... a Group Policy
technique called security group filtering.
With the advent of Microsoft's WindowsServer2008 technologies – that is, Windows Vista on the client and
Server 2008 on the server ... mention.
Conclusion
Group P
olicy just keeps getting bigger and more powerful. The new categories of GP settings in the client and
server WindowsServer2008 platforms seem to be eminently useful and practical. ... all the newand changed policysettings for Windows Werver 2008 may be found
by searching for the file VistaGPSettings.xls at www.microsoft.com.
NOTE: Before diving in to discuss the new settings, ...
... Windows2008Server are bringing to the table, check out my white
paper titled
Windows 2008ServerandNewGroupPolicy Settings.
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New Status as a Service
Under previous versions of Windows, Group ... local GroupPolicy Objects (GPOs)
This paper takes a look at these nine structural changes. (If you'd like to read about some of the new Group
P
olicy settings that
Windows
Vista andWindows ... Vista or Windowsserver2008Server machine. Take own-
ership of one of the ADMX files in the central store, and relocate it to a different folder. Then run the GPOE and
look for the settings...
... main variants of WindowsServer 2008: Windows Web Server 2008, Windows
Server 2008 Standard, WindowsServer2008 Enterprise, WindowsServer2008 Datacenter, and
Windows Server2008 for Itanium-Based ... memory and processor support for Windows Vista and
Windows Server2008. For a detailed comparison chart of the different editions of Windows
Server 2008, see www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/compare-specs.aspx. ... Client andServer Versions
Windows ships in both client andserver retail packages. There are six client versions of
Windows Vista: Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows...
... 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 ... KeServiceDescriptorTableShadow,
includes the Windows USER and GDI services implemented in the kernel-mode part of the
Windows subsystem, Win32k.sys. The first time a Windows thread calls a Windows USER or
GDI service, ... manager’s namespace
and information about objects (such as the reference count, the number of open handles, security
descriptors, and so forth).
■ Process Explorer and Handle from Sysinternals...
... 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 ... Here’s how:
1. Launch Windows Media Player and Process Explorer, and then view the handle table (by
clicking View, Lower Pane View, and then Handles). You should see a handle containing
CheckForOtherInstanceMutex. ... the cd command, you will see in Process Explorer
that the handle to the previous current directory is closed and a new handle is opened to the new
current directory. The previous handle is highlighted...
... 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. ... Pane View, and then Handles.) We also want to look at unnamed
handles, so click on View, Show Unnamed Handles And Mappings. Now click on the Windbg.exe
process, and look at its handle table. ... other guests managed by a
Windows Server host, both client andserver editions of Windows also ship with enlightenments,
which are special optimizations in the kernel and possibly device drivers...
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HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and thus cannot affect the operation of applications on the system.
Nonprivileged users and applications can read systemwide data and can add new keys and values
to systemwide ... applications read systemwide settings, such as a list of optionally
installed components and licensing data, as well as per-user settings that might include menu and
toolbar placement and a list of most-recently ... default application settingsandsettings that reflect
installation configuration choices.
■ During the installation of a device driver, the Plug and Play system creates settings in the
registry...
... run in session 0 and therefore
share the window station with the interactive services. However, in Windows Vista andWindows
Server 2008, only processes owned by the system andWindows services ... 'C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows; C: \Windows\
24. system32;C: \Windows\ system;C: \Windows; .;C: \Windows\ system32;
C: \Windows;
25. C: \Windows\ System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio ... station.
On versions of Windows prior to Windows Vista, this connection to WinSta0 allowed the
service to display dialog boxes andwindows on the console and allowed those windows to
respond to...
...
dialog box.
Windows System resource Manager
Windows Server2008 Enterprise Edition andWindowsServer2008 Datacenter Edition include an
optionally installable component called Windows System ...
Windows Vista. If you install Terminal Services on WindowsServer2008 systems and configure
the server as an application server, this setting is selected so that the users on the terminal server ... process,
and 2 means that quantum values don’t change for foreground processes. A setting of 0 or 3 means
that the default (which is variable for Windows Vista and fixed for WindowsServer 2008...
... Lsass process and client processes and that implement Windows authentication
policy. An authentication DLL is responsible for checking whether a given user name and
password match, and if so, ... left out of this process, but WindowsServer
2008andWindows Vista Service Pack 1 have improved the process to allow applications to be
able to take advantage of newer processors as well.
However, ... boosted to 15 and runs enough to send more data to the sound card.
7. Stop Cpustres andWindows Media Player, and start the MMCSS service again.
Priority Boosts for MultiMedia Applications and Games...
... privileges to groups and accounts using tools such as the
Active Directory Users and Groups MMC snap-in for domain accounts or the Local Security
Policy Editor. You access the Local Security Policy ... to query the user’s account andgroup SIDs and scan the security
attributes on the file. This approach is tedious to program, prone to errors, and wouldn’t permit
new security features to be ...
event. The audit policy, also called the local security policy, is one part of the security policy
Lsass maintains on the local system, and it is configured with the Local Security Policy Editor...
...
\Device\Serial0, and so forth. Try creating your own links with the subst command at a command
prompt
.
7.3 I/O Processing
Now that we’ve covered the structure and types of drivers and the data ... loading and unloading of device drivers so that drivers can be loaded on-demand and
not consume system resources when unneeded.
■ Support for Plug and Play, where the system locates and installs ... with the Windows QueryDosDevice and
DefineDosDevice functions.
EXPERIMENT: Viewing Windows Device Name to Windows Device Name
Mappings
You can examine the symbolic links that define the Windows...
...
■ Sends the IRP to the I/O handler, which processes standard device operations
■ Sends the IRP to the PnP and power handler that processes these kinds of events and notifies
other drivers if ...
The settings you configure in Power Options directly affect values in the system’s power policy,
which you can display with the !popolicy debugger command. Here’s the output of the command
on ... disk read and write
operations and checksums the associated data. When disk reads complete, it checks to see whether
it has a previously stored checksum and crashes the system if the newand old...
... and boot
volumes is somewhat confusing. The system volume is where Windows places boot files,
including the boot loader (Winload) and Boot Manager (Bootmgr), and the boot volume is where
Windows ... (VDS) subsystem in Windows, which consists of user-mode and
device driver components and oversees dynamic disks. A major difference between LDM’s
partitioning and MBR-style and GPT partitioning ... which path to use for
routing requests and error detection mechanisms to inform Windows when a path fails. MPIO
support is available for WindowsServer2008 in the form of the Microsoft MPIO...
...
address space. For example, on a 32-bit WindowsServer2008 system with 8 GB of physical
memory, a database server application could use AWE to allocate and use perhaps 6 GB of
memory as a database ... data are mapped into the virtual address space in Windows: per-process
private code and data, sessionwide code and data, and systemwide code and data.
As explained in Chapter 1, each process ... call the Windows CreateFileMapping or CreateFileMappingNuma
function, specifying the file handle to map it to (or INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE for a
page-filebacked section) and optionally a name and security...