... main variants of WindowsServer 2008: Windows Web Server 2008, Windows
Server 2008 Standard, WindowsServer2008 Enterprise, WindowsServer2008 Datacenter, and
Windows Server2008 for Itanium-Based ... support for Windows Vista and
Windows Server2008. For a detailed comparison chart of the different editions of Windows
Server 2008, see www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/compare-specs.aspx. ... Differences Between Client andServer Versions
Windows ships in both client andserver retail packages. There are six client versions of
Windows Vista: Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista...
... uniprocessor and the APIC on a
multiprocessor by using the !pic and !apic kernel debugger commands, respectively. Here’s the
output of the !pic command on a uniprocessor. (Note that the !pic command ... KeServiceDescriptorTableShadow,
includes the Windows USER and GDI services implemented in the kernel-mode part of the
Windows subsystem, Win32k.sys. The first time a Windows thread calls a Windows USER or
GDI service, ... manager’s namespace
and information about objects (such as the reference count, the number of open handles, security
descriptors, and so forth).
■ Process Explorer and Handle from Sysinternals...
... Handles
Run Process Explorer, and make sure the lower pane is enabled and configured to show open
handles. (Click on View, Lower Pane View, and then Handles). Then open a command prompt
and ... Here’s how:
1. Launch Windows Media Player and Process Explorer, and then view the handle table (by
clicking View, Lower Pane View, and then Handles). You should see a handle containing
CheckForOtherInstanceMutex. ... ZwCreateEvent) and use handles instead of
object pointers.
Object handles provide additional benefits. First, except for what they refer to, there is no
difference between a file handle, an event handle,...
... APIs and replaces the path name of the \Windows\ System32 folder
with \Windows\ Syswow64. Wow64 also redirects \Windows\ LastGood to \Windows\ LastGood
\syswow64 and \Windows\ Regedit.exe to \Windows\ syswow64\Regedit.exe. ... Pane View, and then Handles.) We also want to look at unnamed
handles, so click on View, Show Unnamed Handles And Mappings. Now click on the Windbg.exe
process, and look at its handle table. ... other guests managed by a
Windows Server host, both client andserver editions of Windows also ship with enlightenments,
which are special optimizations in the kernel and possibly device drivers...
... drivers
to load and how various subsystems—such as the memory manager and process
manager—configure themselves and tune system behavior.
■ During logon, Explorer and other Windows components ... before Windows Vista and
adds greater flexibility and isolation of per-installation boot configuration data. (For more
information on the BCD, see Chapter 13.)
Each entry in the BCD, such as a Windows ... A log file
storing a registry trace of startup, logon, logoff, and shutdown on a Windows system will typically
be between 50 and 150 MB in size.
4.1.7 Registry Internals
In this section,...
... run in session 0 and therefore
share the window station with the interactive services. However, in Windows Vista andWindows
Server 2008, only processes owned by the system andWindows services ... 'C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows; C: \Windows\
24. system32;C: \Windows\ system;C: \Windows; .;C: \Windows\ system32;
C: \Windows;
25. C: \Windows\ System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio ... To fully
understand this chapter, you need to be familiar with the terms and concepts explained in Chapters
1 and 2, such as the difference between a process and a thread, the Windows virtual...
...
dialog box.
Windows System resource Manager
Windows Server2008 Enterprise Edition andWindowsServer2008 Datacenter Edition include an
optionally installable component called Windows System ...
Windows Vista. If you install Terminal Services on WindowsServer2008 systems and configure
the server as an application server, this setting is selected so that the users on the terminal server ... process,
and 2 means that quantum values don’t change for foreground processes. A setting of 0 or 3 means
that the default (which is variable for Windows Vista and fixed for WindowsServer 2008...
... handle interrupts that were already registered for other processors. Unfortunately,
until now, CPU-hungry applications have still been left out of this process, but WindowsServer
2008andWindows ... Lsass process and client processes and that implement Windows authentication
policy. An authentication DLL is responsible for checking whether a given user name and
password match, and if so, ... boosted to 15 and runs enough to send more data to the sound card.
7. Stop Cpustres andWindows Media Player, and start the MMCSS service again.
Priority Boosts for MultiMedia Applications and Games...
... performs an access
check involving this ACE.
The difference between allowed-object and access allowed, andbetween denied-object and
access denied, is that the object types are used only within ... list of privileges and account rights available
on Windows. Note that the tool makes no distinction between privileges and account rights.
However, you can differentiate between them because ... made up of a header and zero or more access control entry
(ACE) structures. There are two types of ACLs: DACLs and SACLs. In a DACL, each ACE
contains a SID and an access mask (and a set of flags,...
...
\Device\Serial0, and so forth. Try creating your own links with the subst command at a command
prompt
.
7.3 I/O Processing
Now that we’ve covered the structure and types of drivers and the data ... loading and unloading of device drivers so that drivers can be loaded on-demand and
not consume system resources when unneeded.
■ Support for Plug and Play, where the system locates and installs ... with the Windows QueryDosDevice and
DefineDosDevice functions.
EXPERIMENT: Viewing Windows Device Name to Windows Device Name
Mappings
You can examine the symbolic links that define the Windows...
... (FiDOs) that layer between the PDO and the FDO
(described next), and that are created by bus filter drivers.
■
One or more optional FiDOs that layer between the PDO and the FDO (and that layer ...
■ Sends the IRP to the I/O handler, which processes standard device operations
■ Sends the IRP to the PnP and power handler that processes these kinds of events and notifies
other drivers if ... responsible for managing the communication between the kernel and the user-mode
driver host process. IRPs related to power management, Plug and Play, and standard I/O are
redirected to the host...
... (VDS) subsystem in Windows, which consists of user-mode and
device driver components and oversees dynamic disks. A major difference between LDM’s
partitioning and MBR-style and GPT partitioning ... and boot
volumes is somewhat confusing. The system volume is where Windows places boot files,
including the boot loader (Winload) and Boot Manager (Bootmgr), and the boot volume is where
Windows ... adapters, cables, and switches between them and
a computer. Servers requiring high levels of availability use multipathing solutions, where more
than one set of connection hardware exists between the...
... for allocations between 1 and 8 bytes, the
second for allocations between 9 and 16 bytes, and so on, until the thirty-second bucket, which is
used for allocations between 249 and 256 bytes, ... is used
for allocations between 257 and 272 bytes, and so on. Finally, the one hundred twenty-eighth
bucket, which is the last, is used for allocations between 15,873 and 16,384 bytes. Table ...
address space. For example, on a 32-bit WindowsServer2008 system with 8 GB of physical
memory, a database server application could use AWE to allocate and use perhaps 6 GB of
memory as a database...
... million handle count, the process will fail, because
the system will have run out of address space available for paged pool allocations.
Finally, as of Windows Vista andWindowsServer 2008, the ... Randomization
The next step in ASLR is to randomize the location of the initial thread’s stack (and, subsequently,
of each new thread). This randomization is enabled unless the flag StackRandomization ... process and the stack(s) of its thread(s). Apart
from these regions (and some reserved system structures such as the TEBs and PEB), all other
memory allocations are run-time dependent and generated....
... the Windows file mapping
functions.
Note Cache coherency in this case refers to coherency between user-mapped data and cached
I/O and not between noncached and cached hardware access and I/Os, ...
client edition of Windows (Windows Server editions disable prefetching by default), you can see
the prefetcher check for and read the application’s prefetch file (if it exists), and roughly 10 ... already using a device for caching and the new device is between 256 MB and
32 GB in size, has a transfer rate of 2.5 MB per second or higher for random 4-KB reads, and has
a transfer rate of 1.75...