN FREE

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AD Info is a modern, user friendly Active Directory reporting tool that comes with over 150 built in queries that can provide you with reports on Users, Computers, Contacts, Containers, Groups, Printers, and GPOs.

Submitted by Chris Wright

This Active Directory reporting tool been designed from the ground up to be easy to use, as a lot of AD reporting tools are far more complicated than they need to be and often either rely on you having some LDAP attribute knowledge to really get what you want out of them. You won’t ever see any LDAP attribute names or confusing values in the results from AD Info, everything is in plain English and easy to understand.

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