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New And Updated Sysinternals Tools

Monday, 30 July 2007 by Michel Roth

The guys from the former Sysinternals apparently did not just take that big bag of money and just just drink Mojitos all day, they still are all over developing their brilliant tools. Recently, these guys updated the absolutely brilliant Process Monitor to version 1.2.

Just in case you don't know, ProcessMonitor is an advanced system and application monitoring utility that basically rolls RegMon and FileMon into one and adds some ProcessExplorer to the mix. Version 1.2 adds a number of major enhancements that include improved scalability and performance, a destructive filtering option, a revamped process tree dialog that adds process lifetime graphs, position-sensitive context-menu filter entries, integration of the stack trace dialog with source code stores, faster stack tracing, the ability to load 32-bit log files on 64-bit Windows, and more.

Besides updating existing tools, the guys from the former Sysinternals also have released a new tool called AD Explorer. Not surprisingly this tool allows you to view and edit the Active Directory database using a easy to use GUI tool. One of AD Explorer's neat abilities is that it can save snapshots of an AD database for off-line viewing and comparisons. When you load a saved snapshot, you can navigate and explorer it as you would a live database. If you have two snapshots of an AD database you can use AD Explorer's comparison functionality to see what objects, attributes and security permissions changed between them.