There has been some buzz about it and it seems as if its finally Windows 8.1 is here as an preview. Now you can take a first-hand look at many of the new features and improvements with the Windows 8.1 Preview. For a more complete look at all the features in Windows 8.1, check out the Product […]
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First Open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). You may need to run as Administrator Right click the Databases folder and select attach from the menu. Click Add and select the mdf file. Click Ok, and then Click Ok again. You will get an error at this time because SSMS could not find the corresponding ldf […]
Microsoft Message Analyzer is the successor of Microsoft Network Monitor. Microsoft released their third and final Beta of Microsoft Message Analyzer which will be followed up by the official release in the fall. In addition to the new features and functionality, they improved performance and reduced the memory footprint. Here is a list of the new […]
You can identify what information is sent from the browser to the remote web server using a Linux tool called netcat (nc). Netcat is often referred to as a “Swiss-army knife for TCP/IP”. Its list of features includes port scanning, transferring files, and port listening, and it can be used as a backdoor. Simply run netcat […]
I have been seeing this alert “ET P2P Torrent Client User-Agent (Solid Core/0.82)” on networks for sometime now and was able to narrow it down to being related to Adobe Flash (Firefox and Chrome). I am not sure why Adobe is using a torrent client in its flash but this seems to be the source. This […]
NTttcp is used to profile and measure Windows networking performance. This tool was for ‘internal-only’ use for the last five years at Microsoft until now. You can download it here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/NTttcp-Version-528-Now-f8b12769 Description Optimizations added for 10GigE interfaces Increased platform support: x86, x64 and ARM Simplified usage (e.g. sender and receiver functionality determined with a simple […]