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Active Directory
whitepapers/AD_SIDH/Best_Practices_for_Designing_Secure_Active_Directory.pdf By Aelite Software
www.autoprof.com Auto Group policy maker
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B274305 Free Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tools for Administrative Tasks
Active Directory Sizer (ADSizer), which helps you plan the optimal number of DCs that you require for your network, including the ideal number of DCs and the processor and memory.
http://www.centrify.com/directcontrol/mac_os_x.asp" target=_blank>http://www.centrify.com/directcontrol/mac_os_x.asp Allows Macs to be authenticated to ActiveDirectory

Auditing and Monitoring
www.belarc.com This Software builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes, and displays the results in your Web browser
www.bmc.com PATROL by BMC Software
www.cmg.org Computer Measurement Group, provides benchmark statistics and benchmark-related information
www.ecora.com/ecora/products.asp Ecora® Software automates configuration reporting, auditing, and change tracking across the enterprise. For internal security monitoring, disaster recovery, audits, compliance management, and business continuity
www.etestinglabs.com eTesting Labs, provides benchmark statistics and benchmark-related information
www.eventid.net/ enter the event ID and get back an explanation
www.gfi.com/eventlogscan/ EventLogScan will install an ActiveX control on your machine and analyse all the events in your security event log
www.ilient.com/ SysAid is IT management software. Combining help desk and asset management
www.lookatlan.com Look@LAN Network Monitor is a freeware product
www.netiq.com AppManager Suite by NetIQ Corporation
www.openview.hp.com Openview by Hewlett-Packard
www.passmark.com PassMark PerformanceTest is an award winning PC hardware benchmark utility
/www.robomon.com RoboMon by Heroix
www.tntsoftware.com/default.aspx TNT Software, event log monitoring, alerting, reporting and collection solutions
www.tpc.org Transaction Processing Performance Council, provides benchmark statistics and benchmark-related information
www.webtrends.com/products/log/default.htm Log Analyser
www.winagents.com EventLog Translation Service is a server that monitors Windows event logs
www3.ca.com Unicenter TNG by Computer Associates

Backup
www.backup.com Online Backup
http://www.genie-soft.com Genie Backup Manager, a backup and restore utility whose wizard interface lets you easily automate backups of files and folders, emails, settings, applications
www.carbonite.com/ Cheap internet backup
www.virtualback.com Online Backup

Create other Bootup
HOW TO MAKE A USB DRIVE BOOTABLE, most modern motherboards do support bootable USB drives
www.aaltonen.us tip boot from usb key
www.bootdisk.com tips, tweaks, files, boot disks, instructions, utilities, links, patches, and updates
www.bovistech.com boot disks, drivers, Windows/DOS utilities, Config.sys files
www.knoppix.com a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software
www.microsoft.com/usb-boot.mspx
www.nu2.nu/bootablecd/ Create Bootable CD
www.qualit-uk.com instant network boot disk
ucsu.colorado.edu

Disk Imaging
www.acronis.com True Image & Backup software & Disk and Partition management
www.altiris.com Another Disk imaging Software
www.phoenix.com Imagecast
www.powerquest.com DriveImage
enterprisesecurity.symantec.com Ghost

DNS
www.DNSreport.com Will check settings for DNS for an Internet Zone
www.DNSStuff.com Tools to diagnose DNS issues
www.samspade.org great tools for DNS troubleshooting
www.analogx.comDIG a useful tool from Unix
www.squish.net Checkes DNS for a record or record type
www.reskit.net/dns FAQ & Export/import DNS confioguration

Education / Reading
2TEST.COM
www.annoyances.org Annoyances.org is the most complete collection of information assembled for and by actual users of Microsoft Windows
http://certcities.com/ Information on all certifications
www.cnet.com/ Price comparison / Downloads / Reviews and News
www.examforce.com One of the bext practice exam companies
www.fcw.com/ Federal Computer Week
www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers You can translate those Port numbers into protocol names by using this chart
www.informit.com Our mission at InformIT is to help you learn about Information Technology (Some free some you pay)
www.ientry.com/ free highly informative newsletters for CXO's, web developers, IT professionals and small business owners.
www.infopackets.comInfopackets.com is a free Windows Help Desk which caters to new and intermediate computer users
www.infoworld.com
www.jsifaq.com
www.learntosubnet.com Teaches you to plan Subnet
www.leapit.com We're the complete online resource for IT professionals. LeapIt has everything you need to get that edge in IT - including training courses for every major certification
lesaux.com/links.htmlLotsa Links
mcseguide.com/
measureup.com/free mcse test
www.mcmcse.com/
MCP Mag
microsoft.com Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28001169 Windows Script is a comprehensive scripting infrastructure for the Microsoft Windows platform
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/guide/sagsas_overview.mspx
www.myitforum.com Leading internet premiere knowledge and information forum
netiq.com/default.asp
www.news.com News on all topics
www.ntbugtraq.com NTBugtraq is a mailing list for the discussion of security exploits and security bugs in Windows
ntbugtraq.ntadvice.com/
www.nttoolbox.com White papers and many Links
www.nwfusion.com Network learning text and White Papers
partnering.one.microsoft.com MCT FAQ
www.pcmag.com
www.petri.co.il MCSE knowledge in a format which is easy to access and helpful
www.processlibrary.com
www.scriptinganswers.com
selftestsoftware.com/
www.scriptlogic.com
stsware.com/
www.techrepublic.com Good source of IT information
www.techtales.com/techroom.html Humour
www.techweb.com/ Technology News and Info and articals
www.testfree.com
transcender.com
webring.org MCP Study Ring
www.windowsitpro.com
www.winsupersite.com Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
www.windowswebsolutions.com/ News and tips to help you manage, optimize, and secure your Web-enabled enterprise
http://www.wugnet.com/ Shareware, Computing Tips and Support
http://www.zdnet.com/ Reviews, News, Updates, Tech Info

Hardware & Configuration
www.acer.ca
www.cablesafe.ca Keep cables neat and easy to access
ccsiweb.ca Consumer Computer Services Inc. (CCSI)
http://cedar.intel.com/ About all intel based computers
www.crucial.com What type of memmory do you need to upgrade
www.cooldrives.com
Fujitsu Canada Inc. LifeBook Products
http://www.globesoft.com/ MultiNetwork Manager When you need to connect to more than one network or domains
www.hardwarecentral.com hardware information, including reviews, editorials
www.hp.com HP Products
www-307.ibm.com IBM Laptops
www.microplex.com Print server
www.mteklab.com Microtek Imaging Solutions and Scanners products
http://www.netswitcher.com An easy way to configure mobile laptops that need to connect to many different networks
www.notebook-city.com
www.phoenix.com/ Award BIOS and Phoenix
Quest PC Components
techguy.com
www.tigerdirect.ca Hardware
tomauri.com Canadian cable, parts and Periferial supplier
www.tomshardware.com great source for reviews and guides
www.toshiba.ca

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Other
www.allexperts.com/central/computing.shtml allows you to ask questions of IT experts
www.byteofpython.info A great free tutorial called "A Byte of Python" is available
http://camtech2000.net/ Free software utilites
www.connectix.com Virtual PC for Windows, Run more then one OS on a PC at the same time without restarting
www.cool-downloads.com/
http://www.deerfield.com An inexpensive alternative to MS Officefor small companies
www.digiware.com/mdaemon.htm very good mail server
www.downloads.com lots of stuff - Kazaa - Morpheus
www.iisanswers.com Support Central for IIS
www.iisfaq.com Frequently Asked Questions for IIS
www.joeware.net free tools that admins love
www.kbalertz.com independent Web site that summarizes daily Knowledge Base additions
www.kellys-korner-xp.com You'll find hundreds of registry tweaks for all sorts of situations
www.microsoft.com/hcl/ A Must before you install
www.mozilla.org Firefox over 10 Million Downloads. With its streamlined interface, broad cross-platform support and top-of-the-line capabilities, the free, open-source Firefox. The best stand-alone Web browser option available today and is generations ahead of Microsoft's IE.
www.networkdecisions.com Many free network and security tools
networkingfiles.com free & shareware software downloads
www.python.org another scripting alternative to VB, It's simple to learn, completely intuitive, amazingly flexible and pretty darned fast
www.pctools.com
www.regedit.com Great resource on changes to the registry
www.ScriptingAnswers.com
www.scootersoftware.com/ Beyond Compare, the advanced file and folder comparison utility for Windows, helps you visualize changes
http://www.sysinternals.com Lots of great utilities , some are a must!
www.thinkgeek.com True Geek Store
www.tntsoftware.com
www.trillian.cc Trillian lets you connect to AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! and access the Instant Messaging IM client features that these services offer without requiring me to use their dedicated clients
www.tweakingtoolbox.com/ Tweaking Toolbox for Windows is designed to make changes to the Windows registry, without having to edit the registry.
http://u-tools.com UTools are designed to help you, the PC system administrator, save time and money
www.vmware.com Virtual PC for Windows, Run more then one OS on a PC at the same time without restarting
www.windrivers.com When you can not find a driver
www.winfiles.com Links to Windows drivers

Recovery
www.bootdisk.com/ Create bootable floppies
http://www.dtidata.com/data_recovery_software.htm" target=_blank>www.dtidata.com/data_recovery_software.htm full line of data recovery software products for all Microsoft operating systems and other operating systems
www.deepfreezeusa.com computer reset for schools
www.drivesavers.com hard drive data recovery
www.execsoft.com DiskKeeper, Undelete,
www.knoppix.com a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software
www.lc-tech.com/ FILERECOVERY® Professional a premier data recovery application
www.my-hard-drive-repair.com Answer your hard drive recovery and repair questions
www.nu2.nu/pebuilder Learn how to install, set up, and customize a native Windows boot disk using a free program called BartPE
www.ontrack.com Ontrack Data Recovery
www.quetek.com File Scavenger® is the most comprehensive award-winning file undelete and data recovery for NTFS disk volumes on Windows
www.raxco.com/ PerfectDisk 2000 V5.0 redefines enterprise disk defragmentation for the Windows
www.runtime.org GetDataBack will recover your data if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are lost or damaged
www.tandex.com/productline.html (Reset PC Card)
http://trinityhome.org/trk Trinity Rescue Kit is a Linux distribution on a bootable CD-ROM that contains everything that you need to rescue or repair dead or damaged Linux or Windows systems.
http://www.ultrabac.com Recover Unbootable Machines in Minutes, UltraBac Disaster Recovery (UBDR) Gold, an image-based backup and disaster-recovery utility for Windows workstations and servers
www.winternals.com/Products/AdministratorsPak FileRestore and Disk Commander are in the Administrator's Pak, which are excellent tools for recovering accidentally deleted files and folders.

Remote Control
www.anyplace-control.com Anyplace Control 2.6 remote control software.
www.crossteccorp.com/ NetOp Remote control over the internet and NetOp School for classroom instruction
www.dameware.com an integrated collection of Windows NT/2000/XP administration utilities & remote management
www.gotomypc.com/ allows you to remotely access your computer from any other Internet-connected computer in the world with almost any operating system through a secure, private connection
secure.logmein.com Control your work PC from anywhere
Remote Desktop Web Connection ActiveX control The Remote Desktop Web Connection ActiveX control allows you to access your computer through Remote Desktop, via the Internet, from another computer using Internet Explorer
www.crossteccorp.com Award-winning NetOp Remote Control
na.inquiero.com/web/inquiero.asp a secure, fast and easy-to-use remote access and remote support solution
www.netsupport-inc.com NetSupport Manager
www.radmin.com Radmin enables you to remotely monitor or work on one or more network computers right from your own workstation.
ttp://www.realvnc.com RealVNC is the official home of VNC
micro2000.com/remotescope/ You can update software, configure and install patches and can get an instant inventory of all the software and hardware installed and remote control feature
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www.clickpowwow.com book
download.com
www.driverguide.com
www.driverscollection.com
www.drivershq.com
www.driverzone.com
www.gamelan.com Gamelan's JavaSoftware
www.lantricks.com/main_e.php
www.lavasoftusa.com
McAfee Download Page
microsoft.com
www.moochers.com
www.pctools.com/registry-mechanic
www.registry-clean.com
www.sysinternals.com
www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart gpart Linux disk partition magic
software.techrepublic.com
www.techweb.com/
www.tucows.com
www.tweaknow.com
www.windrivers.com/
www.webmasterfree.com/
www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista.asp Vista Review


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