May, 2009

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...

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...

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...

Hello AskPerf – my name is Digvijay Nath, and I’m a Support Engineer on the Performance team in our Bangalore office.  Today, I’m going to quickly cover the .MSP file used by the Windows Installer.  The installer uses different file types to...

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...

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...

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...

Happy Friday everyone!  Now that Windows 7 RC has been released to the world, we thought we’d share some interesting Windows 7 posts from some of our fellow Microsoft bloggers. Engineering Windows 7: Media Streaming with Windows 7 Our Next Engineering...