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15 Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins

Microsoft offers great tools for enhancing your server-side experience, but open source has impressive options as well

There are a meaningful number of open source tools that go above and beyond what Microsoft has to offer in support of Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint -- and for free. We've compiled a list of the top open source tools for your Windows-based systems.

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