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Dameware Utilities has long been a favorite of Windows Admins.   With this program you can check all of your servers and pc’s in one place as well as almost all domain/active directory information.  Drive space, event logs, running processes, edit registry entries, start/stop services, etc.  Everything under one hood.
Dameware also comes with its own remote [...]

The other day my mother-in-law dropped off her laptop and said, “it doesn’t work” and left. It took me a day to get to it but when I powered up the system it came up with this message, “windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM”
My heart sank as I [...]

MXtoolbox – will alert you via txt msg if your, or your client’s, email server ever goes down after hours. It is nice to know you can get to the server before employees get to work and start screaming they cannot send email. Their free service will monitor one server and will also [...]

The folks at TrainSignal have been offering free training videos for some time now. One of our techs used the TCP/IP Fundamentals series and came away with some great knowledge. This is a great way to learn for people that don’t have time during the day, want to do something else on the [...]

spiceworks releases a new version of it’s network monitoring, helpdesk, inventory, asset reporting and license monitoring software. Yes, Spiceworks does all this. We like this package because it does so many different things AND IT IS FREE!
Their community is actually the “builder” of this package, which is why it is so [...]

not sure how we forgot to mention backups recently but in our environment we have been using Cobian Backup since it replicates data and we can turn off a data store and almost instantly turn to the backup data.
several of us also use DriveImageXML at home for our home pc’s.
we tried several different programs and [...]

one of the techs came across a neat tool a while back from spiceworks.com that does network inventory, software inventory, hardware monitoring, exchange monitoring and all kinds of cool stuff.
they also have a community offering a great deal of knowledge on just about any topic and are a very helpful group as well.