Archives
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Update: ZoomIt v4.41
ZoomIt v4.41: This update fixes a bug in ZoomIt v4.4 that prevented it from running on 32-bit Windows XP.
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Updates: DebugView v4.81, ProcDump v5.11, ZoomIt v4.4
DebugView v4.81: Version 4.81 of DebugView, a utility that logs user and kernel-mode
debug output messages, fixes a bug that could cause it on some executions
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Updates: AdExplorer v1.44, Contig v1.7, Coreinfo v3.2, Procdump v5.1
AdExplorer v1.44: This release fixes a bug that caused AdExplorer to crash when it encountered corrupted extended rights schemas.
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The Case of the Unexplained FTP Connections
A key part of any cybersecurity plan is “continuous monitoring”, or enabling auditing and monitoring throughout a network environment and configuring automated analysis of the resulting logs to identify anomalous behaviors that merit investigation. This...(read more)
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Simplifying Big Data Interop – Apache Hadoop on Windows Server & Windows Azure
(This blog was originally posted on our Interoperability blog)
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Updates: Coreinfo v3.1, Desktops v2.0, Livekd v5.3, PsPasswd v1.23, Testlimit v5.22, Whois v1.11
Coreinfo v3.1: This update to Coreinfo, a command line utility that reports detailed information about a system’s processor topology, CPU features, and cache topology, fixes a bug affecting the calculation of NUMA node costs and adds support for several more processor features, including RDRAND, LAHF/SAHF, Prefetchw and Intel Speedstep.
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Windows Internals 6th Edition Part 2 Published, and Mark Talks Sysinternals History on Defrag Tools
Windows Internals 6th Edition, Part 2 Published: Part 2 of Windows Internals 6th Edition, is now available. The 6th edition covers kernel and system changes in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and adds 250 pages of expanded feature coverage and hand-on experiments.
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New: PsPing v1.0; Updates: DebugView v4.8, Process Explorer v15.23, Sigcheck v1.81
PsPing v1.0: PsPing is a new Sysinternals PsTools command-line utility for measuring network performance. In addition to standard ICMP ping functionality, it can report the latency of connecting to TCP ports, the latency of TCP round-trip communication between systems, and the TCP bandwidth available to a connection between systems. Besides obtaining min, max, and average values in 0.01ms resolution, you can also use PsPing to generate histograms of the results that are easy to import into spreadsheets.
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TypeScript: an open and interoperable language
Today Microsoft announced the release of the TypeScript preview, a new open and interoperable language for application scale JavaScript development. The TypeScript compiler is available as open source on CodePlex.
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Updates: Autoruns v11.34, ProcDump v5.0, Sigcheck v1.8, VMMap v3.11
Autoruns v11.34: This release of Autoruns fixes a bug that caused it to not show some Internet Explorer extensions.
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Windows Azure Host Updates: Why, When, and How
Windows Azure’s compute platform, which includes Web Roles, Worker Roles, and Virtual Machines, is based on machine virtualization. It’s the deep access to the underlying operating system that makes Windows Azure’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) uniquely...(read more)
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MS Open Tech is hiring - come join the fun!
I can hardly believe it’s been almost four months since we announced the foundation of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Boy, have we been busy: Redis, JQuery Mobile, OData, HTTP 2.0, Doctrine, Symfony, Apache Solr, Windows Azure tools for Mac and Linux, Eclipse, Apache Cordova, MongoDB, CouchDB, EntityFramework, ASP.net MVC 4, Web API, Web Pages, WebRTC, Wordpress… the list goes on, and the road ahead of us is nothing short of amazing. We are heading towards one of the most important years in Microsoft history and everyone in MS Open Tech is excited and busy advancing our journey into openness.
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Windows Server Hyper-V is now a hypervisor for FreeBSD
As noted on the Openness@Microsoft blog this morning by Anandeep Pannu, Senior Program Manager for the Open Source Technical Center:
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Updates: AccessChk v5.1, Autoruns v.11.33, Coreinfo v3.05, Whois v1.1
AccessChk v5.1: This update to AccessChk, a command-line utility that shows the security settings and effective access on many object types, including registry keys and files, now reports Windows 8 claims and capabilities, shows the token of processes running as local system, lists security descriptor flags, and checks for remote interactive logon rights.
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Meet the team that is collaborating on open source projects at the MS Open Tech Hub
From Jean Paoli
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Update: ZoomIt v4.31
ZoomIt v4.31: This release fixes a bug that caused ZoomIt to sometimes report an error when dismissing the options dialog.
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MS Open Tech @ OSCON 2012
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Updates: Handle v3.5, Process Explorer v15.22, Process Monitor v3.03, RAMMap v1.21, ZoomIt v4.3
Handle v3.5: This update to Handle, a command-line utility that lists open handles, uses the most recent Process Explorer driver so that it now resolves system process handles and types.
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The Case of the Veeerrry Slow Logons
This case is my favorite kind of case, one where I use my own tools to solve a problem affecting me personally. The problem at the root of it is also one you might run into, especially if you travel, and demonstrates the use of some Process Monitor...(read more)
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Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) – open-source implementation of DMTF CIM/WBEM standards
Microsoft and The Open Group have announced the release of Open Management Infrastructure (OMI), an open source project to further the development of a production quality implementation of the DMTF CIM and WBEM standards. The Windows Management team has a blog post covering the details of OMI and the goals of the project.
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Updates: Autoruns v11.32, Process Explorer v15.21, Process Monitor v3.02, PSKill v1.15, RAMMap v1.2
Autoruns v11.32: This update fixes a bug that prevented Autoruns from correctly elevating when the Run as Administrator option is selected.
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A New Milestone For Openness On Windows Azure
Today Bill Laing, Corporate VP for Server and Cloud, announced a very important set of Windows Azure updates. With these new updates, Windows Azure is more than ever an open and easy platform to build and run applications in the cloud, and the place to be for developers who want to have choice and flexibility.
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OSBC 2012: Advancing Interoperability in the Cloud
At the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco today, Sandy Gupta, the General Manager for Microsoft’s Open Solutions Group, along with Alan Clark, Director of New Initiatives and Emerging Standards for Open Source at SUSE, announced the release of a beta version of the SUSE Manager Management Pack for System Center.
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FreeBSD to run as a first-class guest on Windows Server Hyper-V
Today, at BSDCan 2012, Microsoft and partners NetApp and Citrix announced upcoming native support for FreeBSD support on Windows Server Hyper-V.
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Announcing Trojan Horse, the Novel!
Many of you have read Zero Day , my first novel. It’s a cyberthriller that features Jeff Aiken and the beautiful Daryl Haugen, computer security experts that save the world from a devastating cyberattack. Its reviews and sales exceeded my expectations...(read more)
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Here’s to the first release from MS Open Tech: Redis on Windows
The past few weeks have been very busy in our offices as we announced the creation of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Now that the dust has settled it’s time for us to resume our regular cadence in releasing code, and we are happy to share with you the very first deliverable from our new company: a new and significant iteration of our work on Redis on Windows, the open-source, networked, in-memory, key-value data store.
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More news from MS Open Tech: announcing the open source Metro style theme for jQuery Mobile
Starting today, the Metro style theme for JQuery Mobile, the popular open source mobile user interface framework, is available for download on GitHub and can be used as a NuGet package in Visual Studio.
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Announcing one more way Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communities
In case you missed it, I just wanted to flag this blog from Jean Paoli:
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ASP.NET, Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages Open Sourced
More Open Source goodness from Microsoft today, with the announcement that we are open sourcing ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) - all with contributions - under the Apache 2.0 license.
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CodePlex now Supports Git
Great news for our CodePlex community: CodePlex now supports Git!
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New Interoperability Solutions for SQL Server 2012
I am excited to share some great news about how we are opening up the SQL Server data platform even further with expanded interoperability support through new tools that allow customers to modernize their infrastructure while maximizing existing investments and extending virtually any data anywhere.
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Facebook C# SDK submitted to the Outercurve Foundation
I am pleased to announce another open source milestone as we continue to deliver on our commitment to Interoperability: today, the Facebook C# SDK was submitted to the Outercurve Foundation’s Data, Languages, and Systems Interoperability gallery.
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Update: Microsoft, Hadoop and Big Data
I’m really excited to be able to give you an update on our strategy and product roadmap for Big Data, especially around our embrace of Apache Hadoop as part of our data platform.
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The Case of My Mom’s Broken Microsoft Security Essentials Installation
As a reader of this blog I suspect that you, like me, are the IT support staff for your family and friends. And I bet many of you performed system maintenance duties when you visited your family and friends during the recent holidays. Every time I’m visiting...(read more)
