Issue 1: System Management

Administrators often write custom monitoring programs to make sure their daemons are providing the intended functionality. But simple shell tools are just as well suited to this task, and not just for systems that are low on resources.

Because Microsoft's legacy VPN protocol, PPTP, has a couple of vulnerabilities, SSTP, which routes data via an SSL connection, was introduced as the new VPN protocol with Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7.