... 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. ... 2.3.4 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...
... 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 ... 252HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and thus cannot affect the operation of applications on the system. Nonprivileged users and applications can read systemwide data and can add new keys and values to systemwide...
... Policy just keeps getting bigger and more powerful. The new categories of GP settings in the client and server WindowsServer2008 platforms seem to be eminently useful and practical. The only downside ... intriguing name: "Virtualize file and registry write failures to per-userlocations." This is on by default, and it allows Vista andWindowsServer2008 to provide greater compatibilitywith ... sleight of hand) Windows group membership, through a Group Policytechnique called security group filtering.With the advent of Microsoft's WindowsServer2008 technologies – that is, Windows...
... 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 WindowsServer2008andWindows ... 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...
... credential providers and display the Windows logon interface to users. This process is started on demand whenever Winlogon needs to present a user interface to the user, and it exits after the ... remove this watermark. 464 Windows applications can add and remove user rights from an account by using the LsaAddAccountRights and LsaRemoveAccountRights functions, and they can determine what ... 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...
... the new GroupPolicy settings that Windows Vista andWindows2008Server are bringing to the table, check out my whitepaper titled Windows 2008Serverand New Group Policy Settings.)New ... the Windows server2008 platform) based on XML. If you haven't boned up on XML yet, now would be a goodtime to do so,because it crops up all over the place in Windows server2008and ... during the transition to Windowsserver2008. Before we get into some of the good things that the new ADMX files do for us, I should point out that Windows server2008and Vista can continue to...
... ■ 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 ... through D3. State D0 is fully on, and state D3 is fully off. The ACPI standard leaves it to individual drivers and devices to define the meanings of states D1 and D2, except that state D1 must ... 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 process through...
... (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 ... which path to use for routing requests and error detection mechanisms to inform Windows when a path fails. MPIO support is available for WindowsServer2008 in the form of the Microsoft MPIO...
... 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 ... data are mapped into the virtual address space in Windows: per-process private code and data, sessionwide code and data, and systemwide code and data. As explained in Chapter 1, each process ... call the Windows CreateFileMapping or CreateFileMappingNuma function, specifying the file handle to map it to (or INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE for a page-filebacked section) and optionally a name and security...