James' Tools and Tricks

A graphical Windows boot disc containing many useful applications to repair, recover or clean a PC. http://www.ubcd4win.com/ Can also be combined with UBCD for DOS on the one disk. It is based on Bart’s PE Builder boot disc, and supports the Bart plugins such as Novell Client and other utilities. UBCD also has the benefit [...]

A great site with a large collection of tools, everything from Active Directory Management and Monitoring through to security, process monitoring and funny screen savers. http://www.sysinternals.com/ SysInternals was taken over by Microsoft so they also have new URL http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ Tags: Active Directory, Management, Monitor, SysInternals, Tools

This is a free X Server that is great for managing Linux servers using SSH and PuTTY from a Windows PC. http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ I wrote an article at Cool Solutions on Remote Management using SSH and X-Forwarding that gives some idea of its use. Tags: Linux, Management, Servers, X server, X11

Adds a Size tab to folder properties, showing the size of all the subfolders. Great addon for Windows. Bring up the properties of a folder and it will calculate the size of all the subfolders. Can be set to sort folders by size and decreasing allowing sysadmins to quickly identify large folders in user drives [...]

Path Copy allows you to copy a file or folders path from a simple right click menu. You can get the Full, Short or UNC path. It is a great tool and one of the must haves for a network admin. http://home.worldonline.dk/ninotech/index.htm I use it constantly when writing scripts and need the full path, or [...]