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ESXi 5 really makes it easier to "properly" remove a LUN from hosts.

"GCalToolkit removes duplicates from your Google Calendars and clean up failed imports & syncs in a few clicks."

This article describes how to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain controller demotion, using the command line (ntdsutil).

NTPWEdit is a password editor for Windows NT based systems (like Windows 2000, XP and Vista), it can change or remove passwords for local system accounts. This program can NOT decrypt passwords or change domain and Active Directory passwords. This is essentially NTpasswd with a Windows GUI.

"Xinorbis is a simple but powerful (free) hard disk analyser. Using a sophisticated mix of graphs, tables and tree displays, it gives the user a complete overview of the contents of a hard disk, folder, removable or network drive."

"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."

Lockdown for workstations to prevent changes or remove them at will. Similar to DeepFreeze and Windows SteadyState. Optional central control. Commercial product.

"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."

"A faster way to delete millions of files in a directory "