Tag: Free tools

While many organizations have transitioned elements of their infrastructure to the cloud, Active Directory (AD) remains the primary identity store, overseeing users, computers and permissions. Therefore, having the right tools for managing AD can make a substantial difference in efficiency,...

Organizations today are deeply dependent on their IT infrastructure, so system downtime translates directly to costly business disruptions. Accordingly, it’s critical to have server monitoring tools that provide the insight into your on-premises and cloud systems you need to prevent and detect...

Managers and compliance auditors often ask IT admins to present a report listing file share permissions granted to a group or a particular user. Here are a few paid and free tools that will help you save time on generating these reports. Download Free Guide: NTFS Permissions Management...

What is Microsoft Office 365? Office 365 is a set of cloud-based applications and services offered by Microsoft. A subscription-based service, it can include applications such as Office 365 (Word, Excel, etc.), Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business. All Office 365...

One key component in securing your IT infrastructure is protecting against network-related security threats. Windows Server offers several network security features to help: Windows Firewall with Advanced Security IPsec Message Analyzer Free Tool Download free guide: Microsoft...

To help system administrators get their jobs done better and more easily, we’ve put together a list of the top 10 free sysadmin tools for Windows server management, monitoring, backup and troubleshooting. Here are the free system administrator tools for Windows that made our top 10 list: ...

PowerShell is increasingly the tool of choice for Windows administrators. The Active Directory PowerShell module includes more than 450 cmdlets that you can use to collect information about every object in Active Directory, check the health of domain controllers, collect GPO information and...

What is RemoteApp? Are you using your Terminal Server/RDS Server for one main application? A database or ERP program, perhaps? If so, you are a prime candidate for RemoteApp, a remote access tool introduced by Microsoft for Server 2008 R2. However, many people who are using Terminal Server/RDS...

How many account lockouts do you deal with every day? Troubleshooting account lockouts has always been an IT admin’s daily task: either employees forget their passwords or accounts lockout due to a significant increase in authentication requests on domain controllers. On top of that, account...

It’s free, master Jedi! We've gathered top 7 security freeware tools for sysadmins. These tools are supposed to help you make your job easier and troubleshoot security issues faster.  1. Netwrix Auditor for Active Directory. Free Community Edition This freeware from Netwrix provides...