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DNS Inspector 1.0

DNS Inspector 1.0 is finally here!

DNS Inspector is a tool to check DNS health of your (and, of course, your clients’) domain names. It allows to check MX, SOA, NS, reverse DNS (PTR) and other records, compare results of primary and secondary DNS servers and much more. It can inspect multiple domain names at a time and gives you a detailed and easy to read DNS reports.

No installation required! No configuration required.
Just run it and enjoy.

How to use DNS Inspector:

1. Enter a domain name or several domains in “Domains:” field. One domain name per line.
2. Click “Test DNS” button.
3. Wait a little, the program will check DNS health of the domains and create appropriate reports.
4. When the test finished, click report names in “Reports:” list and view them.

We promised to give 50% discount to DNS Inspector 0.9 beta testers. But we gave them 70% discount! We really appreciate their help.

Please look at DNS Inspector screenshots:

Micro SQL Admin for SQL 2008 and 2005

Micro SQL Admin is a tiny tool written in PHP intended for MS SQL Server 2008 and 2005 administration over the World Wide Web.

It is FREE!

How to install the Micro SQL Admin:

1. Install SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP.

2. Place index.php to any folder of your website. Be sure there are correct permissions to run PHP. You can rename index.php if you wish.

Simple DNS Client

simple DNS client

SimpleDNS Client is a program that can remotely administer Simple DNS Plus servers. It is a Windows GUI application and its interface is similar to Simple DNS server. It allows to create, modify, delete DNS zones etc.

Current version 1.0.6 allows to work with primary DNS zones only. Secondary DNS zones support is coming soon.

This program is especially useful when you use GPRS to manage your Simple DNS server. It works 23 to 51 times faster than Remote Desktop!

No installation required! Just run it and enjoy.

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IIS Sites Transfer 2.0.1 released

IIS Sites Transfer 2.0.1 is finally here! You can see its new easy-to-use Wizard interface and enjoy its new features. The sites transfer process is as easy as 1-2-3 now!

New features:

v.2.0.1

– added: Multithreaded processing

v.2.0

– added: Transfer of AccessRead|AccessWrite properties of FTP accounts
– added: Transfer of 29 new IIS website parameters (see the manual for more info)
– added: Transfer of all website directories (virtual and web)
– added: It is possible to change web site home directory
– added: Detailed transfer log
(You can see more in history.txt file distributed with the program.)

IIS Sites Transfer 2.0.1

iis sites transfer

The IIS Sites Transfer program is designed to transfer web sites from Microsoft Internet Information Server version 6 (IIS 6) to another IIS 6 server. The program also allows to transfer Windows 2003 users from one server to another and copy FTP logins, virtual directories, application pools, Web/FTP folders structure and assign NTFS folders permissions.

It is a unique tool. There are no such tools as this one, which allows easy transfer lots of web sites at a time, including all usernames, permissions, pools and so on.

IIS Sites Transfer utility does not require a clean installation of Internet Information Services! Moreover, the tool can even help you to transfer any selected group of websites, so you can distribute your websites easily to adjust the servers load.

The most outstanding feature of this tool is that it is able to transfer websites even if the IISAdmin service is not running on the source server! You even do not need the source server to be up and running, you just need to have the metabase.xml file from the server. This makes the IIS Sites Transfer program not only a migration and balancing utility, it is also a disaster recovery tool.

Please take a look at IIS Sites Transfer Quick Start Guide to see how easy it is to migrate websites with this program.

No installation required! No configuration required.
Just run it and enjoy.

Note:

  • You need to have metabase.xml file from the source server to accomplish the sites transfer.
    MetaBase.xml is an XML file containing IIS configuration settings. Its default location is
    C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\
  • The tool does not help to copy files between servers. But there are a lot of tools and different methods to do so. For example, you can zip (using WinZIP or WinRAR) the files and FTP the archive.
  • The IIS Sites Transfer tool does not help to export/import SSL certificates. Please read this article if you need to transfer SSL certificates.
  • The tool is not able to copy Administrators user group between servers.

IIS Pools

IIS Pools – IIS Application Pools Monitoring

  • This program allows monitoring of IIS 6 application pools.
  • All the monitoring data is stored in log files.
  • It is possible to analyze a pool to find a website (or a virtual application) using too much resources.

Note: Current version of the program allows monitoring and logging of both CPU and RAM usage. But there is an auto-analysis of CPU usage only.

For more information, please read this document.

No installation required! Just run it and enjoy.

IIS Passwords Sync – Freeware

IIS Passwords Sync is a command line tool. And it is free!

IIS 6.0 web sites run under anonymous user accounts. It is IUSR_<machine name> (by default) or other user accounts created by your web hosting control panel. The users’ passwords are set automatically and are never known. However, sometimes for some reason the passwords get out of sync or corrupted and need to be reset. The easiest way to reset these passwords is to use IIS Passwords Sync program. It extracts the passwords that Microsoft IIS 6.0 has in its metabase and updates the accounts in Local Users and Groups to use that passwords.

Run synciis.exe to see IIS Passwords Sync command line syntax.

Note:

  • After the passwords synchronization you have to restart Internet Information Services (IIS 6.0) by using its MMC Manager snap-in or iisreset.exe program.
  • If there are 2 or more websites running under the same user account the password will be taken from one of them only, even if they have different passwords.

No installation required! No configuration required.
Just run it and enjoy.

IIS Report – Freeware

IIS Report is a command line tool. It allows to create different IIS related reports. For example it can get the list of all SSL websites and sort it by IP address, or get the list of all websites and sort it by application pool name and then by website name, etc.

No installation required. Just start the program this way:

C:\>iisreport.exe /?

to get more information and see all the parameters available.

No installation required! No configuration required. Just run it and enjoy.