14 DAY TRIAL // April has been a busy month for Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich, and the small team that is supporting the Windows Sysinternals development efforts. On April 1st, Process Explorer version 12.01 was offered for download, following the introduction of an update designed to resolve an issue that did not allow the DEP status to be shown on Windows XP and that also caused process properties dialog threads page not to display service names on Windows Vista. Today, Microsoft introduced new updates to a range of Windows Sysinternals products, including LiveKd v4.0, AccessChk v5.0, LogonSessions v1.2 and several PsTools.
Of course, the latest refresh to Windows Sysinternals also brings to the table all the updates released earlier this month by Microsoft. In mid-April 2010, the Redmond company started offering Process Monitor v2.9, Process Explorer v12.02, and Testlimit v5.02. On the very same day, IT professionals leveraging Sysinternals were able to take advantage of a new update to Process Explorer, namely version 12.03.
Curtis Metz, program manager, Microsoft Sysinternals, provided all the details of the latest updates made available for Windows Sysinternals components:
“LiveKd v4.0: This major update to LiveKd, a utility that enables a local read-only kernel debugging of an on-line system, supports > 64 processors, includes numerous reliability enhancements, and new switch, -o, that generates a live kernel dump without having to launch a kernel debugger (thanks to Ken Johnson).
“AccessChk v5.0: A command-line tool for viewing the effective permissions on files, registry keys, services, processes, kernel objects, and more, adds a new option to dump un-interpreted access control lists, an option to ignore inherited ACEs, distinguishes between file and directory permissions, and includes several bug fixes.
“PsTools Updates: These PsTools utilities have been updated to fix several bugs, including one that sometimes prevented them from performing remote registry access - PsExec, PsGetSid, PsInfo, PsList, PsLoggedOn, PsLogList, and PsService.
“LogonSessions v1.2: LogonSessions is updated to work on 64-bit Windows for x64.”
The latest release of the Sysinternals Suite is available for download here.