Ran into a case today where each time we tried to start sidebar.exe it would fail silently. No crash to investigate, no error, so where to next? First I set an IFEO for sidebar.exe to launch windbg.exe when started, by doing this it stops at the initial...

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http://www.hamaddarwish.com/content/index.html If you like the cool filters used in some of the vista backgrounds there are others available for high-res download. Excerpt: Below, is a photo collection of the images taken during Microsoft's Windows Vista...

In some cases you might find that you need to scan the event logs locally on a server core machine because you cant access the server remotely for whatever reason. Wevtutil.exe is built into the OS to allow you to do just that. You can use it on regular...

sl.exe Download Now It’s just like portqry but with some things that make it beneficial for scripts… Much faster, multiple ports input and output via file. My syntax would be something like this for checking the ports for multiple DCs... sl.exe -f ips...

For those of you out there who want to do crash and hang dump analysis this is a good technet webcast to watch, to get an idea of what you need to do to invesitgate dumps. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID...

If you want to see what else is coming your way fro SP2 check out this link . This is nice, because we all know when you scan your enterprise for the DNS tests in can be a bit verbose.... New options have been added to the Dcdiag.exe Domain Name System...