January, 2014

  • How to Customize Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 – Get Creative!

    Greetings and happy Monday!! Hilde here - coming to you from the Seattle area, where I'm fortunate enough to be attending our premier internal technical training event. In this post, I'll cover a less-known but VERY cool customization ability ...read more
  • Certificate Requirements for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 Remote Desktop Services

    Good morning AskPerf!  Kiran here with a question for you:  Why do we need certificates?  Well, certificates are used to sign the communication between two machines.  When a client connects to a server, the identity of the server that ...read more
  • The case of “Above normal” priority

    Good morning AskPerf! If you’ve used Task Manager, you may have noticed that it allows setting an “instance-based priority”. This is an option where you can choose to boost or reduce the priority of any process, whereby adjusting the amount of CPU attention ...read more
  • Biometrics in Windows 8.1

    Welcome to my first blog post on askpfeplat! My name is Milad Aslaner and I’m a Premier Field Engineer specialized in Windows Reliability. Some of you might know me from my sessions TechEd, TechNet and Microsoft Virtual Academy, for those who don’t know ...read more
  • Windows 8.1 preview build reboots every 2 hours

    Today’s blog is regarding the expiration of the Windows 8.1 preview build which occurred yesterday January 15 th , 2014. If you installed the Windows 8.1 preview build and have not upgraded to 8.1 RTM you may notice that your machine is rebooting ...read more
  • Understanding the UserAccountControl Attribute in Active Directory

    Dougga here. Not a password policy blog post, I am finally off of that issue. But I couldn’t help myself and included something about passwords in this post <grin>. Users and Computers have and attribute called UserAccountControl that dictates ...read more
  • Popular new features in Windows 8.1

    We are very excited, as are many of you, about our latest OS. Windows 8.1 is readily available across the globe. We thought of listing some of the top/new features it brings to the table. Here is a small list of some of the more popular new features: ...read more
  • Debugging a Windows 8.1 Store App Crash Dump

    Quality reports on the App Summary page Microsoft provides triage dumps of your Windows Store application’s crashes and hangs through the Quality section of the App Summary page on the Dev Center - Windows Store apps portal.   Back in June 2012, ...read more
  • Quick Reference: Troubleshooting, Diagnosing, and Tuning MaxConcurrentApi Issues

    Hi this is Brandon Wilson again. In my newest “Quick Reference” (get the joke?), we will be narrowing the scope for troubleshooting and tuning MaxConcurrentApi issues. There is a lot of information out there on the net on this topic, but ...read more
  • Microsoft PKI OCSP Responder Now JITC Certified and Lab Setup Guide

    Hello all, my name is Jesse Esquivel and I’m a platforms PFE with one of my specialty’s being security/PKI. I’ve been working with PKI in the Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal spaces for the last 7 years, designing, installing ...read more
  • The Most Popular Posts of 2013 and Belated Birthday

    Hey y’all, Mark back again for another year end recap. It has been an eventful year. We’ve added more bloggers to our team which is great, really increased our readership(it seems like you guys like us!) and have made it a full 2 years in existence on ...read more