Good morning Folks! Today is a quick post to inform you of a new Blog from the Windows Server team that talks about the new RDS (Remote Desktop Services) features in Windows Server 2012. Check it out! Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services (RDS...

In previous versions of Windows, clients with remote connections would often initiate network traffic to retrieve remote information from a print server, resulting in a resource-consuming call to the server.  This behavior was more significant when...

Good morning AskPerf!  Kapil Patry here from the Microsoft Platforms Support Team.  I am blogging today about an issue I recently worked.  This particular issue dealt with the creation of a task using Task Scheduler on a Windows 2008 R2...

Good morning AskPerf! Digvijay here to chat about print server migration. All server admins have probably had an opportunity to migrate print servers. This process can be fast and easy when migrating between the same versions of operating systems; and...

Hello AskPerf and Happy Friday!  This is just a quick post to let you know that Flavio, one of our Disk Experts on the Core team, has posted another informative blog post; this time on Performance Monitor Disk Counters.  Check it out and have...

A new printing hotfix rollup was released that updates the core print spooler components localspl.dll, splwow64.exe, spoolsv.exe, win32spl.dll, and Winprint.dll.  This rollup is designed to reduce known issues such as printing performance, print...

Good morning AskPerf! Sanket Jagtap here from Platforms Team here to discuss an interesting issue I recently worked.  My customer had a Windows 2008 R2 Server, and could not connect locally to WMI.  When they ran “wmimgmt.msc” and tried to connect...

Good morning AskPerf! There are several issues that have been associated with a high number of inactive Terminal Server ports. Delayed logon times to RDP sessions, failure of printers to redirect, and slow server performance due to registry bloat from...

We often get asked from time to time how to force printers that a user has installed on their workstation using the IPP website to use RPC in lieu of the Internet printing protocol. There is a document available on TechNet that explains how to accomplish...

This morning Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President of Server and Cloud Announced the beta release of Windows Server “8” .  I think it is really important for anyone who is interested in hearing more about what is coming in this beta with Hyper-V and...

Good morning AskPerf!  Yesterday we announced the availability of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (beta) for download/testing.  This is huge for our Client OS business and we encourage you to download and play around with it.  Please see...

Good morning AskPerf world!  Jeff Hagler from the Remote Resources team here to chat about printing.  How many of you have ever dealt with an issue where you just knew that something was wrong with your print spooler but could not quite put...

Hello AskPerf Blog Readers! This morning’s post is going to be more of a reference point for all those WMI junkies out there.  Have you ever wanted to test WMI using the command line (outside of VBSCRIPT)?  If so, then WMIC is the tool for you...

Hello AskPerf folks!  This is just a quick blog post to inform you of a great posting from one of our Disk Experts on our Core team.  It is very informative and talks about measuring Physical Disk IO Latency with Perfmon.  Check it out...

Good morning AskPerf!  Nabarun here from the Windows Performance Team to discuss the method of allowing RDP access to multiple servers in a flash.  System administrators often want to know how to enable RDP access throughout the domain. ...

Hello again AskPerf Blog Readers! Leonard back again to continue Part 2 of our Resource Monitor topic. Today we are going to cover the System Health Report, aka System Diagnostics Report. This report is a combination of data generated through Perfmon...

Good morning AskPerf blog readers! Subheet here from the Windows Performance Team. It’s been a while since I’ve written a BLOG, and am really excited about this one. This time, I’m back with our brand new, much anticipated, WMI troubleshooting...

Hello AskPerf! Leonard with the Performance Team here to discuss the Resource Monitor tool and we can use it to troubleshoot Windows Performance issues. In this blog, (the first of 2 on the subject of underutilized tools) I will discuss Resource Monitor...

Good morning AskPerf! Leonard here to chat about a performance issue we often see on the Windows performance team surrounding SQL and Working Set Trimming. I recently worked an issue on a 2003 SP2 x64 Server, running SQL 2005, that was experiencing periods...

Good day AskPerf! Vinod Rawat here to discuss/demonstrate the benefits of using the Tracelog.exe utility to troubleshoot High CPU issues. Tracelog.exe is a command line utility that allows us to start/stop or enable trace logging, and offers the following...

Hello Askperf! Shamesh Pillai here to discuss an interesting issue I recently worked. On Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2 Domain Controllers, Perfmon may fail when starting a System Data Collector Set. This includes the Active Directory Diagnostics...

Good morning AskPerf! Anshuman Ghosh here to chat about an issue I recently worked where a specific Windows Installer package failed to install on a Windows 2008 R2 Server.  Basic Windows Installer troubleshooting took place, including the ability...

Hello AskPerf! Deepak Kumar here to discuss an emerging issue we’ve been seeing on the front lines that surround Wallpaper deployment to Windows Desktops. We’re going to primarily focus on Windows 7, and may sprinkle a little XP in. With that...

Good Morning AskPerf Readers! Our theme today is printing, specifically Default Printer selection behavior. We regularly get asked the question on what causes the default printer to change on a Windows host. Understanding the reasons why this change occurs...

Hello AskPerf! Blake here to discuss an internal command line tool called DriverQuery. What exactly is DriverQuery? I’m glad you asked. In a nutshell, DriverQuery is a command line tool that displays a list of all installed device drivers and their...