Welcome to the Windows Assessment Server from the Windows 8 ADK. Part 1 of X
Fa-La…It’s the magical mystery tour….. Well, not really, but it is the Windows Assessment Server brought to us by the Windows 8 ADK! […]
Windows 8 ADK solves GPO Logon Delay questions, film at 11….
Symptoms: Logons take forever and you’ve collected an xbootmgr/WPR/xperf123/xperfui trace. What GPO can it be? Easy! Open Windows Performance Analyzer from the Windows 8 […]
The Dudes view on IT Infrastructure and Sustainability in same.
Hope you enjoy.
What is Windows Performance Analyzer all about and why should you use it instead of xperfview?
Consider the following trace in xperfview: This should be familiar to you, it’s the DPC storm / storport doorbell that looks like this: So how […]
PAL 2.3.1 released!
Why? VMware template. Awwww yeah, the Dude strike again. If you are running in VMware, we can capture the memory ballooning driver and real processor […]
When an Exchange Server doesn’t Exchange…
“Well the high sheriff, told his deputy, won’t you go out and bring my Lazarus?” Why am I quoting the Po Lazarus tune, the opening […]
Ladies and Gentleman (and low lifes), it is with outstanding pleasure tonight that I am able to present to you, the reader, with an xperf trace….
For those who didn’t yet know, the Dude is a fan of old school rap. So one of these days, not much to do, I […]
Yet another xperf analysis post
Pump up the volume, Pump up the volume… Slow Boot: Yep, that’s slow. Clearly not in CPU usage though…what about disk? Nope (the dude knows […]
The dude does xperf…
So the Dude (that’s me) has gone over how to collect xperf traces a few times now, but what do we do after we’ve collected […]
PAL 2.3 with Multi-Threading!
PAL (http://pal.codeplex.com/) is a favorite tool of mine, written by Clint Huffman. I’ve written about it a few times but maybe you weren’t aware that […]