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Ask the Performance Team
Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Start Screen and User Interface Part 1
Posted
6 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
11
Comments
Welcome to day 2 of our Launch Series. This is part one of a two part series regarding the new Start Screen and User Interface in Windows 8. Today, we will look into tiles and groups. The Start screen replaces the Start menu from previous versions...
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Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Upgrade Paths and Editions
Posted
6 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
3
Comments
Welcome to day 1 of our Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 Launch Series! We hope you will enjoy reading this series as much as we enjoyed putting the content together. With that said, our first post is going to talk about the upgrade paths and editions...
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Windows 8 is coming! See Y’All in a few weeks…
Posted
7 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
1
Comments
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...
Ask the Performance Team
CAPS and CNAME Alias Records
Posted
8 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
0
Comments
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...
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How to increase the number of Printers listed in Add Printer Wizard
Posted
8 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
2
Comments
Good morning AskPerf! Akash Nema here from the Performance team. Today we are going to chat about how to tweak the printer list presented when using the Add Printer Wizard in Windows 7. We frequently see situations with Domain joined users...
Ask the Performance Team
How to change Regional Settings for all users on a computer
Posted
9 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
6
Comments
Hello AskPerf! Harshad Joshi here from the Performance team. Today we are going to talk about changing the “Region and Language” settings for all users at once. Typically, you change these settings on a per user basis. Well, we...
Ask the Performance Team
MMC has detected an error in a snap-in and will unload it
Posted
9 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
2
Comments
Good morning AskPerf! Madhurjya here from the Windows Performance Team to alert you on an emerging issue where random MMC snap-ins will fail after installing the June 2012 .NET updates. After installing these .NET updates on a Windows 7 or Windows...
Ask the Performance Team
Windows 8 has RTM’d!
Posted
9 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
0
Comments
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...
Ask the Performance Team
Simplifying printing in Windows 8
Posted
9 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
1
Comments
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...
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From our PowerShell folks – Windows PowerShell Web Access
Posted
10 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
1
Comments
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...
Ask the Performance Team
Windows 7 client machines show printers offline on Windows Server 2008 R2
Posted
10 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
5
Comments
Hello AskPerf! I’m Craig Marcho, a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Microsoft Platforms Core Team. There has been an increase in cases lately with Windows 7 Clients and Windows Server 2008 R2 Print Servers where Clients will show print queues...
Ask the Performance Team
Two Minute Drill: Win32_QuickFixEngineering – No instances available
Posted
10 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
7
Comments
Hello AskPerf! Michael Smith here with a quick post on what can cause Win32_QuickFixEngineering to return "No Instances Available". A captured Procmon log while running WMIC QFE or Enumerating Instances with WBEMTEST might reveal something similar to...
Ask the Performance Team
How to display a certain type of Mouse Cursor in a Terminal Server Session
Posted
11 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
4
Comments
Hello everyone! This is Harshad Joshi from the Performance Team at Microsoft. In today’s post, I am going discuss an interesting feature of Remote Desktop Services configured for users via Group Policy Preferences. Recently, I had a request from...
Ask the Performance Team
Terminal Server and PTEs
Posted
11 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
2
Comments
Good morning AskPerf! One of our large call generators that we still see is with PTE depletions on Windows Server 2003 Terminal Servers (x86). Scaling your W2K3 Terminal Server can be challenging as the load increases with additional users and the limits...
Ask the Performance Team
Windows 8 Release Preview now available!
Posted
11 months ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
0
Comments
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...
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Great blog post on RDS in Windows Server 2012
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
0
Comments
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...
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Improve caching for CSR
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
0
Comments
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...
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Task Scheduler Error “A specified logon session does not exist”
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
7
Comments
Good morning AskPerf! Kapil Patry here from the Microsoft Platforms Support Team. I am blogging today about an issue I recently worked. This particular issue dealt with the creation of a task using Task Scheduler on a Windows 2008 R2 Server (can occur...
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Migrating Print Queues quickly using PRINTBRM, configuration files, and the Generic/Text Only Driver
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
9
Comments
Good morning AskPerf! Digvijay here to chat about print server migration. All server admins have probably had an opportunity to migrate print servers. This process can be fast and easy when migrating between the same versions of operating systems; and...
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Windows Performance Monitor Disk Counters Explained
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
0
Comments
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...
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Print update rollup available for Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
7
Comments
A new printing hotfix rollup was released that updates the core print spooler components localspl.dll, splwow64.exe, spoolsv.exe, win32spl.dll, and Winprint.dll. This rollup is designed to reduce known issues such as printing performance, print...
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Unable to connect to WMI locally – “Win32: The system cannot find the path specified”
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
3
Comments
Good morning AskPerf! Sanket Jagtap here from Platforms Team here to discuss an interesting issue I recently worked. My customer had a Windows 2008 R2 Server, and could not connect locally to WMI. When they ran “wmimgmt.msc” and tried to connect...
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Performance issues due to Inactive Terminal Server Ports
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
14
Comments
Good morning AskPerf! There are several issues that have been associated with a high number of inactive Terminal Server ports. Delayed logon times to RDP sessions, failure of printers to redirect, and slow server performance due to registry bloat from...
Ask the Performance Team
Internet Printing – How Windows decides if http or RPC is used for a Print Connection to an IPP Server
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
1
Comments
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...
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Windows Server 8 beta now available!
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Blake Morrison - MSFT
0
Comments
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...
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