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Seidkona
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Below is a compilation of links we've found to be helpful for Sys Admins (capitalized because we're important, like a towel):
AntiVirus/AntiMalware Tools:
Networking Tools:
Miscellaneous Tools:
Printer Configuration tools:
Ransomware/Cryptoware information sheet
Stress Relief Tools:
...more to come
last updated 1.26.2017
AntiVirus/AntiMalware Tools:
- Kaspersky Disk
- Malwarebytes
- Sophos Virus Removal Tool (Sophos product not required; free)
- Online Virus Check Upload a file and it'll check it for you. It also checks URL's which is super handy.
- Trend Micro - Hahahaha. Yeah, just kidding.
Networking Tools:
- Angry IP Scanner
- Cisco Network Assistant - GUI for Cisco Products
- Royal TS - RDP Management Tool
- Terminals - RDP Management Tool
- Zenmap (Nmap)
Miscellaneous Tools:
- APC Power Estimator - estimates your power needs based on devices, which you can specify
- Dependency Walker - scans modules and builds a hierarchical dependency tree
- Greenshot -- Screenshot + utilies
- HJSplit -- Split/Join files
- Jing - Screenshot + utilities
- Notepad++ -- Enhanced Notepad (e.g., color coding)
- WinDirStat -- File space analysis
- HTAccess Redirect Generator -- Generate Redirects
- Hostsman Manage Multiple Hosts files from one utility.
- PC Decrapifier inventories all the bloatware (HP/Dell Utilities, etc) on a PC based on user-driven feedback and recommendations and removes them sans-uninstallers. Great for cleaning useless shit off out-of-the-box PCs.
- Recuva undelete software that restores deleted files, as well as files on damaged or freshly formatted drives. Paid corporate licensing but free for personal use wink wink nudge nudge.
- NirSoft has utilities to do nearly anything you want to do from sniffing passwords out of FTP/HTTP/SMTP traffic on your network to editing Outlook NK2 Autocomplete files to retrieving your Windows/Office product key to a nice viewer for BSOD minidump files.
- Screen Connect Free Use this to create a free tech support portal for yourself for personal use.
Printer Configuration tools:
Ransomware/Cryptoware information sheet
Stress Relief Tools:
...more to come
last updated 1.26.2017
Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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Intentional or not, there's a pun in there, and you should be ashamed of yourself.
I feel no shame.
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You can upload a file up to 128mb, or give it a URL to check, or do a search from their site for a domain or IP, and it'll scan it for Virii. The URL scanning is especially useful.
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They made a free non-commercial version for if you want to use it to help out friends or family remotely.
https://www.screenconnect.com/free/
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The least this shit heap can do is help me leave it for greener pastures.
Edit: I thought about making a home lab thread but that's so niche as to not think it'd actually get much interest. So instead I'll just occasionally regale you fine folks with my home game edition adventures.
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https://www.netacad.com/about-networking-academy/packet-tracer/
packet tracer is pretty fabulous for a virtual lab....
Packet tracer is great. I use it along with VIRL.
I just thought it'd be good to have some actual hardware to put my hands on.
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Almond crusted cranberry chicken with champagne butter sauce.
Holy shit.
Also there's prizes. Theres a drone. Hope I get drawn early.
Drone get.
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You really put the FU in 'fun'.
Poe's Law
Today, she brought me a brand new office chair, right out of the plastic. At my old job they *might* have found me a slightly less broken chair.
This feels like Christmas.
Spend 2 hours figuring out the Powershell to change the AD account name, AD display name, and SMTP alias for each user, abandon the idea of renaming computers because why are your computers named after users anyway, spend 18 hours sending out resumes and dicking around on forums. Shit in boss's desk.
yeah I Stopped naming computers after 5 people left in 4 months
I'd be afraid to. My plan is to just do it as a long term thing as machines get replaced.
then you end up in wierd middle limbo where half the machines have the new fancy names and half the old and everyone but you is confused.
Don't you?
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You say that like that's a novel situation.
I thought about getting away from using a user's name for their computer, but I decided to use <Location>-<First initial><Last name> the last hardware refresh we preformed. The names have no effect on the users, but using something like service tag means I would need to lookup the name when needed and that sounds like work. I guess if i was dealing with a large number of users I would use a better pattern, but for now I am gonna be lazy.
Honestly it doesn't come up as an issue. Users won't notice/know generally, and from an IT/sysadmin standpoint you can live with it and work around it.
BRB registering now.
uhh
I mean... for now...
All in all, if I had my choice, it would be FI+MI+LName with some longer length max.
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