Misc. network administrator tools

Desktop Authority Listing updated: January 1, 2008

Desktop Authority comprehensively manages the Windows desktop throughout the desktop lifecycle, reducing the total cost of desktop and application ownership by enabling administrators to proactively manage, inventory, secure and support desktops from a central location.

With Desktop Authority, you can eliminate logon scripting so you can manage printer deployments, Registry values, drive mappings, application deployment and more from one centralized console.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.33 [3 votes] - Vote
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watchDirectory Listing updated: September 20, 2003

WatchDirectory automatically starts your .bat or .cmd file when the directory contents that this program is monitoring changes (a file or directory is added, deleted or changed). Some example uses for this program: Automatically backup files that are created in a directory; Automatically FTP modified files from a directory to an FTP server/web-site; Automatically compile sources that arrive in a directory (Auto Make); Synchronizing 2 directories.

The bat or command file that is executed receives all information on what has changed on the command line and in environment-variables. Basically you can do anything you want with this information. Several example bat-files to get you started are included in the online help.
  • Users' Rating: 4.33 [3 votes] - Vote
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Unused Account Ferret Listing updated: September 5, 2002

Unused Account Ferret helps network administrators to identify and remove unused user and computer accounts. UAF queries the domain controllers and displays a list of unused accounts based on the parameters that you supply. You can then disable or delete the unused accounts manually, or let UAF do it for you. UAF can also delete the Microsoft Exchange mailboxes and home folders that are associated with the unused accounts.
  • Users' Rating: 4.3 [10 votes] - Vote
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Undelete Software for FAT, FAT32 and NTFS Listing updated: August 12, 2002

Active@ UNDELETE is a data recovery software that helps to recover accidentally deleted files and folders on local and network drives. Integrated with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and Active Directory compatibility. Recovery Wizard gives users control over the process of data restoration. With this file recovery software user can restore FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS files on any Windows systems such as Windows95, Windows98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows XP and Windows 2000 including servers versions.
  • Users' Rating: 4.27 [109 votes] - Vote
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GFI Network Server Monitor Listing updated: November 13, 2007

GFI Network Server Monitor automatically monitors the network & servers for failures. It allows you to identify issues and fix unexpected conditions before your users (or managers) report them to you! Alerts can be sent by email, pager or SMS, for instant problem notification. Actions, such as rebooting a machine, restarting a service or running a script can be done automatically.

Built-in monitoring rules include: Exchange Server 2000/2003, MS SQL, Oracle and ODBC databases, Active Directory & NTDS, Disk Drive health, TCP, UDP, ICMP/Ping, SMTP & POP3 Mail Servers, Printers, Processes, Services, UNIX Shell Scripts (RSH), SNMP & Terminal Server. You can also write custom monitor functions in VBscript and leverage ADSI and WMI, allowing you to monitor virtually anything.

GFI Network Server Monitor tests the status of a service by actually logging on, testing and logging off, rather than deducing a service status from generated events (as other products do), which is the only real way to ensure server uptime!

GFI Network Server Monitor is easy to set up and use, and is competitively priced. A free, fully functional, 30-day trial is available for download on our website.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.24 [148 votes] - Vote
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WebActiveDirectory PeopleSearch Listing updated: April 1, 2004

PeopleSearch allows users to retrieve information stored in Microsoft's Active Directory. You can use PeopleSearch via a web browser to find user information such as title, location, manager, or any attribute stored in the directory. PeopleSearch allows you to customize it using a web-based administrative interface. The interface allows you to set up searches for any object or attribute. In addition to configuring the search interface, you can easily configure how the search results display. Administrators can also choose to brand PeopleSearch using a predefined style sheet or insert your own corporate style sheet with your company branding and logo.
  • Users' Rating: 4.15 [13 votes] - Vote
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Stellar Phoenix for NTFS Listing updated: January 5, 2003

Stellar Phoenix Windows NT, 2000, XP Data Recovery Software helps you in recovering your all important data after disk crash due to accidental format, virus problems, software malfunction, file/directory deletion or even a sabotage! Stellar Phoenix NT Data Recovery software examines your in accessible hard drive and shows you the data that is present in the hard disk. Simple disk recovery process requires you to only select listed files & directories and copy to a working drive.

Phoenix File recovery software is particularly helpful to recover NT servers, for Corporate and Large organizations having voluminous data after a disk crash.
  • Users' Rating: 4.12 [32 votes] - Vote
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RemotePWDReset Listing updated: May 7, 2004

RemotePWDReset allows you to reset or synchronize local administrator password on any workstation or member server in your network easily. An easy to use GUI allows you to reset the local administrator password or local user passwords remotely on multiple workstations or servers as well as automatically reset service accounts to reflect password changes.
  • Users' Rating: 4 [22 votes] - Vote
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BitKinex Listing updated: October 22, 2004

BitKinex is an FTP client supporting multiple transfer protocols (FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS and WebDAV). In addition to features found in other FTP clients (like support for the SSL/SSH, multipart and multithreaded transfers, file filtering, direct server-to-server transfers or transfer scheduling) BitKinex includes several approaches and solutions like: browse windows which never freeze, indirect transfers allowing to copy files between servers running different transfer protocols or inherited properties enabling easy and powerful configuration. The application communicates with you via a scalable user interface.
  • Users' Rating: 4 [4 votes] - Vote
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Alagus Print Admin Standard Edition Listing updated: October 7, 2004

Alagus Print Admin is a client-server program for monitoring and management of network printers. Alagus Print Admin offers you a range of opportunities to take control over your network printers. Using this software, you will be able to reduce your printer related expenses. Furthermore, you will learn the properties of printed documents, like title, size, number of pages etc., and create statistics and analysis. On this basis, you can optimize the network printers utilization, you can protect the confidential information of your company and you can make restrictions for printing of documents extrinsic to your activities, by your personnel.
  • Users' Rating: 3.81 [27 votes] - Vote
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