ZoomIt v1.7: Coming fast on the heels of v1.6,  v1.7 of this small and powerful screen zooming and annotation tool adds better straight-line support with auto-snapping and the ability to draw arrows. Process Monitor v1.23: This update adds a new option, /WaitForIdle, to better support scripted execution. It also adds the /HookRegistry switch for forcing [...]

Tcpview v2.5 This update to Tcpview adds support for Vista, including IPv6, and displays counts of active and connected endpoints in a status bar. Process Monitor v1.21 This release adds XML as a new export format, includes performance optimizations, and fixes a number of minor bugs. PsExec v1.85 PsExec v1.85 adds a new switch that [...]

Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 has very detailed diagnostics information built in. With Trace Diagnostics, you can effectively use these diagnostics built-in by monitoring the requests to an IIS web server in real-time, or, follow a request throughout the IIS processing pipeline to find failures.Included in this download are three individual tools:1). Request [...]

Today Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Windows PowerShell RC2, the command line shell and scripting language that helps IT Professionals achieve greater productivity and control of system administration. Using a new admin-focused scripting language and consistent syntax and utilities, Windows PowerShell accelerates automation.  Windows PowerShell is easy to adopt, learn, and use, because it works [...]

Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows. The Kernel Memory Space Analyzer is a tool to help expert debugging engineers analyze Windows crash dump files. Debugging Windows system crashes can be a highly daunting task. A high level of expertise is generally required to properly classify and diagnose all but the simplest problems. Significant time can [...]

This whitepaper describes the networking enhancements delivered in the Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003 to enable greater scalability and performance. The architectural innovations include TCP Chimney Offload, Receive-Side Scaling, and NetDMA.   Microsoft Downloads

Application Verifier is a runtime verification tool for unmanaged code that assists in quickly finding subtle programming errors that can be extremely difficult to identify with normal application testing. Application Verifier is designed specifically to detect and help debug memory corruptions and critical security vulnerabilities. It makes it easier to create reliable applications by monitoring [...]

Microsoft Corp. today announced availability of the public betas of Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 and the new Forefront Security for Exchange Server. Exchange Server 2007 builds on the leading e-mail, messaging and calendaring server with new features for improved security, remote and mobile access, compliance management, and unified messaging. Forefront Security for Exchange Server helps [...]