Server Management - Portlock Boot CD

Description

The Portlock Boot CD is the essential system administrator toolkit used for professionally managing and maintaining enterprise servers. Use the Portlock Boot CD to recover data with Portlock Drive Explorer, take an image of your system with Portlock Storage Manager and view detailed information about hardware components with Portlock Device Manager.


The Portlock Boot CD is a powerful tool that enables Portlock Storage Manager to function on a system with a corrupt or non-existent OS. The Portlock Boot CD is based on the WinPE CD, which means that a Windows operating system is loaded into RAM during the CD boot sequence.


The Portlock Boot CD is based on Windows Pre-Installation Environment (WinPE) 2.1. Nearly all storage and networking hardware are supported.
Features of the Portlock Boot CD, version 5.0:


* New Menu Interface: All utilities are accessible through a new graphical user interface, including a start menu with a taskbar to access open windows.
* Portlock Drive Explorer: View files and directories on your local disks (Traditional, NSS and NTFS) and removable media and extract/copy individual files from your system to an alternate location.
* Portlock Device Manager: View detailed information on system devices. Use Portlock Device Manager to find unsupported devices and install missing drivers.
* Portlock Drive Map: Map a network drive to a specified server and/or directory and copy individual files or install a driver to and from alternate locations.
* Portlock Network Configuration: Configure your server with DHCP or a static IP. Use the included network diagnostic utility to verify your network connection and resolve network problems.
* Portlock Display Manager: Change the display configuration and resolution of the Portlock Boot CD.
* Remote Connections: Use Windows Remote Desktop or RCONIP – a Netware-based remote connection utility – to connect to your desktop or server of choice.
* Windows System Information: Obtain a wide variety of information about your system and devices, ranging from model and type to components and problem devices.
* Windows Task Manager: Use Windows Task Manager to view running processes and monitor CPU and RAM usage.
* Windows Notepad: Create and edit documents using Windows Notepad.


Note: all mentioned features are preliminary and subject to change.

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