Sysinternals tools

Windows Server has many wonderful tools built right into it, but there’s always room to improve.

This seems to be exactly what Mark Russinovich was thinking back in the mid-90s, when he and Bryce Cogswell created Winternals and started crafting apps that could do even more advanced actions and data collection within the Microsoft Windows operating systems than was capable with the native toolset. Fast-forward to today, Winternals has been acquired by Microsoft, the conglomeration of tools that were created under that umbrella are now known as the Microsoft Sysinternals tools, and Mark is now CTO of Azure.

These tools are simple, helpful, and effective. Most of them don’t even require an installation. Simply download a standalone executable, copy it over to your server, and run it. When finished, you can delete the executable and easily remove any trace of that application from your server. We already looked at one of these tools earlier in...