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Dude where's my PFE?
Troubleshooting slow boot times, Part Deux
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over 3 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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In my last session, I covered a rudimentary usage of XPERF to analyze my slow booting Dell with a SSD in it. The fix was simple and the problem stood out like a sore thumb. Resolution was as simple as setting the Ambient Light Service from...
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Repeating 623 version store error.
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over 5 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Applies to Exchange 2003 I had a case a couple weeks ago I thought I'd write about. What was happening is the Version Store would run out of memory and a 623 error would throw. Version Store buckets allocated would climb from 4 to over 2000 in less...
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The David Solomon TechNet Spotlight Talks are online once again!
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over 3 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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As some would say…Mission Accomplished. It’s a long story, but I use these videos, particular part of the part 3, in my class to teach how Windows talks to physical RAM. The students just about universally dig it and now they are rescued...
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Deconstructing the PFE VDI Optimization Script
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7 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Here we deconstruct the post that is located here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_stokes/archive/2012/10/15/the-microsoft-premier-field-engineer-pfe-view-on-virtual-desktop-vdi-density.aspx We welcome industry feedback and comments! ...
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High Privileged Mode CPU on 1 of 64 cores–quick fix
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over 2 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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I was contacted recently about a server with 64 cores that, with no work load, had one core, ordinal 34, running very high on CPU. Looking closer, it was all being used by process ‘System (4)’. So that’s a fun one. I had them collect an xperf...
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Hot off the presses, get it now, the Windows 8 VDI optimization script, courtesy of PFE!
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1 month ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Hats off to Carl Luberti! So, here it is, without further ado….its’ time to start Optimizing! ' // ======================================================================== ' // Original generated with VDIOptimizer - http://www.autoitscript...
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How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 1
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over 2 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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There are many MDT environment setups, this one is mine. Step .1 Pre-Flight I use a 2008 R2 SP1 Server as my base. I enable the Hyper-V role on it and create 2 VMs. Half of you reading this are going to say “But we’re a VMWare...
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DPC triangle…
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over 2 years ago
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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...
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BPAs, not just for Exchange anymore…
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over 2 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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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...
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GUI Tool to collect ETW tracing, dumps, etc
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over 4 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/e8649e35-26b1-4e73-b427-c2886a0705f4 So, check this out. It allows you to collect ETW tracing, dumps, all kinds of stuff. It does not work on Windows XP, but still, a handy little tool nonetheless...
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How to determine who is connecting to your server in cached mode.
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over 5 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Applies to: Exchange 2000/2003 This may seem like a basic thing to some people, but for those who don't know, here goes. This can be easily done by running Exmon, available here . So download Exmon and fire it up on your Exchange Server. Go...
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Windows 8 ADK solves GPO Logon Delay questions, film at 11….
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10 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Symptoms: Logons take forever and you’ve collected an xbootmgr/WPR/xperf123/xperfui trace. What GPO can it be? Easy! Open Windows Performance Analyzer from the Windows 8 ADK: Open Said Offending Trace: Expand…System Activity...
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Spoof your old dead Exchange Server
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over 5 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Ok, so if you have say, Citrix, or a standard image with Office pre-installed, then someone had to pick an Exchange server to point to for the Outlook profile creation wizard. So sometimes, in large organizations, teams don't necessarily speak to one...
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Xperf for the layman, performance analysis unchained, Windows Assessment Toolkit revealed.
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2 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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If you have been following along in performance land the last year or three, you’d hear about xperf and the WPT (Windows Performance Toolkit). Mayhap you’ve had some time to practice and you know what you are doing. Cool. This tool might still...
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Introducing Windows Server 2012 Free e-book available
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11 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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I highly recommend giving this a read so you are ready for Windows Server 2012. The dude had a hand in proofing the book and even has a sidebar on page 25 on performance monitoring. Give it a read, rumor has it there may be some floating around...
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How to fix smashed schema in Exchange 2003
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over 5 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Dan and I and some other engineers wrote up a blog post you can find here on how to recover from a smashes schema scenario on your Exchange Servers. It's pretty succinct so I don't have anything to add to it, it's an interesting read though.
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The effects of Acoustic Management on rotational media disks.
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over 3 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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So one of the trends I’ve been seeing in WDRAPs I’ve performed is that companies are making use of older hardware for newer tasks on a much more frequent basis than before. Budgets seem to mandate a 4-5 year (or longer) pc recycle timeframe...
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How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 7
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over 2 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Ok, break time is over yo…. Step 5 The Task Sequence magic So lets do another properties on our Task Sequence and go to the “OS Info” tab, which will look like this: Click “Edit Unattend.xml” Now this is why I (we, you are following along right?) selected...
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Today I was a WSUS/IIS Engineer
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over 3 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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And it wasn't half bad. At this customer site I am at currently doing MDT 2010 deployment creation for a Windows Server 2008 R2 rollout, WSUS was breaking for the desktop deployment folks. WSUS was enabled on a Windows 2008 R2 server. The website couldn...
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Windows 8 Tip of the day - How to recover ~6GB of space on your Microsoft Windows Surface
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3 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Here is how you can recoup ~6GB of space on your 32GB Surface. Here is what you need to do: (edited to fix link, add comment about removing the recovery partition.) 1. Note this will prevent the machine reset from being able to happen. If you don...
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How to collect a trace for audio or video problems in Windows 7
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8 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Assume the following: You have a Windows 7 host that you want to collect a trace from. The user complains of audio issues, stuttering, latency, etc…or video frame rate is low. Something annoying. Like my previous post, lets cover a few...
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How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 2
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over 2 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Step 2. Import OS into the reference share So mount an ISO of the OS you want to capture and deploy into Hyper-V as the DVD drive of the MDT-Console VM. Then in the MDT workbench, right click the folder “Operating Systems” and create a folder...
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SPA, not your typical freeware
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over 4 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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In the Vital Signs workshop, we touch upon the tool SPA (Server Performance Advisor). This unsung hero of performance evaluation deserves some love, which is why I'm writing about it over 5 years after its last update was published and made available...
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How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 6
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over 2 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Step 4.1 The Task Sequence magic Now that the Task Sequences are created, its important to note you are NOT done here yet. It is not yet soup… Before we proceed any further, I typically implement the changes the Deployment Guys recommend to add...
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How to setup a rolling 200 meg log file in 2003 with a PAL template that sustains reboots
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over 2 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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1. Get a PAL template or other perfmon template. You can run PAL at pal.codeplex.com or use one created for you by CTS or another party. Simply open PAL, go to the “Threshold File” tab at the top, and Export the template by clicking “Export...
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