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Improve Hyper-V Performance With Standard VGA!
05 August 09 02:36 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

Yes, kids, if you’re finding that the Hyper-V performance ain’t what it used to be since installing that whizbang graphics card driver on your shiny new seven core hyperthread-and-a-halved megaturboserver thing, you might be suffering from flushes . Read Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7

Old MPSReports
12 May 09 01:14 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

There’s a new MPS Reports version in town, with new features : new 64-bit friendliness, various forms of wizard-driven hotness for all the products the individual old tools used to support, etc, etc. Call me old school if you want, but I typically prefer Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Troubleshooting, Windows 7

.HDMP and .MDMP files
23 September 08 07:12 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Just a quickie – the rule is blog what you know, but I figure my speculation might be good enough here. A friend gave me an HDMP file and asked what I could make of it. After the usual “I could make a hat! Or a brooch! Or a dinosaur!” type stuff, I realized Read More...

Filed under: Developery, IT Pro / Sysadmin, Windows Vista, IIS, Windows Server 2008, Troubleshooting

That Memory Leak Revisited
25 June 08 04:59 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

While searching for memory leaking troubleshooting techniques that could be applied to 64-bit Windows (for the DHCP Server memory leak I found I had the other day ), I stumbled across the answer to my problem in an internal tool (weird that I missed it Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Networking, Security, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Troubleshooting

Windows Server 2008 Diagnostics Off The Cuff
20 June 08 10:15 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

A word of caution to those of you that like endings: this isn't over yet. I'm running a rather sad and noisy X64 desktop as a server at home. Once a proud warrior, actually, no, wait, it was never any good. It's just a Virtual Server host (it's not quite Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Networking, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008

What's in IIS 7.0 for me?
29 February 08 01:16 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

While having a seemingly-innocuous chat with a colleague, I was asked to "throw together a few points" on what IIS 7.0 would do for a web application I've worked with in the past. Serves me right for talking to people , really. In this application's Read More...

Filed under: Developery, IT Pro / Sysadmin, Windows Vista, IIS, Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 Desktop Edition
29 February 08 12:44 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   

WS08 Workstation, Anyone?   Apart from those pesky Live applications that won't install (why would anyone ever blog from a Server OS, as I'm doing now? Beats me...), I've had a relatively good run with Windows Server 2008 (x64, naturally) as my desktop Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008