Tag Archives: Tool

Sophos releases Sandboxie 5.31.4 for free

Posted on 2019-09-11 by guenni

[German]Sophos, the owner of Sandboxie software, has just announced that the tool will be released for free. A license is no longer required – in version 5.31.4 all restrictions have been removed. The release as open source will follow. Here … Continue reading →

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Dism++: Switch to maintenance mode, and a new project

Posted on 2019-08-25 by guenni

[German]A short note about the software tool Dism ++. It looks like this tool won't be developed further – the developer wants to concentrate on the maintenance of the basic library. In other words, the project switches to maintenance mode. … Continue reading →

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How to find weak passwords in Active Directory and eliminate them with PowerShell

[Sponsored Post]Weak or compromised passwords are a known gateway for attackers. If you are able to identify which users in Active Directory (AD) are threatened by this, then PowerShell can help to remedy it. However, PowerShell scripts cannot eliminate basic AD deficits, other tools are needed for this. More ...

Open Source Task Manager TaskExplorer

Posted on 2019-07-08 by guenni

[German]Today still a tool introduction in form of the Open Source Task Manager TaskExplorer. The tool is developed by David Xanatos (an alias) for Windows. Advertising

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Sysinternals Sysmon with DNS query logging comes today

Posted on 2019-06-11 by guenni

[German]Mark Russinovich has announced to  release a new version of his Sysmon included in the Sysinternals tools today (Tuesday), This version can then log DNS queries. Advertising

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Surface Tools for IT Version 1.0 released

Posted on 2019-05-05 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has provided a collection of tools for IT departments as form of 'Surface Tools for IT'. Version 1.0 of the collection has been released for free download end of April 2019. Advertising

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ConfigMgr Client Health Toolset

Posted on 2019-01-27 by guenni

Just a small tip for administrators in SCCM environments. Microsoft has released the ConfigMgr Client Health Toolset to simplify troubleshooting issues in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). Advertising

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Using Sysinternals Sysmon 8.0.0? Update to 8.0.4

Posted on 2019-01-24 by guenni

[German]A quick tip for admins who use Sysmon from the Sysinternals system monitoring tools. There is a memory leak in version 8.0.0, which has been fixed in the updated version 8.0.4. Advertising

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Windows-Tool UserBenchMark – is it trustable?

Posted on 2019-01-24 by guenni

[German]Here's a blog post for people who love to use tons of tools onto their Windows systems. I have just become aware of the Windows tool UserBenchMark, that promises to create a benchmark of the system. I was asked if … Continue reading →

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7-Zip version 18.6 released

Posted on 2018-12-31 by guenni

[German]A brief information for users of the packing program 7-Zip. Developer Igor Pavlov has updated the Windows version of the program available for various platforms to version 18.06 as of December 30, 2018 (thanks to blog reader Georg S. for … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s Surface Diagnostics Toolkit for Business (SDT)

Posted on 2018-12-15 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released a new tool to help the user with problems (hardware, firmware and software) with his Surface devices. Here are a few details about that toolkit. Advertising

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