AppFabric Blog
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The Case of My Mom’s Broken Microsoft Security Essentials Installation
As a reader of this blog I suspect that you, like me, are the IT support staff for your family and friends. And I bet many of you performed system maintenance duties when you visited your family and friends during the recent holidays. Every time I’m visiting...(read more)
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The Case of the Installer Service Error
This case unfolds with a network administrator charged with the rollout of the Microsoft Windows Intune client software on their network. Windows Intune is a cloud service that manages systems on a corporate network, keeping their software up to date...(read more)
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Fixing Disk Signature Collisions
Disk cloning has become common as IT professionals virtualize physical servers using tools like Sysinternals Disk2vhd and use a master virtual hard disk image as the base for copies created for virtual machine clones. In most cases, you can operate with...(read more)
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The Case of the Mysterious Reboots
This case opens when a Sysinternals power user, who also works as a system administrator at a large corporation, had a friend report that their laptop had become unusable. Whenever the friend connected it to a network, their laptop would reboot. The power...(read more)
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The Case of the Hung Game Launcher
I love the cases people send me where the Sysinternals tools have helped them successfully troubleshoot, but nothing is more satisfying than using them to solve my own cases. This case in particular was fun because, well, solving it helped me get back...(read more)
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Troubleshooting with the New Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference
Aaron Margosis and I are thrilled to announce that the long awaited, and some say long overdue, official guide to the Sysinternals tools is now available ! I’ve always had the idea of writing a book on the tools in the back of my mind, but it wasn’t until...(read more)
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Analyzing a Stuxnet Infection with the Sysinternals Tools, Part 3
In the first post of this series , I used Autoruns , Process Explorer and VMMap to statically analyze a Stuxnet infection on Windows XP. That phase of the investigation revealed that Stuxnet infected multiple processes, launched infected processes that...(read more)
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The Zero Day Book Trailer
I just got back the finished version of the video trailer for my new cyber thriller Zero Day , which I think came out awesome! It’s not hard to imagine what a Zero Day movie trailer would look like. Let me know what you think. Zero Day Book Trailer...(read more)
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Analyzing a Stuxnet Infection with the Sysinternals Tools, Part 2
In Part 1 I began my investigation of an example infection of the infamous Stuxnet worm with the Sysinternals tools. I used Process Explorer , Autoruns and VMMap for a post-infection survey of the system. Autoruns quickly revealed the heart of Stuxnet...(read more)
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(WF4) Why can’t I change the TypeArgument of Switch<> or FlowSwitch<> using the property grid?
I don’t remember anyone ever actually asking me this, but I found myself wondering the question while rustling up a quick rehosting app.