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title: External utilities
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Kentico AD Import Utility](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/external-utilities/kentico-ad-import-utility.md)
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> Import users and groups from your Active Directory domain into Kentico.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Kentico Import Toolkit](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/external-utilities/kentico-import-toolkit.md)
>
> Import data from just about any database into Kentico.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Kentico Installation Manager](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/external-utilities/kentico-installation-manager.md)
>
> Install, update, and maintain your Kentico instances from one place.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Kentico Hotfix and Upgrade Utility](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/external-utilities/kentico-hotfix-and-upgrade-utility.md)
>
> Apply a hotfix or upgrade your Kentico instance to a new version.

> **Info:** 
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> ####  [Kentico Service Manager](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/external-utilities/kentico-service-manager.md)
>
> Install and manage Windows services that come with Kentico.

Many of the utilities are part of the Kentico installation on your machine by default, while some need to be downloaded. To learn how to launch the utilities, see the linked sections of the documentation for each utility.