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Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins

Posted by samzenpus on 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. Easy by aglider · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux

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    Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
  2. #1 tool by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cygwin is the first thing every windows server needs installed.

    1. Re:#1 tool by Stavr0 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Agree, but I prefer http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ -- less powerful but plays nicer with Windows native APIs

    2. Re:#1 tool by jsnipy · · Score: 3, Informative

      needs more sysinternals

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  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  4. PuTTY by bpfinn · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use PuTTY daily.

  5. file sizes by HeyBob! · · Score: 3, Informative

    This has been helpful (showing who/what is hogging disk space)
    Windirstat
    http://windirstat.info/