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Microsoft Windows Internals (4th Edition): Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 4th 8. Uberarb. Aufl. 2004 ed. Edition

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Delve inside the Windows kernel with noted internals experts Mark Russinovich and David Solomon, in collaboration with the Microsoft Windows product development team. This classic guide—fully updated for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000, including 64-bit extensions—describes the architecture and internals of the Windows operating system. You’ll find hands-on experiments you can use to experience Windows internal behavior firsthand, along with advanced troubleshooting information to help you keep your systems running smoothly and efficiently. Whether you’re a developer or a system administrator, you’ll find critical architectural insights that you can quickly apply for better design, debugging, performance, and support.

Get in-depth, inside knowledge of the Windows operating system:

  • Understand the key mechanisms that configure and control Windows, including dispatching, startup and shutdown, and the registry
  • Explore the Windows security model, including access, privileges, and auditing
  • Investigate internal system architecture using the kernel debugger and other tools
  • Examine the data structures and algorithms that deal with processes, threads, and jobs
  • Observe how Windows manages virtual and physical memory
  • Understand the operation and format of NTFS, and troubleshoot file system access problems
  • View the Windows networking stack from top to bottom, including mapping, APIs, name resolution, and protocol drivers
  • Troubleshoot boot problems and perform crash analysis
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Mark E. Russinovich is a Technical Fellow in the Windows Azure™ group at Microsoft. He is coauthor of the Windows Internals book series, lead author for Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference, cofounder of the Sysinternals web site, and a highly regarded expert on Windows internals and computer security.

David A. Solomon is coauthor of the WINDOWS INTERNALS book series and teaches classes on Windows internals to corporations worldwide, including Microsoft. He is a regular speaker at Microsoft technical conferences and previously was a lead developer for the VMS operating system.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microsoft Press; 4th 8. Uberarb. Aufl. 2004 ed. edition (January 5, 2005)
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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735619174
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Brian
5.0 out of 5 stars Well-segmented, very informative, and an excellent reference
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2007
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As an experienced UNIX device driver developer, I was looking for reference material on writing drivers for Windows. Recent books on Windows device driver development seemed much more sparse than I was expecting. After using this book, I think it may simply be due the fact that "Microsoft Windows Internals" is such an excellent reference.

The chapters are segregated in such a way that makes it easy to obtain the specific information you are looking for. If you're a novice and are just looking for a How-To book, you would probably do better to consult the MSDN library. However, even for a beginner this book would be good as a reference, and it is phenomenal as a reference for the experienced developer. For myself, I found it very easy to transition into the Windows world from my UNIX universe with this read.

If you aren't particularly familiar with Windows systems development, the first couple of chapters are quintessential, actually. They do an excellent job of pointing to references for tools and reading material which will help your comprehension of the material and your ability to use it. For example, even one of the later chapters pointed me to the exact DDK I needed for the problem I was trying to solve. At the point I read the book, I had no idea there was a separate DDK for that particular problem. This is one of the few books where the informational sidebars are truly informational.

All in all, if you're doing any kind of Windows system internals development, whether device driver level or just trying to understand how parts of the kernel work, this is an excellent reference. Highly recommended!
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imre veres
5.0 out of 5 stars a "must read" for high level sysadmins
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2008
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Maybe half of the world is using Microsoft windows, administering, troubleshooting etc. Everybody know how to click(and maybe know which one) the checkbox, but less than 0.1% knows what is hapening inside, "deep in the water". How data is passed from your program too network interface, or to disk drive? This book will giva many answers, but not all. And unfortunately, as I know, maybe this book is the only one in the world about this subject(if I am wrong, please correct me). It is not an easy reading, you have to know something more about operating systems to understand it. But to cover most of the windows, it should have 2 volumes and 2000 pages. I kindly ask Mr Russinovich and Microsoft to publish more book like this.
This book is not about active directory or how to recipes. It is about kernel, I/o subsistem, memory, etc. Read the content(search inside). About windows inside, i know only one other book, Inside windows storage, but this is about only one segment of windows, and not so deep.(but also good read for "brave" sysadmins)
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Justin Rich
4.0 out of 5 stars Very in-depth!
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2007
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pretty amazing book over all. you'll need some pretty deep background knowledge to understand this book. and on the bad side some of the wording is very tricky, id dare say that some words are left out. there are parts when he talks about "objects", "object headers", "object body" and then goes on a bit, and refers to "object" when im PRETTY sure he should have said "object body". i catch my self tripping up over things like that a bit too often.. but... again.. an AMAZING book.. i dont think any other book will go this deep in to windows..
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Kingofbytes
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference speaking to the "internals" of Microsoft's OS's
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2006
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I'm keeping this short and to the point. The content is rich and detailed. It truly speaks to how the Microsoft operating system functions on different levels. The book analyzes those different levels and goes into detail on how to use specific tools to "view what's happening".

My synopsis of the book is simple. When you "know what's happening", you can fix the problem. This book addresses various techniques and common occurrences that happen in the operating system and goes into detail about how to resolve them.

I've been diagnosing and troubleshooting Microsoft OS's since the NT3.51 days and wish I had read this book sooner (the rev 1 version).

I wish the book was available in PDF on a CD but alas, no such luck. The book is hardcover and reasonably heavy so it's not always convenient to bring it along. However, the content more than makes up for this lack of convenience.
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SteveFromTucson
2.0 out of 5 stars Bit of a Screw Job - Review 2
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2005
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In a past review I labeled the book a bit of a screw job. That was somewhat unfair. My biggest gripe is the lack of an ebook. In the past the ebook has proved an extremely useful tool and I believe critical to using the information in the book.

Its too harsh to associate Mr Solomon and Russinovich with an obvious action by Microsoft to squeeze a few more dollars from us. It really isn't fair to criticize them as they maintain MS has the final descision of ebook availability.

I have absolutely no issues technically with the book. Its well written as technical tomes can be and I believe accurate. How ultimately useful, is open to debate because of what it lacks.
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CWFitz
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding In-depth Analysis of Windows
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2006
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I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs a very technical analysis of Windows-XP/2K/S2003. Like I would imagine with most readers, I don't need to know everything about Windows but I do need to know everything possible about specific issues. For me, it's primarily the file system (NTFS). This is the best study that I have found. I have read Russinovich's work for years - and used his technical software - and have the utmost respect for him as an engineer, software developer, and a writer (However, he's probably very boring at parties!). For anyone interested in the intricacies of NTFS and other filing systems, I also recommend Brian Carrier's outstanding "File System Forensics Analysis".
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John Buerman
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the great diseccionals of the MS OS
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2014
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Just when you think you know what's going on, this book will push you past your nerd zone into the arena of Mr. Spock and Mr. Scott.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Lots of functionality, little design
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2005
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I wanted to understand the overall design of the windows os (cutler based versions)

It gave a lot of (very good) detail, but little on the design (except for the I/O chapter, which I did feel touched more on the design of the I/O subsystem) -- the more I read, the less I felt that I a grasp of the overall architecture.

It is useful to contrast it with The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, which is very rich in both the detail and history of FreeBSD
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KevSmi
4.0 out of 5 stars MS Windows Internals
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2015
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A powerful book for the technically minded. Very informative. Unfortunately have now migrated to Apple products which whilst expensive are far superior. But i am not a MSWindows basher!!
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Francois Ouellette
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in Canada on March 31, 2013
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This is a good book to understand the heart of Windows. But this is out of date because with windows 8, all is changed.
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sergehao
4.0 out of 5 stars Pour experts
Reviewed in France on November 25, 2012
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Il faut déjà avoir lu avant dans l'ordre :
1- un livre sur les operating systems
2- un livre sur l'API Win32 de Windows
C'est seulement après avoir lu ces livres que l'on pourra comprendre ce que l'auteur décrit dans "Windows Internals", et encore...
Ce livre reste néanmoins LA référence de ceux qui veulent comprendre comment marche Windows et quelle est son architecture.
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Markus Heller
5.0 out of 5 stars Die Referenz schlechthin
Reviewed in Germany on February 18, 2009
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Vorweg zu mir: 15 Jahre Linux, Dozent des Kurses "Linux Fehlerdiagnostik" bei IBM Training. Linuxer durch und durch. Allerdings in der letzten Zeit immer mehr mit Windows konfrontiert und muß mir nun ausgehend von meinem Unix/Linux-Wissen ein solides Verständnis von Windows aneignen.

Man sagt, Windows sei einfach. Es ist einfach, solange man keine Dummheit macht und irgendwo (Registry!) etwas ändert. Aber wenn man ein Problem hat, dann ist es zumindest für mich bisher sehr schwer zu diagnostizieren, weil das System sehr intransparent erscheint - im Gegensatz zu Unix, wo es zahlreiche Diagnostikwerkzeuge gibt.

Vergleichbare Diagnostikwerkzeuge gibt es bei Windows auch, allerdings nicht ursprünglich von Microsoft, sondern von einer Firma, die von Mark Russinovich gegründet, und mittlerweile von Microsoft aufgekauft wurde: Sysinternals.

Dieser Mark Russinovich ist Autor des vorliegenden Buches, und er geht das Betriebssystem an, wie man es auch als Systemanalytiker unter Linux machen würde: Ausgehend von grundlegenden Fragen der Systemarchitektur, des Kerneldesigns, arbeitet er sich über Startup/Shutdown-Verfahren zu Prozessen, dem Memory Management, dem I/O-System, über das Storage Management bis zum Networking durch und führt auch noch durch das Gebiet der Crash Dump Analyse.

Übrigens interessanterweise genau wie das Vorgehen in meinem IBM-Kurs, und wie im Buch von Mathias Kettner  Fehlerdiagnose und Problembehebung unter Linux

Für den Alltags-User ist dieses Buch wohl etwas zu schwere Kost, aber wer von Systemarchitekturen gewisse Grundkenntnisse hat, und sich systematisch an die Architektur von Windows heranarbeiten will, für den gibt es wohl kaum was Besseres.

Als Fazit nach meinem Einstieg in die Windows-Architektur: Windows ist in keiner Weise leichter als Unix, sondern genauso komplex. Aber erstaunlicherweise sind die meisten Systemarchitektur-Probleme auf die gleiche Weise gelöst, nur eben dass Windows sie besser vor dem Anwender versteckt. Genau hinter diesen Vorhang kann man anhand dieses Buches wunderbar blicken.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Windowsの技術者は読むべし！
Reviewed in Japan on January 22, 2005
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長年の改良によってWindowsは大きなOSと変化を遂げてきました。
16ビットから32ビット、そして64ビットへとシフトしていこうとするこの時代に、Windows全体のアーキテクチャをきちんと再認識することが重要です。この書籍は、Windowsの内部を知り、Windowsと正しく向き合うために重要なことがたくさん書かれています。コアテクノロジーを理解したい人、コアテクノロジーを利用する開発者におすすめです。
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