From Windows Server 2008 Administrator's Pocket Consultant by William R. Stanek (yes, it's on Books 24x7):
Using the Command Line During Installation
When you access a command prompt from within Setup, you access the MINWINPC environment used by Setup to install the operating system. During installation, on the Where Do You Want To Install Windows page, you can access a command prompt by pressing Shift+F10. As Table 2-4 shows, the mini Windows PC environment gives you access to many of the same command-line tools that are available in a standard installation of Windows Server 2008.
So, after you click Install Now -> You can press Shift+F10 and you'll be dropped to a command shell.
The burning question I have is whether this can be used to reset local users passwords?
Monday, June 9, 2008
Windows FSA Tools
FSA = Forensic and System Administration
I subscribe to Harlan's blog, and recently he has made three separate posts about tools; read them. I was poking around NirSoft (linked from Harlan's blog), and stumbled upon some more tools I feel should be highlighted:
IE PassView: Dumps passwords stored in IE (works with IE7 in Vista!)
USBDeview: Extracts the USB device information stored in the Windows registry from a live system
RecentFilesView: Lists the recently accessed files from a live Windows system
Note: Harlan's RegRipper accomplishes similar feats (usb history, recent files, etc) in an offline fashion, from registry hives on acquired drives or read-only drives.
Note: OpenedFilesView doesn't work on Vista x64
Have fun!
I subscribe to Harlan's blog, and recently he has made three separate posts about tools; read them. I was poking around NirSoft (linked from Harlan's blog), and stumbled upon some more tools I feel should be highlighted:
IE PassView: Dumps passwords stored in IE (works with IE7 in Vista!)
USBDeview: Extracts the USB device information stored in the Windows registry from a live system
RecentFilesView: Lists the recently accessed files from a live Windows system
Note: Harlan's RegRipper accomplishes similar feats (usb history, recent files, etc) in an offline fashion, from registry hives on acquired drives or read-only drives.
Note: OpenedFilesView doesn't work on Vista x64
Have fun!
Welcome
The purpose of this blog is to document mishaps, misconfigurations, and general mis-steps during implementation of systems relating to information sciences. Over the years, I've been documenting how to properly setup environments; but, these past few months have made me realize that I've always missed a critical portion of the documentation process: the failures.
This blog is dedicated to archiving solutions for issues large or small that come about during information system configuration. The acronym, NSSA, in the title of the blog means: Networking, Security, and Systems Administration. The name NSSA Documentation was chosen because I couldn't think of a better name or acronym that would cover all the categories and because the blog's original creators attended RIT in the NSSA department.
Please email me at Jason.Robert.Koppe@therealgmaildomain.com you'd like to become a blog contributor.
This blog is dedicated to archiving solutions for issues large or small that come about during information system configuration. The acronym, NSSA, in the title of the blog means: Networking, Security, and Systems Administration. The name NSSA Documentation was chosen because I couldn't think of a better name or acronym that would cover all the categories and because the blog's original creators attended RIT in the NSSA department.
Please email me at Jason.Robert.Koppe@therealgmaildomain.com you'd like to become a blog contributor.
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