Hi all, how you can read at TechNet news in the right pane on this blog there are some new from Sysinternals:

 

Sysinternals the powerful tools suite the help Administrators to manage their systems have two interesting update.

 

Below details about this update, if you need to clarify how many other tools are useful for your needed please go to Microsoft Sysinternal site

 

 

 

Check out these updated utilities from the Sysinternals team:

 

 

  Autoruns v9.5

 

This update to Autoruns, a powerful autostart manager, adds display of audio and video codecs, which are gaining popularity as an extension mechanism used by malware to gain automatic execution

 

 

 

 PsLoglist v2.7

 

PsLoglist, a command-line event log display utility, now properly displays event log entries for default event log sources on Windows Vista and higher and accepts wildcard matching for event sources.

 

Hi all, here there is a cool free tool that I think will be needed for all.

 

IT’s name is WinDirStat that reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:

 

• The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,

   

• The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,

   

• The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.

   

• Coupling. Select an item in the directory list: The treemap highlights it; and vice versa.

   

• Zooming.

   

• Built-in cleanup actions including Open, Show Properties, Delete.

   

• User-defined cleanups (command line based).

   

• Works with network drives and UNC paths.

   

• 'Create disk usage report' option.

   

• 'Submit bug report/Feedback' option.

   

• Online help.

   

• setup.exe.

   

• Language can be set to Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Russian.
  Just have a look at the Translation website if you want to help or if you want to know more.

   

Platforms and Status

 

WinDirStat is known to run on all version of Windows Operating System, included Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.

 

The stable version is 1.1.2.

 

Go to source for more information about downloading and Installing WinDirStat and so on…

Description

 

The Internet Explorer 8 Blocker Toolkit enables IT Administrators to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 8 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites.

 

Overview

 

To help customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft will distribute Windows Internet Explorer 8 as a high-priority update through Automatic Updates for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and higher, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 SP2 for x64 and x86, Windows Vista for x64 and x86, Windows Vista SP1 for x64 and x86, and Windows Server 2008 for x64 and x86. This Blocker Toolkit is intended for organizations that would like to block automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 8 to machines in environments where Automatic Updates is enabled. The Blocker Toolkit will not expire.

 

 

Read from source for more information and Download...

 Delprof.exe is a tool, downloadable from Microsoft site (see the link below)that permit to delete user profile locally and remotelly on your workstations.

 

 

http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=901A9B95-6063-4462-8150-360394E98E1E&displaylang=en

PS: This tool needs to be use with administrative credential

 

 

When you execute Delprof.MSI it create a directory “c:programmiWindows Resource KitTools” where you can find the executable file “delprof.exe” (see picture below)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a Microsoft link that explain how to use this tool, locally and remotely  

 

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315411

I’ve try to use  /i /q parameters for execute the tool in silent mode, avoid a block i case of error (see picture below)

 

 

 

 

 

You can use this tool for delete unused profile for a determined time /d:xx  where you can specify how many days before delete profiles, in the example below Delprof delete profile unused from 30 days

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to use this tool remotelly you need to use the following parameters:

 delprof /q /i /p /c:\computer name

Hi all,

here there are many news from Sysinternals tools, have a look!

•	Autoruns 9.3 - This Autoruns update adds support for several additional shell extension points, including copy hook, property sheet, and drag and drop handlers, fixes a bug in the Vista gadget parsing code and better handles malformed paths.
•	AccessChk 4.2 - AccessChk v4.2 reports non-canonical security descriptors (ones that have access control entries in an unsupported order) and adds a new switch, -a, that dumps account rights and privileges.

cheers

Alex

Hi Mac OS X users, Microsoft has finally released the Remote Desktop Client  for Mac OS X (or Terminal Services Client how do you prefer).

 

The new version of the RDP client permit to connect from a machine with Operative System Mac OS X 10.4.9 (Tiger) or higher to a machine with Operative System Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008; the new functionality of Msc OS client are aligned with the most recent version on Windows platform (the last version is RDP 6.1 that is included in Windows Vista SP 1, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2008).

 

You can download the new version of Remote Desktop Client in english version and other languages versions, while you can find in this page the list of new functionality included in this release.

 

The Microsoft planning and evaluation solution accelerator (MAP) makes it easy for you to evaluate your current infrastructure and to determine which Microsoft technologies your IT needs. MAP is a powerful inventory, the evaluation, and reporting that can perform firmly in small medium or large environments without requiring the installation of software agent on any computer or devices.

 

 

The data and analysis provided by this solution accelerator can significantly simplify the planning process for migration to Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Windows Server 2008, Microsoft application virtualization (formerly Softgrid), and Windows Server virtualization technologies including Virtual Server 2005 r2 and Windows Server 2008 hyper-V.

 

 

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator is an agentless tool that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), the Remote Registry Service, or the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

 

 

This includes also assessment of device driver availability and recommendations for hardware upgrades that may be required.

 

 

 

 

Read Instruction, additional information and release notes from Microsoft download Site