Sysinternals in the Cloud 

 

In an interesting turn of events Microsoft's sysinternal tools are now available online (link) without needing to be installed...This is about as portable as it gets and makes me wonder what the "alternate distribution mechanism" as mentioned in the Microsoft readme file will be used for in the future. Office in the cloud anyone? 

 

What is this?

This is a file share allowing access to all Sysinternals utilities. 
We have developed this to test an alternate distribution mechanism 
for our utilities. This will allow you to run these tools from any 
computer connected to the Internet without having to navigate to a 
webpage, download and extract the zip file. If you are unfamiliar 
with Microsoft Windows Sysinternals, it is highly recommended that 
you visit the website at http://technet.microsoft.com/sysinternals 
before using these tools.

If you have any questions or comments on this file share, please email 
syssite@microsoft.com

Regards,

The Microsoft Windows Sysinternals Team
 

Comments

Muhammad Haroon said…
Nice. I've used sysinternal tools since even before Microsoft acquired them and they have saved my bacon quite a few times. It's nice to see this alternative means of delivery of their tools, however you still need to download the app you want to run with obvious security prompts etc. Not sure if this distribution mechanism really accomplishes anything other than saving a step of unzipping (which is BTW pretty seamless on pretty much all modern OS's anyway).
March 2, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Jason said…
That's a fair point! I'll personally be interested to see where this is going. With Azure coming up, and the inevitable trip to the cloud for future OSs, this is indeed an interesting move on Microsoft's part.
March 9, 2009 at 12:11 AM
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