December 2007 - Posts

BizTalk Server Database Optimization article
10 December 07 12:12 AM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   

A few months ago, I tech reviewed a very well done article on BizTalk performance. It is called "BizTalk Server Database Optimization" and it is located here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb743398.aspx John B. Brockmeyer did a great Read More...

Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications has been published
10 December 07 12:00 AM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   

I'm a contributor for the book "Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications" and it is now published on Amazon.com. This was a lot of work on everyone's part to get this completed and I got to work with a lot of old friends as well such Read More...

Process Monitor and Process Explorer Rock!
06 December 07 08:04 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   

Process Monitor by SysInternals (owned by Microsoft) (not to be confused with Process Explorer) is a rewrite from the ground up of Regmon and FileMon. It combines the features or RegMon, FileMon, and adds Processes and Threads as well. It will aggregate Read More...

TrustedInstaller.exe is slain by Vista SP1!
06 December 07 07:57 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   

<rhetorical question>Having performance on your Vista laptop and a disk queue length of about 20?</rhetorical question> This week has been a particularly bad week where the TrustedInstaller.exe was wreaking havoc on my disk so much that my Read More...