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...

Hello AskPerf!  Not sure if you’ve heard about this new feature with Windows 8 Server beta or not, but you can now manage your machines via Windows PowerShell in a web browser.  This means, you can use Windows PowerShell from a large variety...

Hello AskPerf Blog Readers!  Steven Sinofsky published the below blog last week just in case you missed it.  It was authored by one of our lead Program Managers on the Printing team.  It talks about some of the new exciting Printing features...

There's a little over a month to go until Windows 8 hits store shelves. We're going to be taking a short hiatus here on AskPerf while we get our Launch Series content ready. On October 22nd we will roll out the first post of the series – and then...

Welcome to day 3 of our Launch Series.  This is part two of the new Start Screen and User Interface in Windows 8.  In part one, we covered tiles and groups.  Today, we will look into switching between applications, the Snap feature, and...

Hi AskPerf readers, this is Paul from the Microsoft Remote Resources Support Team. We have been receiving a number of support questions concerning the use of Client Access Points (CAPs) and the use of CNAME alias records when referencing a Failover Clustered...

Hello AskPerf! Today is an exciting day as we have released both Windows 8 and Server 2012 to manufacturing! Please read Steven Sinofsky's and Jeffrey Snover’s blog posts below: Releasing Windows 8 – August 1, 2012 Windows Server 2012...

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...

Good morning AskPerf!  My name is Sandeep Bhatia and I work with Networking team here in Microsoft Support.  In today’s post, we will discuss Print issues when using a CNAME on Windows 2008 R2 Server, with a non-Microsoft DNS Servers. When you...

Hey Folks, one of our peeps on AskPFEplat posted a great blog on Troubleshooting Performance issues using the Windows Performance Recorder app.  This tool allows you to easily capture XPERF traces on your *machines.  Go check it out! Troubleshooting...

Happy New Year AskPerf Blog Readers!  Can you believe that 2012 is now over?  Seems like it just flew by to me.  Anyway, we had some HUGE  product launches in 2012.  Some of which come to mind: Windows 8 Microsoft Surface Windows...

This is just a quick post to advertise our PFE folks and their new RaaS Service. Yong Rhee and Julio Danoviz from the MSPFE blog go thru a new service called RAP as a Service (RaaS) . A RaaS is a service that provides an in-depth analysis of your environment...

It’s day 8 of our Launch Series!  Today we are going to talk about creating a Windows To Go device.  Windows To Go workspaces (a new feature in Windows 8 Enterprise client) enables bootable USB thumb drives that essentially act as an additional...

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! 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...

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! 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...

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!  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...

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...

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 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...

Good day AskPerf! Last Thursday we announced the availability of the Windows 8 Release Preview (a little late on the blog posting I know). If you’ve been living under a rock, then this is new news to you. If not, then I’m sure you may have...

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...

Happy Friday AskPerf!  We’ve had a few questions in the past about guidelines for application design in a faster computing environment.  Now, I make absolutely no claims whatsoever to being any sort of a code guru, and so I wasn’t about to try...