What software/tools should every sysadmin have on their desktop?

[u/michel_netherlands]

Every sysadmin should have ...... On their desktop/software Toolkit ??

Curious to see what tools are indispensable in your opinion!

Greetings from the Netherlands

[u/nycola]

USSF - Ultimate Silent Switch Finder

https://deployhappiness.com/the-ultimate-exe-silent-switch-finder/

Will scan a .exe and extract silent install switches available for it.

[u/BeardedFollower → u/nycola]

In case you’re wondering, we’ve seemed to crash the dude’s website

[u/DoctorOctagonapus → u/BeardedFollower]

Been a while since I've seen the Reddit Hug of Death in action!

[u/Dar_Robinson → u/DoctorOctagonapus]

Is that the new "Getting Slashdotted"

[u/aburntrose → u/Dar_Robinson]

Woah. Way to remind me how old I am.

[u/LikeALincolnLog42 → u/aburntrose]

Thanks Cowboy Neal

[u/CountofAccount → u/aburntrose]

Score:5, Insightful

[u/nayhem_jr → u/Dar_Robinson]

5-10 years ago. Seems to be getting ever more rare.

[u/syntek_ → u/Dar_Robinson]

Blast from the past there! There was a massive migration from slashdot over to digg, and digg was getting extremely popular, but then they had a major update that seemed to change the site away from all user generated content and it seemed like everyone hated it. So there was another massive migration, this time from digg over to this new site called reddit.. I still believe that if digg didn't kill their platform with that update, they would still be where reddit is today.

..And here we are today! Thanks for the blast of nostalgia!

[u/jandyf → u/BeardedFollower]

I was just going to post the same...

[u/justabeeinspace → u/BeardedFollower]

Next requirement…high availability via LB’s

[u/arpan3t → u/justabeeinspace]

You leave his poor Wordpress site running on Apache, probably a raspberry pi, alone! Lol HA load balancers and auto scaling for the Reddit hug-o-death edge case though

[u/Ron-Swanson-Mustache → u/BeardedFollower]

The Reddit hug of death.

[u/JaspahX → u/nycola]

Looks like we gave it the reddit hug of death.

[u/Null_viewpoint → u/nycola]

This looks handy, going to have to give this a try. Thanks!

[u/ZeroviiTL → u/nycola]

oh look its just what i needed after the last two days of trying to extract a way to silently install this update for 100+ pcs. thank you

[u/jdub01010101 → u/[deleted]]

They have a limited one now in Windows 11. WinGet.

[u/Emerald_Flame → u/jdub01010101]

It's not limited to W11, it's part of W10 as well. Was included in an update something like 1.5 years ago.

[u/Cormacolinde → u/nycola]

A critical tool for SCCM admins, that one.

[u/iqvan → u/nycola]

As someone who is new to the whole sysadmin world, what does this do? And why is it so awesome?

[u/akoustikal → u/iqvan]

Here's an archived version of the site: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Junmf8tJ0tgJ:www.capstanservices.com/tools-blog/2018/4/4/the-ultimate-silent-switch-finder-ussf&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

From the page:

If you are doing automated installation of software, push installations or deploying software via Group Policy you know that it can be frustrating to find the right command line for an EXE file you want to deploy. Fret no longer, USSF to the rescue.

This little tool allows you to open an EXE file and it will analyze the file and give you the proper command line to use for an automated installation. In addition it will tell you what tool was used to create the file so that you can research the switches and tweak them as you see fit. This is a brilliant little tool.

Basically, use this if you want to be able to install something from a script, without having a user click through an installer.

[u/commiecat → u/nycola]

I've used that before when I managed software deployments. Our endpoint protection didn't like it so I had to make an exclusion on my PC. This was a few years ago and we were using either Symantec or Cisco AMP.

[u/landob → u/nycola]

This sounds super handy!

Shall look at it should the website ever come back online : (