I just realized I forgot to link to my xperf into talk on RunAsRadio.com back in October. Boy is my face red… http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showNum=182 Check out their podcasts, it’s a great repository of technical information!
Author: jeffstokes2014
Yes, it matters
Often at customer engagements when I encourage them to use things like SCCM and SCUP along with HP or Dell SCUP integration to keep drivers (and firmware!) up to date, I’m told it isn’t worth it. If the drivers from 2006 work, it doesn’t matter if an update is out. More often than not, the… Continue reading Yes, it matters
Boot delay in MOM 2005 Agent – notes from the field
Mom2005 agent for FCS v1 can slow boot times by around 20 seconds (typically)…So I did a WDRAP recently where part of their slow boot experience was related to FCS. It’s not FCS’s fault though, it rides on top of the old MOM 2005 health agent. Oddly enough, the MOM 2005 health agent, in the registry called:… Continue reading Boot delay in MOM 2005 Agent – notes from the field
The David Solomon TechNet Spotlight Talks are online once again!
As some would say…Mission Accomplished. It’s a long story, but I use these videos, particular part of the part 3, in my class to teach how Windows talks to physical RAM. The students just about universally dig it and now they are rescued from the Akamai cache and posted once again…. https://vimeo.com/15890452 https://vimeo.com/15888263 https://vimeo.com/15889595 As the… Continue reading The David Solomon TechNet Spotlight Talks are online once again!
Troubleshooting slow boot times, Part Deux
In my last session, I covered a rudimentary usage of XPERF to analyze my slow booting Dell with a SSD in it. The fix was simple and the problem stood out like a sore thumb. Resolution was as simple as setting the Ambient Light Service from Dell into an Automatic (delays start) state. But what… Continue reading Troubleshooting slow boot times, Part Deux
The effects of Acoustic Management on rotational media disks.
So one of the trends I’ve been seeing in WDRAPs I’ve performed is that companies are making use of older hardware for newer tasks on a much more frequent basis than before. Budgets seem to mandate a 4-5 year (or longer) pc recycle timeframe and the net result of this is companies are running their… Continue reading The effects of Acoustic Management on rotational media disks.
To Hyper-Thread or not, that is the question….
So there was some discussion on an internal alias recently, like, well, this morning at 6 A.M….anyway, where we were talking about if having HT enabled was good or bad. Some of our performance aliases tend to equate a HT processor as 20-30% of a normal processor. It does give some benefit, but it also… Continue reading To Hyper-Thread or not, that is the question….
Anti-Virus Exclusions and You!
So there is some amount of confusion on what exclusions are needed for various Microsoft products. This blog is not necessarily meant to be a definitive list, but is a compilation, a list, of KB articles that point to the various products and their individual guidance on AV exclusions. A special shout-out to Aaron Ellison… Continue reading Anti-Virus Exclusions and You!
My first MDT 2010 post
So, I’ve been working on some MDT 2010 work for various customers for about six months or so, but I finally found something that struck me as sort of odd and blog-worthy. So I created this big long involved task sequence for a customer and they attempted to lay it down over some older server… Continue reading My first MDT 2010 post
Today I was a WSUS/IIS Engineer
And it wasn’t half bad. At this customer site I am at currently doing MDT 2010 deployment creation for a Windows Server 2008 R2 rollout, WSUS was breaking for the desktop deployment folks. WSUS was enabled on a Windows 2008 R2 server. The website couldn’t be accessed, giving a server 500 error. When I looked… Continue reading Today I was a WSUS/IIS Engineer