Author Archives: Andrew Zammit Tabona
Top 10 Free System Troubleshooting Tools for SysAdmins
To conclude our SysAdmin Week series, we thought of sharing 10 of the best free tools / packages for troubleshooting system issues – one of the biggest headaches for sys admins! These tools should help you, as an admin, to …
The Top 20 Free File Management Tools for Sys Admins
Following yesterday’s post, we have compiled another list of free tools for sys admins. Today’s list presents 20 of the best free tools for file comparison, archiving, encryption, renaming, de-duplication, merging, copying, syncing and search. Even if you may have …
The Top 20 Free Network Monitoring and Analysis Tools for Sys Admins
We know how administrators love free tools that make their life easier and, to supplement the list provided on 101 Free Admin Tools, here are 20 of the best free tools for monitoring devices, services, ports or protocols and analysing …
Top 5 Free Rescue Discs for Your Sys Admin Toolkit
A Rescue Disc can be a life saver for a Sys Admin. Packed with various diagnostic and repair tools they can do things like fix a Master Boot Record (MBR), recover a password, detect and clean a rootkit or simply …
Top 20 Free Disk Tools for SysAdmins
Here are 20 of the best free tools for partitioning, cloning, diagnostics, repair, recovery, encryption, wiping or drive information. This list is intended to supplement the list provided on 101 Free SysAdmin Tools. Even if you may have heard of some …
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) – A Hyped up Marketing Term or a Security Concern?
It is not uncommon for marketing teams or advertising agencies to take a current IT ‘buzzword’ and use it as part of their campaign to promote a new product or service. Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is one of those buzzwords. …
Windows PowerShell: Essential Admin Scripts (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this two-part series, I covered the ‘Microsoft Troubleshooting Packs’ and ACL permission checks using PowerShell scripting. This article will focus on two more scripts, one to check if a host is alive and, if it is …
Windows PowerShell™: Essential Admin Scripts (Part 1)
In Windows PowerShell: Extracting Strings Using Regular Expressions, I introduced the Windows PowerShell and discussed the concept of regular expressions, giving an example of how to build a Windows PowerShell script to extract strings from a file using a given …
BYOD – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is a term used to describe employees who take their own portable device (e.g. iPhones, iPads and laptops) to the workplace with the intention of accessing firm resources to carry out their everyday jobs. The …
Windows PowerShell: Extracting Strings Using Regular Expressions
Windows PowerShell is a powerful (no pun intended!) command line scripting language built on top of the .NET framework. Version 2.0 of Windows PowerShell comes installed by default with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. On older platforms, it is …
