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Windows 7 for XP ProfessionalsUpdating Support Skills from XP to Windows 7by Bink.nu's Raymond Comvalius
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This download package is intended for Microsoft Premier Customers Only. This package includes all of the scoping tools necessary to prepare and qualify your environment to receive a Risk and Health Assessment Program for Windows Desktop (WDRAP).
The Microsoft® Services Risk and Health Assessment Program for Windows Desktop is a proactive, Premier Offering to assess the health, performance, and efficiency of Windows Vista® and Windows® XP-based desktop and portable computers. The Risk and Health Assessment Program for Windows Desktop (WDRAP) performs over 500 in-depth tests against a group of your desktop and portable computers and your IT operational procedures. WDRAP collects required configuration data, analyzes it to identify settings that deviate from recommended best practices, and generates remediation recommendations. This enables the enterprise to make sure that computers are optimally configured and maintained in order to provide a dependable and well-performing platform for business applications.
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This is small tool that adds Attach and Detach option to contextual (aka right-click) menu of Virtual disk (vhd) files. That enables those operations to be done without trip to Disk Management console. Detach option is available on hard drive contextual menu also.
Additionally program can be used as classic utility in order to see various information about virtual disk, even without attaching it.
Do notice that this program only works with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Older operating systems are not supported.
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SyncToy 2.1 is a free application that synchronizes files and folders between locations. Typical uses include sharing files, such as photos, with other computers and creating backup copies of files and folders.
There are files from all kinds of sources that we want to store and manage. Files are created by our digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops. Increasingly, computer users are using different folders, drives, and even different computers (such as a laptop and a desktop) to store, manage, retrieve and view files. Yet managing hundreds or thousands of files is still largely a manual operation. In some cases it is necessary to regularly get copies of files from another location to add to primary location; in other cases there is a need to keep two storage locations exactly in sync. Some users manage files manually, dragging and dropping from one place to another and keeping track of whether the locations are synchronized in their heads. Other users may use two or more applications to provide this functionality.
Now there is an easier way. SyncToy, a free PowerToy for Microsoft Windows, is an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories. Most common operations can be performed with just a few clicks of the mouse, and additional customization is available without additional complexity. SyncToy can manage multiple sets of folders at the same time; it can combine files from two folders in one case, and mimic renames and deletes in another case. Unlike other applications, SyncToy actually keeps track of renames to files and will make sure those changes get carried over to the synchronized folder.
SyncToy2.1 is powered by the latest synchronization engine from Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0 and provides better performance and robustness. The new features and improvements included in SyncToy 2.1 release are:
Please continue to send us feedback about our tool, using the SyncToy - File Synchronization forum (listed below). Note: We've taken great care to ensure that this tool operates as it should, but it is not part of Windows and is not supported by Microsoft Technical Support. For this reason, Microsoft Technical Support is unable to answer questions about SyncToy. To speak to other users and contribute feedback about your experiences with SyncToy, please use the SyncToy forum at http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/synctoy/threads.
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Login Virtual Session Index (Login VSI), is a free and easy to use benchmarking methodology from Login Consultants. The Login VSI is a complete toolset that allows you to easily compare scalability all of today's major virtualization platforms and technologies. Login VSI supports most recent Windows OS’s (including 32 and 64bit), Office 2003 and 2007, all major application streaming technologies and most importantly both SBC and VDI. The next beta (out in a couple of weeks), will also include full support for benchmarking VDI environments.
Because the setup is so simple there is an infinite amount of combinations and technologies you can now compare. For instance, you can also measure the relative impact of a virus scanner or performance optimization technologies. Additionally, Login VSI will be a perfect tool to compare scalability of different virtualization platforms.
Login VSI can be download from http://www.loginconsultants.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=20&Itemid=149
Many of you have seen the New York Times reader application - it was featured as part of the portfolio I've been building up of Great WPF Applications. As I mentioned at the time, the New York Times reader is based on an SDK that we built to allow newspapers and content publishers to create rich, "occasionally-connected" experiences based on the flow layout capabilities in WPF. We've had a private beta program running for a while now, and over the intervening months there have been a number of other newspapers that have gone live with applications using this toolkit.
Now we're delighted to announce the public release of the reader toolkit on windowsclient.net. We've made a number of improvements to the kit to broaden its usage; the reader toolkit is now known by the rather more accurate but slightly less memorable name: the Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit. This reflects its potential to go beyond a news reading scenario and handle other kinds of data synchronization and display needs. For example, you could use this as the basis of a client for financial data analysis, where the application downloaded stock prices and other financial information and presented it in a rich client experience (Lab49, are you listening?!)
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Brandon from Windows Experience Blog recently had a chance to give one of the components of MDOP - the Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) 6.0 - a try:
DaRT is an excellent set of tools for IT Professionals to troubleshoot unresponsive PCs and removing viruses and malware off infected PCs in their environment. DaRT 6.0 also now has the ability for IT Professionals to conduct offline removal of malware and viruses from infected PCs.
The first thing I noticed when I started using DaRT is that it provides two options to the IT Professional: a way to analyze crash files from unresponsive PCs through the Crash Analysis Wizard, and a way to create a startup disc with the necessary tools in fixing an unresponsive PC that is unable to boot into Windows called ERD Commander.
I first took a look at the Crash Analysis Wizard.
The Crash Analysis Wizard allows an IT Professional to take a crash dump file (*.dmp files associated with a system crash) and analyze it and get important bits of information that could help figure out why a PC is crashing. I have an old .dmp file from a crash a long time ago I dug up to run through the Crash Analysis Wizard. The Crash Analysis Wizard requires the Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows as a prerequisite so before proceeding in analyzing my .dmp file, I had to install that first. I was also able to specify any Symbol files I had as well. I had no Symbols to provide so I skipped to choosing the specific .dmp file I wanted to analyze.
Once I choose the .dmp files - I clicked next and the analysis commenced.
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ADInsight is an LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) real-time monitoring tool aimed at troubleshooting Active Directory client applications. Use its detailed tracing of Active Directory client-server communications to solve Windows authentication, Exchange, DNS, and other problems.
ADInsight uses DLL injection techniques to intercept calls that applications make in the Wldap32.dll library, which is the standard library underlying Active Directory APIs such ldap and ADSI. Unlike network monitoring tools, ADInsight intercepts and interprets all client-side APIs, including those that do not result in transmission to a server. ADInsight monitors any process into which it can load it’s tracing DLL, which means that it does not require administrative permissions, however, if run with administrative rights, it will also monitor system processes, including windows services.
AD Insight works on Windows 2000 and higher.
Other updated Sysinternal tools:
ADInsight v1.0: Introducing ADInsight, an LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) real-time monitoring tool aimed at troubleshooting Active Directory client applications. Use it’s detailed tracing of Active Directory client-server communications to solve Windows authentication, Exchange, DNS, and other problems.
Process Explorer v11.04: This update fixes a memory leak in the threads tab.
ADExplorer v1.01: This release of ADExplorer, an Active Directory browser/editor, fixes a number of minor issues.
Process Monitor v1.26: This release of Process Monitor contains minor bug fixes.
BgInfo v4.12: Improved reporting of CPU cores and logical processors for multi-core and multi-proc machines.
Psexec v1.91: allows standard users to use -l switch again
DebugView v4.73: fixes race condition that could hang system on first run
Wish you could get a network capture from a computer with no capture software installed? Wish you could have a network traffic "flight recorder" on a USB key? Here's your answer!"
The motivation behind creating this tool was to provide an extremely simple way to get a trace from an end user. And the name says it all, though maybe a small bit of false advertisement as it may take a bit more than just one click :). Once you have it downloaded to your machine, you can launch the executable and it will lead you through some simple dialogs that install the tool and start a trace. Once the trace is complete, which means it was manually stopped by the user or the default time of 2 hours have passed, a window will be opened to the location for the capture, called OneClick.cap.
One Click Autorun: The main scenario is a customer who has network access and can simply click on the EXE from a share or get the tool locally using the internet. Running this version will install NM 3.1 on your machine (if you do not already have a previous version of NM 3) and begin capturing. The capture will terminate after 2 hours, or if you press the 'x' key on your keyboard. If you did not have NM3 on your machine previously, NM 3.1 will subsequently be uninstalled.
Extract Only: For this scenario, the user doesn’t have network access at all. This version is tailor made for use with a USB drive to be inserted into a problem machine. If you place the files on the root of a flash drive, One Click will run automatically when you insert the drive. You can also run One Click by double clicking the file "OneClick.cmd" in the destination folder. The resulting capture will be copied back onto the USB device.
First thing I should mention is if you are running on Vista and don’t have NM3.1 previously installed or you are not a member of the Netmon User’s group, then you will need to run the EXE with elevated rights. Just right click the EXE and select “Run as Administrator”.
When you launch the One Click tool, it will prompt you with a EULA dialog. Assuming you accept the terms, then click YES. Remember that we do install a driver for Vista in cases where NM3 is not already installed. Also one caveat here is that if NM3.0 is installed, we use that driver rather than installing a new one. The disadvantage here is that NM3.0 can’t do wireless monitor mode or RAS capturing.
Once you accept the EULA, a CMD prompt dialog with a red background and white text shows up. We leverage NMCap for this job which is a command line utility, hence the CMD window. The window contains instructions as to where the capture file will be put by default. If you want to change this location, you can type a new one now.
If you choose the default be pressing enter, the capture will be started. At this point typing X on the keyboard will stop the capture once you are done. If you don’t press the X key, the capture will complete after 2 hours.
When the capture completes, an explorer window will open to the location where the capture file was stored. This allows the user to simply send the file to you in email or upload it to a location where it can be accessed by the original requestor.
If multiple captures are taken with the tool, the current OneClick.cap file will be renamed and appended with an incrementing number on the end.
At this point we are beta testing the tool. So the only means of getting it is on the Network Monitor project on http://connect.microsoft.com. When you join the project, you will see both the Auto-run and Extract Only packages in the download section. Once we release the tool, we will make it available on the Microsoft Download site as this is more convenient, which is our goal for this tool.