Windows Internals, Part 2, 7th Edition
- Length: 912 pages
- Edition: 7
- Language: English
- Publisher: Microsoft Press
- Publication Date: 2021-09-15
- ISBN-10: 0135462401
- ISBN-13: 9780135462409
- Sales Rank: #145921 (See Top 100 Books)
The definitive guide to modern Windows internals: new coverage of virtualization, file systems, boot, security, and more.
For advanced computing professionals, this is the definitive up-to-date guide to how Windows core components behave “under the hood.” Using it, experienced developers can build more powerful and scalable software, administrators can debug complex system and performance problems, and security researchers can harden their systems. This Seventh Edition is fully updated through the May 2021 (21H1/2104) updates to Windows 10 and Windows Server (2022, 2019, and 2016). It adds extensive content on Hyper-V, plus fully rewritten chapters on the boot process, new storage technologies, and Windows system and management mechanisms. As always, it delivers unparalleled insight based on insider access to Microsoft source code, with hands-on experiments using the latest debugging tools to show you Windows’ internal behaviors firsthand. With Windows 11 introducing new user interface design elements that build upon the same core technologies as Windows 10, readers will be well-prepared for this new chapter of computing.
Leading Windows insiders help you:
- Discover system mechanisms for serving device drivers and applications, including ALPC, Object Manager, synchronization, WNF, WoW64, and the processor execution model
- Explore underlying hardware architecture, including trap processing, segmentation, and side channel vulnerabilities
- Understand Windows virtualization, and how virtualization-based security (VBS) protects against OS vulnerabilities
- Delve into key management and configuration mechanisms, including the Registry, Windows services, WMI, and Task Scheduling
- Explore diagnostic services such as Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) and DTrace
- Learn how the cache manager and file system drivers interact to provide reliable support for files, directories, and disks, including on Persistent Memory (NVDIMM) DAX devices.
- Understand NTFS, ReFS, and other Windows file systems
- Review Windows startup/shutdown operations, and OS components involved in boot flow
- Analyze UEFI-based Secure Boot, Measured Boot, and Secure Launch
About This Book
- For experienced programmers, architects, software quality and performance specialists, administrators, security practitioners, and support professionals
- Assumes you are a Windows power user
Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents at a glance Contents About the Authors Foreword Introduction Chapter 8. System mechanisms Processor execution model Hardware side-channel vulnerabilities Side-channel mitigations in Windows Trap dispatching WoW64 (Windows-on-Windows) Object Manager Synchronization Advanced local procedure call Windows Notification Facility User-mode debugging Packaged applications Conclusion Chapter 9. Virtualization technologies The Windows hypervisor The virtualization stack Virtualization-based security (VBS) The Secure Kernel Isolated User Mode Conclusion Chapter 10. Management, diagnostics, and tracing The registry Windows services Task scheduling and UBPM Windows Management Instrumentation Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) Dynamic tracing (DTrace) Windows Error Reporting (WER) Global flags Kernel shims Conclusion Chapter 11. Caching and file systems Terminology Key features of the cache manager Cache virtual memory management Cache size Cache data structures File system interfaces Fast I/O Read-ahead and write-behind File systems The NT File System (NTFS) NTFS file system driver NTFS on-disk structure NTFS recovery support Encrypted file system Direct Access (DAX) disks Resilient File System (ReFS) ReFS advanced features Storage Spaces Conclusion Chapter 12. Startup and shutdown Boot process Conclusion Contents of Windows Internals, Seventh Edition, Part 1 Index Code Snippets
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