Friday, August 28, 2015

Free Software Audit Tools

Free Software Audit Tools

The following free third party software audit tools are designed by their respective providers to help you audit, or identify and track, licensed and unlicensed software installed on your computers and networks. Audits are a key component of any comprehensive software asset management plan. Some tools are offered in multiple languages. To view all languages click here.
BSA is providing links to third party sites from which these tools are made available to you at no charge by the companies listed below. When you click on one of these links, you will be transferred out of our website and connected to the website of the company that you selected. BSA has not independently evaluated these third party tools and assumes no liability to you for their performance. Please refer to the provider's license agreements and any other information regarding permitted use on the specific company landing page.
BSA does not gather or receive any identifying information on companies using free software audit tools. View the BSA Privacy Policy

GASP: A software, hardware and file audit tool.
This tool runs on Windows.
Run the GASP Tool
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Express Metrix
Express Software Manager: Express Metrix, a 13-year veteran in the IT asset management space, delivers award-winning PC audit solutions with an emphasis on computer inventory, software metering, and software license management.
Express Metrix’s flagship product, Express Software Manager, is designed to provide maximum visibility and control over the inventory and usage of software assets. Winner of the CODiE Award for “Best Asset Management Solution,” Express Software Manager enables organizations to track and manage hardware and software assets, monitor application usage, determine where they’re under-licensed and over-licensed, and control the launch of unauthorized applications.
This tool runs on Windows and also supports WTS/Citrix environments.
Download the Express Software Manager - Software Audit Tool
View the Express Metrix Privacy Policy
FrontRange Solutions
Centennial Discovery™: FrontRange Solutions’ Centennial Discovery is a powerful network inventory solution that will find and audit all software across the corporate network (including Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix).
Take advantage of a free 30-day version of the tool, which will enable you to create full audit reports from up to 25 PCs on the network – perfect for helping you understand the power and benefits of complete visibility of all installed software.
Download your free version of FrontRange Centennial Discovery
View the FrontRange Solutions Privacy Policy
K2 Key Auditor and KeyServer
K2 KeyAuditor & KeyServer is a cross platform solution for Hardware and Software Asset Management in a heterogenous computing environment. The management console integrates configuration and report generation for seamless management of desktop, laptop, and virtual computers running Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. K2's recent CODiE Award for "Best Asset Management Solution" attests to its elegant and flexible design coupled with its robust and scalable implementation.
For over 20 years Sassafras technology has been a critical part of software compliance and cost reduction efforts by major corporate, academic and government organizations worldwide. Sassafras enjoys broad support from software publishers, including many technical partners that rely exclusively on K2-KeyServer technology.
Download a free 30 day trial of K2 KeyAuditor & KeyServer
View the Sassafras Software Privacy Policy
Lansweeper
Lansweeper Computer Inventory: Lansweeper is a powerful, cost effective solution to manage and inventory all your software and hardware assets.
Lansweeper comes with 200 build-in reports, license compliance calculation and an intuitive web interface.
Download the Lansweeper Tool
Layton Technology
AuditWizard™ is a fast, effective and accurate network inventory software. Discover all your hardware, software and application licenses across your entire organisation in minutes.
Take advantage of a free 14-day version of the tool to see how quick, easy and effortless it is to audit your network and manage your software licenses.
Download your free trial of AuditWizard
View the Layton Technology Privacy Policy
Neutex
NetPoint Express: Designed by system administrators to meet the needs of Windows enterprises, NetPoint is the simplified yet powerful way to inventory your hardware and software assets. It's web-based and searchable so everyone on your team can stay in the loop. Inventory collection is completely automated and no special client software is required. Almost two dozen types of hardware and software are tracked.
Download the NetPoint Express Tool
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ZENworks Asset Management: integrated asset inventory, software usage, and license reconciliation.
This tool runs on Windows, Unix, Mac and Linux platforms.
Run the ZENworks Asset Management Tool
View the Novell Inc. Privacy Policy
Symantec
Altiris Inventory Solution: The Altiris Inventory Solution will assist in reducing the cost of identifying and managing heterogeneous devices throughout your business. It easily tracks comprehensive hardware information, installed software packages, and operating system settings for all IT assets throughout their lifecycle. Data is consolidated, and secured in a central repository, enabling detailed reporting of asset information from the convenience of a Web console.
Download a free 30 day trial of the Altiris Inventory Solution.
View the Altiris.com Privacy Statement

Email Server


  •                              Google Apps

    Commercial by Google | Mac, Windows, Linux, Web / Cloud, Chrome OS
    Google Apps is a service that provides independently customisable versions of several Google products under a custom domain name. It features several Web applications with similar functionality to traditional...

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    Microsoft Exchange Server

    Commercial by Microsoft | Windows, Web / Cloud
    Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft...

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    hMail Server

    Open Source | Windows
    hMailServer is a free e-mail server for Microsoft Windows. Its used by Internet service providers, companies, governments, schools and enthusiasts in all parts of the world. It supports the common e-mail...

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    iRedMail

    Open Source | Linux, BSD, Self-Hosted
    A fully fledged, free email server solution, an open source project (GPL v2). Use official binary packages from Linux/BSD distributions, with both i386 and x86_64 support. Easy, fast deployment in LESS...

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    OpenChange

    Open Source | Linux
    OpenChange aims to provide a portable Open Source implementation of Microsoft Exchange Server and Exchange protocols. Exchange is a groupware server designed to work with Microsoft Outlook, and providing...

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    Microsoft Office 365

    Commercial by Microsoft | Web / Cloud
    Office 365 is a subscription-based online office and software plus services suite which offers access to various services and software built around the Microsoft Office platform.

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    Expanding Communication

    Commercial | Linux
    Turnkey Solutions for the Enterprise Cloud Installation, Configuration, and Management tools for enterprise email, collaboration, messaging, video conferencing, file sharing, and file transfers.

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    Citadel

    Open Source | Linux, Web / Cloud
    Is a collaboration suite (messaging and groupware). It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD. In order to modernize the Citadel platform for the Internet, the Citadel/UX...

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    Windows Server Essentials

    Commercial by Microsoft | Windows
    Windows Server Essentials (formerly Windows Small Business Server) is a flexible, affordable, and easy-to-use server solution designed and priced for small businesses with up to 25 users and 50 devices....



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    Axigen

    Freemium by Gecad Technologies | Windows, Linux, BSD, Self-Hosted, Microsoft Office Outlook
    Axigen is an integrated email, calendaring & collaboration platform, built on a unique Linux mail server technology, for increased speed & security.                             
  • iRedMail is a full-featured mail server Linux solution

    iRedMail is a full-featured mail server solution, it provides basic features like unlimited virtual mail accounts, POP3/IMAP/SMTP, AJAX webmail.
    • All components are free, open source. You can always get software updates from official Linux/BSD repositories.
    • Mail delivery restriction of mail list/alias account.
    • Catch-all accounts supported.
    • Shared mailboxes supported.
    • Force user to change password in 90 days.
    • Backup MX support.
    • Log basic info of all incoming and outgoing emails.
    • Store realtime quota usage in MySQL. You can easily view them in your own admin panel.

    Tuesday, August 18, 2015

    Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program

    What is Clonezilla?

    Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image® or Norton Ghost®. It helps you to do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. With some high-end hardware in a 42-node cluster, a multicast restoring at rate 8 GB/min was reported.


    Features:

    • Many File systems are supported: (1) ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs and f2fs of GNU/Linux, (2) FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS of MS Windows, (3) HFS+ of Mac OS, (4) UFS of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, (5) minix of Minix, and (6) VMFS3 and VMFS5 of VMWare ESX. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows, Intel-based Mac OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Minix, VMWare ESX and Chrome OS/Chromium OS, no matter it's 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) OS. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla.
    • LVM2 (LVM version 1 is not) under GNU/Linux is supported.
    • Boot loader, including grub (version 1 and version 2) and syslinux, could be reinstalled.
    • Both MBR and GPT partition formats of hard drive are supported. Clonezilla live also can be booted on a BIOS or uEFI machine.
    • Unattended mode is supported. Almost all steps can be done via commands and options. You can also use a lot of boot parameters to customize your own imaging and cloning.
    • One image restoring to multiple local devices is supported.
    • Image could be encrypted. This is done with ecryptfs, a POSIX-compliant enterprise cryptographic stacked filesystem.
    • Multicast is supported in Clonezilla SE, which is suitable for massively clone. You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your clients.
    • The image file can be on local disk, ssh server, samba server, NFS server or WebDAV server.
    • AES-256 encryption could be used to secures data access, storage and transfer.
    • Based on Partclone (default), Partimage (optional), ntfsclone (optional), or dd to image or clone a partition. However, Clonezilla, containing some other programs, can save and restore not only partitions, but also a whole disk.
    • By using another free software drbl-winroll, which is also developed by us, the hostname, group, and SID of cloned MS windows machine can be automatically changed

    Monday, August 10, 2015

    PhotoRec, Digital Picture and File Recovery

    PhotoRec, Digital Picture and File Recovery

    PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.
    PhotoRec is free - this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU General Public License (GPLV v2+). PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an application for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again. You can download them from this link.
    For more safety, PhotoRec uses read-only access to handle the drive or memory card you are about to recover lost data from. Important: As soon as a picture or file is accidentally deleted, or you discover any missing, do NOT save any more pictures or files to that memory device or hard disk drive; otherwise you may overwrite your lost data. This means that while using PhotoRec, you must not choose to write the recovered files to the same partition they were stored on.

    Operating systems

    PhotoRec runs under
    • DOS/Windows 9x
    • Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
    • Sun Solaris
    • Mac OS X
    and can be compiled on almost every Unix system.
    Download.png Download TestDisk & PhotoRec