Unduly Noted

Let me start out with the download link and the main site. If you manage a ton of computers then these tools can really help you out. Search for Rootkits?  Remotely Restart all windows machines? Remotely Shutdown? Send a file to hundreds of machines at once and initiate that install? Just the tip of the iceberg. Another tool that I have had limited success with on windows XP is Logon.exe. Careful, antivirus will probably think this is a virus especially if you put it in system32. If i use this in conjunction with the psexec tool i can logon to the machines ONLY after the logon process has been initiated at least once after reboot. So its a good thing to run at the end of the week after you are sure all the computer have been logged into at least once. I am not sure why you need to initiate a manual login/logoff before but it blue screens if you don’t (XPsp3, don’t even try it on vista). Anyway, this tool allows you to login a ton of machines at once so you don’t have to do it manually.

example:
psexec //ipofmachine or @filnameOFip’s -u domain/username -p password -i -s -c -d Logon.exe -u domain/username -p password

this puts Logon.exe in the client’s system32 folder and passes the logon that follows it to the logon screen.
you can of course specify a different folder to copy it to.

example:
psexec //ipofmachine or @filnameOFip’s -u domain/username -p password -i -s -c -d ”c:\temp\Logon.exe” -u domain/username -p password

This will copy it to a temp folder on the root of the c:

Of course with all these tools if you need help just type into the command line:  toolname /?

And it goes without saying that you need to be cd\’ed into the directory of the tool to actually run it. Simple tip, just copy cmd.exe to the sysinternals folder that you download and run it from there. That will automatically start you in the correct directory.