This is a super-heavy linkpost filled to the rim with video presentation linkages. Make sure you have some extra time and bandwidth set aside for all these.
Seriously. You think I’m joking, but all it takes is one sysadm running around careless with streaming video file links and then “bam” someone ends up loosing their bandwidth.
As tempting as it is, I’m just providing the links to the video rather than embeds of the video in a player itself. Not that Mark and the Defrag Tool guys aren’t handsome or anything, its more because I just hate seeing the Flash SWP pre-load in everyone’s web-browser when I then get behind in posting and you fans are hit with it when you land on a GSD blog page with embedded video and you aren’t using a Flash-blocking plugin, or have it disabled for my blog.
(the evidence as seen in Process Explorer as happened back from April 2013 - late June 2013 )
General philosophy: wipe the baby and keep it, toss the diapers
Why wiping decommissioned IT assets should be a must - Help Net Security - Duh.
The cost of cleaning up - ISC Diary
GrandStreamDreams blog has written heavily regarding securely wiping hard drives. It should be a no-brainer in today’s digital age…and coupled with some whole disk encryption (to boot). Likewise I just can’t grasp how it is cheaper to trash 170 PC’s because they were infected rather than having a secure-wipe/standard-image reload process. Don’t skip the ISC Diary article’s Comments section.
Sysinternals/Pass the Hash TechEd North America talks
Sysinternals - and Pass the Hash - at TechEd next week- Aaron Margosis' "Non-Admin" and App-Compat WebLog - These were five keynote talks back from June. In case you couldn’t stop by New Orleans last month, you got some serious catching up to do now!
- License to Kill: Malware Hunting with the Sysinternals Tools - Channel 9 - Mark Russinovich presenting
- Case of the Unexplained 2013: Windows Troubleshooting with Mark Russinovich - Channel 9 - Mark Russinovich presenting
- Sysinternals Primer: TechEd 2013 Edition - Channel 9 - Aaron Margosis presenting
- Pass the Hash and Other Credential Theft and Reuse: Preventing Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation - Channel 9 - Aaron Margosis, Mark Simos presenting
- Defrag Tools: Live - TechEd USA 2013 - Channel 9 - Andrew Richards presenting
The Case of…
Case of the Slow Logon – Anti-Virus vs 3rd Party Application - chentiangemalc
Case of the Windows 8 Explorer Hang – Part 1 - chentiangemalc
Defrag Tools takes on Windows Performance Toolkit
You may recall the GSD blog post Case of the Unexplained Donut of Death where I started out using Windows 7 Xperf tool to do some performance troubleshooting. I then jumped from it to the new WPT set in Windows 8 SDK and outlined just how amazing the level of logging detail and analysis was.
As the time there was not a considerable amount of documentation out for us mere mortals on how leverage the true power the tools contained.
No more. The team at Channel 9 has hit the ground hard with a series of videos going into the details on the tool and its features. I suspect more will come. Now I can really start figuring out what all those indicators shown above really mean!
- Defrag Tools: #39 - Windows Performance Toolkit
- Defrag Tools: #40 - WPT - WPR & WPA
- Defrag Tools: #41 - WPT - Command Line
- Defrag Tools: #42 - WPT - CPU Analysis
- Defrag Tools: #43 - WPT - Wait Analysis
- Defrag Tools: #44 - WPT - DiskIO Analysis
- Defrag Tools: #45 - WPT - File & Registry Analysis
- Defrag Tools: #46 - WPT - Driver Analysis
- Defrag Tools: #47 - WPT - MiniFilter Analysis
- Defrag Tools: #48 - WPT - Memory Analysis - Pool
Offline Windows Updating
WSUS Offline Update - I have been a longtime fan of this tool, updated a few days ago to version 8.5. I never leave my cubicle to respond to a system or re-image/deployment without it on my USB stick. It is the #1 tool I know of to help conserve bandwidth and minimize impact at a site where we are doing a deployment. It remains highly Valca recommended! If you are a Windows PC deployment tech or analyst and you don’t have this tool, you either have some super-big circuits, an internal WSUS server, or you can swagger like Beckham and just don’t care.
Portable Update - This “bravo-ware” tool is new to me. Like WSUS Offline Updater, once built you can use it to redeploy Windows/MS patches to a target system. The process seems considerably different that USUS-OU but it may work better for your needs. I’m hoping to test it soon and have a better side-by-side experience to compare them against. For more information on the tool check out the application’s How to use page as well as this AddictiveTips post: Apply Windows Update To Multiple PCs From A USB Drive While Offline.
SysAdmin Tips
Run any app under the NT Authority\Local System account - TinyApps.org - Comparison between ETS (Elevate To System) tool (it has an optional GUI) and psexec.exe from Sysinternals.
FREE: Get Local Admins GUI – Find users with administrator rights - 4sysops
How To Make UEFI Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 8 - Next of Windows
Making a better, somewhat prettier, but definitely more functional Windows Command Line - Scott Hanselman’s ComputerZen blog
How To Quickly Unlock Local Administrator Account in Windows 8 - Next of Windows
Finally a Windows Task Manager Performance tab blog! - Ask the Performance Team
SysAdmin Utility & Software Leads
Updates: Mark's TechEd Sessions, Autoruns v11.61, Strings v2.52, ZoomIt v4.5 - Sysinternals Site Discussion
Updates: Autoruns v11.6, Procexp v15.31, Procmon v3.05, Sigcheck v1.92 - Sysinternals Site Discussion
Update: Autoruns v11.62 - Sysinternals Site Discussion
Free Windows virtual machines for Mac, Linux, or Windows - TinyApps.org blog - Official developer virtual machine files for XP, Vista, WIn7 and Win 8. These are really for Internet Explorer developers but are great for other software testing purposes. Even more details here: Making Internet Explorer Testing Easier with new IE VMs - Rey Bango. Main VM’s download link here.
CopyToFlash - Foolish IT - This could be really dangerous. REALLY dangerous. Like most stuff over at Foolish IT. However it could just be dead-helpful for the right audience and application. Basically it just starts a drive monitoring process and then (with a few configuration actions) will copy the contents of a monitored source folder location to any USB flash drive that attaches to the system. Yeah. Dangerous but helpful if you are responsible for updating new content to tons of USB sticks. Oh, did you know it uses RoboCopy? Yep.
Office 2010 Service Pack 2 Released…(mostly)
Just in time after a major Office 2010 rollout at our coal-mine. Nice timing guys…
Microsoft delivers Office 2010 Service Pack 2 - ZDNet - Mary Jo Foley
Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 2 Availability - Office Sustained Engineering Blog
Description of Office 2010 SP2 - Microsoft Support
How to obtain and install the service pack
Method 1: Microsoft Update (recommended)
Note In addition to the products in the Office 2010 suite, the service pack 2687455 also updates Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010.
To download the service pack from Microsoft Update, go to the following Microsoft website:
You can opt in a computer to the Microsoft Update service, and then register that service with the Automatic updates to receive the SP2 update. Microsoft Update will detect which products that you have installed, and then apply all updates to the products.
Method 2: Download the SP2 package from Microsoft Download Center
The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
- Download the Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 32-bit package now.
- Download the Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 64-bit package now.
For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
119591 How to obtain Microsoft support files from online services
Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.
For more information about a complete list of all released SP2 desktop packages, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
2687521 List of all Office 2010 SP2 packages
Cheers,
Claus Valca
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