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    How to troubleshoot application hangs with DebugDiag 1.2

    Posted over 1 year ago
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    Or, DebugDiag from the client perspective… 1.  Install DebugDiag 1.2 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2580960) (Basically, I’m going to expound upon the following (somewhat obscure) instructions:) “Create a manual memory dump series during the slow...
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    See you in Orlando in June?

    Posted over 1 year ago
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    The dude will be in session at TechEd 2012 .  Waiting to firm up some session information but so far looks like my Sustainability in Infrastructure Design is approved.  Woot!
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    Windows 7 Slow Boot / Slow Logon (Why I do what I do)

    Posted over 1 year ago
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    Lately, the last year or two, I’ve been slowly drawn (moth to flame almost) into the remediation of the problem state of Windows slow boot or slow logon conditions. Interestingly enough, Microsoft Premier Field Engineering management allows (and...
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    Group Policy Sample Script Issue, solved

    Posted over 1 year ago
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    This is an interesting one-off that we felt would be worth posting.  Might help a few folks not pull their hair out one late evening… Issue: Running the ‘getreportsforallgpos.wsf’ script from the GPMC sample scripts, from a command prompt (even as...
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    Xperf-o-Rama

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    At the Premier Webcast I ran today I was asked a couple times if I could link some ‘getting started’ type guides to the content. So I made a blog post. All of this is public Microsoft information, nothing secret here. Just organized a little...
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    How to sustain your data collector set through a reboot!

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    This is a special post, from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineers (PFE) Vital Signs Instructors alias…something we felt should be shared. If you had noticed, it’s difficult to sustain a data collector set in Perfmon for 2008 R2 through a reboot, so it...
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    How to apply a bios update to the HP 8540w

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    I am primarily posting this to increase visibility.  I had many problems trying to apply the most recent bios to my 8540w, I always got an error that “SYSTEM DOES NOT CONTAIN THE NECESSARY WMI SUPPORT FOR THIS VERSION OF HPQFLASH” and something about...
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    Pal 2.1 is released

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    My buddy Clint Huffman, performance expert and all around great guy, has just released PAL 2.1! http://pal.codeplex.com/ Pick it up, give it a whirl. It includes a threshold file for FAST search for SharePoint. Anyway, more coming from me soon.  ...
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    How to setup a rolling 200 meg log file in 2003 with a PAL template that sustains reboots

    Posted over 2 years ago
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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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    The Dude’s Greatest Hits

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    As requested by several customers, I’m putting up a list of tools I find useful in troubleshooting, etc… First up…. Data Gathering I use the following tools to gather data from systems.  Each has its own place, much like a mechanic has many tools...
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    How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 7

    Posted over 2 years ago
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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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    How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 6

    Posted over 2 years ago
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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 I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 5

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    Step 4.  Task Sequences So now with Operating Systems and Applications added to the console, it’s time to add a Task Sequence or three… I always give my Task Sequences an ID of a number.  You can use anything, but I like the numeric relevance...
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    How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 4

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    Step 3.1 App Bundles So at this point you’ve imported/added your applications and are wondering why I created a folder named bundles…maybe? These are groupings of applications so we can force feed a bundle of apps onto a build, rather than selecting them...
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    How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 3

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    Step 3.  Here come the apps! Much like the Operating System area, in the Application area we want to create a logical folder structure.  These are applications we may want to cook into our reference image. In the end, mine looks something like...
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    How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 2

    Posted over 2 years ago
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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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    How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 1

    Posted over 2 years ago
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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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    How to collect a netmon 3.4 and xperf kernel trace and stop when a problem occurs.

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    So at a customer location the following question was posed to me: “In our VDI environment, how do we capture trace information? How can we set a capture for the network and xperf the user can start (or logon script the start) and then give them...
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    What do you do when you want to run Windows XP on a Solid State Drive?

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    1.  #1  THE BIG UNO!  Properly align your partition with diskpar/diskpart and THEN install your XP build into that aligned partition. This link has a great explanation and how-to so I'm not going to re-invent the wheel.   I’m not certain...
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    High Privileged Mode CPU on 1 of 64 cores–quick fix

    Posted over 2 years ago
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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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    33 Seconds lost at boot…

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    Imagine you are an enterprise customer who has several thousand desktops that boot slow.  Inordinately slow…slow enough that your user base resists requests to reboot them for patch cycle or power savings efforts or diagnostics. So imagine you do...
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    Disk in-Depth

    Posted over 2 years ago
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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:...
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    DPC triangle…

    Posted over 2 years ago
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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…

    Posted over 2 years ago
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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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    RunAsRadio.com

    Posted over 2 years ago
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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!
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