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]

UTF-8

• UTF-8 encoding table and Unicode characters [11]
• Unicode Blocks [12]

Troubleshooting Utilities

Ninite

• Ninite [13] Let's you download a bunch of useful tools all at once.

Browsers

• Chrome [14]
• Firefox [15]

FTP

• WinSCP [16]

Telnet

• KiTTY [17]
• PuTTY [18]

LDAP

• LDAPBrowser [19] make sure to choose LDAPBrowser not LDAPAdministrator.
• EWSEditor [20] is a powerful and more dangerous tool that LDAP Browser since it can change entries.

Text Editors

• NotePad++ [21] Free, can open large log files
• TextEdit [22] Evaluation, can open large log files, good search capablities
• glogg [23] free, can open really large log files
• EditPad Lite [24] free, big files
• VIM for Windows [25] free.
• PilotEdit Lite [26]
• 010 Editor [27]
• slickedit [28]
• Log Expert [29] also tails.

Log Tailing

• baretail [30] for tailing a log while it is running

Office suite

• LibreOffice [31] good for editing csv files.

Database

• Toad for MySQL [32]

Microsoft

• BGInfo [33] puts server info on desktop.
• RAMMap [34] shows how windows is assigning physical RAM.

Disk

• WinDirStat [35] 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 [36] more efficient then windows zip.

Remote Desktop

• RealVNC [37] to connect to Linux boxes remotely. Remember to enable Remote in YaST and add IPAddr:5901 when trying to get in.

PDF

• Adobe Reader [38]
• CutePDFWriter [39] has a PDF printer which is good for testing.