Course Descriptions

Azius Developer Training offers seminars in five major areas of Windows technology: Windows operating system internals, troubleshooting and debugging, device drivers, Windows security, and Windows source code.

Windows Internals

Our Windows Internals seminars are the closest you can get to the operating system without source access. (Or, if you have source access, we can present these in a "with source" form.) Learn the components of Windows, how they interact and execute to implement the functions of an operating system, and the implications for application and driver development, debugging and troubleshooting, and system administration.

INT150: Windows Internals Essentials for System Administrators and Support Personnel
INT151: Windows Internals Essentials for Application Programmers
INT201: Windows Internals
INT205: Windows Internals Update
INT250: Windows Internals Workshop
INT410: Windows Memory Management Internals

Windows Troubleshooting and Debugging

In these seminars you will learn to apply the principles of operating system internals to general system troubleshooting, memory dump analysis, and live debugging.

DBG211: Windows Troubleshooting and Memory Dump Analysis (formerly INT211)
DBG214: Windows 64-bit Memory Dump Analysis (formerly INT214)
CMB221: Windows Internals, Troubleshooting, and Memory Dump Analysis
DBG311: Windows Itanium Debugging Workshop (formerly INT311)

Windows Security

Security is everyone's foremost concern these days. We've extensively researched the security enhancements in Windows to bring you two new security-related seminars.

SEC230: Windows Cryptography Next Generation (CNG) for Developers
SEC240: Windows Security Internals

Windows Device Driver Development

We've been writing drivers for Windows since the beta releases of Windows NT 3.1! We offer seminars on a wider variety of driver models than anyone else in the industry (in fact, more than the rest of the industry combined).

The following seminars provide introductory level information:

DRV101: Windows Driver Development Orientation and Update
DRV150: Windows Internals Essentials for Device Driver Writers

The following seminars address the Windows Driver Model (WDM):

DRV201: Core Windows Driver Model (WDM) Device Drivers
DRV205: Windows Pseudodrivers and Operating System Interfaces
DRV301: Advanced Windows Driver Model (WDM) Device Drivers

These seminars use the newer Windows Driver Foundation models, KMDF (Kernel Mode Driver Frameworks) and UMDF (User Mode Driver Frameworks):

DRV202: Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) Drivers
DRV203: Windows Driver Development for Kernel Mode Driver Frameworks (KMDF)
DRV204: Windows Driver Development for User Mode Driver Frameworks (UMDF)

Although all of our driver seminars cover basic debugging, these seminars go into much greater depth and detail on advanced driver debugging techniques:

DRV211: Windows Driver Debugging and Memory Dump Analysis
DRV274: Windows Driver Debugging and Memory Dump Analysis for Itanium Systems

The following are specific to particular hardware interfaces or to specialized driver technologies:

DRV221: Windows Network Drivers for NDIS 5 (XP and earlier)
DRV222: Windows Network Drivers for NDIS 6 (Vista and later)
DRV231: Windows Drivers for IEEE1394 Devices
DRV232: Windows Drivers for USB Devices
DRV233: Windows AVStream Minidrivers
DRV251: Windows Storage Controller Drivers
DRV264: Windows 64-bit Driver Migration
DRV350: Windows File System Drivers
DRV360: Windows File System Minifilter Drivers (new!)

Windows 64-bit Driver Migration

An amazing number of devices are still not supported under 64-bit Windows! Are your products among the missing? Bring them into the 21st century in short order. The first of these covers driver migration for all 64-bit platforms, and debugging on x64; the second adds an introduction to Itanium debugging if you need it. And last but not least, we offer an intensive workshop on the inner details of Itanium.

DRV264: Windows 64-bit Driver Migration and x64 Debugging
DRV274: Windows Driver Debugging and Memory Dump Analysis for Itanium Systems
DBG311: Windows Itanium Debugging Workshop

Seminars for Microsoft Shared Source Licensees

These seminars are of course only available to those who have signed the appropriate source code licenses with Microsoft. For details, please see the Windows Shared Source Licensing Programs page at www.microsoft.com. Your Shared Source representative can assist you with arranging these seminars.

WSC150: Windows Source Code Orientation for Code Center Premium Licensees
WSC250: Windows Source Code Workshop for Code Center Premium Licensees

Seminars for Application Developers

APP210: Windows Application Development: An Internals Approach
OFF201: Microsoft Office OpenXML File Formats

	What about 64 bits?
	What version?
Except where noted in the course title or description, all of our seminars apply to the most current versions of Windows: at present, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. You can, however, request that any of our seminars be presented to address earlier versions.
	Customizations
Remember, these course descriptions are just a starting point for your private seminar. Contact us today if you'd like us to tailor a seminar to your organization's needs. Customized seminars usually cost no more than a standard seminar of the same length.
	Got source access?
So do we. If you're a Microsoft Windows source licensee—whether via Code Center Premium, or an OEM source agreement—we can present any of our seminars in a "with source" format.
All of our seminars cover both 32- and 64-bit Windows and highlight the differences where they are relevant. In our driver development seminars, the drivers you learn to write will build for and run on x64 and Itanium as well as x86. If you want to update your existing skills for the 64-bit environments, we do offer DRV264, Windows Drivers Porting & Debugging for 64-bit Platforms and DRV274, Driver Debugging & Memory Dump Analysis for Itanium Systems.
	Got source access?
So do we. If you have access to Microsoft Windows source code (whether Code Center Premium access through the Government Security Program (GSP), an OEM source agreement, or other) we can present any of our seminars in a "with source" format.