Recommended Tools
Best Tools for Sysadmins
Practitioner-reviewed recommendations. No affiliate fluff — just the tools that show up in real sysadmin toolkits.
6 tools
Nerdio for Intune
Supercharge your Intune deployments with automation, cost optimisation, and enterprise-grade Azure Virtual Desktop management from a single pane of glass.
Veeam Backup for M365
Protect Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams data with immutable, air-gapped backups. Indispensable for compliance and ransomware recovery.
Sysinternals Suite
The essential diagnostic toolkit for Windows: Process Monitor, Autoruns, TCPView, and 70+ utilities for deep system inspection and incident response.
PowerShell Pro Tools
Build production-grade Windows Forms GUIs, package scripts as signed executables, and debug complex runbooks directly inside VS Code.
Intune Graph Explorer
Query and manipulate Intune data via Microsoft Graph API with an interactive UI. Essential for custom reporting, bulk operations, and policy auditing.
Windows Admin Center
Browser-based management hub for Windows Server, clusters, and Azure Arc. Replaces MMC snap-ins with a modern, unified interface requiring no cloud dependency.