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EDITORS' PICK: Spiceworks 5.0: Free Network Monitoring Solution Listing updated: January 20, 2011

Download the Brand New Spiceworks 5.0 – completely free network monitoring software for IT pros and sysadmins. *This is NOT a free trial, "freemium", or stripped down verision.* Spiceworks provides its award-winning IT management software to IT pros around the world. And it's free forever – including live support and all product upgrades! In addition to a state-of-the-art network monitoring and help desk software solution, and access to an online community of more than 1 million IT pros, Spiceworks 5.0 boasts up to 50% faster performance, a built-in free TFTP server for network configurations, SNMP v3 monitoring, active directory management, multi-site help desk support and more! Download today - and share with your peers!

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  • Users' Rating: 4.47 [32 votes] - Vote
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FEATURED: Free SAN Monitor Listing updated: February 16, 2011

SolarWinds free SAN Monitor tool gives you a-glance insight into storage performance & capacity with a slick desktop dashboard that lets you view top LUNs by size, busiest LUNS, & most under-utilized LUNs. You can also drill down into LUN inventory details including: LUN size, physical disks, RAID type, total IOPs, IO response time and more. Allows you to Monitor Dell®, IBM®, & Sun® StorageTek™ Storage Arrays. Download and try it out for yourself. It’s free. Download Now.
  • Users' Rating: 4.5 [4 votes] - Vote
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ControlUp Listing updated: December 23, 2011

If you overlook multi-user environments and are required to prevent and troubleshoot performance issues, application failures and operating system errors, chances are that you are tired of hopping between remote connections, screens and management consoles, pin-pointing and trying to solve the real issues with your VDI or terminal server farms.

What if you could see your entire network like you never seen it before? What if you could control your network remotely, easily execute a comprehensive set of powerful tasks on multiple computers and users in your environment from a single console?

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Active Directory Users List Reporting Tool Listing updated: August 10, 2011

If you’ve ever needed to dump the entire contents of your Active Directory users list with one click, now you can!

TechToolbox has created a FREE Active Directory users list reporting tool that will output your entire Active Directory users list with:
User Status, Username, Creation Date, Last Login, Last Name, First Name, Email Address
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GFI MailEssentials FreeWare Listing updated: May 19, 2011

GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP/Lotus is a server based anti-spam, anti-phishing and email management solution, which also includes freeware features. With GFI MailEssentials you can add disclaimers to the top or bottom of emails at server level for FREE. Text and HTML formats are supported and you can include fields and variables to personalize the disclaimer. You are even able to create multiple disclaimers and associate them with a user, group or domain.

When the trial version of GFI MailEssentials expires, the disclaimers tool will not time out allowing continued use of this functionality. This solution uses multiple anti-spam filtering techniques to capture 99% of spam, whilst minimizing false positives. Choose GFI MailEssentials to add email disclaimers at server level for free.
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Free Server Performance Monitor Listing updated: March 29, 2011

Monitor your processor speed and memory usage in a local or remote server. Our Server Performance Monitoring tool manages and measures your local or remote server by reporting the number of processors in use, processor speed and system threads. The utility automatically collects interval speed every two seconds or you can customize your collection interval speed in the settings window.


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SNMP Enabler for Windows Listing updated: March 22, 2011

This cool tool gives you the ability to remotely install and enable SNMP on any windows server or workstation on your network. Save time when deploying applications requiring SNMP. Download SolarWinds latest free tool and simultaneously enable SNMP on multiple machines.
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Free IP Address Tracker Tool Listing updated: February 16, 2011

Download SolarWinds FREE desktop tool and get a unified view of your IP address space. IP Address Tracker shows you which IP addresses are in use and which aren’t. It also eliminates manual errors associated with Excel spreadsheets and ensures IP addresses are listed in the right place.

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Permissions Analyzer: Free Active Directory Tool Listing updated: January 21, 2011

Now you can quickly see WHO has permission to do WHAT and answer the questions that suck up your time and your patience! See how easy it is to get instantaneous visibility into the effective permissions & access rights for a specific file folder or share drive—all from a cool desktop dashboard! Think of all the time you can save!
  • Users' Rating: 5 [3 votes] - Vote
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Centrify Express Listing updated: November 24, 2010

Free Active Directory Integration and single sign-on for Linux and Mac OS X - Centrify Express is an Active Directory-based authentication and single sign-on to cross-platform systems.

Centrify Express is not only the quickest and easiest solution to use and deploy for integrating Linux and Mac systems with Active Directory, but delivers more functionality and more to upgrade to and best of all - it is free!
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