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MS09-065 – Tracking a New Issue on Windows XP

Good morning folks!  Sorry that today’s post is a little later than usual.  We’ve been tracking an issue related to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-065 ( KB Article 969947 ) on Windows XP.  You may notice odd behavior including system Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:49 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Problem Steps Recorder

Hi all, and welcome to Day 21 in our Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series. Tomorrow is the big day! To wrap up our Launch Series, I want to talk today about a really cool tool included in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 called Problem Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:00 AM by CC Hameed | 3 Comments

MSI: Troubleshooting Package Installation

TROUBLESHOOTING PACKAGE INSTALLATION Description: Microsoft Windows Installer Service is an installation and configuration service included in Windows. It allows you to add, modify, and remove applications provided as Windows Installer (*.msi) packages. Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 07, 2009 8:15 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Splitting up WMI Providers for Troubleshooting

Good Morning AskPerf!  My name is Jim Martin, and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Performance team.  In today’s post, we are going to take a look at splitting up WMI providers.  I had been working with some customers who were Read More...
Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments
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Two Minute Drill: Application Verifier

Happy Friday AskPerf.  My name is Syed Yusuf, and I am a Support Engineer on the Performance team.  Application crash issues can be somewhat tricky to resolve – especially if we’re dealing with a third party application.  Today we’re going Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Two Minute Drill: TYPEPERF

Hello again AskPerf! Blake Morrison here to discuss a little known OS tool called TYPEPERF. TYPEPERF is a built-in tool that writes performance data to the command window or to a log file. If you are a command line junkie, love to script, and need to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Printing and Active Directory

Good Morning AskPerf.  My name is Philip Demaree and I am an Escalation Engineer based in Washington.  Today we’re going to take a look at some Printing and Active Directory concepts and troubleshooting.  To start with, what we’re going Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Two Minute Drill: The New MPS Reports

Happy Friday AskPerf! Today’s post is a quick overview of the new MPS Reports tool that was released last week. For those of you that have worked on support incidents with us in the past, you’re used to downloading multiple flavors of the MPS Reports Read More...
Posted Friday, May 01, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 6 Comments

Windows 7: The Upgrade Experience

Good morning folks.  Many of you are probably running a build of Windows 7 on one of your machines.  If so, then you need to read the latest blog post over at the Engineering Windows 7 blog regarding the Upgrade Experience.  With the Release Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Terminal Services and Graphically Intensive Applications

Hello AskPerf, my name is Subheet Rastogi and I am a Technical Lead on the Performance team in Bangalore.  Today, we’re going to take a quick look at issues that typically arise when using graphic intensive applications or media streaming in a Remote Read More...
Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

WMI: Rebuilding the WMI Repository

REBUILDING THE WMI REPOSITORY Description: WMI uses the Common Information Model (CIM) to represent the managed objects in Windows. Managed objects are any device, software, physical or logical component. Each of these objects are stored in a database Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 1:27 PM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

WMI: Recompiling WMI MOFs

RECOMPILING WMI MOF’S Description: Managed Object Format (MOF) is a compiled language, created by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and based on the Interface Definition Language (IDL). The MOF file is a mechanism for expressing and registering Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 1:27 PM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

TSK: Task Scheduler Service

TASK SCHEDULER SERVICE Description: The Task Scheduler service enables you to perform automated tasks on a computer. With this service, you can schedule any program to run at any time or when a specific event occurs. The Task Scheduler monitors the time Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 1:11 PM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

PRN: Unable to Print / Unexpected Print Results

UNABLE TO PRINT / UNEXPECTED PRINT RESULTS Description: Two frequent problems encountered in Windows printing involve either being unable to print, or getting unexpected print results. There are many different reasons you may run into these kinds of problems. Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 6:39 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

PRN: Spooler Hang / Crash

SPOOLER HANG / CRASH Description: Two frequent problems encountered in Windows printing involve either a hang or a crash of the print spooler (spoolsv.exe). There are many different reasons you may run into this kind of problem, but the data collection Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 6:38 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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