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Remote Desktop Services: Announcements

Good morning all – today’s post is a very brief one regarding new announcements concerning Remote Desktop Services.  The original announcements were made on the Remote Desktop ServicesTeam blog . RDS CAL Single Pack now available in Retail channel Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Breaking News: Argentina DST Change

Hey folks – in the midst of our Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series, we have some information regarding Argentina and the DST change.  Argentina has determined that they will not be observing the DST change on October 18th.  The Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 6:14 PM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 – Service Pack 2

Last week we released Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.  The links in the “Additional Resources” section provide more depth information, but here are some key pieces of information: Language Release Schedule: Five languages Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Managing the System Managed Page File

Hello again AskPerf!  Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mike Morales, one of our Escalation Engineers here in Irving, TX.  For those of you who have been with AskPerf for a while, Mike wrote a post for us a few months ago on UMDH.EXE .  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

PRF: Memory Management (General Issues - Windows Vista +)

MEMORY MANAGEMENT (GENERAL: WINDOWS VISTA AND LATER) Description: Memory management is the term used to describe how Windows handles the manipulation and allocation of both virtual and physical memory resources. Physical memory is considered the total Read More...
Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 9:17 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

APP: Application Compatibility Toolkit

APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY TOOLKIT (ACT) Description: Description: The Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) enables software developers, independent software vendors (ISVs), and IT professionals who work in a corporate environment to determine, before Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:42 PM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Two Minute Drill: New Commands for Old Tasks in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Good Morning AskPerf!  Blake Morrison here once again with a quick note on some new ways to do familiar Control Panel tasks.  Prior to Windows Vista, if you wanted to launch a Control Panel applet using command-line syntax, you could simply Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Who Moved My /3GB?

Last week, while planning blog posts for April, it occurred to me that although we had provided information on using the /3GB switch in the boot.ini file on Windows Server 2003, we hadn’t followed up with a post about how to implement this same functionality Read More...
Posted Friday, April 03, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 7 Comments

The Case of the Mysterious Blank Desktop

Hello folks, Prabhakar Shettigar here once more with another odd case from the trenches. Recently my colleague Sumesh wrote about how Not All Systems Are Truly Equal . Following on from his post, I thought I’d share some interesting anecdotes about a Read More...
Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments

Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Part Three

Good Morning AskPerf!  Today we’re going to wrap up our series on Task Scheduler Changes in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.  If you haven’t read my previous posts on Task Scheduler, I highly recommend reading those first.  The two Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 3 Comments

Windows 7, Zune and the Case of the Mysterious Debugger

Today’s post is actually from my personal troubleshooting experiences last week.  I have been playing with Windows 7 quite a bit recently.  I upgraded my primary work system, my laptop and my home system to the Windows 7 build that was released Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

Understanding Print Notifications in Windows Vista

Hello AskPerf Readers. My name is Mick Bailey, and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Performance team in Texas. Recently I was working with a customer on an issue concerning print notifications for Windows Vista, and I thought that the information Read More...
Posted Friday, January 16, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 6 Comments

The Case of the Mysteriously Large Spooler.xml File

Hi AskPerf readers, Don Geddes here again.  Today we’re going to look at Windows Error Reporting logging in Windows Server 2008 and how it can affect the Printing subsystem.  There was a KB article written a while back that discussed the Windows Read More...
Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments

First Look: Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Hello AskPerf readers!  Today’s post is being published a little later than usual. Today we are launching the Customer Preview Program (CPP) for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, and we wanted to give a first look.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 5 Comments

Why PrintMig 3.1 is Retired

Hey folks, it’s Yong Rhee once more.  Today’s post is a short, but an important one for Print Server administrators.  If you’ve ever administered a Print Server, the chances are that you’ve probably had to perform a print server migration as Read More...
Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments
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