Not My Fault Driver Test Program

 IT Admin Tips, Tools  3 Responses »
Oct 292009
 

One of the hardest things as an IT Pro is to recreate a situation.  There are a few tools out there that help you recreate problems that impact your systems on a daily basis.  One of these programs is Not My Fault written by Mark Russinovich.  This tool demonstrates several different issues like driver bugs, overrunning buffers, and memory leaks.  As you can see from from the picture below there are several different options you can choose from.  You can get this great tool from following the link below and downloading notmyfault.zip.  So now you know longer have an excuse as an IT pro that you can’t recreate a memory leak or driver issue.  Download the program now and start practicing how you identify these issues.

Not My Fault Download Link From Sysinternals
http://download.sysinternals.com/files/notmyfault.zip

Not My Fault Driver Crash Test Program

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Spotlight On Windows By Quest

 IT Admin Tips, Tools  No Responses »
Oct 212009
 

Quest Software has allot of great products on the market.  As a windows administrator we are always looking for great tools to help us troubleshoot problems quickly.  The FREE tool called spotlight on windows does a great job at finding the bottleneck on servers.  No matter what your experience level you have, this tool will help you.  The graphical interface gives you a quick snapshot of what the server is currently doing.  Some of the things it shows is network utilization, cpu utilization, physical memory utilization, and disk capacity.  If there is an issue the area will turn either orange or red depending on how bad the problem is.   Another nice feature is you can drill down into each individual area and get more information.  Each drill down area provides and explanation of exactly what you are looking at.  I do have to warn you that this tool can become addictive because of all the information it can provide in a quick snapshot.  You can download the program directly from the quest software site.  I strongly urge you to at least download and try it out.  I think you will learn quickly that this tool can make you look like genius.

Quest Software – Spotlight On Windows
http://www.quest.com/spotlight-on-windows/

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Great Video On KMS

 Learning  No Responses »
Aug 292009
 

There are always allot of questions about how volume licensing is handled.  Microsoft TechNet has a great video that talks about volume activation and KMS.  This video covers how KMS will work with Windows 7 and Server 2008.  One of the things out of the video that I found useful is that the systems need to be able to check back in with that KMS server ever 180 days.  Check out the video over there and let me know what you think.

TechNet Volume Activation Video
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dd936198.aspx

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