System admins overlooking Windows server farms or desktops should check out ControlUp, which offers a rich set of management tasks and monitoring capabilities. This article reviews some of the features, which may prove especially useful when identifying and troubleshooting common issues.

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The daily routine of a Windows systems administrator involves a variety of challenges, one of which is common to most mundane procedures, and is undoubtedly familiar to you all. The challenge is to spot and act upon irregularities among multiple machines and user sessions. The emphasis on multiple is due to the fact that many great tools are designed to work on one computer at a time (Task Manager, Registry Editor, Services console to name a few).

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In this blog post we provide Windows systems administrators with a high-level overview of the remote management tools DameWare NT Utilities and Mini Remote Control management tools.

SolarWinds, the new owner of DameWare NT utilities, raffles off a two 2-seat license worth $680 USD. If you want to take part in this contest, please fill out this form. Notice that your data will be submitted to SolarWinds. The deadline of this contest is May 22, 2012.

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In this article you will learn some techniques for accessing and manage your Mac OS X computer remotely from Windows.

Here is the situation: you are the systems administrator of a mixed Windows/Mac OS X network environment. Your administrative laptop runs Windows 7, and you realize that you need to establish a remote connection to one of your Mac OS X Server computers to tweak a setting. What do you do?

The good news is that Mac OS X (both the server and desktop varieties) include built-in File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Secure Shell (SSH), and Virtual Network Computing (VNC) servers. Thus, we have immediate, “out of the box” remote connectivity to our Mac boxes.

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

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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 PowerShell script introduced in this post is for getting disk space details of multiple remote computers. It also retrieves the space details of mount points.

Disk space monitoring is an important system administration task because disk space shortage can impact system stability and application functionality.

I wrote a PowerShell script that allows you to query the disk space details of any drive connected to a remote Windows computer. Moreover, the script can get the disk space details of multiple computers in a single shot. You can also use it with other cmdlets, such as Get-QADComputer and Get-ADComputer, and pass the output of these commands to the script.

Using the parameters ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName and ValueFromPipeline, the script reads the inputs from the pipeline (output of the previous command). You can learn more details about these parameters by executing the command below in a PowerShell 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.

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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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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.

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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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This part of the SC Configuration Manager v.Next review focuses on User Centric Management (UCM), on the Applications concept and the new deployment types.

Many systems administrators are familiar with Microsoft’s Systems Center Suite, relying on its various components for their day to day jobs. Operations Manager keeps tabs on the health of your infrastructure, Data Protection Manager makes sure all your (Microsoft) workloads are safely backed up, Virtual Machine Manager keeps your virtual servers and hosts in check and Configuration Manager keeps track of computer hardware and installed software.

Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 was recently updated with an R3 release which added power management and a few other tweaks. In this article I’ll give an overview of the next major release of SCCM, currently called “v.Next” and explain where Microsoft is taking SCCM. This article is written on beta1; beta2 is expected in January 2011 with RTM possibly sometime mid next year.

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MremoteNG is a free, tabbed remote connection manager that supports RDP, VNC, ICA, SSH, Telnet, HTTP/HTTPS, and rlogin.

I’m particularly fond of the saying “A good sysadmin is one which never has to get out of his/her chair” and mRemoteNG is one of those tools that goes a long way in accomplishing that goal. This application acts a tabbed remote connection manager and credentials vault for a variety of connection protocols that include:

• RDP
• VNC
• ICA
• SSH
• Telnet
• HTTP/HTTPS
• rlogin

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This is post was updated by Olivier from Mobatek. The new features MobaXterm 2.2 can be found at the end of the article.

MobaXterm (formerly known as MobaXVT) is an enhanced terminal with an X server and a set of Unix commands (GNU/Cygwin) packaged in a single portable exe file.

MobaXterm includes a great multitab native Windows terminal, a new X server based on X.Org for easily export your Unix/Linux display and a lot of new GNU Unix commands. You can also use some of the free plugins for extending MobaXterm capabilities!

• The “split-mode” allows SysAdmins to monitor 4 servers at the same time
• The “save history” features allows them to easily keep some logs of their commands
• The ssh/telnet/rlogin/rsh/ftp/scp/sftp/rcp clients allow them to easily interact with remote Unix/Linux computers.

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Submitted by Mobateam – Blog: Mobatek free software MobaSSH is a SSH server for Windows.

MobaSSH allows you to run commands and transfer files on a remote Windows PC from any operating system (GNU/Linux, Unix, HP-UX, AIX, Windows, …) through a fully secured and encrypted network connection. MobaSSH is 100% compatible with the Linux/Unix/HPUx/AIX SSH clients, but also with Putty or WinSCP on Windows.

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SSH is not really popular in the Windows world. Nevertheless it is a very useful protocol to manage Windows servers remotely. All you have to do is install OpenSSH for Windows on your server. This allows you to remotely connect to a command line interface through a secure connection.

You know me, I am not a CLI fan, but if I have to manage a server using my Windows Mobile toy it is often the easiest way. The small screen of a Pocket PC is big enough for simple commands. It is no secret that most problems under Windows can be solved with a reboot. If you have a problematic server, it can be quite comforting to know that you can restart the server wherever you are.

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