· NewSID Retirement and the Machine SID Duplication Myth: Mark’s latest blog post debunks the myth that having duplicate machine SIDs causes problems, explaining why the Sysinternals NewSID tool has been retired.
· Disk2vhd v1.3: This update to Disk2vhd makes more Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 VHDs bootable by updating their MBR and boot sectors to be compatible with Hyper-V and Virtual PC and by installing the Intelide driver if it it’s not already installed. It also optimizes image creation by not copying paging and hibernation files.
· Sigcheck v1.62: This update to Sigcheck, a utility that displays file version and digital signature information, removes a file size limit for generating file hashes, works on 64-bit MSI files, and reports expired signatures.
· Process Monitor v2.8: Displays new Windows 7 CreateFile options, includes file-delete operations in the Category filter’s Write subcategory, and displays names for more IOCTLs and result codes.
· LiveKd v3.12: This release fixes compatibility with 64-bit Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
· The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault.
· Windows 7 General Availability and Mark on Channel 9
· Check out Mark’s latest Channel 9 interview on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 kernel changes, released today to coincide with Windows 7’s general availability. He talks about memory management, process reflection and more, and shows a couple of demos on a 256-processor system.
· Disk2vhd v1.1
· Disk2vhd now supports command-line options for automation and fixes a bug that could result in an “invalid user buffer” error during a conversion.
· ZoomIt v4.1
· Zoomit is a screen magnification and annotation utility that's useful for technical presentations. With this update, you can now easily switch between LiveZoom (supported on Vista and Windows 7) and drawing mode.
· Coreinfo v2.0
· `Coreinfo now supports IA64 and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems with more than 64 logical processors.
· Autoruns v9.56: This update enables Autoruns to view registry entries that have permissions only allowing the System account access and fixes a bug that caused some rundll32-hosted entries to not display correctly.
· Disk2vhd v1.0: We’re excited to announce a new Sysinternals tool, Disk2vhd, that simplifies the migration of physical systems into virtual machines (p2v). Just run Disk2vhd on the system you want to migrate and specify the volumes for which you want data included, and Disk2vhd creates a consistent point-in-time volume snapshot followed by an export of the selected volumes into one or more VHDs that you can add to a new or existing Hyper-V or Virtual PC virtual machine.
· LiveKd v3.1: This update to LiveKd, a tool that enables you to perform local kernel debugging using the Windbg tool, adds support for systems with more than 4GB of RAM and now works on x64 systems even when they aren’t booted in debugging mode.
· BgInfo v4.16: Bginfo now correctly reports Windows Server 2008 R2. ProcDump v1.6: This minor update sets the thread context in a dump file to the thread that trips the CPU threshold so that it’s stack can be viewed simply by entering a stack dump command.
· Autoruns v9.55: A bug that prevented some 64-bit entries from being disabled is addressed in this update.
· ZoomIt v4.0
· In addition to minor bug fixes, this update to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation tool, has significant improvements to the live zoom functionality that’s available on Vista and Windows 7. For example, it removes the shadow mouse, it uses a better mouse tracking algorithm and on Windows 7 it adds zoom-in and zoom-out transitions.
· Autoruns v9.5
· This update to Autoruns, a powerful autostart manager, adds display of audio and video codecs, which are gaining popularity as an extension mechanism used by malware gains automatic execution.
· PsLoglist v2.7
· PsLoglist, a command-line event log display utility, now properly displays event log entries for default event log sources on Windows Vista and higher and accepts wildcard matching for event sources.
· VMMap v1.1 - This update to VMMap, an advanced process memory analysis tool, makes it easy to view the changes between subsequent refreshes. Using the new “show changes” option enables you to measure the impact of specific application functionality by comparing memory usage before and after the functionality executes. The release also has a number of user interface improvements, such as always highlighting the currently selected listview items and making the total row’s position in the summary list sort-independent.
· Active Directory Explorer v1.2 - ADExplorer v1.2, an Active Directory object browser, adds the ability to copy the properties of an object to the clipboard, back and forward navigation shortcut keys, and an option to change the base used for integer display.
· Process Explorer 11.3
· This update to Process Explorer includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes, including a physical memory history graph, options to configure memory tray icons, asynchronous thread symbol resolution and security ID lookup, dynamic recognition of new volume drive letters, multiple character matching in the process view, and a smaller memory footprint.
· ShellRunas v1.0
· ShellRunas provides functionality similar to that of the Runas tool to launch programs as a different user via a convenient shell context-menu entry. This makes it more convenient than Runas for heavy Explorer users.
· Process Explorer v11.10
· This Process Explorer update adds a number of enhancements, including support for high DPI, display of paging and standby list sizes on Vista, and display of cycles consumed on threads tab on Vista. It also reports the COM object running inside of Dllhost processes and the tasks running inside of Vista Taskeng host processes in the process view hover tooltip.
· Mark Hosts Virtual Roundtable on Deploying Vista
· Join Mark Russinovich and a panel of industry experts and IT pros on March 5th for a live, interactive roundtable discussion on Windows Vista adoption and deployment, including challenges, workarounds, and solutions.
· Autoruns v9.0
· This major update to Autoruns shows an entrys raw launch string in its image details area, lists Explorer and IE COM classes names and icons, is aware of several more autostart locations, including additional shell extensions, Windows Vista scheduled tasks and Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets, and has better support for alternate online search engines.
· New Video: Mark on Channel 9
· Channel 9: Mark talks about working at Microsoft, the Windows Server 2008 kernel, MinWin versus Server Core, Hyper-V and application virtualization.
