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A graphical interface and editor for PowerShell

Manage, troubleshoot and diagnose windows systems and applications.

"AD Tidy is a completely free tool that I created to help other IT Pros out. It can be used to identify when user/computer accounts last logged on to the network and can tidy up these accounts in various different ways."

"Office 2010 volume editions are delivered with the KMS client, which doesn't have to be installed. KMS clients will find the KMS host automatically through DNS."

How to set up a Windows RADIUS server to authenticate network client devices.

"A physical server needs drivers to talk to it's hardware. A virtualized server, in essence, does the same thing. VMware presents new hardware to allow the virtual machine to talk to it's hypervisor. Think of the driver issue in a P2V migration like removing a video card and installing a new one. The drivers and hidden hardware are still there just in case you feel like popping the video card back in. A P2V will still have all of the old hardware in the virtual machine. Don't forget about services that physical servers used, namely HP server management services."

"By using (included) Eventtriggers.exe (in Server 2003), you can automatically start a batch file or VBS script which performs a custom action or captures useful information. You can also use a script to perform correction actions on the machine,  preventing the problem from reoccurring.  Sometimes you just need to be notified when certain events are created in the Event Viewer, so we can use a script to send an e-mail alert. For example, you can create a trigger that monitors the event logs for low disk space events and if such events occur, you can run a script that removes any temporary or unnecessary files to resolve the low disk space condition, and/or send an e-mail alert telling you about it."

I re-logged into the machine and found that they are not in place still. I surprised and made relogin again, this time they mapped. Finally after applying multiple tests like this, I came to a conclusion that, I have below two problems…  1) Drive mapping is not happening at every attempt  2) Background processing of drive mapping is not working"

How Autodiscover works in Exchange

Great article on how the Autodiscover service works

Freeware GUI for Windows Time Service configuration, allowing full control of time sync graphically but still using the Windows sync tools (unlike many tools that do the clock sync and set your clock directly). Works with Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008 32-bit and 64-bit.

Download developer preview installations of Windows 8.

"ICSWEEP is a command-line utility to clear the Temporary Internet Files cache of ALL user profiles that are NOT in use when this command is executed." This is excellent for use on Terminal Servers where you want to clear off everyone's Temporary Internet Files at once!