August, 2014

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Service Principal Name Attribute Limitations

Posted 3 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Jim Kelly here [edited by Richard P. Sasser], I've talked to a few customers and engineers lately, asking about character and entry limitations with the ServicePrincipalName Attribute. It is a common practice to use the same security principal to ...read more
We Are Hiring Windows Escalation Engineers in Charlotte, Dallas, and Redmond

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Would you like to join the world’s best and most elite debuggers to enable the success of Microsoft solutions? As a trusted advisor to our top customers you will be working with to the most experienced IT professionals and developers in the industry ...read more
Windows Troubleshooting – Stop 9E Explained

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
What to do if a stop 9E occurs. How you can solve the issue yourself. ...read more...( read more ) ...read more
Windows Troubleshooting – Special Pool

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
The Windows Support team has a new YouTube channel, “ Windows Troubleshooting ”. The first set of videos cover debugging blue screens. In this video, Bob Golding, Senior Escalation Engineer, describes how the Special Pool Windows diagnostics tool ...read more
ADFS Deep-Dive: Primer

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Disclaimer: Some concepts have been simplified until I’m ready to cover them in more detail. This is Dave Gregory, back from a blogging hiatus. :) This blog series will be an on-going work in progress as I will be adding new sections over ...read more
Hate to see you go, but it’s time to move on to greener pastures. A farewell to Authorization Manger aka AzMan

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi all, Jason here. Long time reader, first time blogger. AzMan is Microsoft’s tool to manage authorization to applications based on a user’s role. AzMan has been around since 2003 and has had a good run. Now it’s time to send it out ...read more
Go the modern (app) way

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hello everyone, This is Ashfana from the Windows Performance team. I’m here to talk about the basic philosophy behind Windows Store Apps which were introduced in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Windows Store apps were originally called Metro or modern ...read more
Deciphering Storport Traces 101

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Welcome back to the CORE Team Blog -- Paul Reynolds here. In previous blogs, I wrote about how to capture Storport traces in Windows 8 and Windows 2012. Please see: Tracing with Storport in Windows 2012 and Windows 8 with KB2819476 hotfix ...read more
Top Support Solutions for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when you use System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (updated quarterly). 1. Solutions related to File server backup and restore: Troubleshooting Data Protection Issues ...read more
Introduction to Network Trace Analysis Using Microsoft Message Analyzer: Part 1

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi folks, Lakshman Hariharan here again with the first of what my peers and I intend to be a new series of posts introducing how to read network traces using Microsoft Message Analyzer (henceforth referred to as MA) to go along with our Real World Example ...read more
WMI: How to Troubleshoot WMI High Handle Count

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Scenario Windows Management Instrumentation Service (Winmgmt) or WMI provider (wmiprvse.exe) is experiencing high handle count Your first thing to do is check the Application Event log for following event: Source: Microsoft-Windows-WMI Event 5612 Wmiprvse ...read more
WMI: How to troubleshoot High CPU Usage by WMI Components

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Scenario Windows Management Instrumentation Service (Winmgmt) or WMI provider (wmiprvse.exe) is consuming high amounts of CPU. In the directions below, you may have already broken out WMI Service to troubleshoot your issue. By default, WMI runs ...read more
Top Support Solutions for Windows 8 or 8.1

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Here are the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues IT Pros experience when using or deploying Windows 8 or 8.1 (updated quarterly). 1. Solutions related to installing Windows updates or hotfixes: Repair a Windows Image ...read more
Top Support Solutions for Windows Server 2012 Essentials and Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
These are the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when you use Windows Server 2012 Essentials and Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. 1. Solutions related to Remote Web Access: Troubleshooting Common VPN issues ...read more
WMI: High Memory Usage by WMI Service or Wmiprvse.exe

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Scenario Windows Management Instrumentation Service (Winmgmt) or WMI provider (wmiprvse.exe) is consuming high amounts of memory. There are many reasons why WMI might experience high memory consumptions. This can occur in the WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation ...read more
WMI: Missing or Failing WMI Providers or Invalid WMI Class

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Scenario Windows Management Instrumentation fails due to receiving an event or error concerning missing or failure to load WMI Provider, or Invalid WMI class, or WMI Invalid Namespace . Below are some common errors indicating issues with a WMI Provider ...read more
MDT 2013 – Part II: Create a Deployment Task Sequence and Deploy a Custom Windows Server 2012 R2 Base OS Image

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hey there Mike Hildebrand here with Part Two of this MDT series. To catch up, go here and read Part One and then come back … http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/08/04/mdt-2013-part-i-mdt-configuration-capture-a-windows-server ...read more
WMI: Repository Corruption, or Not?

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Scenario Windows Management Instrumentation failing due to repository being corrupted The WMI Repository (%windir%System32\Wbem\Repository ) is the database that stores meta-information and definitions for WMI classes; in some cases the repository also ...read more
WMI: Common Symptoms and Errors

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Quota Violation Issues: Memory and/or Handle Symptoms General WMI-based scripts or applications fail or fail intermittently Applications such as SMS/SCCM produce errors on server and/or inventories fail or fail intermittently Applications such as Exchange ...read more
Troubleshooting WMI Series coming

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hello AskPerf! My name is Jeffrey Worline and I wanted to let you know that I will be writing several troubleshooting WMI blog posts over the next few days. These will not be your typical Blog post, but more around the KB/Technet format. There has ...read more
MDT 2013 – Part I: MDT Configuration; Capture a Windows Server 2012 R2 Base OS Image

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Greetings and salutations! As many of you know, the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, or "MDT," is a mature, powerful and flexible toolset for client and server OS deployments. My PFE sister-in-arms, Charity Shelbourne has a great starter post about ...read more
How to Monitor for Storage Account Throttling

Posted 4 months ago

by Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
For Azure Virtual Machines, we document storage limits of 500 IOPS per disk, and the guidance to not place more than 40 highly used VHDs in any single storage account since there is a 20,000 IOPS limit per storage account. By default, each subscription ...read more

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Service Principal Name Attribute Limitations

We Are Hiring Windows Escalation Engineers in Charlotte, Dallas, and Redmond

Windows Troubleshooting – Stop 9E Explained

Windows Troubleshooting – Special Pool

ADFS Deep-Dive: Primer

Hate to see you go, but it’s time to move on to greener pastures. A farewell to Authorization Manger aka AzMan

Go the modern (app) way

Deciphering Storport Traces 101

Top Support Solutions for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager

Introduction to Network Trace Analysis Using Microsoft Message Analyzer: Part 1

WMI: How to Troubleshoot WMI High Handle Count

WMI: How to troubleshoot High CPU Usage by WMI Components

Top Support Solutions for Windows 8 or 8.1

Top Support Solutions for Windows Server 2012 Essentials and Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials

WMI: High Memory Usage by WMI Service or Wmiprvse.exe

WMI: Missing or Failing WMI Providers or Invalid WMI Class

MDT 2013 – Part II: Create a Deployment Task Sequence and Deploy a Custom Windows Server 2012 R2 Base OS Image

WMI: Repository Corruption, or Not?

WMI: Common Symptoms and Errors

Troubleshooting WMI Series coming

MDT 2013 – Part I: MDT Configuration; Capture a Windows Server 2012 R2 Base OS Image

How to Monitor for Storage Account Throttling