How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 3
Step 3. Here come the apps! Much like the Operating System area, in the Application area we want to create a logical folder structure. These […]
How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 2
Step 2. Import OS into the reference share So mount an ISO of the OS you want to capture and deploy into Hyper-V as […]
How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 1
There are many MDT environment setups, this one is mine. Step .1 Pre-Flight I use a 2008 R2 SP1 Server as my base. I […]
How to collect a netmon 3.4 and xperf kernel trace and stop when a problem occurs.
So at a customer location the following question was posed to me: “In our VDI environment, how do we capture trace information? How can we […]
What do you do when you want to run Windows XP on a Solid State Drive?
1. #1 THE BIG UNO! Properly align your partition with diskpar/diskpart and THEN install your XP build into that aligned partition. This link has a […]
High Privileged Mode CPU on 1 of 64 cores–quick fix
I was contacted recently about a server with 64 cores that, with no work load, had one core, ordinal 34, running very high on CPU. […]
33 Seconds lost at boot…
Imagine you are an enterprise customer who has several thousand desktops that boot slow. Inordinately slow…slow enough that your user base resists requests to reboot […]
Disk in-Depth
I started an article on Disk performance and characteristics for the PFE Performance Wiki a while back. I had actually forgotten about it (those who […]
DPC triangle…
So once upon a time, a PFE had a problem with his video game stuttering. The game would be playing fine and then suddenly, the […]
BPAs, not just for Exchange anymore…
So for those who don’t know, I used to be mainly an Exchange dork…ESE flowed in the veins don’t cha know? Anyway, one of the […]