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Category Archives: Tech Zone

Technical info for IT professional and network administrators.

Top 20 Free Digital Forensic Investigation Tools for SysAdmins

Top 20 Free Digital Forensic Investigation Tools for SysAdmins

on September 2, 2013

Here are 20 of the best free tools that will help you conduct a digital forensic investigation. Whether it’s for an internal human resources case, an investigation into unauthorized access to a server, or if you just want to learn …

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Hackers Find the Internet a Target-Rich Environment Thanks to Poor Patch Management

Hackers Find the Internet a Target-Rich Environment Thanks to Poor Patch Management

on August 23, 2013

You would think that with things like automatic updates, applications that can automatically patch themselves, and the constant media attention towards security, hackers would be a dying breed, bereft of targets which they can exploit. Unfortunately, poor patch management practices …

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Windows® 8.1: Is it Enough to Drive Enterprise Adoption?

Windows® 8.1: Is it Enough to Drive Enterprise Adoption?

on August 13, 2013

Some of my fellow “oldies but goodies” may remember a family sitcom from the late 1970s called “Eight is Enough.” Unfortunately for Microsoft™, that adage hasn’t proven true in regard to their latest operating system. After a wave of enthusiasm …

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Top 10 Free System Troubleshooting Tools for SysAdmins

Top 10 Free System Troubleshooting Tools for SysAdmins

on July 28, 2013

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 …

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26 Ways to Say ‘Happy SysAdmin Day!’

26 Ways to Say ‘Happy SysAdmin Day!’

on July 25, 2013

Around the world and across the Internet, July 26 is known as SysAdmin Day. For 14 years, the last Friday in July has been set aside as a way for users to show a little appreciation for the SysAdmins that …

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The Top 20 Free File Management Tools for Sys Admins

The Top 20 Free File Management Tools for Sys Admins

on July 24, 2013

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 …

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The Top 20 Free Network Monitoring and Analysis Tools for Sys Admins

The Top 20 Free Network Monitoring and Analysis Tools for Sys Admins

on July 23, 2013

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 …

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SysAdmin Day: We’re Taking it to Another Level!

SysAdmin Day: We’re Taking it to Another Level!

on July 22, 2013

In case it wasn’t clear enough last year, we love sys admins and SysAdmin Day is very important to us. So we decided to turn SysAdmin Day into SysAdmin Week – because one day is really not enough! Throughout this week, …

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Top 5 Free Rescue Discs for Your Sys Admin Toolkit

Top 5 Free Rescue Discs for Your Sys Admin Toolkit

on July 12, 2013

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 …

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How to Avoid Becoming the Villain (Part 2)

How to Avoid Becoming the Villain (Part 2)

on July 9, 2013

Life is full of surprises. I recently wrote an article titled How to Avoid Becoming the Villain on why it is so important to configure your servers correctly so that people cannot exploit them for illegal purposes. A few days …

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