Playing in the Sandbox

[Bloodfire]

Being the guy making his way into the higher tiers of the IT world, I am poking around on different stuff to do when troubleshooting, remote access, linux stuff, and the like. One in particular term that has caught my eye is Sandbox. I am looking for a good sandbox program to mess around with, I looked around and found a program called Sandboxie, but not sure if it is good or not.

Also, what would one recommend for remote access stuff? should I just use win7's remote access or is there another recommended program?

If anyone would have a recommended list of programs I can put on say a flash drive and use it for doing troubleshooting and other neat technical stuff, I'd appreciate it much.

Thx in advance.

[Kylewhataru]

For remote access I've used VNC, gotomypc, logmein, etc. gotomypc was the best but it's expensive, not something that I could actually pay for, it's like $20/month per system you install it on, my company provided for that however.

Also, I liked logmein because of their smartphone apps, it's cool to just check in on something while you're on the go, but overall the quality is not anywhere near as good gotomypc.

I've heard Windows remote desktop is generally considered rubbish, I've only used it for small time stuff though so IDK.

[Zhais]

I haven't had too much trouble at all with Windows remote desktop. Granted, it's been on internal servers only for VMs and not all that 'remote'. Not sure how the performance is versus other apps.

[Dmitry]

Where I work, we use Dameware. It has some nice features, but needs to be installed on the machines you connect to I believe. I'm not sure of the cost for it.