I wanted to share with you about the most powerful tools that all IT peeps need to be aware of. It can help you to troubleshoot. It can help you to find what files are being written to the hard drive. It also can help you to monitor what is happening in the background.
And what are these tools?
They are Sysinternals!
A handful of small applications that will make your lives & jobs a LOT easier. Be the Geek of the department. (or something like that)
The best thing about these tools, do you know what it is? It's FREEWARE!
My favourite are:
* AdExplorer - Active Directory Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor.
* BgInfo - Fully-configurable program automatically generates desktop backgrounds that include important information about the system (IP addresses, computer name, network adapters, etc)
* DiskMon - Utility captures all hard disk activity or acts like a software disk activity light in your system tray.
* SysMon - Monitors and reports key system activity via the Windows event log.
And the best ones that I use most of the time...
* Process Explorer - Find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more. This uniquely powerful utility will even show you who owns each process.
* Process Monitor - Monitor file system, Registry, process, thread and DLL activity in real-time.
You can download one of them from Microsoft Sysinternals website - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb545027
Or download the whole thing - Sysinternals Suite - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb842062
So what tools do you use to troubleshoot? Do share!