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Did you see this? - FREE TRAINING: Technet Virtual Lab: Managing Bandwidth Using Windows QOS

For those of you considering using Microsoft Windows Server 2008, you might want to check out this TechNet Virtual Lab: Managing Network Bandwidth Using Windows Quality of Service (QOS) You will learn about using Windows Server 2008 to control bandwidth usage using protocol definitions as well as control bandwidth for particular applications. In case you have not done any of these Virtual labs, they are an excellent FREE! training resource.

Did you see this? - Microsoft Windows Virtualization team blog

For those of you who are fans of Microsoft Windows Virtualization, this blog from the Microsoft Windows Virtualization Products Group might be of interest to you. Keep informed and provide feedback to the team as this useful technology becomes more widespread.

Did you see this? - MS08-067 and the Security Development Lifecycle

As you probably already know, Microsoft issued an urgent out of cycle security patch recently for a Vulnerability in Server service could allow remote code execution. Look here for additional Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research and Defense information about this bulletin. If you have not already applied this patch, I urge you to do so as there are reports of MS08-067 exploits in the wild for this vulnerability. For those of you who are developers and QA testers out there and wonder about how this vulnerability slipped through testing at Microsoft. Look at this article about MS08-067 and the Security Development Lifecycle. Like many of the responses to this blog posting say: keep code as simple as possible. Automated testing is not a panacea and keeping things simple may head off signficant problems later for all users and administrators.

My server is hung! What do I do? - debugging resources

Debugging a dump from a hung server may not be something you do every day, so you may want to engage with a Microsoft debug expert, however with this information as your guide you may find that you can narrow down a problem and save yourself a call.

My Server is hung - what do I do?

http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2008/09/12/red-alert-my-server-is-hung-what-do-i-do.aspx

If you need additional background on debugging, this article can get you started:

Basics of Debugging Windows

http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2008/08/28/basics-of-debugging-windows.aspx

 ·  Collect a kernel dump:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244139

·  Set up the debugger:  http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.mspx

·  Know how to use the symbol server:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311503

Additional resources that you may find useful (including links to the tools, book recommendations, etc.):

·  Microsoft Debugging Tools

·  ADPlus – An automated way to use the cdb.exe to capture/create a usermode dump when a process hangs or crashes (more info - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc265629.aspx or KB286350)

·  Public Symbols for Microsoft Operating Systems:

o Microsoft Public Symbol server : srv * DownstreamStore * http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

o   example: srv*c:\mysyms*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

o   Microsoft Symbol packages http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/symbolpkg.mspx#d

·  Use !Analyze-v to gather additional information about the bugcheck and a bucket-id for your dump file.  The bucket-id can be submitted to Microsoft for review for similar crashes and resolutions.  Try using the Microsoft Online Crash Analysis to submit your crash dump bucket-id for possible follow up from Microsoft or for Microsoft to look for trends:  http://oca.microsoft.com/en/Welcome.aspx

·  For concepts, tools and information about the system architecture:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

·  Windows Internal 4^th edition (by Mark E. Russinovich & David A. Solomon):  the whole book or Chapter 14 - Crash Dump Analysis

·  Advanced Windows Debugging (by Mario Hewardt & Daniel Pravat):  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

·  How to Access the User Mode Debugger from the Kernel Debugger

·  How can I find out why the Cluster Resource Monitor dumped – Access Violation

·  1394 Kernel Debugging Tips and Tricks [WinHEC 2004; 373 KB]

·  Debugging Windows Vista