General Troubleshooting Reference
Hello,
Within this blog I try to make a list of resources for general troubleshooting on Windows Operating System. The list is not exhaustive. However, I'll try to keep the list as up-to-date as possible. So please come and visit again :)
This article is broken down into three parts :
ONLINE KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES
TOOLS
BOOKS
ONLINE KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES
The following resources are from Mark Russinovich. There are videos, blogs and various online resouces. The topics are around troubleshooting different problems using Mark's tools. Some resources dive deep into the Windows Operating System.
Sysinternals Learning Resources https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb469930
Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/hh290819
Mark's Webcasts https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963887
Mark's Blog https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/
The following is a very useful set of episodes on Channel 9. Each episode is about a different topic. It is basically around troubleshooting very different scenarios with a wide range of tools. It is highly probable that you encounter an episode that matches your current ongoing issue whatever that might be :)
Defrag Tools https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools
Microsoft Blogs about Windows Technologies and Support
Windows Supportability Team Blog https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/supportingwindows/
Ask the Core Team / Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support: Windows Server Core Team
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/
Ask the Directory Services Team / Microsoft's official enterprise support blog for AD DS and more
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/
Ask Premier Field Engineering (PFE) Platforms https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/
Ntdebugging Blog / Microsoft Advanced Windows Debugging and Troubleshooting
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ntdebugging/
Networking Blog / Windows Networking support team and Product team blog
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/networking/
Clustering and High-Availability / Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing Team Blog
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/
Server Storage at Microsoft / The official blog of the Windows Server storage engineering teams
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/
The Hot Blog / In hot blog, we blog hotfix right!
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hot/
Microsoft Edge Developer https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev
IEBlog / Internet Explorer Team Blog https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/
Measuring Application Performance
Improving Your App’s Performance with PerfView https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2012/10/09/improving-your-apps-performance-with-perfview/
Vance Morrison's Weblog https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vancem/tag/perfview/
PerfView Tutorial https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/PerfView-Tutorial
Microsoft/perfview https://github.com/Microsoft/perfview
TOOLS
Sysinternals Utilities Index https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545027
PerfView https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28567
PerfView is a performance-analysis tool that helps isolate CPU- and memory-related performance issues.
PerfView Tutorial is a multipart series that can be found at :
https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/PerfView-Tutorial
The source code can be downloaded from
Microsoft/perfview https://github.com/Microsoft/perfview
Windows Performance Toolkit https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/commercialize/test/wpt/index
Dependency Walker 2.2 https://www.dependencywalker.com/
BOOKS
Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools (2nd Edition) 2nd Edition https://www.amazon.com/Troubleshooting-Windows-Sysinternals-Tools-2nd/dp/0735684448/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=ESPM5ZENR3JX7QBCPZ7Z
Windows Performance Analysis Field Guide https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0124167012/ref=pd_sim_14_4?ie=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0124167012&pd_rd_r=HNRWPWPPXDW1H86RX9CF&pd_rd_w=yQWRM&pd_rd_wg=fXuFA&psc=1&refRID=HNRWPWPPXDW1H86RX9CF
Windows Internals, Part 1 (6th Edition) (Developer Reference) 6th Edition https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Part-Developer-Reference/dp/0735648735/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1475941683&sr=8-2&keywords=windows+internals
Windows Internals, Part 2 (6th Edition) (Developer Reference) 6th Edition https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Part-Developer-Reference/dp/0735665877/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1475941683&sr=8-3&keywords=windows+internals