On 12/8/2011 5:54 PM, Jonathan wrote:
Hi everyone!
It has been a while....I've been quite busy and haven't had much time to do
anything here other than occasionally lurk....
I'm in the midst of building some Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 templates
for my new vSphere 5 environment. I'm close to being done, but am thinking
about tools i should include over and above the stock OS install. I'm
interested to hear what you guys install when you build servers...
For instance, perhaps things like:
primopdf
msinfo
a telnet client, such as putty
adobe reader (I'm torn on this one because of how many security concerns
there are with Adobe Reader, historically, but it sure would be handy to be
able to view a PDF on the fly)
Portscanner, such as SuperScan or AngryIP
I don't put extra utilities on servers that I don't have to. And some of
our utilities don't work right unless they are installed after rolling
out by template. So I install AV (Kaspersky) and LANDesk after deploying
from template. I do install VMware Tools, tho, and Networker (my backup
client). And NotePad++, mostly because I prefer it to NotePad. :-)
I do make my Win2008 servers have a C: drive of 30G, tho, since 25G
started being too small (the Service Pack wouldn't install due to lack
of space).
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