Nice Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit utilities to know

If you are administering Windows NT 4.0 regularly, the Windows NT Resource Kit (ResKit) includes several useful command-line tools that are not installed with the default operating system.

Some commonly used utilities include:

• shutdown: restart or shut down the system
• srvinfo: server configuration details
• rmtshare: manage network shares
• soon: schedule commands
• uptime: display system uptime
• oh: open file handle viewer.

For example, to shut down a remote server:

shutdown \\SERVER01 /L /Y /C

This closes all applications on the remote machine and restarts it.

The uptime utility is handy when troubleshooting server stability:

uptime

This displays how long the system has been running since the last restart.

You can also view server configuration details:

srvinfo \\SERVER01

The above command returns information about the operating system, memory, processors, and installed services.