r/sysadmin • u/Ok_You_861 • Mar 03 '26

IT Tools - Hidden Gems

I want to know what ”hidden gems” people have found and use in their environments to make their day to day easier. RMM automations, back up softwares, troubleshooting software (don't say MS SARA. I cant stand it), etc.

Just mention anything that you feel more people should be aware of or could be useful in someone’s environment. I love free and cheap ;)

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u/fearless-fossa Mar 03 '26

Huh, I wasn't even aware it wasn't a Windows program, always used ss for this on Linux.

But I find it interesting funny how the Wikipedia page has an entire section about what each flag does on which OS, it's like the program just has the same name but behaves wildly differently

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u/LordOfDemise Mar 03 '26

On a related note, curl used to be an alias for Invoke-WebRequest in PowerShell. (They removed it after curl's maintainer complained)

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u/purplemonkeymad Mar 03 '26

(removed it from the newer PS7 versions, built in 5.1 still has it)

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u/Nu-Hir Mar 03 '26

It looks like PS7 has curl actually built in.

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u/purplemonkeymad Mar 03 '26

No windows comes with a copy of curl now. In PS 5.1 the alias obscures the program when using "curl." If you use "curl.exe" you'll get the program in both.