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ConnectionMonitor-Ping hosts at regular intervals
 
http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=24

Pings hosts at regular intervals, to determing if your connection is working, and generate a log of the results.

WHS Backup Database-Backup-windows home server backup

http://www.mediasmartserver.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4078

WHS Backup Database-Backup (BDBB) that includes a couple of bug fixes and two exciting new features. Thank you to erail, cavediver, JohnBick, jmpage2, and Timothy Daleo for your help testing in the Private Beta.

* Correctly shows available space for Server Storage (thanks redjessie!)
* Correctly displays TrueCrypt encrypted drives (thanks JohnBick!)
* Automatically backs up the Client Registry keys necessary to properly link the backups with the Client PCs
* Automatically backs up the entire WHS.reg in case the user wants to manually restore part or all of the registry
* Prompts user to restore the backed up Client Registry keys when restoring the Backup DB
* Supports backup and restore to network locations, including UNC and Samba shares
 

DotNetPanel Express Edition-free control panel for windows hosting

http://www.dotnetpanel.com/dotnetpanel/editions/express-edition/

If you have been looking for a user-friendly, free control panel for Windows hosting, you have found it. The DNP Express Edition is ideal for VPS and dedicated server owners, home hosting, education and evaluation use. You can manage an unlimited number of domains or websites, install it on three servers with up to five users, and it runs on Windows Server 2008 Web edition. And, best of all, it's FREE!
Features

    * Automate your site/FTP/database creation.
    * Get your server managed in minutes.
    * Maximum 5 users
    * Unlimited domains
    * Reseller accounts disabled
    * Maximum of 1 remote server
    * Applications installer
    * Backup/Restore module
    * E-commerce module
    * Control panel source Supports Hyper-V

Benefits

    * Free download and install. You will be up and running in minutes.
    * No domains or web sites limits!
    * Up to 5 users and 1 remote server allowed
    * Create your own, different profiles (ASP.NET with MSSSQL, PHP with MySQL etc). 

Piwik-web analytics software program

http://piwik.org/

Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more.

Piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics.

Piwik is a PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. At the end of the five minute installation process you will be given a JavaScript tag. Simply copy and paste this tag on websites you wish to track (or use an existing plugin to do it automatically for you).

Smoothwall – Network Firewall

http://www.smoothwall.org/get/index.php

The SmoothWall Open Source Project was set up to develop and maintain SmoothWall Express – a free firewall that includes its own security-hardened GNU/Linux operating system and an easy-to-use web interface. The project is entirely funded by the company's commercial arm; SmoothWall Limited, which also employs many of the key project team members. There are also a number of individuals with no association to SmoothWall Limited who are voluntary project team members.

Untangle-Open Source Network Gateway

http://www.untangle.com/Open-Source-Package

Untangle apps can be download individually to tailor your Untangle Server to the specific needs of your network.& nbsp; However, many organizations choose to run all of Untangle's open source apps and the Open Source Package bundles them together in one convenient download.  All Untangle apps are:   

• Pre-configured to work right away
• Designed to run together seamlessly
• Integrated with a common GUI, logging & reporting

12 Open Source & Free Apps

• Web Filter
• Virus Blocker
• Spam Blocker
• Attack Blocker
• Phish Blocker
• Spyware Blocker
• Protocol Control
• Routing & QoS
• Firewall
• Intrusion Prevention
• OpenVPN
• Reports

MyTunesRSS-freeware version

http://www.codewave.de/products/mytunesrss/freeware/

MyTunesRSS allows you to access the music and videos from your iTunes library or any simple watch folder over a local network or even the internet. You can access your music from all over the world using a simple web browser. The user interface lets you search for titles or browse your whole library by album, artist or genre. You can access your iTunes playlists or create new ones directly in MyTunesRSS. 

BitNami-install open source wikis blogs crm packages

http://bitnami.org/

BitNami makes installing wikis, blogs, CRM systems a simple and enjoyable process. Get your favorite open source apps in ready to run packages.

Bacula-The Open Source Network Backup Solution

http://www.bacula.org/en/

If you are currently using a program such as tar, dump, or bru to backup your computer data, and you would like a network solution, more flexibility, or catalog services, Bacula will most likely provide the additional features you want. However, if you are new to Unix systems or do not have offsetting experience with a sophisticated backup package, the Bacula project does not recommend using Bacula as it is much more difficult to setup and use than tar or dump.
If you want Bacula to behave like the above mentioned simple programs and write over any tape that you put in the drive, then you will find working with Bacula difficult. Bacula is designed to protect your data following the rules you specify, and this means reusing a tape only as the last resort. It is possible to "force" Bacula to write over any tape in the drive, but it is easier and more efficient to use a simpler program for that kind of operation.

If you would like a backup program that can write to multiple volumes (i.e. is not limited by your tape drive capacity), Bacula can most likely fill your needs. In addition, quite a number of Bacula users report that Bacula is simpler to setup and use than other equivalent programs.

If you are currently using a sophisticated commercial package such as Legato Networker. ARCserveIT, Arkeia, or PerfectBackup+, you may be interested in Bacula, which provides many of the same features and is free software available under the GNU Version 2 software license.

Adito is a web-based SSL VPN server

http://sourceforge.net/projects/adito/

Adito is a web-based SSL VPN server. Adito's is written in Java and has a browser-based AJAX interface. Adito allows easy and safe access to most intranet services with just a web browser. Adito was originally forked from SSL-Explore

Extra Outlook-link exchange server during conversion

http://www.nirmaltv.com/2009/01/02/run-multiple-instances-of-outlook-with-extra-outlook/

Under normal case whenever you launch another instance of Outlook.exe, it first checks if there is an existing Outlook.exe running and this is the reason why multiple instances are not possible. This tool actually modifies the Outlook executable and causes Outlook to not check to see if another Outlook is running.
To use this application, you will need to create multiple profiles in Outlook. Install Extra Outlook and then from command line you can call another instance of Outlook using the command – extraoutlook.exe “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\outlook.exe” assuming that Outlook.exe is installed in the given location. This will prompt you to select the Outlook profile you want to load.

With this application you can have one instance of Outlook connecting to your business mail and another one using your personal mail.

Important: This application modifies the Outlook files, so if you are not comfortable with that, please do not install it. Moreover if you have install plugins like Xobni, it might have issues loading, so use it at your own risk.

This application works with Outlook 2003/2007

HFS (HTTP File Server) to send and receive files

http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

You can use HFS (HTTP File Server) to send and receive files.

It's different from classic file sharing because it uses web technology to be more compatible with today's Internet.

It also differs from classic web servers because
it's very easy to use and runs "right out-of-the box".

Access your remote files, over the network.

It has been successfully tested with Wine under Linux.

Monitorix-lightweight server system monitoring tool

http://www.monitorix.org/  

Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitorize as many services as it can. At this time it monitors from the CPU load and temperatures to the users using the system. Network devices activity, network services demand and even the devices' interrupt activity are also monitored. The current status of any corporate Linux server with Monitorix installed can be accessed via a web browser.

It has been designed to be used under production UNIX/Linux servers, but you can use it to monitor embedded devices, or in your laptop or even in your Linux box at home as well.

Initially all its development was created for monitoring Red Hat, Fedora and CentOS Linux, so this project was made keeping in mind these distributions. Since 0.8.0 though, is easier to port it to other Linux distributions and even to other UNIX systems like FreeBSD.

Monitorix is an open source project and, just like any other open source project, anyone can contribute with its own time and knowledgements.

You are very welcome to join to the project.

There are many ways of contributing to this project. You do not have to be a Perl guru or spend much time. Coding is only one aspect of open source. Just install the software and test it. If you encounter any error, please notify it. If you think there are some parts that could be improved, please share your ideas. 

Microsoft Web Application Installer

http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebApplicationInstaller.aspx

The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more. With just a few simple clicks, Web AI will check your machine for the necessary pre-requisites, download these applications from their source location in the community, walk you through basic configuration items and then install them on your computer. 

Windows 2008 Server Core Configurator

http://www.codeplex.com/CoreConfig

If your using Server Core in Windows Server 2008, you'll know that there are always certain tasks you need to do upon installation to enable things like Activation, Firewall.

This Tool is a collection of scripts which will help provision and configure a Base Windows 2008 Server Core installation, The Server Core Configurator enables you to do all those 'little jobs' via a GUI, quickly and easily!

Product Licencing
Networking Features
DCPromo Tool
ISCSI Settings
Server Roles and Features
User and Group Permissions
Share Creation and Deletion
Firewall Settings
Display Settings
Add & Remove Drivers
Screensaver Settings
Windows Updates (Including WSUS)

Roadkil's Server Monitor

http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=25  

Monitors network connectivy to servers and reports downtime, network connection dropouts and high packet loss. Handy for any network administrator who want to know when servers are offline to minimize downtime. Problems are displays in levels of severity and by the type of problem that has occured. The levels to trigger different severity levels are user defined.

MobaSSH-SSH Server for Windows

http://mobassh-en.mobatek.net/  

MobaSSH allows you to run commands and transfer files on a remote Windows PC from any operating system (GNU/Linux, Unix, HP-UX, AIX, Windows, …) through a fully secured and encrypted network connection. MobaSSH is 100% compatible with the Linux/Unix/HPUx/AIX SSH clients, but also with Putty or WinSCP on Windows.

Nagios-host and service monitor network servers

http://www.nagios.org/about/  

Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external "plugins" which return status information to Nagios. When problems are encountered, the daemon can send notifications out to administrative contacts in a variety of different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.). Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a web browser.

Hyperic HQ-server monitoring and management

http://www.hyperic.com/downloads/index.html  

Hyperic provides open source web infrastructure monitoring and management software designed to automate and streamline operations for today's enterprise. Hyperic’s flagship software, Hyperic HQ brings a modern approach to systems and applications management for the Next Generation Data Center, where the demands of SOA, virtualization and composite applications are changing the pace and complexities of managing the data center. Everything is more compressed, more utilized, more integrated, more critical. The traditional tools IT operators used to monitor systems feebly cope with this new market landscape. This is where Hyperic comes in.

Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista

http://www.microsoft.com/

Microsoft® Remote Server Administration Tools enables IT administrators to remotely manage roles and features in Windows Server® 2008 from a computer running Windows Vista® with Service Pack 1 (SP1).

Baby ASP Web Server-alternative to IIS

http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/baby_web_server.html  

This program was build as an alternative for Microsoft's IIS. The main goal was to design a simple web server with support for ASP. Setting up Baby ASP Web Server is very easy: copy the executable to a directory of your choice, set the directory of your webpages and it's ready to run!Features:- Multi threaded.- Real time server log.- Configure directory for webpages (same for all connections).- Configure default HTML page.- Support for GET, POST, and HEAD methods (form processing).- Sends directory listing if default HTML is not found in directory.- Native ASP support (Request, Response, Server, QueryString and Form collections, Session, etc).- Cookie support (including 'arrays' and enumeration!).
– SSI (Server Side Includes) support.
– Statistics: total connections, successful and failed requests and more.
– limit: 5 simultaneous connections.

Drupal-Website Content Management System

http://drupal.org/  

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including

    * Community web portals
    * Discussion sites
    * Corporate web sites
    * Intranet applications
    * Personal web sites or blogs
    * Aficionado sites
    * E-commerce applications
    * Resource directories
    * Social Networking sites

XAMPP-Apache distribution for Windows

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html  

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

At the moment there are four XAMPP distributions:

XAMPP for Linux

The distribution for Linux systems (tested for SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake and Debian) contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP & PEAR, Perl, ProFTPD, phpMyAdmin, OpenSSL, GD, Freetype2, libjpeg, libpng, gdbm, zlib, expat, Sablotron, libxml, Ming, Webalizer, pdf class, ncurses, mod_perl, FreeTDS, gettext, mcrypt, mhash, eAccelerator, SQLite and IMAP C-Client.

XAMPP for Windows
The distribution for Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista. This version contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql.

XAMPP for Mac OS X
The distribution for Mac OS X contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP & PEAR, SQLite, Perl, ProFTPD, phpMyAdmin, OpenSSL, GD, Freetype2, libjpeg, libpng, zlib, Ming, Webalizer, mod_perl, eAccelerator, phpSQLiteAdmin.WARNING: This version of XAMPP is still in the first steps of development. Use at you own risk!*

XAMPP for Solaris
The distribution for Solaris (developed and tested with Solaris 8, tested with Solaris 9) contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP & PEAR, Perl, ProFTPD, phpMyAdmin, OpenSSL, Freetype2, libjpeg, libpng, zlib, expat, Ming, Webalizer, pdf class.

JW FLV Media Player-embed in webpage-built with Adobe Flash

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player  

The JW FLV Media Player (built with Adobe's Flash) is an easy and flexible way to add video and audio to your website. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, but also MP3, H264, SWF, JPG, PNG and GIF). It also supports RTMP and HTTP (Lighttpd) streaming, RSS, XSPF and ASX playlists, a wide range of flashvars (variables), an extensive javascript API and accessibility features. The mediaplayer is licensed under a Creative Commons License. It allows you to use, modify and redistribute the script for noncommercial purposes. 

Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition- steadystate alternative

http://www.returnilvirtualsystem.com/index_files/rvspersonal.htm 

The Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition is a powerful virtualization technology that completely mirrors your actual computer setup and it can create a virtual storage disk within your PC where you can save documents, data, and files while using the System Protection feature

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