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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#1 tool by h4rr4r · 2011-09-19 03:45 · Score: 4, Insightful

Cygwin is the first thing every windows server needs installed.
Lose the Borg Face by drkich · 2011-09-19 04:06 · Score: 1, Insightful

I know haters will hate and Slashdotters love to hate Microsoft, but honestly, what the hell does open source tools have to do with the Borg Face?

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