This list is page is little more than a list of websites that I have found useful at one point – its for personal use more than anything else but I might as well share and care to!
Please Note: I have no control over what goes on at these sites – also if you are the owner of one of these sites and dont want me linking to you just click here for my contact details.
Blogs
- Backblaze
Cleaver company that does stuff with backup storage - CBT Nuggets
Short videos of cool IT things! - Edu IT Guy
- Iris Classon
- Making IT work
- The knack
- Windows 10 Release Information
Cool APIs
IT Vendors
Lync/Skype/Teams
Microcontrollers (MCUs)
- E-Paper + ESP8266 Tutorial – Easy Text & Images
Good place to start with E-Paper screens from Waveshare - NodeMCU custom build firmware image
Networking
- 10 DNS Errors That Will Kill Your Network
- Create NPS Logging SQL Server Tables
- Netdisco
Network discovery tool - Really cool IT security and networking blog
- Visio Cafe
A great resource of Visio stencils
Open Source Software
- A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources
- List of curated list of graphviz resources
- Pandoc
A universal document converter - Qubes OS
Paranoia level 100 operating system - reveal.js
Building presentations with HTML
PowerShell
- Handy guide on managing WSUS with PowerShell
- POSHGUI
Build a GUI for your PowerShell! - PSWindowsUpdate
Manage Windows Update on Client PCs - Remove built-in apps from Windows 10 WIM-File with Powershell (Offline)
- Remove built-in Windows 10 apps (Online)
- WSUS Offline
Update Windows and Office Offline
Security
- _Intelligence X
Search data breaches and more - AD password protection
- applipedia from PaloAlto
- Best Practices for Securing Active Directory
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Alerts
- Demystifying the Windows Firewall
- Endpoint Isolation with the Windows Firewall
- FireHOL IP and DNS blocklists
- GoPhish
Open Source Phishing Framework - Hardening TLS for WLAN 802.1X Authentication
- HP ProCurve RADIUS Login for SSH/Telnet
- IIS Crypto
Manage Encryption options for Windows Servers - Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Demo Pages
- Microsoft Malware Submission Centre
Found a file you do not like the look of - tell someone! - Microsoft Security Guidanace Blog
- NPS stops logging events to Event Viewer
- Qubes OS
Paranoia level 100 operating system - Really cool IT security and networking blog
- Security Onion
- SiteCheck by Sucuri
- Submit a CSR, choose your template get a certificate – simple!
- Two Factor Auth List (MFA)
Curated list of key services that do and do not support 2FA/MFA - VirusTotal
- WSUS Offline
Update Windows and Office Offline
SQL Server
- Create NPS Logging SQL Server Tables
- How to reset the SA Password on SQL Server
- SQL Server Integration Services Tutorials
A great video series to watch to get started with SSIS
Tools
- Big page of open source sysadmin products
- Cheatography
Cheat sheets for various topics - Dell Wyse ThinOS Configuration Generator
- DHCP stops serving IPs when audit log is full
- HandBrake
The open source video transcoder - IIS Crypto
Manage Encryption options for Windows Servers - Logoff Screensaver
- media.io
Converts lots of audio files into more useful ones - Metro Studio
Fantastic program with lots of 'Metro' style icons - Microsoft Sysinternals Utilities
- mRemoteNG
mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote: an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager - Netbox Demo website
- NTFS Fix
A quick way to bulk change NTFS permissions on user area folders - PDQ Software
- Remote Desktop Plus
A fantastic skin to the RDP client - Sam Knows – Broadband checker
- User Profile Deletion Tool
- Visio Cafe
A great resource of Visio stencils - WMI Code Creator
Website Design
- Genfavicon
My favourite favicon generator
Wireless
- clients.mikealbano.com
List of Client Devices and their Support of 5ghz
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