You've probably heard that netmon3.1 is out , but you might not know that you can easily launch a capture at the command prompt.  I find this useful when we're waiting on a repro, we want a capture, but we don’t know when that's going to happen.  Sure you could set this up in the GUI...

Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool Project Description: Ever have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format...

This was one issue I worked on for quite some time a few months ago. We found that Vista clients were taking forever to download group policies from domain controllers in the regions while Vista SP1 and XP clients did not see the issue. If the local DC was running LH or Windows 2003 SP1, we didn't see...

This is an FYI post for an issue we've seen on a couple of Windows 2003 SP2 servers internally. Hopefully if someone hits this in the wild they'll be able to find this post on the intertubes. Symptom: When attempting to connect from the client via RDP, you would click “connect” and then soon after...

I know people have scripted this, but this is so much easier... You could use PSExec for running other commands as well, but someone recently asked me an easy way to get the IP info so here it is. If you just want to be sitting at a command prompt on the remote computer then you could just run "PSEXEC...

You might find yourself debugging an issue and a thread you are interested in is paged out. Here's the steps to use to page in the stack for the kernel side and user side... Be careful when doing this on a live machine that you want to release after debugging as paging in certain section of memory can...

Issue came in this week where when you attempted to logon to a server it would not authenticate your request and would give you a message indicating the "domain is not available". If you tried logging on via your UPN, then it would give a slightly different error message indicating that "there is not...

Had a client whose machine would not load Windows Defender, each time it was opened it would eventually die on initialization: Log Name: Application Source: Application Error Date: 8/13/2007 4:03:10 PM Event ID: 1000 Task Category: (100) Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: server1 ...

So you went out and got yourself a new server and it came with TOE functionality, and now you're playing Windows 2008 which has TCP offload enabled but you just want to know if its actually offloading traffic. Here's the only way I know of finding what traffic is offloaded without setting breakpoints...

Sometimes you might log onto a server and wonder if there have been patches installed and thing needs to be rebooted. Well if the patch wanted to replace a file that was in use by the system (like NTFS for example) then it populates a certain key in the registry, you could check this key to determine...

First off you can download SPA 2.0 here . I'm going to explain how to quickly use SPA, and then what type of data is returned in this post. What is SPA? So what is SPA and how can you use it? Well the official overview is: Microsoft ® Windows Server ™ 2003 Performance Advisor is the latest version of...

Something that administrators deal with quite a bit is trying to connect to a machine using remote desktop (mstsc) and getting our favorite message: Boy this messagewill get you angry, damn squatters. pre-Vista/LH you could always give the /console switch a go and see if the console session is available...

We all have managers and ALL managers love that little word called metrics, and ALL managers like to know that their service has 99.99% uptime. So how can you easily get this information off a Windows server? Well there is a simple tool out there called uptime.exe . To get the uptime of a server use...