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Allows you to manage multiple PuTTY connections with auto-login, with passwords being stored in an encrypted database file. Perfect if Mr Security has had his way in your organisation and your servers have varying, complex passwords. | Allows you to manage multiple PuTTY connections with auto-login, with passwords being stored in an encrypted database file. Perfect if Mr Security has had his way in your organisation and your servers have varying, complex passwords. | ||
Note that the site above appears to have been taken down and no longer exists - I've found a copy of the installer and it can be downloaded from here - http://dl.sandfordit.com/3rdparty/puttycm0.7.1.136beta.rar. | |||
If you are the original author or were the maintainer of the site and would be happy for me to host the supporting documentation for PCM (or would like me to remove the download link), please contact me at info[AT]sandfordit[DOT]com. | |||
== RealVNC == | == RealVNC == | ||
Revision as of 10:50, 4 May 2012
ISOrecorder
LastPass
Password manager. Can be made mobile (iPhone and Android apps) through the Premium Edition subscription.
NameBench
http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
DNS server benchmarking software - allows you to find the best (in terms of locality and speed of response) DNS servers to use
PuTTY Connection Manager
Allows you to manage multiple PuTTY connections with auto-login, with passwords being stored in an encrypted database file. Perfect if Mr Security has had his way in your organisation and your servers have varying, complex passwords.
Note that the site above appears to have been taken down and no longer exists - I've found a copy of the installer and it can be downloaded from here - http://dl.sandfordit.com/3rdparty/puttycm0.7.1.136beta.rar.
If you are the original author or were the maintainer of the site and would be happy for me to host the supporting documentation for PCM (or would like me to remove the download link), please contact me at info[AT]sandfordit[DOT]com.
RealVNC
The original VNC. Probably the best remote admin console software there is, once you've worked in an environment that uses VNC properly it'll kill you to have to go back that out of the box limited RDP rubbish.
Its killer feature has to be the ability to copy and paste (binary) files from session to session, excellent.
Its not free if you want the bells and whistles, but if you've got a couple of quid left over in your budget at the end of the year, its well work a look.
RVTools
RV Tools audits your virtual infrastructure and provides a nice diagnosis list, which is more like a to do of background maintenance tasks. Its best feature is probably its ability to identify orphaned files on your datastores which can enable to free up quite a bit of precious SAN space.
Synergy
KVM functionality without a KVM - allows you to control multiple Windows machines from the same keyboard. Ideally suited to when you've more than one desktop machine, but would them to be managed as if they were multiple displays from the same machine.
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
Allows you to create a boot-able USB stick from an Operating System install ISO (eg Win7, Win2k8 etc).
However be aware that you cannot create a 64 bit install stick from a 32 bit machine. The uses the bootsect.exe utility on the source ISO in order to create the boot sector on the USB stick. If you're running a 32 bit OS it won't be able to run the 64 bit version of bootsect.exe that's on the ISO (run from a CLI you'd get bootsect.exe is not a valid Win32 application).
WinImage
http://www.winimage.com/download.htm
CD image extraction and editing software