February, 2011

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Dude where's my PFE?

Disk in-Depth

Posted over 2 years ago

by Jeff Stokes
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I started an article on Disk performance and characteristics for the PFE Performance Wiki a while back. I had actually forgotten about it (those who know me know my memory is Swiss Cheese sometimes). Anyway, here is a link to the article:...
Dude where's my PFE?

DPC triangle…

Posted over 2 years ago

by Jeff Stokes
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So once upon a time, a PFE had a problem with his video game stuttering. The game would be playing fine and then suddenly, the sound would skip until he rebooted his PC. Nothing in the event log, device manager reports all good… So we collected...
Dude where's my PFE?

BPAs, not just for Exchange anymore…

Posted over 2 years ago

by Jeff Stokes
- 3 Comments
So for those who don’t know, I used to be mainly an Exchange dork…ESE flowed in the veins don’t cha know? Anyway, one of the tools that rocked (and still does) is the ExBPA and the family of Exchange Analyzers. But did you know in Windows Server...
Dude where's my PFE?

RunAsRadio.com

Posted over 2 years ago

by Jeff Stokes
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I just realized I forgot to link to my xperf into talk on RunAsRadio.com back in October. Boy is my face red… http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showNum=182 Check out their podcasts, it’s a great repository of technical information!
Dude where's my PFE?

Yes, it matters

Posted over 2 years ago

by Jeff Stokes
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Often at customer engagements when I encourage them to use things like SCCM and SCUP along with HP or Dell SCUP integration to keep drivers (and firmware!) up to date, I’m told it isn’t worth it. If the drivers from 2006 work, it doesn’t matter...