Buttar

Azhar Ali Buttar has 20 years of experience working in different domains within IT industry. From network protocols to server hardening, he knows about multiple areas and has been working side by side with MNCs to provide cost-effective security and infrastructure solutions. Azhar’s expertise lies in off-site and hybrid infrastructure deployment using multiple platforms which includes, but not limited to, Azure, AWS, Google and Private Clouds. He has also been leading several infrastructure and security teams to deploy and perform security optimization in multiple projects, and now leads Nocastra with his decision-making and client-oriented skills.

universal system rescue kit

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Microsoft windows is not very much stable operating system and most of times required to be rescued/repaired from system errors. Windows can crash anytime and makes you think twice that you need a very efficient tool to repair and rescue your system. Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims … Read more

run an application/program forever

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If you like to run an application forever and don’t want anyone accidently close that application then you are definitely at a right place. Keep Running allows you to launch a program and ensure it stays running. This could be to restart a crashed application. Alternatively, use Keep Running as a custom shell so an … Read more

ultimate list of system utilities from Microsoft

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Utilities Index

AccessChk
v5.0 (April 28, 2010)
AccessChk is a command-line tool for viewing the effective permissions on files, registry keys, services, processes, kernel objects, and more.

AccessEnum
1.32 (November 1, 2006)
This simple yet powerful security tool shows you who has what access to directories, files and Registry keys on your systems. Use it to find holes in your permissions.

AdExplorer
v1.3 (March 3, 2010)
Active Directory Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor.

AdInsight
v1.01 (November 20, 2007)
An LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) real-time monitoring tool aimed at troubleshooting Active Directory client applications.

AdRestore
v1.1 (November 1, 2006)
Undelete Server 2003 Active Directory objects.

Autologon
v2.10 (November 1, 2006)
Bypass password screen during logon.

Autoruns
v9.57 (December 1, 2009)
See what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you login. Auto runs also shows you the full list of Registry and file locations where applications can configure auto-start settings.

How to add a new discipline item in visual studio team foundation server 2008 project

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Adding a new discipline item in visual studio team foundation server is just a matter of simple command but if you are newbie and don’t have any idea about visual studio team foundation server than I hope this article will help you to add a new discipline item or even edit an existing one. I … Read more

How to check hard drive real age

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How to check hard drive real age How to check hard drive real age can be a very good question while purchasing a used system? Finding out how speedy is your hard drive can be found everywhere but how old is your hard drive can be a new piece of information. Crystal Disk Info can … Read more

ultimate list of free system utilities

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System utilities always required by the system administrators and network support engineers when you need a utility you have to search from internet and waste some precious time on searching and downloading. I tried to make a list of these utilities and will update it in future so that someone can find it easily and save time. There is a long list and no one can sum it up but one can try. Please share your system utility with us.

Hard drive utilities

http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/

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File recovery

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm (Free file recovery)

http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html (Free file recovery)

http://officerecovery.com/freeundelete/ (Free Undelete)

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html (Free Undelete)

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Control your hosting servers with ISPConfig (Open Source)

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People use CPanel and WHM to manage their hosting servers and those are not free and they have to pay a lot of money to purchase them and configure them. Why you have to do this if you have more sophisticated and more options in an open source software. ISPConfig Hosting Control Panel Software will let you do all the tasks that CPanel and WHM are offering. features are given as under:

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A list of LINUX VMware images

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VMware is a great technology that completely give you freedom inside an operating system. You can run a complete operating system inside an operating system. There is no limitation and its not very hard to configure. Try out another operating system, test a different platform, preview a new distro. Hopefully this page of VMware images, or "Virtual Appliances" is useful.

Compatibility

These images will work in:

How to use these images

  1. Get the free VMware Player (or VMware Server, ESX 3, or VMware Workstation)
  2. Download the image you want to use (see the list below)
  3. Unzip it
  4. Load the image in VMware

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How to show IOS version in CISCO Router and Switches

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CISCO routers and switches use the same set of commands and resembles very much to LINUX commands. You just need to remember the command and you will always remain the CHAMP. Commands are given as under to show the IOS and hardware information on CISCO router  and switches: Command: show version or show hardware

How to block bit torrent on CISCO router with NBAR

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Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) is really a great idea, i know its not new one but worked for most of the purposes like blocking bit torrent traffic, mp3 and many more bandwidth wasting things. The resources provided here assist you in configuring your network to provide the appropriate level of service to these applications.You … Read more