Microsoft Silently Introduces Micro Dumps

My April fool’s joke about the 5th dump type partially came true. I’ve just noticed the new tab “Silent Process Exit” in gflags.exe on my W2K8 R2 server:

The registry keys corresponding to settings are:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \CurrentVersion \ SilentProcessExit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ SilentProcessExit \ TestDefaultDebugger64
DumpType (DWORD) 0x88

I continue my investigation and report more later.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -

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