Microsoft KB Archive/274305

= Free Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tools for Administrative Tasks =

PSS ID Number: 274305

Article Last Modified on 11/19/2003

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

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This article was previously published under Q274305



SUMMARY
The Windows 2000 Resource Kit includes many tools to help you with performing administrative tasks, automating application deployment, and other jobs.

Note: These tools are designed to be installed and run only on Microsoft Windows 2000. They are neither localized nor supported by Microsoft.



MORE INFORMATION
Some of the tools available for download include:


 * Adsizer.exe: Active Directory Sizer - Estimates the hardware required for deploying Active Directory in an organization.
 * User State Migration Tool - Helps migrate a user's documents and settings (state) before an operating system migration to Windows 2000.
 * Apimon.exe: API Monitor - Monitors the API calls made by a process.
 * Clusrest.exe: Cluster Quorum Restore utility - Restores the quorum disk of a cluster, which is not done by a restore process using NtBackup.
 * Ctrlist.exe: Counter List - Lists all objects and counters installed in the system for the given language ID.
 * Cluster Verification Utility - Verifies that two-node cluster systems are set up properly.
 * DELRP.exe: Delete File and Reparse Points - Deletes a file or directory and any associated NTFS file system reparse points.
 * Delsrv.exe - Unregisters a service with the Service Control Manager.
 * DH.exe: Display Heap - Displays information about heap usage in a user-mode process or pool usage in kernel-mode memory.
 * Diskmap.exe - Displays information about a disk and the contents of its partition table.
 * Dmdiag.exe: Disk Manager Diagnostics - Saves disk volume configuration to a text file and writes a signature to a disk partition.
 * Drivers.exe: List Loaded Drivers - Displays information on installed device drivers, their files, and their code.
 * Dumpel.exe: Dump Event Log - Dumps an event log to a tab-separated text file.
 * Dumpfsmos.cmd: Dump FSMO Roles - Dumps the Floating Single Master Operations roles.
 * Dureg.exe: Registry Size Estimator - Shows how much data is stored in the registry, or in any registry subtree, key, or subkey.
 * Getsid.exe: Get Security ID - Compares the security IDs of two user accounts.
 * Gpotool.exe: Group Policy Verification Tool - Allows administrators to check Group Policy object integrity and monitor policy replication.
 * Gpresult.exe: Group Policy Results - Displays information about the result Group Policy has had on the current computer and logged-on user.
 * Guid2obj.exe: GUID to Object - Maps a GUID to a distinguished name.
 * Inuse.exe: File-In-Use Replace Utility - Performs on-the-fly replacement of files currently in use by the operating system.
 * Perms.exe: File Access Permissions per User - Displays a user's access permissions for a file or directory.
 * Pstat.exe: Process and Thread Status - Shows the status of all running processes and threads.
 * Rpcdump.exe: RPC Dump - Dumps all endpoints in the endpointmapper database, pings each endpoint, gathers other statistics, and sorts and displays the data.
 * RCP Ping: RPC Connectivity Verification Tool - Verifies that Windows 2000 Server services are responding to remote procedure call requests from network clients.
 * Xcacls.exe - Displays and modifies security options for system folders.

For a complete list of the free tools and updates, go to the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/default.asp

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