Mark's Events

Find out about recent and upcoming Sysinternals-related events and appearances by Mark Russinovich. If you have a question about any of these events, please visit the Sysinternals Forum for answers and help from other users and our moderators.

Microsoft TechEd North America 2009
Los Angeles, CA
May 11-15

• Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changes
  This session goes beneath the hood of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to describe and demonstrate the key changes in the kernel. Topics include: scalability improvements (such as removal of the global scheduler lock, support for more than 64 logical processors, and user mode scheduling), core parking and timer coalescing for power efficiency, trigger-started services, improved multi-function device support, core architecture changes to modularize Windows ("Minwin") and more.
• Case of the Unexplained 3
  Come hear Mark Russinovich, the master of Windows troubleshooting, walk you through step by step how he has solved seemingly unsolvable system and application problems on Windows. With all new real case studies, Mark will show how to apply the Microsoft Debugging Tools and his own Sysinternals tools, including Process Explorer, Process Monitor, and Accesschk, to solve system crashes, process hangs, security vulnerabilities, DLL conflicts, permissions problems, registry misconfiguration, network hangs, and file system issues. These tools are used on a daily basis by Microsoft Product Support and have been used effectively to solve a wide variety of desktop and server issues, so being familiar with their operation and application will assist you in dealing with different problems on Windows.
• Inside Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtualization Improvements and Native VHD Support
  In this session you'll get an inside look at new Windows virtualization features, including live VM migration, core parking and timer coalescing, hypervisor power management support, and new hardware-assisted guest memory management. VHDs are taking on a more key role in simplifying systems management and Windows' integrated VHD mount and boot from VHD are a major step toward standardization on VHDs as a common container format for physical and virtual machine images. Learn how Windows implement a native VHD stack and how the boot architecture has changed to accommodate booting from VHD images.