Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P4

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P2

... variants of Windows Server 2008: Windows Web Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Standard, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, and Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based ... support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. For a detailed comparison chart of the different editions of Windows Server 2008, see www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/compare-specs.aspx. ... Client and Server Versions Windows ships in both client and server retail packages. There are six client versions of Windows Vista: Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P3

... 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 doesn’t ... called report.html 4. Open report.html and expand the DPC/ISR subsection. Expand the DPC/ISR Breakdown area, and you will see summaries of the time spent in ISRs and DPCs by each driver. For example: ... interrupt internals Using the kernel debugger, you can view details of an interrupt object, including its IRQL, ISR address, and custom interrupt dispatching code. First, execute the !idt command and...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P4

... Open 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 ... 155 The handle index identifies the handle entry in the handle table. (Zero means display all handles.) The first handle is index 4, the second 8, and so on. For example, typing !handle 4 will ... for the Desktop and WindowStation objects to prevent this behavior. Object Handles and the Process Handle Table When a process creates or opens an object by name, it receives a handle that represents...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P5

... 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. ... port, are created. The client gets a handle to the client communication port, and the server gets a handle to the server communication port. The client and the server will then use these new ports ... and requests can be sent, minimizing trips from user to kernel mode and vice versa. Finally, apart from limits on message data and header size, applications can also set bandwidth limits and...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P6

... some advanced and debug settings have no editing user interface. Therefore, both graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line tools are included with Windows to enable you to view and modify ... 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 ... your Windows installation by locating Description elements, which have an ID of 0x12000004. In the Element value of those subkeys, you should find one called Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. ...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P7

... run in session 0 and therefore share the window station with the interactive services. However, in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, only processes owned by the system and Windows services ... service’s registry key and loads the DLL into its process to start the service. Table 4-11 lists all the default service groupings on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and some of the services ... services ran in the process and takes the recovery steps specified by their failure-related registry values. Additionally, as of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, services are no longer...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P8

... routines, creates a handle for the new process by calling ObOpenObjectByPointer, and then returns this handle to the caller. 5.3.4 Stage 4: Creating the Initial Thread and Its Stack and Context At ... PspAllocateThread and PspInsertThread. PspAllocateThread handles the actual creation and initialization of the executive thread object itself, while PspInsertThread handles the creation of the thread handle ... to see the handles. 2. Select Lsm.exe from the list of processes, and look at the handle table. Make sure that the lower pane is shown (View, Show Lower Pane) and is displaying handle table...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P9

... issuing authority, and RIDs are simply a way for Windows to create unique SIDs based on a common-base SID. Because SIDs are long and Windows takes care to generate truly random values within ... first calls ObpIncrementHandleCount to see if the thread has permission to access the object, and if the thread does, ObpCreateHandle calls the executive function ExCreateHandle to create the entry ... an object using an existing handle. Such references often occur indirectly, as when a process calls on a Windows API to manipulate an object and passes an object handle. For example, a thread...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P10

... signed and in one of several secure locations, including %SystemRoot% and %ProgramFiles%. Note Threads created by Csrss (which is responsible for console windows and, by extension, all command-line ... server. A process can specify SECURITY_ANONYMOUS, SECURITY_IDENTIFICATION, SECURITY_IMPERSONATION, and SECURITY_DELEGATION as flags for the Windows CreateFile function. Each level lets a server ... impersonation—the server can’t impersonate or identify the client. ■ SecurityIdentification level lets the server obtain the identity (the SIDs) of the client and the client’s privileges, but the server...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P11

... copies the data (if any) and the return status into the original caller’s address space, frees the IRP representing the I/O operation, and either sets the caller’s file handle (and any callersupplied ... input from a Terminal Server client, not the physical keyboard. We can see details about the thread and process that issued the IRP by using the !thread and !process commands: 1. lkd> !thread ... more closely, covering the various types of device drivers, how they are structured, how they load and initialize, and how they process I/O requests. Then we’ll cover the operation and roles of...

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