March, 2009

Hey there AskPerf – my name is Craig Marcho and I am a Support Engineer with the Performance team in Texas. Today’s post is going to be something a little different than you’re used to seeing on AskPerf. We’re going to take a look at my recent experiences...

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...

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...

Yesterday morning we released Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 to the web for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server.  We’ve posted a number of different posts about IE8 over the last few months, however we’ve barely scratched the surface of the...

On March 24, 2009 the Professional level “Enterprise Platforms Support” business at Microsoft will transition to a call-back model for all After Hours Professional support incidents in the United States and Canada.  Below is a description of how...

Hello AskPerf!  It’s Blake Morrison here once more with some information on a Windows feature with which you may not be familiar … But, before we start off this post think about the following scenarios – how many of them have you experienced? Your...

Hello AskPerf – my name is Craig Marcho, and I am a Support Engineer on the Performance team in Texas. Have you recently updated to .Net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1? Are you now seeing prompts when trying to install inbox printer drivers warning that...

One of the most common questions we ask when troubleshooting issues that only occur on certain systems is, “What’s different between the two machines?”  In many cases, the response is usually, “nothing”.  Given that in large enterprise environments...

Hey folks – today’s post is a short one.  There are some great new posts over at the Terminal Services Team Blog that we thought we’d share: Remote Desktop Services at the 2009 MVP Summit : The annual MVP Summit was held last week in Seattle and...