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It’s a tool that provides you an easy way to simulate large numbers of users against your web app, which makes it possible for one to make intelligent decisions about hardware and software load incurred by your application and how much traffic a given machine or group of machines can handle.

In case you need to gauge the performance and load capability of your servers and its application(s), give Microsoft’s Web Application Stress tool a go.

Network Administrator is a nifty little tool for IT Administrators in small to medium-sized environments.  So, what can it do you ask?  Well, according to the publisher of this tool, it can:

• Validate installation of 2007 Daylight Saving Patch. It can detect ours, and Microsoft’s patch
• Push out and apply 2007 Daylight Saving patch to Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 machines
• Disable USB Drives
• Disable CD-ROM Drives
• Disable Floppy drives
• Prevent the automatic install of IE 7
• Reboot Machines
• Shutdown Machines
• Logoff Machines
• Set the VNC password of remote machines
• Keep machines from automatically rebooting when automatic updates have finished
• Stop services
• Start services
• Disable services
• Set services to manual
• Set services to automatic start

The price is kind of steep at $199 per administrator, but the free version (which I’m using) allows making changes to 3 machines at a time – in fact, I just used it a few minutes ago to enable RDP on a newly built machine without having to go through the console. 

You should check it out as it’s a worthy little tool for your toolbox.