January, 2013

This is Ron Stock from the Global Escalation Services team and I recently had the task of live debugging a customer’s remote server.  In debug circles we use what is known as a crash cart to live debug production servers. The phrase conjures up visions...

Hello Debuggers! This is Ron Stock from the Global Escalation Services team and I recently worked an interesting case dispatched to our team because Services.exe was terminating. Nothing good ever happens when Services.exe exits. In this particular case...

Welcome back to the CORE Team blog. I want to discuss a behavior change in Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters with respect to configuring highly available virtual machines with pass-through disks. Users have been attaching pass-through disks to virtual...

Hello. Jim here again to elucidate on the wonderment of change notification as it relates to Active Directory replication within and between sites. As you know Active Directory replication between domain controllers within the same site (intrasite) happens...

The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next Jump Start courses! Introduction to Hyper-V Thursday, January 24th This one-day live event is designed for IT Pros experienced...

This is just a quick post to advertise our PFE folks and their new RaaS Service. Yong Rhee and Julio Danoviz from the MSPFE blog go thru a new service called RAP as a Service (RaaS) . A RaaS is a service that provides an in-depth analysis of your environment...

Hello everyone. Today’s post is going to cover the steps needed to follow should you ever have to remove a ‘Physical Disk’ resource from a clustered service or application where that disk is configured as a mount point. Removing a disk...

On Tuesday, Jaunary 8, the below recommended fix was released and available on Windows Update for Windows .NET Framework 4.5. 2750149 An update is available for the .NET Framework 4.5 in Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Server 2012 http://support...

Welcome back to the CORE Team Blog. Paul Reynolds here. I would like to let everyone know about changes on how to capture Storport traces in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. Previously, Bob Golding wrote a blog on how to do this in Windows 2008 and...

Hello again ADAMSyncers! Kim Nichols here again with what promises to be a fun and exciting mystery solving adventure on the joys of ADAMSync and AD Recycle Bin (ADRB) for AD LDS. The goal of this post is two-fold: Explain AD Recycle Bin for AD...

Hi all, Jonathan here again with the latest edition of the Intermittent Mail Sack. We've had some great questions over the last few weeks so I've got a lot of material to cover. This sack, we answer questions on: Issues upgrading DFSR hub servers...

Happy New Year AskPerf Blog Readers!  Can you believe that 2012 is now over?  Seems like it just flew by to me.  Anyway, we had some HUGE  product launches in 2012.  Some of which come to mind: Windows 8 Microsoft Surface Windows...