Windows

Remote File Access with WebDAV & IIS

Devin A. Rychetnik — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:34:21 GMT

WebDAV & IIS--A remote file access solution to consider: http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3680911.

Kerberos Authentication Protocol

Devin A. Rychetnik — Wed, 30 May 2007 06:56:13 GMT

I was curious to understand Kerberos on a much deeper level so I decided to gather some resources in order to learn what was really going on under the hood:

Kerberos Wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_%28protocol%29

Kerberos Explained (Windows Server 2000)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/maintain/security/kerberos.mspx

Introduction to Kerberos Webcast (Windows Server 2000)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822248

Kerberos Auth in Windows Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/security/kerberos/default.mspx

Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4120.txt

Thread Synchronization in Windows Vista

Devin A. Rychetnik — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:27:00 GMT

Here is a useful article containing an overview of the new simplified thread synchronization capabilities in Windows Vista: http://www.codeguru.com/columns/kate/article.php/c13387/. These include CONDITION_VARIABLE, AcquireSRWLockExclusive/ReleaseSRWLockExclusive, and AcquireSRWLockShared/ReleaseSRWLockShared.

Windows Kernel Changes in Vista

Devin A. Rychetnik — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:19:00 GMT

Mark Russinovich has written an interesting article that covers some of the Windows kernel improvements in Vista. These include CPU cycle counting, the multimedia class scheduler service, file-based symbolic links, I/O completion and cancellation, and I/O priority.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/02/VistaKernel/default.aspx

Nice Rootkits Review

Devin A. Rychetnik — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:59:00 GMT

This review on rootkits might save you some day: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196901062&pgno=1.

Windows SysInternals Site on TechNet & New Process Monitor Tool

Devin A. Rychetnik — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:35:00 GMT

The new Windows SysInternals website has been up, but I just noticed today: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx.

The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information and Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications. If you have a question about a tool or how to use it, please visit the Sysinternals Forum for answers and help from other users and our moderators.

Also, the new Process Monitor tool has been announced: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/processesandthreads/processmonitor.mspx.

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more. Its uniquely powerful features will make Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit.

Process Monitor runs on Windows 2000 SP4 with Update Rollup 1, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Windows Vista as well as x64 versions of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows Vista.

How Deep Do You Want to Go?

Devin A. Rychetnik — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:39:00 GMT

I've known about Channel 9 for quite some time, but a colleague of mine just shared the Going Deep section of it with me today. Here is a short description of what it is:

“Charles Torre travels around Microsoft to meet the company’s leading Architects and Engineers to discuss the inner workings of our core technologies. Going Deep is primarily concerned with how things work, why they are designed the way they are, and how they will evolve over time.“

Check out the current line-up of videos it offers:

Arun Kishan - Process Management in Windows Vista
Programming in the Age of Concurrency: Software Transactional Memory
Programming in the Age of Concurrency: The Accelerator Project
Singularity IV: Return of the UI
Singularity III: Revenge of the SIP
Doron Holan - Kernel Mode Driver Framework
Barry Bond: Emulation, Emulation, Emulation
PhotoSynth: What. How. Why.
CCR Programming - Jeffrey Richter and George Chrysanthakopoulos
'SQL Everywhere Edition' - What. How. Why.
ADO.NET Entity Framework: What. How. Why.
Rob Relyea - There's Something About XAML
Diving into the Vista Heap
InfoCard - Deep Architecture
Louis Lafreniere - VC++ backend compiler
Greg Schechter: Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF) Architecture
Jim Hogg: Phoenix Framework
Windows Shell Architecture
Going Deep: Richard Ward - Engineering security into Windows Vista
Oughtness, Isness and the world of systems management
WPF Imaging
Virtualization
Eugene Lin and Jason Cobb - Windows Plug and Play
Rob Short (and kernel team) - Going deep inside Windows Vista's kernel architecture
Vista Audio Stack and API
Concurrency and Coordination Runtime
Surendra Verma: Vista Transactional File System
Singularity Revisited
Landy Wang - Windows Memory Manager
Windows, NT Object Manager
Singularity: A research OS written in C#
Chris Anderson - Talking shop about Avalon
Nar Ganapathy - Windows, the IO Manager and Driver Model, Part II
Nar Ganapathy - Windows, the IO Manager and Driver Model , Part I
Windows, NT Cache Manager - Molly Brown - Part II
Windows, NT Cache Manager - Molly Brown
Windows, Part IV - Dave Probert
Windows, Part III - Dave Probert
Windows, Part II - Dave Probert
Windows, Part I - Dave Probert
Neal Christiansen - Inside File System Filter, part II
Neal Christiansen - Inside File System Filter, part I

I've got a whole lot of viewing time ahead of me.

Concurrent Programming for Windows

Devin A. Rychetnik — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 06:43:00 GMT

I came across a few useful articles on AMD's developer website about programming Windows applications to take advantage of multi-core machines:

Taking Advantage of Concurrent Programming for Windows, Part 1: The Simplest Multi-core Parallelism That Could Possibly Work
http://www.devx.com/amd/Article/32246

Taking Advantage of Concurrent Programming for Windows, Part 2: Multi-core Programming in .NET
http://www.devx.com/amd/Article/32301

Share Computers with the New Microsoft Toolkit

Devin Rychetnik — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:16:00 GMT

I just found out about this free software from Microsoft for sharing computers with Windows XP. It is called the Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx. It is particularly useful for places such as libraries or schools providing public access to computers, but I immediately thought of its application in another area. I am hoping that at least one person out there reading this post is involved in setting up shared computer labs for underprivileged countries and could benefit from using something like this.

Create a Setup Package for a Windows Service

Devin Rychetnik — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:21:00 GMT

I used this article once before and today I had to find it again: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbwlkwalkthroughcreatingwindowsserviceapplication.asp. (There was just one step that I was forgetting to do.)