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Mailbag: Return of the Mailbag Returns
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hey y’all, Mark and Tom back here with the return of the mailbag returns. Give yourself 5 internet points if you get that Simpsons reference. Before today our mailbag posts were very random and we are trying to get on a more regular mailbag posting
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Becoming an WPA Xpert Part 11: Troubleshooting Long Group Policy Processing
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hey Folks, Though I’ve blogged before here I have been a bit rude and never properly introduced myself. Hi, I am James Klepikow, a Senior Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft. Nice to meet all of you. One of the many issues we troubleshoot as Field Engineers
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Understanding ATQ performance counters, yet another twist in the world of TLAs
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hello again, this is guest author Herbert from Germany. If you worked an Active Directory performance issue, you might have noticed a number of AD Performance counters for NTDS and “Directory Services” objects including some ATQ related counters. In this
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Unable to restart server due to registry bloat over 2GB
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hello AskPerf! Pushing up a blog today to discuss the registry bloat issue that has been recently addressed in the following KB: Computer cannot be restarted if the registry hives are larger than 2 GB Symptom You have a computer that is running the x64
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RDP Fails with Event ID 1058 & Event 36870 with Remote Desktop Session Host Certificate & SSL Communication
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hello AskPerf! Sanket here from the Windows Platforms team here to discuss an issue with Remote Desktop Services where RDP does not work when you try to connect from a remote machine. With that, let’s get started! I’m sure most of you have come across
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Updating Surface Pro 3 firmware (Cross Post)
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi this is Scott McArthur and I just wanted to call attention to a blog that I worked on with some of our PFE engineers that just posted related to Surface. How to Update the Surface Pro 3 Firmware Offline using a USB Drive http://blogs.technet
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Asset Tag Tool for Surface Pro 3
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi my name is Scott McArthur and I want to call out a tool that recently came out that allows Enterprise customers to set Asset Tags on Surface Pro 3. This tool is available for download at the following location: http://www.microsoft.com/en
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How to Update the Surface Pro 3 Firmware Offline using a USB Drive
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Today’s blog post is a collaboration between our PFE group and premier support. Joao Botto (PFE), Kyle Blagg (PFE), and Scott McArthur (Support) are writing about their favorite device. You will see this post in the askpfeplat and askcore blogs. Some
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Configuring Azure Virtual Machines for Optimal Storage Performance
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
In support, one of the most common questions we get is: How do I achieve the best disk performance for Azure virtual machines? Platform Planning: In the standard tier of virtual machine in Azure, the maximum IOPS is 500 per disk . When planning
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Windows 10 Preview available for review
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Good morning AskPerf! It’s been a while since our last post, and we apologize for that. We’ve been quite busy here on the Support side knocking out customer issues… Any who, we have some upcoming blogs in the oven that need a little more time
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Introduction to Network Trace Analysis Using Microsoft Message Analyzer— Part 2
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi folks, Lakshman Hariharan here again with the second post in the series of posts introducing how to read network traces using Microsoft Message Analyzer, aka MA. The first post, which can be found here discussed how to capture a trace on a Windows
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Introducing the Netlogon Parser (v1.0.1) for Message Analyzer 1.1
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi all! Brandon Wilson here again, and this time I will be giving you an introduction for the new Netlogon parser for Message Analyzer. Do you have authentication issues? Are you unable to contact the domain? Wondering what’s going on and tired
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Virtual Machine Checkpoint fails with Access Denied when running on a Clustered Shared Volume
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
When you attempt to create a CheckPoint of a virtual machine that is running on a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) , you may receive a General access denied error as shown below. You will receive this error if the virtual machine’s VHD is placed
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