Seven free Windows Server management tools

There are numerous tools on the market to help Windows Server administrators configure, manage, troubleshoot, and secure Windows servers and domains. This article we recommend 7 free and practical Server management tools for administrators to choose.

Active Directory Best Practices Analyzer

Active Directory Best Practices Analyzer is provided by Microsoft from Windows Server 2008 R2 within Windows servers. It examines key settings and other Active Directory components to see if they follow Microsoft's best practice standards. This tool can help identify the security and performance of adding active directories. The corresponding status and description are displayed for each setting or component scan.

Active Directory Explorer

Active Directory Explorer (AD Explorer) is the Active Directory Viewer and editor that allows administrators to view the AD database, save offline snapshots, create favorite points, and save advanced searches. Administrators can view object properties and features without opening a dialog box, and modify permissions to view object patterns. Administrators can also compare two ad snapshots to view objects, properties, and security permissions.

Remote Desktop Manager

Remote Desktop Manager allows administrators to collect multiple types of remote connections and services and their passwords/credentials on a single platform. It can help achieve faster response times and even help improve security. Developers provide a premium version of a 30-day trial version, which is free of charge, but with limited functionality.

Remote Desktop Manager can also manage long-distance connections, support Microsoft remote Desktop (RDP,REMOTEFX), Microsoft Windows Azure (RDP), Microsoft Hyper-V (RDP), Microsoft long-distance assistance, VNC ( realvnc/tightvnc/ultravnc/built-in), Citrix (Ica/hdx/web), Web (Http/https), LogMeIn (free version/pro edition), TeamViewer, and PC. It also supports FTP, FTPS management, and SFTP (Windows explorer/filezilla/winscp/built-in) and Telnet, SSH, Raw, and rlogin (putty/kitty/built-in).

Viewfinity Local Admin Discovery

Viewfinity Local Admin discovery scans the network and displays user accounts with administrator privileges. This can help identify users who may have unnecessary privileges, which can lead to security vulnerabilities, malware infections, or other problems.

The administrator can select the part of the computer scan or select an organizational unit or AD community. The Viefinity tool categorizes the results, generates a graphical summary report, and allows administrators to export to Excel for further analysis and reporting. You can also easily delete accounts from the Administrators group.

Desktop centralwindows Desktop Management tools

Desktop provides a free set of Windows desktop management tools, including 12 tools for Windows Server and personal Computer Management and Management: Remote Task Manager tools, Wake on LAN, Software inventory tools, Remote Command prompt tool, GPO update, Shutdown/Reboot tool, Join/unjoin computer tool, current logged-on user, hard disk space probe tool, local user/Group list tool, network share Browser tool, and laptop battery power Monitor tool.

Core configuration tools: Cores Configurator 2.0 and Corefig

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Two core Configurator tools provide a GUI (graphical user interface) for the core version of the Windows Server. Administrators can set up and configure a build through the GUI rather than being forced to use the CLI (command-line interface). Core Configurator 2.0 for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64,corefig for Windows Server Core and Hyper-V Server 2012.