March, 2012

Last time , we discussed how applications place data on the clipboard, and how to access that data using the debugger.   Today, we'll take a look at how an application can monitor the clipboard for changes.   Understanding this is important...

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...

Hello, my name is Steven Graves and I am a Support Escalation Engineer (SEE) in the Platforms Support group here at Microsoft. One of the technologies I support is Windows Server Failover Clustering. I’d like to take a couple of minutes to share some...

A fix for the above titled problem has been released. If you are running into this problem, please downlaod and install the following fix on all Clusters running McAfee and wanting the updates they provide. 2674551 Redirected mode is enabled unexpectedly...

Hello AskPerf and Happy Friday!  This is just a quick post to let you know that Flavio, one of our Disk Experts on the Core team, has posted another informative blog post; this time on Performance Monitor Disk Counters.  Check it out and have...

Recently I had the opportunity to debug the clipboard in Windows, and I thought I’d share some of the things I learned.   The clipboard is one of those parts of Windows that many of us use dozens (hundreds?) of times a day and don’t really think...

A new printing hotfix rollup was released that updates the core print spooler components localspl.dll, splwow64.exe, spoolsv.exe, win32spl.dll, and Winprint.dll.  This rollup is designed to reduce known issues such as printing performance, print...

Good morning AskPerf! Sanket Jagtap here from Platforms Team here to discuss an interesting issue I recently worked.  My customer had a Windows 2008 R2 Server, and could not connect locally to WMI.  When they ran “wmimgmt.msc” and tried to connect...

Good morning AskPerf! There are several issues that have been associated with a high number of inactive Terminal Server ports. Delayed logon times to RDP sessions, failure of printers to redirect, and slow server performance due to registry bloat from...