This page contains a number of tools I use on a regular basis and links I’ve saved on the bookmarks bar; some tools i.e. Broadband availability checkers are specific to the UK only.

Antivirus

  1. Antivirus Scanning Exclusions – Prevent Poor Performance – Enterprise
  2. Antivirus Scanning – Hyper-V Performance issues
  3. Antivirus Scanning Exclusions – All MS products
  4. Cloud Malware analysis (Malwr)
  5. Cloud Malware analysis (Virus Total)

Apple Mac

  1. Fixing your Mac

Best Practices

  1. Group Policy

Broadband Checkers/Testing

  1. BT Broadband Availability Checker

Comparison Tools

  1. Versus – compare specifications of items

Diagramming

  1. Visio Stencils

DNS/Email Testing/Blacklists

  1. MXToolbox
  2. DNS Health Checker
  3. Mail Parser
  4. Various DNS tools

File Manipulation

  1. CloudConvert
  2. Small PDF – File type conversion/optimisation

Information Security

  1. Top 35 Mitigations against Cyber Intrusion
  2. Password Pusher
  3. NCSC Early Warning

Mobile Platforms

  1. Android Vm’s

Office 365

  1. Roadmap
  2. Powershell – Room Mailbox – Show details of meetings in calendar

Pentesting

  1. Intro to SQL injection

Powershell

  1. Powershell to EXE

Programming

  1. Bentobox

RAID

  1. RAID Failures/Estimates (0/5/10/50/60)
  2. Synology RAID space calculator/Unit Estimator

Screenshot Walkthrough’s

  1. Zen Virtual Apps
  2. Network overload

SQL

  1. SQL Dumper

Technical Blogs/Forums

  1. MSP
  2. Sysadmin
  3. MPECS Inc.
  4. NetSec
  5. Girlgerms
  6. Daniel Miessler

Training

  1. CCNA

Troubleshooting Tools

  1. Support Details

Wireless

  1. WiFi scanning/Signal Strength/Mapping

WSUS

  1. Memory Usage High – WSUS
  2. Slow WSUS – Synchronisations – Clear History