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Three apps for the Windows sysadmin - Holiday Gift Guide
by Todd Ritter Dec 1st 2008 at 2:00PM
Hyena ($199) - This Windows application is an Active Directory admin's sidekick. In addition to acting as a an AD Users/Computers snap-in on steroids, it also lets you easily change local account usernames and passwords on multiple computers, create helpful lists of group members, and manage services. Hyena also makes it easy to quickly view the currently logged in users of a machine and shutdown or reboot a group of computers.
Forego the fruit cake and gift a sysadmin management tool!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Geir said 4:20PM on 12-01-2008
Save $99 by not buying SecureCRT, get PuTTY Connection Manager (http://puttycm.free.fr/) instead.
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Mike said 4:36PM on 12-01-2008
If you need free, reliable remote shared drive access, you might want to take a look at Hamachi. Its free, easy to configure, and can be hidden from the user completely (when run as a service with the program window hidden).
Lord knows that all the stooges that came before me at this IT internship were wanting to spend thousands of dollars and weeks of downtime to do what I did with Hamachi for free in 20 minutes. My coworkers now enjoy speedy, autoconfigured, encrypted remote server access and they love me for it :)
Its also nice to throw on a flash drive to access your personal files from home through any firewall.
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blaszta said 8:44AM on 12-02-2008
Or you can ditch SecureCRT & VNC Scan all together and use the free mRemote (http://www.mremote.org/)
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noroom said 11:09AM on 12-02-2008
mRemote seconded. Please note that mRemote uses putty (included) for it's SSH connections. It looks like VNCScan may have some discovery tools not replicted by mRemote, but any decent admin should know how to port scan.
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Todd Ritter said 11:46AM on 12-02-2008
Thanks for your suggestions. I specifically like VNCScan's VNC Deployment wizard so that I can install VNC remotely (and silently) on computers that may not have it.
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