The network discovery software Fing has been born out of the ashes of the much acclaimed Look@Lan network monitoring and discovery software. The project is still in an early stage and comes with a command line version for the Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh operating system. This might turn away users who do not [...]

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Categories: Linux, Mac, Windows, software

So called fine-grained password policies are a new feature of Windows Server 2008. This new feature allows system administrators to configure password policies for different user groups. Windows Server 2003 was not as flexible as it only allowed to set one password policy for all users. The manual configuration of fine-grained password policies requires quite [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

If you ask Windows system administrators about their favorite non commercial software publishers the names Nirsoft and Sysinternals will be mentioned without doubt lots of times. Both produce high quality software that can be useful in many occasions.
Windows System Control Center is a frontend for Nirsoft and Sysinternals software programs. The portable software displays the [...]

Tags: administrator, nirsoft, portable software, sysinternals, system administrator, windows software, Windows System Control Center
Categories: Windows, software