Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 19, 2011 @03:36AM from the right-tool-for-the-job dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's J. Peter Bruzzese provides a list of 15 open source tools for enhancing your Windows server-side experience. 'You might imagine that the best place to go for improving your Microsoft server-side experience is to the mothership itself. In many cases, you would be right. But the truth is there are a meaningful number of open source tools that go above and beyond what Microsoft has to offer in support of Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint. Many of these alternatives provide — for free — more powerful capabilities than what you'd get with third-party retail products.'"

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Re:#1 tool by Stavr0 · 2011-09-19 03:55 · Score: 3, Informative

Agree, but I prefer http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ -- less powerful but plays nicer with Windows native APIs
Re:#1 tool by jsnipy · 2011-09-19 04:28 · Score: 3, Informative

needs more sysinternals

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PuTTY by bpfinn · 2011-09-19 05:07 · Score: 5, Informative

I use PuTTY daily.
file sizes by HeyBob! · 2011-09-19 07:09 · Score: 3, Informative

This has been helpful (showing who/what is hogging disk space)
Windirstat
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