I've been asked a lot of great questions lately and thought I'd post some of them. As you might know, I am one of the instructors of the popular workshop "Vital Signs" which teaches students Windows architecture and how to identify performance bottlenecks. One of the instructors recently had a student...

I am teaching this week, so I figured I would talk about a case I had a few months ago. I have *plenty* of war stories to share, so I can certainly keep this weekly blog going for a long time. ;-) I’m a big fan of Mark Russinovich and David Solomon, so you may have noticed that I title my blog entries...

This week I was off to Phoenix, AZ again, but for a different customer this time. Phoenix is very hot this time of year – I think it got to about 110 degrees Fahrenheit hot enough to literally cook an egg on the sidewalk and likely burn it. ;-) When I got the dispatch for this ROSS (Remote On-Site Service...

About a month ago, I was conducting a BizTalk Health Check for a customer (yes, Microsoft BizTalk Server is one of my other specialties along with several others) where the BizTalk server has been running slower than expected. They noticed Out of Memory exceptions in the event logs, but since BizTalk...

I did an IIS Health Check (IISHC) this week and found another 32-bit Windows 2003 web server that was out of System PTEs. This blog entry talks about how we resolved this issue. I detected this issue by looking at the boot.ini file which is one of the validations we do in the IISHC. The boot.ini file...