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Designing Applications for High Performance

Happy Friday AskPerf!  We’ve had a few questions in the past about guidelines for application design in a faster computing environment.  Now, I make absolutely no claims whatsoever to being any sort of a code guru, and so I wasn’t about to try Read More...
Posted Friday, November 13, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Remote Desktop IP Virtualization

Happy Sunday everyone! It’s Day Eighteen of our Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series – only four more days to go till the big day! Today we’re wrapping up our look at some of the new Remote Desktop Services features with a quick overview of Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 4:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Remote Desktop Services Virtualization (RDS-V)

Good Morning AskPerf Nation! Our Launch Series is at Day Seventeen. There are only five more days to go! Today we’re continuing on with Remote Desktop Services, with a look at Remote Desktop Services Virtualization (or RDS-V, for short). You may also Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 4:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Remote Desktop Connection Broker (Part One)

Good Morning AskPerf! Welcome to Day Fifteen of our Launch Series. There is only one more week to go! If you remember Windows Server 2003 R2 then you probably also remember that Terminal Services (as it was called then) didn’t change much from Windows Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Remote Desktop Services Architecture

Welcome back to our Launch Series. Today is Day Thirteen – only a few more days to go! Today we’re continuing on with Remote Desktop Services with a look at the architecture. Here we go: There have been some design changes in RDS (remote desktop services) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:00 AM by CC Hameed | 3 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Distributed Scan Management

Happy Sunday, everyone! Welcome to Day Eleven of our Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series. Today, we’re going to wrap up our look at Printing and Document Services with an overview of Distributed Scan Management (DSM). As more scanner Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 11, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Location-Aware Printing

Good Morning AskPerf Readers! Welcome to Day Ten of our Launch Series. Our theme this week has been Printing, and today we’ll be continuing in that vein. Our topic today is Location-Aware Printing. Mobile users and network-connected devices are a rapidly Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 10, 2009 2:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: PrintBRM

Happy Friday everyone!  Welcome to Day Nine of our Launch Series for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.  We’re continuing on with Printing today – specifically a look at PrintBRM.  PrintBRM was introduced in Windows Vista and Windows Read More...
Posted Friday, October 09, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Print Driver Isolation

Welcome back folks!  It’s Day Eight.  We’re just over one-third of the way through our series and there are only two more weeks until launch day!  Raise your hand if you’ve ever had to deal with a Print Spooler crash.  Keep your hand Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Console Host

Happy Monday everyone.  It’s Day Five of our Launch Series.  Today, we’re going to cover a new feature in Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 – Console Host (ConHost.exe).  A good number of companies and individuals out there still run “console” Read More...
Posted Monday, October 05, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Unified Background Process Manager (UBPM)

Welcome back AskPerf!  It’s Day Four of our pre-launch series.  Even though it’s Sunday here, we’re not letting up at all – we’re feverishly working to get the rest of our series completed!  Today’s topic is the new Unified Background Process Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 04, 2009 6:00 PM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Core Parking / Intelligent Timer Tick / Timer Coalescing

Welcome to Day Three of our pre-launch series.  Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have many features that are geared toward reducing power consumption.  In order to achieve greater power savings by processors, they must be able to idle more Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 03, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Fault Tolerant Heap and Memory Management

Hello, and welcome to our second post in the Windows 7 launch series. This post is going to be a long one, so buckle in. We’re going to start with an overview of Fault Tolerant Heap, which is a new feature in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and then Read More...
Posted Friday, October 02, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 5 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Upgrade Paths, Registry Enhancements, Crash Dumps and Page File Sizing

It’s October 1st, 2009! That means that it’s time to get started on our Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series. Day One – let’s start at the very beginning, which is usually a very good place to start. Today we’re covering Upgrade Paths, Registry Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 6 Comments

Two Minute Drill: Stack Basics

Welcome back AskPerf!  Carrying on with our debugging / architectural theme from the last couple of weeks, today’s topic is about the stack.  A stack is a way of storing information – a data structure.  When a new object is placed on the Read More...
Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments
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