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Taking a circular netmon capture from the command prompt

You've probably heard that netmon3.1 is out , but you might not know that you can easily launch a capture at the command prompt.  I find this useful when we're waiting on a repro, we want a capture, but we don’t know when that's going to happen.  Read More...

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 7:23 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 2 Comments

Hey Admins! Taking some of the pain out of analyzing perfmon captures.

Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool Project Description: Ever have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:03 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 1 Comments

Need to get IPCONFIG /ALL from a computer remotely?

I know people have scripted this, but this is so much easier... You could use PSExec for running other commands as well, but someone recently asked me an easy way to get the IP info so here it is. If you just want to be sitting at a command prompt on Read More...

Posted Saturday, December 15, 2007 11:04 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 2 Comments

Great tool for Windows 2003: Server Performance Advisor (SPA)

First off you can download SPA 2.0 here . I'm going to explain how to quickly use SPA, and then what type of data is returned in this post. What is SPA? So what is SPA and how can you use it? Well the official overview is: Microsoft ® Windows Server ™ Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:47 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 22 Comments

How to easily calculate your system availability (uptime).

We all have managers and ALL managers love that little word called metrics, and ALL managers like to know that their service has 99.99% uptime. So how can you easily get this information off a Windows server? Well there is a simple tool out there called Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:39 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 1 Comments