Windows Server

Active Ports: Do you think something malicious might be running on your server? Active Ports will identify every open port and what is using it. This tool will be detected as a virus by Norton - ignore the warnings about aport.exe.

Snort.org provides intrusion detection and prevention tools.

Win Login Types: Wondering who attempted a login to your Windows machine? This list of Windows logon types will tell you what sort of a login was attempted so you can determine if the login was local, from the network, a service, etc. Very useful information when trolling your Security logs.

Windows Networking Tips and Tricks: There are lots of these websites but I have found this one to be fairly comprehensive .

Good library of server utilities.

This list of telnet commands will help diagnose whether a mail server is accepting mail properly. Not all machines will accept telnet connections, but if so, this can confirm that a server can accept and process mail in spite of a malfunctioning GUI.

Exchange and Outlook utilities.

There are different types of 401 errors. What do you have there? Knowing can make all the difference in quickly putting a stop to it. This read helps you diagnose 401.x errors on IIS.

A pretty comprehensive list of ASP mail objects because you sometimes run across an odd one...

IIS Command Line tools

Creating a bootable Win disk. (Requires Nero)

Hiren's Boot CD. Packed with useful boot utilities.

Importing data into SQL from an Excel spreadsheet

Why is your JavaScript misbehaving? Pick the lint and find out...

IIS Script Repository

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