Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins 226
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's J. Peter Bruzzese provides a list of 15 open source tools for enhancing your Windows server-side experience. 'You might imagine that the best place to go for improving your Microsoft server-side experience is to the mothership itself. In many cases, you would be right. But the truth is there are a meaningful number of open source tools that go above and beyond what Microsoft has to offer in support of Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint. Many of these alternatives provide — for free — more powerful capabilities than what you'd get with third-party retail products.'"
Re:#1 tool (Score:3, Informative)
Agree, but I prefer http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net] -- less powerful but plays nicer with Windows native APIs
Re:#1 tool (Score:4, Informative)
PuTTY (Score:5, Informative)
file sizes (Score:4, Informative)
This has been helpful (showing who/what is hogging disk space)
Windirstat
http://windirstat.info/ [windirstat.info]