Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis introduce 'Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference' [video]

If you've administrated Windows for any length of time, surely Sysinternals is in your toolkit. If not, it should be. I remember first using the software to recover a locked-up Windows NT 4 PC in 1996 (was it called Winternals back then). Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell founded Winternals that year, and Microsoft acquired the company 10 years later.

"Russinovich, Technical Fellow working on the managed cloud OS kernel -- you know this as the Windows Azure Fabric Controller -- is the primary author of these powerful tools", Charles Torre explains in the blog post introducing the video above. "Aaron Margosis, meanwhile, is a Microsoft Consultant and Sysinternals user with expert-level knowledge and experience using Sysinternals tools. They are an important part of his job. Aaron yearned for a book that encapsulates detailed information about all of the Sysinternals tools. Mark agreed and asked Aaron to coauthor it with him--be careful what you ask for!"

Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference may be the closest thing many IT managers or sysadmins will find to a bible for their work. That's because Sysinternals tools are so many, so useful and so powerful -- whether used or misused. O'Reilly now publishes Microsoft Press books, and this one is available in four ebook formats.

If you've got time this afternoon, the Channel 9 video is a great introduction to the book and real geekfest for Windows administrators.