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...