Aaron Margosis' Non-Admin, App-Compat and Sysinternals WebLog
The Non-Admin blog - running with least privilege on the desktop... and then dealing with the application compatibility fallout... and using Sysinternals and other utilities to figure things out
The content on Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet blog platforms will soon become read-only. So, this is...
Date: 06/19/2019
(On the 15th anniversary of my first blog posts...) Performance improvements in the "AaronLocker"...
Date: 06/17/2019
Always handles Portable Executable files even with non-standard extensions such as .tmp and...
Date: 05/22/2019
Hot on the heels of yesterday's changes, "AaronLocker" now handles EXE and DLL files with...
Date: 05/14/2019
Just committed some changes to the "AaronLocker" repo on GitHub and its documentation. Changes...
Date: 05/12/2019
7 minute "Intro to 'AaronLocker'," a set of PowerShell scripts that automate AppLocker-related tasks...
Date: 02/22/2019
"AaronLocker" is a robust, practical, and free PowerShell-based application whitelisting solution...
Date: 01/28/2019
"AaronLocker" is a robust, practical, PowerShell-based application whitelisting solution for...
Date: 10/11/2018
[Update 11 Oct 2018: "AaronLocker" v0.91 released] Announcing the pre-release (v0.9) of...
Date: 06/26/2018
Several times a day, all my Office apps kept reverting to the default “Colorful” theme, even though...
Date: 08/14/2017
Over three years ago, I announced that Mark Russinovich and I had signed a contract with Microsoft...
Date: 10/24/2016
LUA Buglight is a utility for identifying admin-permissions issues (a.k.a., "LUA bugs") in desktop...
Date: 06/30/2015
LUA Buglight is a utility for identifying admin-permissions issues ("LUA bugs") in desktop...
Date: 06/22/2015
Last Friday, Microsoft announced the release of the Local Administrator Password Solution, which...
Date: 05/05/2015
Or, Why most "Unquoted Service Paths" findings are unnecessarily alarmist In late 2012, the issue of...
Date: 11/14/2014
Interviewed on "Taste of Premier" about Security Guidance for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and IE 11
Aaron Margosis interviewed on Channel 9's Taste of Premier about Security Guidance for Windows 8.1,...
Date: 10/21/2014
Adapted from the forthcoming book, Troubleshooting with the Windows® Sysinternals Tools, by Mark...
Date: 09/04/2014
Microsoft has published its security guidance and baselines for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2...
Date: 08/15/2014
Sorry for the late notice, but I just saw this: Sysinternals Primer: TechEd 2014 Edition will be...
Date: 05/13/2014
I'll be presenting "TWC: Sysinternals Primer: TechEd 2014 Edition" in Houston, Tuesday, May 13,...
Date: 05/01/2014
Although the US Government has not published a US Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB) standard...
Date: 04/07/2014
A long time ago, before the introduction of the IBM Personal Computer, I was a DJ at the University...
Date: 04/01/2014
Earlier today I finally got the chance to go into the studio to appear on the "Defrag Tools" show on...
Date: 03/06/2014
Microsoft is pleased to announce the first Washington DC IT Pro Camp on Saturday, February 22 2014...
Date: 02/12/2014
I should be working on the Sysinternals book, but there were a couple of KB articles about User...
Date: 01/14/2014
EventCreate.exe is a command line utility that comes with Windows that lets you write events into...
Date: 11/01/2013
Redefining what "Never doing that again" means... Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools, Second Edition
When people asked me what it was like writing a book, I'd invariably answer, "It was a once in a...
Date: 08/29/2013
There are five talks highlighting the Sysinternals utilities at TechEd North America next week in...
Date: 05/29/2013
Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing (TWC) has just published a whitepaper, Mitigating Pass-the-Hash...
Date: 12/11/2012
Executive Summary This paper describes a simple way to mitigate some types of application...
Date: 12/09/2012
Announcing the release of LUA Buglight 2.2, including support for Windows 8. LUA Buglight is an...
Date: 11/28/2012
The Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference that I co-authored with Mark Russinovich is now...
Date: 11/20/2012
It’s one thing to have one's name associated with Mark Russinovich, but quite another to be...
Date: 09/04/2012
My colleague and debug super-guru Andrew Richards sent this announcement out earlier today: Larry...
Date: 08/06/2012
Part of my Sysinternals Primer: Gems presentation at TechEd last month covered the topics of...
Date: 07/17/2012
The two sessions I delivered at TechEd this year are now available online, as is the recording of my...
Date: 07/17/2012
I'm presenting a couple of sessions at TechEd North America 2012 in Orlando (June 11-14) and at...
Date: 06/06/2012
Let's Talk Computers ranks as one of the longest-running computer radio talk shows. I enjoyed it...
Date: 03/21/2012
Last May at TechEd US, I sat down for a six-minute interview with Matt Hester about the Windows...
Date: 10/20/2011
My colleague Shelly Bird, a highly esteemed Architect in Microsoft Public Sector Services, has years...
Date: 10/18/2011
The correct ways to identify folder paths to store files depends on the programming technology you...
Date: 09/25/2011
PrivBar is a toolbar I first published over seven years ago (!) for Internet Explorer and Windows...
Date: 09/01/2011
We have a lot of really smart people at Microsoft, but among those there are a handful who are the...
Date: 08/16/2011
Many of you have long wished for comprehensive, detailed documentation of the Sysinternals...
Date: 07/25/2011
The two sessions I presented last week at Tech-Ed North America 2011 are now available for on-demand...
Date: 05/24/2011
I just posted a major update to IEZoneAnalyzer, my IE security zone analysis and comparison utility,...
Date: 04/14/2011
Getting Law Manager v2.4 to run on Windows 7 Overview Several of my customers run old versions...
Date: 04/14/2011
LUA Buglight 2.1.1 is was attached to this blog post and replaces v2.1. It adds support for Windows...
Date: 03/22/2011
I'm presenting a couple of sessions at Tech-Ed in Atlanta (May 16-19, 2011): The first is...
Date: 03/09/2011