- WinLock Remote Administrator 1.22, Total Authority — How one control the computer’s usage? Yes, this question is too wide. How can one control the *public* computer’s usage? If the number of users is limited, the admin can create an account for each user and control them. However, this approach hides some problems: Sometimes there are no permanent users, only the «accidental» ones; sometimes the Windows’ built-in user restrictions are insufficient; sometimes there…
- SMTP Preprocessor 1.01 Strong Tool for Wise Admin — SMTP Preprocessor is a tool for SMTP server administrator. This minimalist tool allows powerful on-the-flow pre-processing of SMTP messages. It can be useful for cutting the loading of the main server software, quick black-listing and rejecting other abuse attempts, and for some much more advanced things we’ll cover below. When SMTP Preprocessor is started for the first time, it may seem a bit confusing: the main window is showing…
- RemBoot - The Remote Reboot Utility. — Serious work with remote Windows servers sometimes suffers from lack of control over those servers. Of course, letting just about ANYBODY to control your server is not the greatest idea. But the owner and administrator of the server often feel that their hands are tied when the computer is miles away, the support team is fast asleep and unlikely to respond quickly to a pager, and all that is needed is a quick system rebooot…
- Global Network Inventory, Examining The Network — Any computer network administrator has a large responsibility area concerning all network computers configuration. This area includes both hardware and software configurations, and control of all them is really important for network safety, reliability and stability. But as soon as the number of computers in the network exceeds about 7, no administrator, even a genius one, can control them all timely without an automating tool. There are…
- Beyond Remote Support, Focus on Problem, Not on Getting to It — Solving a tricky problem on a remote box is often not as hard as getting to that problem. Helping a newbie to obtain, install and run a remote assistance program sometimes may be harder than resolving the original problem. A remote assistance application has got to be something really easy, not harder than making just a few mouse clicks. This idea was picked up by Data Apples Corp., and they came up with…
- Auto Shutdown Manager — Most of us never give a thought to the power consumption of our computer systems, regardless of the number of energy-thirsty devices we have in our homes or offices. We often leave our machines on when leaving work, so as to save a couple of start-up minutes in the morning. We pay our bills, but never ask ourselves how much we could save on power consumption and how the rest of the world…
- EMCO Remote Desktop Professional — Administering networks is something all system administrators do on a daily basis. Unfortunately, minor issues and major problems tend to happen from time to time and in most cases require immediate and resolute actions, as any network downtimes affect the whole company and its clients. However, sometimes problems come when they are least expected — for instance, when the system administrator is away or on a sick leave and…
- Reboot Service - ad hoc control over the stability of remote servers — If the stability of your corporate network or the proper operation of your clients’ applications depends on how your server performs, its uninterrupted work and long uptime should be your primary areas of concern. Whenever your server’s memory is full, memory overflow errors cause the server to perform poorly or lead to complete freezing. In these cases, being close to the server to reboot it is vital…
- SysAdmin 3.1.2 Extended Edition - a powerful tool for professional network monitoring and management — Every system administrator knows well what a pain in the neck it is to keep a large network under control. Users running out of disk space, viruses spreading across the network, unknown processes jamming users’ systems, hardware malfunctions — all these problems take a lot of time and effort to resolve. If you are managing a large corporate network based on Active Directory, you will be pleasantly surprised…
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