David Adner <> wrote:
> I'm about to re-enter the wonderful world of onsite vendor support,
> so I figure I should re-assemble my handy-dandy CD (used to be
> floppies) of useful tools and such.  I know little, portable USB
> drives can be used, too, but I'll still have a some CD's with the
> bulk of the tools. 
> 
> So, I'm looking for any suggestions on what you guys have or used to
> have. 

MPS reports are very cool and besides the scripts also include a few
useful utilities. The exe installers for all 5 versions are less than 3
MB.

The stuff I carry in my bag off the top of my head and in no particular
order-

joeware
pstools (sysinternals)
The usual RK and support tool favorites past and present
Current GPMC
Latest RDP client
Stuff in the AlTools like EventCombMT,LockoutStatus etc
Portqry(v2),Nblookup,rpcping
blat or equivalent CLI mailer of choice
hfnetchk / mbsacli / qfecheck 
joeware
grep and tail *NIX type fave text tools for parsing text logs
Windows Memory Diagnostic (windiag) iso file to make bootable CD
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
NAI's Stinger or equivalent for rudimentary virus tool
Windows Blaster Worm Removal Tool and similar ilk from MS and other
vendors
ethereal, NmapNT, fport, tcpview etc
AIDA32 if you like to dig into WMI info really easily
delpart.exe from the old 3.5 RK for pesky disk partions
collection of favorite tweaking .reg files
sysinternals,sysinternals,sysinternals
joeware,joeware,joeware,joeware,joeware,joeware,joeware,joeware
vendor support account/contract/contact #'s etc  
joe,guido,tony,rick etc pager,cell/home phone number's...Just kidding, I
am not worthy ;-) 

Bob Free
Sr Network Specialist
PG&E Auburn, Ca.




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