Hi all, Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 has released to manufacture. This means the code is final and in the process of being disseminated to our customers. The dates for availability are: February 9: OEMs and SP1 TAP participants February...

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 were Released to Manufacturing today … we’ll publish more details on Friday. - CC Hameed Share this post :

If you are in the midst of your IT migration, or just getting started with your planning but you’re not 100% sure what systems are in your environment, nor what applications have been deployed, then take heart – help is here!  This week, the Solution...

On October 1, 2008 the Professional level “Enterprise Platforms Support” business at Microsoft will transition to a call-back model for all Professional support incidents in the United States and Canada. Below is a description of how to contact Microsoft...

We are doing some research into how our readers view our blogs and how we can improve them. To that end, we are conducting a survey of our blog readers. Below is the request from Ed Jolly, one of our directors: Greetings Blog Readers, ...

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...

On August 1, 2008 the Small Business Server support business will move to a call-back model for all Professional SBS support incidents in the United States.  More information regarding the change can be found over at the SBS Team’s Blog . - CC Hameed

Another year is coming to an end.  2008 was certainly an eventful year for us here at Microsoft.  Windows Server 2008, Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 were released this year, along with a number...

On June 18th, Mark Russinovich will be hosting a Virtual Roundtable on Windows 7 Application Compatibility. This is a chance for IT Pros to learn all about Windows 7 Application Compatibility and get answers to any management or deployment questions for...

From everyone here on the Performance team - Happy Thanksgiving! XJYEX78Z6WAT

Privacy.  Personally Identifiable Information.  Choice.  Disclosure.  These are all key concepts in the digital age.  We expose more of our personal data electronically than at any time in our history.  IE8 gives users more...

Support for Internet Explorer transitioned from the Performance team to our Developer Support group earlier this year.  Recently, this new team launched their own blog focused on Internet Explorer support issues.  The AskIE blog will be discussing topics...

As you can see, we revamped the look and feel of our blog last night.  As a result, the page load times should be improved.  In addition the new look presents a cleaner, more appealing appearance.  We hope you like the new layout. ...

On September 24th, Mark Russinovich will be hosting a Virtual Roundtable for IT Pros on Windows 7 Application Compatibility: Virtualization. Mark and a panel of experts will be discussing virtualization tools and how they can help you tackle application...

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...

On Thursday, February 12th, Mark Russinovich will host a virtual roundtable for IT Pros worldwide to discuss Windows 7 Beta. Mark, and a panel of Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) will discuss Windows 7 and what’s in store for IT Pros. Learn about the evolution...

Today we’re getting you caught up on some of the changes in the Internet Explorer world.  The IE Product team has been posting a lot of information about IE8 recently – here are some of the key posts: IE8 Blocker Toolkit Available : IE8 will be distributed...

Pre-order Windows 7 today at Microsoft Store . You'll get it for at least half off and be one of the first to get it. Hurry, quantities are limited.* It's pretty simple Windows 7 is coming on October 22, 2009. Here's an easy way to get it fast and save...

Good Morning AskPerf! A reminder to all of you who may be using the Windows 7 Beta version that you need to get your system on the Release Candidate (RC) build quickly ! Beginning on July 1st, the Beta build will start to reboot every two hours, and expire...

On October 6th, Benjamin Gray from independent analyst firm Forrester will be discussing his April 2009 report, “Get Ready for Windows 7” and whether or not your organization should deploy Windows 7 now or test applications and hardware against Windows...

Hello, world! We're often challenged with a process that exits unexpectedly, but this doesn't always equate to an application "crash".  Occasionally this behavior is caused by cross-process termination, where one process terminates another...

There’s a little over a month to go until Windows 7 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 1st, we’ll roll out our first post of the series – 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...

  Starting on May 21, the Windows client team, along with Office and Microsoft Learning will unite to bring the Get On the Bus Tour back home to North America! This is a chance for IT pros to learn all about Windows 7 and Office 2010 , and focus...

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...