Fifteen Open Source Gems for Windows from Microsoft CodePlex
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This is actually an excellent list with several new and very useful tools in it.
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Does Azure uses Hyper-V? Wonder if this could be made to work with a local Hyper-V server? http://azurevmmng.codeplex.com/
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This one is pretty big...
Office 365 Drive Mapping for Enterprise Desktops
Office 365 Drive Mapping for Enterprise Desktops allows users to utilize folder redirection for SharePoint Online, and it is especially helpful for Windows 7 desktops or higher with no local storage being used in the process. With this tool, you can map drives directly to your Office 365 storage options, such as OneDrive for Business, which is based in SharePoint Online.
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Remove Windows Store apps in Windows 8
Windows 8 offers a lot of great new features you might never want to part with, but you may find a few that are more trouble than they're worth. If any of the Windows Store apps happen to be among the Windows 8 features you’d rather do without, there is now a simple, straightforward script for removing multiple Windows Store apps for an individual user account.
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AD Magic Restore
You never know when you might accidentally delete an object or attribute from your Active Directory and want it back. AD Magic Restore to the rescue. AD Magic Restore is written in PowerShell and has the ability to collect data on AD and restore granular data back to AD. Note that AD Magic Restore runs only on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 2012.
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ScreenToGif
ScreenToGif is a fun but practical tool. It allows you to quickly record your screen actions and save them as a GIF looped animation. It has a variety of intuitive options (screen size, frame rate, and more) but also allows you to go through your screenshots and edit them to choose or alter transition types. Where this can be very helpful is when you need to demonstrate something for users within your environment. Rather than taking screenshots or making a whole video, ScreenToGif provides an in-between method for training folks on how to do something quickly and easily. It's a great little tool for IT admins.
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VeraCrypt
Data security is fast becoming an increasing concern for users and organizations alike. If you’re among the many who are looking for an easy, effective way to ensure the safety of your data, check out VeraCrypt. This disk encryption software is based on the well-known and trusted TrueCrypt. Not only can VeraCrypt work with volumes created with TrueCrypt, it has addressed some TrueCrypt vulnerabilities and added several enhancements to improve the security of your data.
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Simple Azure Virtual Machines Manager
The name of this next gem, Simple Azure Virtual Machines Manager, says it all. It really is a simple Web portal for accessing your Azure VMs, enabling you to quickly shut down, start up, and connect to your virtual machines. Because Azure VMs are pay for use and much of your work within Azure is likely to involve dev/test, you don’t want to accidentally leave VMs on indefinitely as if they are production VMs in those scenarios. Having a way to jump in and stop VMs, and to give folks who don’t have full Azure Portal access the ability to shut down VMs, is a good thing.
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SharePoint Client Browser for SharePoint Online and SharePoint on-premise
SharePoint Client Browser is a CodePlex gem if I ever saw one. This tool greatly helps speed up development of SharePoint 2010/2013 and SharePoint Online instances by showing the hierarchy of your entire site collection structure -- including hidden lists, items, or documents -- in an easy-to-navigate (and visualize) interface. You can work directly with site collections, create new ones, add tenants, and so forth. You can also open PowerShell and run queries against your remote site collection. Anyone developing with SharePoint will want to play with this tool.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Does Azure uses Hyper-V? Wonder if this could be made to work with a local Hyper-V server? http://azurevmmng.codeplex.com/
It does not. It uses a hypervisor actually called Azure. It is heavily influenced by HyperV but doesn't use it directly. Leaving only Xen and KVM in big time clouds and some smaller ones, like CloudatCost, with VMware. HyperV doesn't really play in the cloud market.
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Thanks @mlnews for copying out ALL of the slides. Top effort
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@mlnews said:
This one is pretty big...
Office 365 Drive Mapping for Enterprise Desktops
Office 365 Drive Mapping for Enterprise Desktops allows users to utilize folder redirection for SharePoint Online, and it is especially helpful for Windows 7 desktops or higher with no local storage being used in the process. With this tool, you can map drives directly to your Office 365 storage options, such as OneDrive for Business, which is based in SharePoint Online.
Oooh, this one is pretty cool. I will have to play with it in the future.
