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Sysinternals January Release

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Jan 202012

Sysinternals is still has some of the best administrations tools out there. They continue to updated on a continued basis thanks to Mark Russinovich. The latest update included updates to CoreInfo and Process Explorer. Check out the links below for more information on Sysinternals.

Process Explorer

Sysinternals Main Site
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals

Sysinternals Download Site
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062

Mark Russinovich Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2012/01/05/3473797.aspx

Mark Russinovich’s Upcoming Events
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963883

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Windows 8 Talk At CES

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Jan 162012

This video is from CES and talks about Windows 8. Tami Reller, Chief Marketing Officer of Windows, gives the crowd a demo. The video shows off a number of features that Windows 8 has to offer along with the confirmation that there will be a beta coming in February 2012. Are you going to download it?

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PAL Version 2.1 Released

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Jan 152012

PAL version 2.1 was released on November 8, 2011. I just wanted to take a few minutes to create another post so hopefully more people will hear about this great tool. PAL stands for Performance Analysis Of Logs and is hosted on SourceForge. Clint Huffman who is a premier field engineer (PFE) for Microsoft is the main contributor to the project.

PAL is used to read performance logs from Windows and analyze them based on thresholds that are set. From the SourceForge website here are some of the features.

Thresholds files for most of the major Microsoft products such as IIS, MOSS, SQL Server, BizTalk, Exchange, and Active Directory.
An easy to use GUI interface which makes creating batch files for the PAL.ps1 script.
A GUI editor for creating or editing your own threshold files.
Creates an HTML based report for ease of copy/pasting into other applications.
Analyzes performance counter logs for thresholds using thresholds that change their criteria based on the computer’s role or hardware specs.

In the future plan on looking for some tutorials on how to use PAL. In the meantime please check out the links below. If you have used to tool please leave me a comment on how you liked it.