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Hey y’all, Mark here with some great news. A massive Slow Boot Slow Login (SBSL) hotfix rollup for enterprises that includes 90 post Windows 7/2008 R2 hotfixes is available for download. The hotfixes focus on performance (Hooray!) and stability (Hooray again!). There are improvements to the DFSN...

Hey y’all, Mark here again. Another year has come to an end, the Mayans were wrong and we started to look back on what our most popular post of the last year were. For you long time readers (AD MVP Mike Kline , our very first comment) this will be a trip down memory lane. For any of our new readers...

Hey y’all, Mark here with another quick real world WDRAP ( Windows Desktop Risk Assessment Program) post. This one also involves a time issue which seems to be a theme around here as of late. Also I've already had some customers contact their TAM to get a PFE on site based on these posts which...

Hey y’all, Mark here again with another real world WDRAP ( Windows Desktop Risk Assessment Program) case. I’ll be spending 6 of my next 8 weeks performing WDRAPs, and it seems these blogs are helping my customers look deeper into Windows client performance. Imagine how many skeletons we can...

Hey y’all, Mark here again with a quick post. Did you attend Tech Ed this year but miss a chance to see Xperf stealing the show? Great news, the session is online along with many others! This is a great session led by Stephen Rose ( @stephenlrose ), PFE’s own Matthew Reynolds...

Hey y’all, Mark here again with an interesting “Real World” XPerf trace from the depths of a WDRAP (Windows Desktop Risk Assessment). If your infrastructure hasn’t had a WDRAP yet, or it’s been a while, work with your Technical Account Manager to see if you can schedule...

Login scripts once implemented in an environment tend to never really get removed. They are always there, running. The fact that many of these login script functionality, such as mapping drives, could be moved to Group Policy Preferences ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/01/07/using-group...

So now that you are in the loop on the XPERF greatness, let's look at a real world example of how XPERF can help us optimize boot times. (For those of you that missed the XPERF memo, go back and read Mark's post ) When we first started looking at this client laptop, he was getting to a usable desktop...

For the last 6 months I’ve been saying I was going to write a series of posts around the topics of slow boot slow logon (SBSL) and how to use Xperf, but stuff kept coming up. While I kept missing the boat some other awesome engineers totally ate my lunch on this topic and posted them online, but...