System Administrator Tool Reccomendations and Tech Help
Today Microsoft released the IT Environment Health Scanner (V. 6.0.5700.44) for small to medium sized businesses. To install you will need to know the IP address of your primary firewall, subnet mask, and Windows Domain Admin rights (and Exchange Server rights if you have Exchange in your environment.) The download is Freeware, so I encourage […]
Back in March 2009, Microsoft released a Freeware tool called RichCopy 4.0. RichCopy is essentially RoboCopy with a nice GUI on it. I’ve used the tool a few times in testing, and it’s not that bad. Personally, I have little need for a tool like this since most of my large data transfers are […]
Have you ever wondered “Why am I out of Hard Drive space?” or “Who is using up all the Drive space on the Server share?” Today at work I asked myself that VERY same question, and after a quick Google search & download I installed a nice little piece of FreeWare called – TreeSize Free. […]
As a Domain Admin for a small or large corporation, it’s NEVER a good idea to log in as the Domain Admin (or another privileged user) to read email or surf the Internet. After all, if you pick up a nasty bug/virus from Outlook or Internet Explorer, your logged in credentials will have the ability […]
Like many of you out there, as a Systems Engineer, I spend the majority of my day using the Windows Remote Desktop Client (commonly referred to as the RDP client) to connect/remote into servers and desktops to manage them. Besides Outlook, it’s probably the one tool I use all day. All in all, Microsoft did […]
Virtual CloneDrive makes it easy to mount an ISO image with Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP 64-bit (x64) or 32-bit (x86). The same goes for .IMG and .ZBIN files. You would think Windows 7 would have the built-in ability to mount ISO images but unfortunately it does not… Virtual CloneDrive from Slysoft makes […]
Sure, WinZip is ideal for compressing files and folders but did you know it’s also an excellent means for encrypting sensitive data? Use WinZip correctly, and it is a very useful security tool. It’s a perfect option for the non-technical user who needs to email confidential data over the Internet. Just follow my simple step-by-step […]
