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    09 January

    Essential Sys Admin Tools

    Over the years I have accumulated some essential tools for sys admin tasks. Please feel free to send this email and tools to anyone you know in the business.  This suite of tools is the essential toolkits for any IT provider who goes onsite to assist clients.  Also this is the essential action pack for any IT audit or analysis. 

     

    They all meet the following requirements.

     

    1. Open Source or shareware
    2. Used as a portable app, can be run from an usb stick, and does not need to be installed on client PC’s
    3. Leaves no trace behind on a client server

     

    Links to the attached apps are as follows

     

     

     

    One item I did not include in the attachment was OpenOffice portable (due to its size, around 300 MB).  This is great when you need to interact with Office documents, but do not have office installed on a server.  http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable

     

     

     

    Links that led to this list originally

    http://portableapps.com/

    http://www.winaddons.com/top-300-freeware-software/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_apps