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My blog has moved
23 June 09 01:45 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   
It took awhile, but I was able get a new blog created using my email name “ClintH” versus “clint_huffman”, so I will no longer be posting blog entries to *this* blog. All of my blog entries will now be at: http://blogs.technet.com/clinth I have two large Read More...
Do not use Task Manager in Hyper-V for Processor Measurements
11 May 09 08:21 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 1 Comments   
I’m doing another blog post about the processor utilization in a Hyper-V environment because it seems like my last blog post on this subject was misinterpreted. When Ewan Fairweather and I ran a few BizTalk servers as guest computers to 100% CPU. We brought Read More...
Windows Prefers Wired Connections
19 April 09 11:11 AM | clinth@microsoft.com | 1 Comments   
Awhile ago someone asked me about how to make their laptop prefer their wired internet connection versus their wireless when both are connected to the internet. The short answer is that Windows (Vista, 7, 2008, and I’m pretty sure XP and 2003 does as Read More...
Determining the Maximum Sizes of Kernel Memory Pools
26 March 09 07:23 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   
While onsite with customers, I have found several more cases where the Windows Server 2003 32-bit is running dangerously low on kernel memory. Here lately it has been a lack of pool paged memory. In any case, you can use my earlier blog posts to estimate Read More...
Helpful PowerShell One-Liners
23 March 09 10:16 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 1 Comments   
While doing a BizTalk Health check this week, the customer and I thought it would be cool to try to do as much as possible in an interactive PowerShell session to collect the data we needed. We created a lot of PowerShell one-liners and I thought I’d Read More...
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Microsoft BizTalk Server Explained in Simple Terms
18 March 09 05:52 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 2 Comments   
At TechEd 2008, I manned the Microsoft BizTalk Server booth. Nearly every question I got was, “I’ve heard of BizTalk, but what does it do?”. If you are like me 3 years ago which is sounds like many people are, I wish someone would have just came out and Read More...
Bling.ps1 (a functional proof of concept for PAL v2.0)
31 December 08 03:15 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   
Work on PAL v2.0 (PowerShell version) is coming along nicely. While working on it, I created a functional proof of concept PowerShell script called Bling.ps1 which will read a performance monitor log (BLG or CSV) and will create graphical charts for all Read More...
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Another RunAs Radio Show
31 December 08 03:14 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   
A few weeks ago, I did another show on the internet radio talk show called Run As Radio at http://www.ranasradio.com . The session I did with Richard and Greg this time was on Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). It should be up within the next few Read More...
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I survived an internet radio talk show
17 December 08 09:20 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   
About a month ago, I was on Run As Radio ( www.runasradio.com ) doing a session on the PAL tool. This was a lot of fun. Here is the link. Clint Huffman Does Performance Analysis of Logs! http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showNum=82 Also, a friend Read More...
BizTalk Admin Console Fails with DTC Failures
15 December 08 05:56 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 1 Comments   
Relevant Environment Information: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (32-bit) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit) Symptoms: While doing a BizTalk Health Check with a customer, we encountered errors with the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Read More...
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Use the Hyper-V Counters for CPU Measurement
13 October 08 09:31 AM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   
As a reminder to everyone, use the perf counter “\Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor(_Total)\% Total Run Time” to measure CPU in a Hyper-V environment. If you are trying to measure CPU utilization in a Hyper-V environment and are a bit frustrated Read More...
The Need for a Performance Analysis of Logs Tool
21 September 08 04:19 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 3 Comments   
Introduction Performance analysis of log files (*.blg files) in Microsoft Windows has primarily been a manual process for as long as I can remember. We [Microsoft] have made some strides in this area, but there is still little out there that analyzes Read More...
How to use the PAL Tool for BizTalk Performance Analysis
02 September 08 02:41 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 1 Comments   
Sorry, I haven't blogged much in the past few months. I've been heads down on several exciting BizTalk projects which I'll blog about soon after this one. For now, I want to get more of the word out about the Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool that Read More...
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BizTalk Artifact Duration Aggregations
06 May 08 10:07 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 1 Comments   
I’m working on another BizTalk performance gig and created a few custom HAT queries for measuring BizTalk artifact durations. I like to call them BizTalk Artifact Duration Aggregations or BADAggs for short – pun intended. ;-) To aggregate Read More...
Identifying What Installed Microsoft DLL, EXE, or SYS Files
14 April 08 01:00 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   
We [Microsoft] tend to have quite a few diamonds in the rough. One of those is our DLL Help database. This is a public tool where you can search to see nearly all of the public releases of a specific file. For example, if you are having an issue with Read More...
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