"Look no further. I've created a collaboration of, yet again, FREE TOOLS for virtual machines within your VMware environment. All of the TOOLs in this package were pooled together for performing advanced tasks to optimize performance, reclaim lost space, and clean up your virtual machine. The goal of this project was to mount the ISO to your VM and run the scripts or TOOLs that are packaged. Of course not all of these TOOLs will run from a VM, but most can."
"McAfee provides an assortment of free McAfee tools to help in your software development. Simply select a tool and download it for free."
System admin tools for forensics, password cracking, intrusion detection, network stress testing, and others. Many are not 64-bit compatible but there are some good, free gems.
"Over the past month I have installed and tested almost every single tool on my previous blog post of A List of FREE VMware vSphere tools." -Kendrick Coleman
"22 essential Mac tools for IT admins
These (mostly free) open source, donationware, and Apple tools take the pain out of Mac deployment and management"
Free tools like Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector and the Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor Gadget for Windows 7 with links to other third-party systems/network admin tools. Very cool!
"Ekahau HeatMapper is a free software tool for quick and easy coverage mapping of Wi-Fi (802.11) networks. It's the only free, easy-to-use tool that shows, on a map, the wireless network coverage in your home or small office. HeatMapper also locates all access points."
In addition to the free software, paid laptop and portable versions are available, with and without wireless cards and other hardware.
Ultimate-P2V (fix-vmscsi) is a free plug-in that allows you to clone a physical machine to virtual machine - and perform the neccessary "system reconfiguration" required to make it bootable. Without this tool or a commerical P2V tool the virtual machine would just give a "blue screen of death"
"User Profile Wizard is a workstation migration tool that will join your machine to a domain, and share your original user profile with your new domain logon so that you can carry on using all your existing data, and keep the same settings that you've always had. By using the User Profile Wizard command line interface and the User Profile Wizard Deployment Kit you can build a scalable, enterprise solution to migrate tens of thousands of workstations."
HT to Angela Creason (@creason) for the link!
"The Managed Switch Port Mapping tool is designed to communicate with a managed ethernet switch using SNMPv1/v2c and map the physical port connections to MAC and IP addresses of the attached devices. The software is designed for use on Microsoft Windows® operating systems."
"Reposado, together with the "curl" binary tool and a web server such as Apache 2, enables you to host a local Apple Software Update Server on any hardware and OS of your choice. Reposado contains a tool (repo_sync) to download Software Update catalogs and (optionally) update packages from Apple's servers, enabling you to host them from a local web server."
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.
"Do you need to determine whether your wireless link would work given the specific locations you are trying to connect?
How about knowing that without purchasing the equipment or climbing the tower?
The Point-To-Point Estimator is a free web based tool that will enable you to compare manufacturers, simply and accurately, while taking into account the terrain of your area, products' performance and more."
"A Free Standalone GUI utility to Set Permissions for any Windows Service
Easily allow (or deny) a user the ability to start, stop, pause or modify any Windows Service with just a few clicks of your mouse!
Service Security Editor will help you to configure who can access your important Windows Services. It is an easy-to-use GUI alternative to Microsoft's powerful SC and SubInACL.exe command line programs. However, as with any other administrative tool, please use it with caution"
EasyFind tool for OSX to better search within files between hard drives, network drives, etc. Pastors, for example, would appreciate the ability to search within all of the sermons they have ever written. Just make sure you change the settings to include all files. It does not index, but searches within all files each time you search.
"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."