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Must have software?

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TrueGamer

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I just installed server 2008 and im still learning some new things an trying to configure some things but i was curious what is some software you think is "must have" on a server?
 
A shortcut to youporn?

All my windows servers are barebones as possible. Must have software depends on what you do. But I think Wireshark is a good start.
 
Well by software i meant software that would help in administration stuff in that category
 
AV, Whats up gold(because i like knowing when my server goes down), Exchange?, network monitoring software of your choice, i could go on forever.
 
Utorrent running as a service to help distribute legal copies of linux and whatnot!
 
TrueGamer said:
I just installed server 2008 and im still learning some new things an trying to configure some things but i was curious what is some software you think is "must have" on a server?
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What a subjective question. "Must have" -- Depends on what its doing...

But, like everyone said there is only 1 thing in my book and that is Anti-Virus. After that "must-have" depends on its role. Web Server --> IIS / Apache || Active Directory --> DNS etc etc.

You get my point.

I think your question is harder to answer because you are not stating where its being used. Business or Home? What do you want it doing?
 
Torrenting is one of the last things to put on the server, maybe under a virtualized server, but not one you're gonna use to learn stuff, just too many problems and issues.
 
Keiichi said:
Torrenting is one of the last things to put on the server, maybe under a virtualized server, but not one you're gonna use to learn stuff, just too many problems and issues.
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For a home Windows 2008 server, Definitely Hyper-V (as long as you have hardware virtualization support in the CPU) and AV. And scheduled backups.

Assuming you can use Hyper-V, I'd go with nothing Internet exposed on the box on the host OS, except maybe a WSUS 3.0 SP1 server operating in pass through mode just to have a nice graphical interface to check on the MS patch status of everything in the house if you plan on having a few virtual machines and have other workstations.

Any functions I really care about and want fast recovery, or are exposed to the Internet are in virtual machines. If the host server craters, move the drive with the virtual machine backups to a new box, copy the files and all my servers are back on-line while I fix the original host. The may be on old, slow, decrepit hardware for a bit, but they are back in action.
 
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