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You’ve seen the news if you’re my friend on Facebook , follow me on Twitter , or subscribe to the Sysinternals blog : I’m proud to announce that my first novel, a cyberthriller entitled Zero Day , is due to be published by St. Martin’s Press in mid-March...(read more)

My last blog post described how to use local kernel debugging to change the colors of the Windows crash screen, also known as the “blue screen of death”. No doubt many of you thought that showing off a green screen of death or red screen of death to your...(read more)

Note: for an easier way to customize the blue screen’s colors, see my next blog post, “ Blue Screens in Designer Colors with One Click ”. Seeing a bluescreen that’s not blue is disconcerting, even for me, and based on the reaction of the TechEd audiences...(read more)

If you’ve seen one of my Case of the Unexplained presentations (like the one I delivered at TechEd Europe last month that’s posted for on-demand viewing ), you know that I emphasize how thread stacks are a powerful troubleshooting tool for diagnosing...(read more)

When Dave Solomon and I were writing the 3 rd edition of the Windows Internals book series Inside Windows 2000 back in 1999, we pondered if there was a way to enable kernel debuggers like Windbg and Kd (part of the free Debugging Tools for Windows package...(read more)

I have been talking with a number of customers, CSOs, CIOs and industry professionals over the past few weeks and I realized that the availability and benefits of using the Server Core option of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 was not as widely known as I think it should be.  Windows Server Core provides a minimal installation environment for running specific server roles, which reduces the maintenance and management requirements and the attack surface for those server roles.  The following roles are supported in Windows Server 2008 R2:

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