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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 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: 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

Viewing Folder Sizes in Explorer

Good morning AskPerf.  Today’s post is a very short one, but it does address one of our most common Shell / Windows UI questions.  That question is, “Why can’t I see the size of folders in Windows Explorer?”  The simple answer is that the Read More...
Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

MS08-067: Worms, Worms, Worms

Over the last couple of weeks, there has been an uptick in the number of different malware programs aimed at exploiting the vulnerability patched in MS08-067 .  If you’ve been monitoring the various security websites and blogs, then you’ve probably Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Windows Printing and Network Load Balancing

Hello, my name is Yong Rhee and I’m a Support Escalation Engineer on the Windows Server Core-Performance team.  Every now and then, we work with a customer whose administrator is trying to deploy a printing solution on Windows Server 2003 (or Windows Read More...
Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments
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NAP 101 – The Components of NAP

Welcome back AskPerf Readers. In my last post we covered the basics of Network Access Protection (NAP) – what it is, and what it can (and can’t!) do for you. Today we’re going to go over the various components of NAP. The diagram below from the NAP Architecture Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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Network Access Protection for the non-Network Admin

We've talked about security in previous posts.  We've also talked about SMB, Large File Copies and a number of other networking-related issues.  Today we're going to talk about Network Access Protection (NAP) and its role in the enterprise.  Read More...
Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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Two Minute Drill: Troubleshooting Name Resolution

Welcome back AskPerf readers!  For our readers in the United States, I hope you enjoyed your three day weekend for the Labor Day holiday, but it’s time to get back to work.  I know today’s title looks like it should be posted on one of our Networking Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

What Port is that Service using?

We deal with application and service issues on a daily basis.  Normally the problems relate to applications not performing as expected, hanging or crashing.  However, every so often someone will ask us what network port a service is using.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Network Monitor 3.1 OneClick … now what?

Hello again AskPerf!  This is Austin.  In my last post, we discussed how to get a network trace using OneClick.  Today, I’m going to show you how you might use that data.  The example I am going to use is for a file server that is Read More...
Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Two Minute Drill: Network Monitor 3.1 OneClick

Hello AskPerf readers!  My name is Austin and I am a Technical Lead on the Performance team.  In several of our posts, we’ve discussed troubleshooting server performance issues, especially on file servers.  Most of you have probably already Read More...
Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Two Minute Drill: Overview of SMB 2.0

The Server Message Protocol (SMB) is the file sharing protocol used by default on Windows-based computers. Although file sharing and network protocols are primarily supported by our Networking team, it is important to understand how SMB works given its Read More...
Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 7 Comments
 
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