SolarWinds DameWare NT Utilities

New Features

What's new in DameWare NT Utilities v8

Includes v8 of Mini Remote Control, which now features:

• Chat - With the chat feature in Version 8.0, you can chat online with your remote user as you troubleshoot or configure the remote machine. Now, there is no need to open WordPad and type back and forth.
• Screenshot Capture - Simply click to quickly capture and save a screenshot from the remote machine. This valuable feature is indispensable when working on help desk tickets or when documenting configuration settings for future reference. Now, there is no need to go through the process of pasting your screenshot into Paint and saving it.

Bug fixes and maintenance.

Features

Windows Management

DameWare NT Utilities supports management of domains, workstations, disk drives, event logs, local groups, global groups, domain members, open files, printers, processes, properties, registry, services, sessions, shares, shut down/reboot, software, terminal services/RDP, users and wake-on-LAN - just to name a few.

DameWare NT Utilities supports legacy (non-AD) Microsoft Windows Network implementation via a dynamic 'Microsoft Windows Network' browser tree view. Domain controllers, servers and workstations, as well as non-browseable machines (machines that by default are not shown in Microsoft's Windows Network Browser) can easily be managed via machine name or IP address after being added to the network browser tree view.

Mini Remote Control

DameWare NT Utilities (DNTU) also includes the DameWare Mini Remote Control program for fast and easy deployment and troubleshooting. Mini Remote Control’s powerful feature set and light footprint makes it a favourite remote administration tool among IT pros. Just click to connect, and features including screen sharing, full multiple monitor support, and NAT pass through are instantly available.

New! Chat online with the remote user as you troubleshoot or configure their machine, and simply click to quickly capture and save screenshots from the remote machine.

Export functionality

Easily export information from remote Windows 7/2008/Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT machines, including information about computers, disk drives, groups, printers, members, services, shares, software, users, and information via WMI (Windows Managements Instrumentation) classes. Save the files in common formats including XML and CSV.

Active Directory

NT Utilities includes a powerful Active Directory Object Browser and extensive Active Directory functionality for retrieving, searching, and filtering of all AD Objects & attributes.

DNTU supports management of objects such as OUs (Organisational Units), Containers, Users, Groups, Contacts, Computers, & Shares, as well as attributes that are not available within native Microsoft tools (i.e. Photos, Logos, employee ID, etc.). This includes support for managing objects such as organisational units, photos, badges, and more, making NT Utilities an end-to-end AD management tool. Mini Remote Control.

Licensing

All DameWare Development Software is licensed per User, not per Computer and there are no additional fees for client agents installed by the program. Therefore, the number of licenses required should correspond with the actual number of technicians that will be running the software. For example, if you have 10 technicians that will be running the software and connecting to 10,000 remote machines, you would only require 10 licenses.

Please also keep in mind that there are no provisions for concurrent use. For example, if you have 5 technicians working on the day shift and another 5 technicians working on the night shift, you would still require 10 licenses. This also applies to running the software in a Citrix or Terminal Server environment. Each individual user of the software must have a license.

Each user license allows for three separate installations (for example: desktop, laptop, and home computer). A user installing in three separate locations will still be covered under the license provided that they are the only person running the software on those additional machines.

System Req.

Operating Systems

DameWare NT Utilities requires Windows NT 4.0, Service Pack 1 or greater (including Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Windows 7).

Active Directory

DNTU's Active Directory functionality is only supported on machines running Windows 2000 and above. However, even though it is not directly supported, many of DNTU's Active Directory features will still work on machines running Windows NT4 SP-6a, provided you also installed Microsoft's Active Directory Client Extensions (DSClient.exe) for Windows NT4.

Exchange

Exchange 2000/2003 support is provided in version 4.x and above within DNTU's AD Object Views (AD Users & Computers, AD Users container, etc...), and does not require Microsoft's Exchange Admin Tools.

COM Control

Recommended that machines have COMCTL32.DLL 4.71 or later.

Mini Remote Control

A video adapter that supports the following raster capabilities:

• Capable of transferring bitmaps (RC_BITBLT)
• Capable of supporting the Windows APIs, SetDIBits and GetDIBits functions (RC_DI_BITMAP)
• Supports only one color plane.

Smart Card

Smart Card Login & Authentication is only supported on Windows 2000 and above. No additional middleware is directly required by Mini Remote Control for Smart Card Authentication & Login. A Smart Card reader is not required on the remote machine. Your Operating System and network implementation must be configured properly for Smart Card authentication.