There has been a lot of progress on the front of RDP² development. RDP² is a remote desktop connection manager and will soon be released with the following features:

• AD Import & Sync : Use your AD  Organizational Unit structure in RDP²
• Quick Reconnect & Quick Logoff  your connections
• Windows 7 enhanced taskbar support  

Windows 7 support showing 3 active connections

• Quick Connect featuring wildcards, for example quickly typing  file* will list you all servers starting with File 

Quick Connect using wildcards

RDP² will be made available for download in a few weeks so stay tuned!

The RegCompare and ServerCompare tools have been updated to support importing computer objects from an Active Directory domain.

Importing of computers can be done on a domain member workstation, or from a stand-alone pc by pointing to a domain controller.

Also in version 1.0.3 some bugs were fixed when querying the same server/computer the tools were running on. 

RegCompare download

ServerCompare download

If you want additional ways to import computer objects, let us know!

A new version of RegCompare is available with two enhancements:

• Better Stability
• Registry Key selection dialog

Download here

ServerCompare.exe is now completely plugin based. At this moment the following plug-ins are available:

• Server Hardware
• Print Drivers
• Services configuration
• Hotfixes installed
• New: Operating System info and configuration
• New: Installed software
• New: Terminal Server configuration ( e.g. Licensing  configuration )
• New: ICA Protocol configuration ( On citrix servers )

The functionality of  servercompare can be easily extended by adding extra plugin .dll’s in the application folder.

It is even possible to integrate a .dll with your custom queries. ServerCompare can handle WMI settings and registry keys. Contact us for more information.

Download here

A new version of ServerCompare.exe is available for download. 

Fixes:

• Improved stability & speed
• The maximum number of threads is now limited to the number of logical processors available, as there was no performance benefit from running more threads simultaneously. In case of program crashes, try to set the max. number of threads to 1.
• The list of servers can be easily copied to the regcompare tool
• Preparations for plug-ins,  available in next release.

Download here

RegCompare is a tool to compare the registry on a set of servers. It can immediately highlight the differences on a registry key and its subkeys.

 This can be useful when troubleshooting a configuration difference between several servers, by comparing for example HKLM\Software\<Product name> the changes are immediately visible.

RegCompare uses the same multi-threading engine as ServerCompare so multiple servers are queried at the same time.

A beta version of the tool is available for download at the RegCompare page.

The ServerCompare.exe tool was updated with the following changes:

• Better stability
• Command-line support:  you can now start the tool with  servercompare.exe <server1> <server2> <server3> etc.. to populate the list of servers.
• Export to Excel: Now it is possible to export one or all result tabs to excel format, without the need to have Ms Excel installed.

Checkout the new version here

ServerCompare is a tool to compare various settings on a set of servers. It can immediatly show differences for the following configuration:

• Server Hardware
• Print Drivers
• Services configuration
• Hotfixes installed

More items will be added soon.

ServerCompare uses an advanced multi-threading engine to compare these settings on multiple servers at the same time.

Some screenshots:

A beta version of the tool is available for download at the ServerCompare page.

RDP² is a RDP Connection Manager, similar to Visionapp Remote Desktop.

This tool was designed to provide as much screen real-estate as possible to the RDP window itself, without toolbars taking in too much space.

Some screenshots:

Features:

• Unlimited number of connections using Microsoft’s RDP protocol.
• Import from Citrix function: This will import the complete structure of a citrix farm by connecting to one of the citrix servers.
• Connections can be sorted in any number of folders and subfolders. Folders can use predefined credentials, or inherit / block credentials from the parent folder.
• …

You want to request a feature ? Let us know: frank@adminkit.com

Download on the RDP² page.

Cleartyper.exe is a command-line utility to enable or disable cleartype. The setting is effective immediatly, so this tool can be used in other scripts such as logon scripts.

Cleartyper.exe has the following parameters:

cleartyper.exe enable  : enables cleartype
cleartyper.exe disable : disables cleartype
cleartyper.exe switch  : this will check the current setting and switch it to the other setting.

Requirements: .Net Framework 2.0, Tested on Windows Xp, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7

Download on the Cleartyper page