Hello Vista
Right...It's here at last. Better late than never and for some of us who have been using various Beta's for a while, some of the excitement may have waned slightly.
But that aside, VISTA and for that matter the rest of the motley EVO crew (Exchange,Vista, Office) is here now.
As I have been a busy bee with CISSP, I am a bit slow off the mark here, but in order to make up lost time, the blog will now continue in earnest.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VISTA...in bite size security flavoured nuggets!
Hit the power button, sit back and...... WHAT?? No NTLDR, No BOOT.INI? Isn't this just XP 'repackaged' according to Steve Golds?
Nope, this is not NT6, this is Longhorn. New ball game.
When you boot;
The BIOS heads for the MBR on the disk defined as the boot disk
But that aside, VISTA and for that matter the rest of the motley EVO crew (Exchange,Vista, Office) is here now.
As I have been a busy bee with CISSP, I am a bit slow off the mark here, but in order to make up lost time, the blog will now continue in earnest.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VISTA...in bite size security flavoured nuggets!
Hit the power button, sit back and...... WHAT?? No NTLDR, No BOOT.INI? Isn't this just XP 'repackaged' according to Steve Golds?
Nope, this is not NT6, this is Longhorn. New ball game.
When you boot;
The BIOS heads for the MBR on the disk defined as the boot disk
- Transfer control goes to the MBR (Master Boot Record).
- Bootmgr.exe is now called.
- This calls information from the Boot Configuration Data Store (similar but more sophisticated than Boot.ini)
- If Vista is cold booting then it loads Winload.exe
- If Vista is resuming then it loads Winresume.exe
- If you multiboot with an earlier OS, then it loads the legacy NTLDR file.
NTOSKRNL.exe and HAL.dll (Hardware Abstraction Layer) are still there, which will be followed by the starting of the session manager SMSS.exe, Windows startup WININIT.exe and the Local Security Authority LSASS.exe.
So, some new face and some old. One thing is for sure...this is going to be a totally different animal.
Labels: EVO, How does it work?, Things you need to know, Vista
posted by Paul Vincent at 3:53 PM
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4 Comments:
Your link to the XP Repackaged URL is using your Exchange server as a redirector.
>Good spot...my bad!
>All fixed now.
Thanks Aaron,
Paul
Nice info, as usual, Paul.
>Personally, I have no time to even look at Vista, bar install it briefly a few months back.
But then I had issues trying to get it on the network, tried a few different NIC's. And had to give up, or should I say lost the will to continue..
Let me know how you get on.
Do you know if Micro$oft have any new certification paths based on Vista?
Hi Paul,
>Thanks for your comments. Always hard to write interesting blogs that appeal to everyone.
If you installed Vista a few months ago, it probably would have been a beta version. The early beta versions were slow and driver-sparse, however the newer ones, such as RC1 and RC2 were pretty good.
The release version, has many more drivers and Windows update a load more, so may be worth trying a newer beta version or get MSDN or the MAPS. My Radeon 9200 didn’t work very well with Vista RTM (Release to Manufacture) until I had run Microsoft Update, now it works fine (but without Aero).
As far as learning Vista goes, there is no cert at the moment, although I suspect there will be (there’s a few courses sprung up though http://www.learningtree.co.uk/courses/uk951.htm).
Microsoft have been plugging their new MCA (Microsoft Certified Architect) cert, but they will still be running discipline specific MCP’s.
If you want to read some good books, you can try Windows Inside Out by Ed Bott, Carl Siechert and Craig Stinson or if you are a Mark Minasi fan there is ‘Administering Windows Vista Security’.
Best ones I have seen so far.
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