Musings of a sys admin
Useful Tools
Vmware Stuff
This little tool is great it sits in your taskbar and pops up a balloon when an alarm on virtualcenter is triggered. Very useful when you want to notified of problems when you are not necessarily looking at the vi client.
This add on allows you to run commands to virtualcenter through powershell.
Microsoft Stuff
If your studying or just working on MS systems then this is an absolute essential purchase, for less than the cost of a windows 7 ultimate licence a year you get access to pretty much all the software MS has ever made (full blown as well not just evals).
Novell stuff
This util allows you too run reports on any attribute that your Edirectory tree has, these reports can be exported as csv/xls/txt etc.
This is a remote desktop type application for accessing Netware Servers, and also has a drop down menu for accessing the various console screens within each server. definately a cool tool!
Generic Tools
I came across this tool very recently whilst contemplating a rather laborious task of installing a program (only available in exe) that had no msi compacted and no iss file in it. This little tool allows you to script button clicks of program installations, it does way more than this but I was only interested in this feature. It enabled me to script a roll out of said program to around 50 users (no admin rights) through our currently native zenworks features. Very cool and very quick as well.
This tool allows you to run programs etc as another user (mostly for administrator access). This is effectively a more intelligent Runas tool, which allows you to store the administrator password in an encoded file. Whilst yes the encoding can be broken it stops the password etc from being displayed in a batch file for example in clear text which is very handy.