If you have to migrate user accounts from one position to another without using roaming profiles, you may have already met with the Microsoft tool specialized in this task, User State Migration Tool .

Dan Cunningham wrote Workstation Migration Assistant , a small tool with a graphical interface that allows you to use USMT easily back up and restore a user profile. The tool not only save user files but also some key registry, fonts, etc.. It is possible to modify a number of variables that you can use a network storage, encrypt or compress the backup, send an email to the end of the operation or to specify a maximum size of backup .

Migration Assistant on Windows XP

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visionapp Remote Desktop is a desktop manager free remote fuller visually RDP Manager . It displays several remote offices in a single window with a tab system to organize servers into folders and view remote desktops on which you are connected through a page displaying a thumbnail preview screens open.

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Following the sudden and simultaneous death of two of the three hard drives connected in RAID 5 on my server SQLServer 2000 (as what is possible), I had to urgently rebuild a new server. As a reminder you can lose a hard drive in a RAID 5 without losing data, beyond you lose everything ... I detail here the steps I followed to fully restore the data.

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Sysinternals edited many small software very useful for network administrator and has fairly recently acquired by Microsoft. Software continue to be developed, updated and available for free download on this page .

In bulk you can find Process Explorer to replace the great advantage of Windows Task Manager, Process Monitor to view real-time system activity, TCP View to view network activity based on ports and software or Rootkit Revealer to detect the presence of rootkits on the system.

BGInfo is an application to display as wallpaper various information about the machine you are connected. For example you can display the name of the connected user, the domain controller used for identification on the network, the version of the OS and its service pack level, or the date of the last reboot.

Be careful, this information is updated at the opening of the session and are therefore not in real time.

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