So long, and Thanks for all the Sid’s

On the retiring of the NewSid tool and the creation of Myths in IT

When working as a consultant, its not unusual to come across  customers who for some reason has chosen to do things in a way that is not in accordance with established “Best Practice”.

Often the customer will tell you that it is because of some unique characteristic of his solutions and environment, and that the decision not to honor the best practice is based on previous experience of internal staff, and/or other external consultants. The rationale behind the decisions might have been true in the past , but may not be true anymore.
However- the details of the previous experience is not known, – but someone once made this decision, so it must have been based on some rational reason, – right?
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The Sysinternals Suite – The all-in-one Troubleshooting Kit

Mark Russinovich announced yesterday that the Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools that can be downloaded for free at Microsoft TechNet.

The tools are:
AccessChk, AccessEnum, AdExplorer, AdRestore, Autologon, Autoruns, BgInfo, CacheSet, ClockRes, Contig, Coreinfo, Ctrl2Cap, DebugView, Desktops, DiskExt, DiskMon, DiskView, Disk Usage (DU), EFSDump, FileMon, Handle, Hex2dec,
Junction, LDMDump, ListDLLs, LiveKd, LoadOrder, LogonSessions, NewSid, NTFSInfo, PageDefrag, PendMoves,PipeList,,PortMon, ProcessExplorer, Process Monitor, ProcFeatures, PsExec, PsFile, PsGetSid, PsInfo, PsKill, PsList, PsLoggedOn, PsLogList, PsPasswd, PsService, PsShutdown, PsSuspend, RegDelNull, RegJump, RegMon,RootkitRevealer, SDelete, ShareEnum, ShellRunas, SigCheck, Streams, Strings, SyncTCPView, VMMap, VolumeID, WhoIs, WinObj and ZoomIt.