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Defrag Tools: #8 - Mark Russinovich

Larry Larsen, Mark Russinovich, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:35:54 GMT

Mark Russinovich joins Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen on this episode of Defrag Tools to talk about the history of Sysinternals, his involvement with the Windows Internals book series and advice on Cybersecurity. Learn about new tools, retired tools and tools that never got completed. Get advice on troubleshooting. Get advice on how to survive a cyber attack. And much much more...

Write a comment before 24th Sept. for a chance to win a signed copy of Trojan Horse!

Blog:
Mark's Blog (TechNet) - http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/
Mark's Web Site - http://www.russinovich.com/
Sysinternals Web Site - http://www.sysinternals.com

Videos:
All of Mark's videos on Channel 9 and talks at conferences. Of note:
* Case of the Unexplained...
* Mysteries of Memory Management Revealed - Part 1, Part 2
* Malware Hunting with the Sysinternals Tools
* RSA Conference 2012 -- Zero Day: A Non-Fiction View
* Inside Windows 7
* Inside Windows 7 Redux
* Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changes
* Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Kernel Changes

Books:
Sysinternals Administrator's Reference - [Amazon]
Windows Internals books:
* 4th Edition - Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 - [Amazon]
* 5th Edition - Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 - [Amazon]
* 6th Edition - Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 - [Amazon: Part 1, Part 2]
Cybersecurity novels:
* Zero Day - A Novel - [Amazon]
* Trojan Horse - A Novel - [Amazon]
* Operation Desolation - A Short Story - [Amazon]

Timeline:
[00:00] - How did Sysinternals start?
[02:20] - Tools that never got released and tool retirement
[03:55] - The most complex tool - Process Explorer
[04:51] - Favorite tool - ZoomIt
[07:01] - Windows Internals books
[10:54] - What's the best way to learn how to troubleshoot?
[12:47] - Do traditional techniques work when analyzing viruses?
[13:49] - Cybersecurity awareness
[14:40] - Cybersecurity novels
[16:28] - Cybersecurity advice for corporations and individuals
[20:25] - White Listing
[22:53] - User Account Control (UAC)
[29:55] - Winternals vs Sysinternals vs Windows Internals
[31:08] - New Windows 8 features/support in the Sysinternals tools:
* Process Explorer v15.1
* Process Monitor v3.0
* ProcDump v5.0
* RAMMap v1.2
* DebugView v4.78
* AccessChk v5.1
[33:57] - Windows Internals 7th edition (for Windows 8)? Windows Azure Internals?
[36:47] - New tools - PsPing, RAMMap, VMMap
[40:33] - Win a signed copy of Trojan Horse!

Mark Russinovich: On Windows Azure IaaS, Sysinternals, Trojan Horse, Cybersecurity

Charles — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:06:18 GMT

Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich joins us for an impromptu conversation about what he's been up to lately. Topics include the newly added Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) support (as part of the Windows Azure June 2012 Release), virtual machines, software security, Sysinternals and Mark's soon-to-be released sequel to Zero Day, Trojan Horse. Oh yeah, and then there's Windows Internals 6, part 1. Mark's been busy...

Make sure to watch Mark's TechEd 2012 North America Windows Azure session to get much more thorough treatment of the new (and future) Windows Azure features/services Mark mentioned in this conversation.

Tune in. Enjoy.

TechEd Quick Shot - Mark Russinovich

Charles, Robert Hess — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:15:48 GMT

TechEd attendees (in both North America and Europe) are in for a treat. Mark Russinovich is a rock star when it comes to digging into the internal workings of the system. His talks are always well attended, and rich with deep technical information. At TechEd this year he will be doing several great sessions that will focus on Windows Azure, Security, and Windows Internals.

Announcing the Learn Windows Azure Live Event!

Wade Wegner — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:56:38 GMT

On Tuesday December 13th, join us LIVE from the Microsoft Redmond Campus to learn how to get started building applications for Windows Azure from Microsoft technical leaders Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell, and Mark Russinovich! The entire event will be streamed LIVE by Channel 9.

For more information please visit: http://www.learnwindowsazureevent.com/.

Watch the event LIVE here.

Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis: Introducing Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference

Charles — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:32:19 GMT

Many of you use Sysinternals tools to help you manage computing responsibilities ranging from monitoring/understanding process activity with Process Explorer to debugging Win32 code with DebugView. With over 70 utilities to choose from, Sysinternals tools cover a wide swath of computing, from the lowest levels to the highest.

For the first time, we now have a definitive guide to all of these tools: Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference.

Mark Russinovich, Technical Fellow working on the managed cloud OS kernel—you know this as the Windows Azure Fabric Controller—is the primary author of these powerful tools - all written in C and C++ (so, Mark's an expert native and managed dev). Aaron Margosis, meanwhile, is a Microsoft Consultant and Sysinternals user with expert-level knowledge and experience using Sysinternals tools. They are an important part of his job. Aaron yearned for a book that encapsulates detailed information about all of the Sysinternals tools. Mark agreed and asked Aaron to coauthor it with him—be careful what you ask for!

Here, we talk about the book, Mark demos a really cool new Sysinternals tool for GPU analysis that's not in the book, Charles randomizes the conversation, and we head all over the place (taking advantage of having Mark's undivided attention!) and even geek out a little on security. If you use Sysinternals tools, then this conversation is for you! Truly incredible work. It's hard to believe that for Mark this stuff is just a hobby.

Tune in.

Ping 96: Mark Russinovich joins us, Zero Day: A Novel, IE9 loves Firefox, 3D app for your phone

Charles, Laura Foy — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:48:06 GMT

This week, we have a very special guest host, Charles Torre and he brought with him some exciting stories and an even more exciting guest!

Mark Russinovich stops by to chat about his new book!

IE love for Firefox

Phone application creates 3D models

Cloud Cover Episode 36 - Mark Russinovich Talks Fabric Controller and Cyber Terrorism

Wade Wegner — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:50:34 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow.

In this episode, Steve and Wade are joined by Mark Russinovich, Technical Fellow at Microsoft, as they:

Discuss Mark's new book, Zero Day, and his role on the Fabric Controller team in Windows Azure
Discuss new leadership in Microsoft's Server and Tools Business
Explain the reason for the refresh to the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 refresh
Share the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February Refresh announcement

Cloud Cover has been nominated for a "Niney" award in the "Favorite Channel 9 Show" category. If you're a fan of the show, vote for us!

Show links:

Microsoft Appoints Satya Nadella as President of Server and Tools Business
Windows Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) Refresh Released
New Version of the Windows Azure Service Management CmdLets
Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February, Caching Enhancements, and the New LABS Portal
Managing the SecureString in the DataCacheSecurity Constructor

Mark Russinovich: Windows Azure, Cloud Operating Systems and Platform as a Service

Charles — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:30:45 GMT

Mark Russinovich is a Technical Fellow working on the Windows Azure team. His focus is on solving hard problems related to the Fabric Controller, which is in some sense the Windows Azure operating system kernel - it provides services and management infrastructure for the applications that run on Windows Azure.

Before joining the Windows Azure team, Mark worked in the Windows kernel engineering group and, as you probably know, Mark is one of the founders of SysInternals and is the co-author of several extremely useful tools for analyzing, measuring, monitoring and really understanding the things that happen at the lowest levels of the system like memory management, process management, threading, etc... Mark also is the co-author of the best Windows Internals books on the market. Finally, Mark is one of the highest rated speakers at Microsoft technical conferences (you must watch his PDC10 sessions!). Will he still work on Windows Internals series of books now that he is no longer on the Windows team? Is he still deeply engaged in the goings on in Windows kernel world? Is he writing SysInternals tools for Windows Azure? What is the Fabric Controller, exactly? How does it work? What's underneath the Fabric Controller?

Windows Azure is a cloud operating system. What does that mean? What are the Windows-analogous components running inside Windows Azure? What's Mark up to? How does he like the new gig? Why is platform as a service (PaaS) so important? What is PaaS, really? And more.

As usual, this is a turn-the-camera-on-and-converse interview that happened just as you see and hear it. We therefore move from topic to topic in a natural and somewhat unstructured way and yours truly probably had too much coffee before heading to Mark's office

It's always a real pleasure to get to chat with Mark. He has the uncanny ability to simplify complexity so that we can understand the meaning and reasoning behind the technology at hand without possesssing expert level knowledge or being as bright as Mark. He's one of our best and brightest technical minds and Windows Azure is lucky to have him solving hard problems and pushing the Windows Azure kernel(Fabric Controller) envelope.

Tune in.

Ch9Live at Tech.Ed NA 2010 - Ask Mark Russinovich Anything... LIVE!

Nic Fillingham — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:11:00 GMT

Charles Torre sat down with Mark Russinovich at Tech.Ed North America 2010 to answer live questions from the Tweetosphere and studio audience.

Recorded live as part of Channel 9 Live at Tech.Ed North America 2010

MSDN Radio: A Dive into Windows 7 with Mark Russinovich

MSDN Online Media — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:12:00 GMT

The new tools and features in Windows 7 give developers the ability to build better applications and create seamless user-experiences more productively. Join us as we talk with Mark Russinovich about multi-touch, version checking, the taskbar, and more.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. Visit www.MSDNRadio.com to register for upcoming shows.

Host and Guest: Mike Benkovich, Senior Developer Evangelist, and Mark Russinovich, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Corporation

Mike Benkovich delivers technical presentations around the U.S. as a developer tools evangelist on the MSDN team at Microsoft. He has worked in a variety of professional roles, including architect, project manager, developer, and technical writer.

Mark Russinovich is a Technical Fellow in the Windows Division at Microsoft. He is a widely recognized expert in Windows operating system internals as well as operating system architecture and design. He is a featured speaker at major industry conferences including Microsoft's TechEd, WinHEC, and Professional Developers Conference.

Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Mark Russinovich and Patrick Dussud

Nic Fillingham — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:34:00 GMT

Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Mark Russinovich and Patrick Dussud with Charles Torre.
Recorded Live, November 17th 2009 at 11:30AM PST
Click here for full schedule

Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 Redux

Charles — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Windows 7 is here, available to all for purchase and ships today with new PCs! To celebrate this momentous occasion for Windows and Microsoft, Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich joins me in a discussion that extends the great conversation we had last year on Windows 7 internals. In his previous C9 interview, Mark told us about many of the new additions to the Windows kernel which enable Windows 7 (and Windows Server R2) to scale to large numbers of processors. Well, removing the kernel dispatcher lock is not all that the great Arun Kishan did. He also developed a new scheduling mechanism known as Distributed Fair Share Scheduling (DFSS). Mark describes what this is and how it works.

We also discuss NUMA, non-uniform memory access, (and Mark explains NUMA to us while showing a demo or two on a 256 processor machine!)

Moving on to Windows memory management, the domain of the great engineer Landy Wang, Mark discusses the new additions to the Windows Memory Manager and explains why they matter to those of us who spend all of our time and in user mode.

Learn about all of this and much more as Mark digs into the insides of Windows 7, way deep down in the system (the culmative effects of which help to make Windows 7 Microsoft's most reliable, scalable and efficient general purpose operating system to date). As usual, Mark explains very complex mechanisms and concepts in a readily understandable way. This is a very conversational piece and we cover a lot of ground in a relatively short period of time. We also learn exactly why Mark is so passionate about operating systems and what the spark was that set off his passion and curiosity of how things work internally.

Mark will be presenting at PDC09 in the Technical Leaders track and the free Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp. His talks will be very deep and will explore all aspects of the new, improved Windows 7 kernel. I highly recommend that you attend both of these talks if you are going to PDC (you're going, right?!).

Check out the Windows area on 9 for more great Windows 7 content, all rolled up into a nice experience!

Enjoy!

Note: Check out all the 9 Guys Mark has. Also, you should subscribe to his incredible blog.

Mark Russinovich and David Solomon: Windows Internals 5 Released

Charles — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:01:00 GMT

Windows kernel expert and kernel "professor" David Solomon and Windows Kernel Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich have written another great book covering, in great detail, the internal composition of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. A third author,Alex Ionescu, joined the fray this time around. Together, they've just released Windows Internals Fifth Edition. My order has been submitted! If you want to really understand the mechanics of Windows' latest generation general purpose kernel, then go get this book.

David was in Redmond recently conducting deep training on the Windows 7 kernel, which contains 95% of the same ingredients as the Windows Vista kernel. So, of course we had to get the dynamic duo together to talk about their book, the Windows kernel, their history (they've been working together for a long time) and their future.

Enjoy! Happy reading.

Mark Russinovich: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

Charles — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:13:00 GMT

Mark Russinovich, long time Niner, SysInternals co-creator, Microsoft Technical Fellow and Windows Kernel Jedi Master, reflects on C9 through the years and explains what Channel 9 means to him. Mark's Channel 9 interview, Inside Windows 7, is the most viewed technical conversational piece on Channel 9. Over 500,000 views. Incredible!

Happy Birthday Channel 9!!!!

Cheers!!!

Mark Russinovich: Pushing the Limits of Windows - Paged and Nonpaged Pool

Charles — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:39:00 GMT

Paged and Nonpaged Pool.

Mark's posts are stellar. The detail, the clarity, the usefulness. Definitely one of my favorite technical Windows-related blogs. The post I linked to specifically is incredibly interesting given that it details a rare, but very painful problem and in process teaches us about some fundamental properties of the Windows kernel (see his other Pushing the Limits posts on Physical and Virtual memory).

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Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7

Charles — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:39:00 GMT

How has Windows evolved, as a general purpose operating system and at the lowest levels, in Windows 7? Who better to talk to than Technical Fellow and Windows Kernel guru Mark Russinovich? Here, Mark enlightens us on the new kernel constructs in Windows 7 (and, yeah, we do wander up into user mode, but only briefly). One very important change in the Windows 7 kernel is the dismantling of the dispatcher spin lock and redesign and implementation of its functionality. This great work was done by Arun Kishan (you've met him here on C9 last year). EDIT: You can learn exactly what Arun did in eliminating the dispatcher lock and replacing it with a set of synchronization primitives and a new "pre-wait" thread state, here. The direct result of the reworking of the dispatcher lock is that Windows 7 can scale to 256 processors. Further, this enabled the great Landy Wang to tune the Windows Memory Manager to be even more efficient than it already is. Mark also explains (again) what MinWin really is (heck, even I was confused. Not anymore...). MinWin is present in Windows 7. Native support for VHD (boot from VHD anyone?) is another very cool addition to our next general purpose OS. Yes, and there's more!

Tune in. This is a great conversation (if you're into operating systems). It's always great to chat with Mark.

Mark Russinovich: On Working at Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 Kernel, MinWin vs ServerCore, HyperV,

Charles — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:01:00 GMT

I recently sat down with Technical Fellow and SysInternals founder Mark Russinovich to dig a bit into what's new in the Windows Server 2008 kernel. Of course, we talk about many things including HyperV, application virtualization, kernel architecture (not everybody defines an OS kernel in the same way - tune in to understand why this is the case. Mark has his own definition that may not be the same as yours....).

Recently, the MinWin project was in the press after a university video lecture by a Microsoft Windows architect was released on the net. Most people confuse MinWin with Windows Server 2008's ServerCore technology - the confusion stems from the incorrect assumption that ServerCore is a byproduct of the MinWin work. In fact, they are not at all related. Mark explains the differences and hopefully this will end the confusion...

Of course, Mark spends time on the whiteboard in this interview, drawing out the kernel architecture, explaining HyperV, touching on application virtualization (running client applications without having to install them locally - tune in to understand what I mean...).

Channel 9 is and has always been about showcasing the humans behind our technologies in addition to drilling into how we make our products, and of course why we do what we do (in a technical sense). Mark is a huge addition to the Windows family and his technical leadership is already being felt throughout buildings 26 and 43. Mark tells me about how life is going inside the Mothership, what a Techincal Fellow is (it's the highest level of engineering career stage at Microsoft), individual contribution versus management, and more.

As always, it's an honor and pleasure to spend time talking with Mark. He's one of our brightest technical minds and Windows architecture is in very good hands.

Enjoy.

Mark Russinovich: From Winternals to Microsoft, On Windows Security, Windows CoreArch

Charles — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:21:00 GMT

If you write code on Windows or like to know what goes on under the hood in Windows, then you've no doubt heard of Mark Russinovich. He's an OS kernel expert and a co-founder of Winternals; a company that produced must-have operating system and development utilities for Windows (Winternals is now a Microsoft subsidiary as we purchased them in July, 2006. Yay!).

Mark is now a Technical Fellow in Windows and is a member of the Windows Core Architecture team (you met some of the other big brains on the CoreArch team last year).

Here we talk frankly about Mark's history, his coming to Microsoft, Windows security, what the CoreArch team does, what his role is, etc. Tune in.