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Dude where's my PFE?
Windows 7 Slow Boot / Slow Logon (Why I do what I do)
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over 1 year ago
by
Jeff Stokes
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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...
Dude where's my PFE?
Download this KB now!
Posted
2 months ago
by
Jeff Stokes
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And test it first please. An enterprise hotfix rollup is available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775511 This is a collection of the various updates we kept (we being PFEs who do WDRAP in particular...
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Anti-Virus Exclusions and You!
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Jeff Stokes
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So there is some amount of confusion on what exclusions are needed for various Microsoft products. This blog is not necessarily meant to be a definitive list, but is a compilation, a list, of KB articles that point to the various products and their...
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How to get rid of 9646 events
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over 5 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Applies to Exchange 2003 Event Type: Error Event Source: MSExchangeIS Event Category: General Event ID: 9646 Description: Mapi session "/o=<org>/ou=First Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=<userName>" exceeded the maximum of 32 objects...
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How to troubleshoot application hangs with DebugDiag 1.2 Part 2 (or what am I looking at exactly?)
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over 1 year ago
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Jeff Stokes
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I forgot, in the original post, you have to enable Symbols…doh. But all isn’t lost. You can re-run it and generate a new MHT. Symbols you want to point to our public symbol server in the “Tools/Options and Settings” area: And you can just run the...
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How to sustain your data collector set through a reboot!
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over 2 years ago
by
Jeff Stokes
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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...
Dude where's my PFE?
What is Windows Performance Analyzer all about and why should you use it instead of xperfview?
Posted
10 months ago
by
Jeff Stokes
4
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Consider the following trace in xperfview: This should be familiar to you, it’s the DPC storm / storport doorbell that looks like this: So how does this trace look in WPA from the Windows 8 ADK (RP edition)? A little different, but the Dude isn’t closed...
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How to collect a good boot trace on Windows 7
Posted
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. A good trace. One that you know other people will be able to decipher as well as yourself. Maybe I’ve asked you to collect a boot trace so I can look at it and...
Dude where's my PFE?
How to collect a trace for audio or video problems in Windows 7
Posted
8 months ago
by
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...
Dude where's my PFE?
Defeated by Unexpected Transaction Log File growth
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over 4 years ago
by
Jeff Stokes
4
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Applies to Exchange 2003, concepts apply to 2007 as well. I've bumped into a few cases recently where the customer had unexpected transaction log file growth that caused the server to dismount a storage group due to lack of disk space. In this post...
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Why do I have long boot times? Pt 1
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over 4 years ago
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Jeff Stokes
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So one of the questions that comes to mind every now and then in technical circles (and outside as well) is "Why doesn't it take so long for my machine to boot?". Just what's going on in there while these friendly, soothing graphics come up on the screen...
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Hot off the presses, get it now, the Windows 8 VDI optimization script, courtesy of PFE!
Posted
1 month ago
by
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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The network impact of a Windows 8 RT device on your network.
Posted
3 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Edited! So someone had this question. It’s a good one. I didn’t know the answer so I found out…. Articles here and here would indicate that network traffic should be both intermittent and light. So….lets check it out. The Test...
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Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part IV
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1 month ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Installing your Virtual Machine Windows Server 2012 Virtual Machine This is a multi-part series that starts here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_stokes/archive/2013/04/15/building-up-a-learning-lab-based-on-windows-8-and-hyper-v.aspx So in the...
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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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Database Status Unknown in 2k7 EMC? This might be why....
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Jeff Stokes
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Applies to Exchange 2007 So I ran into a case today that was pretty interesting. The symptoms were a fairly generic error in the app log: Event ID: 4001 Task Category: General Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: server name Description...
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Spoof your old dead Exchange Server
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
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...
Dude where's my PFE?
Group Policy Sample Script Issue, solved
Posted
over 1 year ago
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Jeff Stokes
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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...
Dude where's my PFE?
The Dudes view on IT Infrastructure and Sustainability in same.
Posted
10 months ago
by
Jeff Stokes
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Hope you enjoy.
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Ladies and Gentleman (and low lifes), it is with outstanding pleasure tonight that I am able to present to you, the reader, with an xperf trace….
Posted
10 months ago
by
Jeff Stokes
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For those who didn’t yet know, the Dude is a fan of old school rap. So one of these days, not much to do, I was chillin with my old school crew and I ran into a slow boot scenario… (Yes, I am in fact listening to Mona Lisa by Slick Rick the Ruler...
Dude where's my PFE?
When an Exchange Server doesn’t Exchange…
Posted
10 months ago
by
Jeff Stokes
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“Well the high sheriff, told his deputy, won’t you go out and bring my Lazarus?” Why am I quoting the Po Lazarus tune, the opening song of “O Brother Where Art Thou?” when I’m supposed to be talking about the Exchange Server that doesn’t? It’s the...
Dude where's my PFE?
What does a good boot look like (aka, what should I be happy with)?
Posted
7 months ago
by
Jeff Stokes
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It’s a question I wasn’t prepared for in class last week, but one that made sense really. For the IT Pro that doesn’t eat breath and sleep this stuff, what does a good or ‘fair’ trace look like? Something like this: What we are looking at here is...
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Windows 8 Tip of the Day
Posted
4 months ago
by
Jeff Stokes
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Today’s tip… To quickly start your Windows8/Server 2012 machine - Bring up Charms (Winkey+I OR mouse around in bottom-right corner to bring up Charms) – Settings which brings up the below screens (at the regular desktop OR at the Modern Desktop)
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33 Seconds lost at boot…
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Jeff Stokes
2
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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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The Dude’s Greatest Hits
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Jeff Stokes
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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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