Utilities

Links to useful troubleshooting tools.

Status

• time [1]
• Office365 [2]
• Cyren [3]
• Down For Everyone [4]

Online Utilities

Byte Conversion

• ByteConverter [5]

Time

• Epoch & Unix Timestamp Conversion Tools [6]
• World Clock Meeting Planner [7]
• NIST Internet Time Servers [8]
• Date ± Days Calculator / Date ± Business Days Calculator [9]
• Time Difference Calculator [10]

Troubleshooting Utilities

Single point download

• Ninite [11] Let's you download a bunch of useful tools all at once.

Browsers

• Chrome [12]
• Firefox [13]

FTP

• WinSCP [14]

Telnet

• KiTTY [15]
• PuTTY [16]

LDAP

• LDAPBrowser [17] make sure to choose LDAPBrowser not LDAPAdministrator.
• EWSEditor [18] is a powerful and more dangerous tool that LDAP Browser since it can change entries.

Text Editors

• NotePad++ [19] Free, can open large log files
• TextEdit [20] Evaluation, can open large log files, good search capablities
• glogg [21] free, can open really large log files
• EditPad Lite [22] free, big files
• VIM for Windows [23] free.
• PilotEdit Lite [24]
• 010 Editor [25]
• slickedit [26]
• Log Expert [27] also tails.

Log Tailing

• baretail [28] for tailing a log while it is running

Office suite

• LibreOffice [29] good for editing csv files.

Database

• Toad for MySQL [30]

Microsoft

• BGInfo [31] puts server info on desktop.
• RAMMap [32] shows how windows is assigning physical RAM.

Disk

• WinDirStat [33] Windows directory size statistics. This can return data on the archive folder, but it will take significant time, about 8 hours for 2.4M files in 2.3M sub-directories.

Compression

• 7zip [34] more efficient then windows zip.

Remote Desktop

• RealVNC [35] to connect to Linux boxes remotely. Remember to enable Remote in YaST and add IPAddr:5901 when trying to get in.

PDF

• Adobe Reader [36]
• CutePDFWriter [37] has a PDF printer which is good for testing.