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 are applications we may want to cook into our reference image. In the end, mine looks something like this (I’m building out a new MDT 2012 site here at home,… Continue reading How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 3

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 the DVD drive of the MDT-Console VM. Then in the MDT workbench, right click the folder “Operating Systems” and create a folder for that OS.  Then right click that folder… Continue reading How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 2

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 enable the Hyper-V role on it and create 2 VMs.  Half of you reading this are going to say “But we’re a VMWare shop, we don’t run Hyper-V.”  Ok, so… Continue reading How I stand up a new MDT environment, Part 1

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 set a capture for the network and xperf the user can start (or logon script the start) and then give them a link to click when a random non-reproducible problem… Continue reading How to collect a netmon 3.4 and xperf kernel trace and stop when a problem occurs.

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 great explanation and how-to so I’m not going to re-invent the wheel.  I’m not certain I agree with the rest of the proposals there necessarily, I’m thinking more in line… Continue reading What do you do when you want to run Windows XP on a Solid State Drive?

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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.  Looking closer, it was all being used by process ‘System (4)’. So that’s a fun one.  I had them collect an xperf trace using the following command: xperf –on base+cswitch+disk_io_init+latency+dispatcher… Continue reading High Privileged Mode CPU on 1 of 64 cores–quick fix

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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 them for patch cycle or power savings efforts or diagnostics. So imagine you do the right thing, you keep the BIOS and firmware up to date, you update drivers, you… Continue reading 33 Seconds lost at boot…

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 know me know my memory is Swiss Cheese sometimes).  Anyway, here is a link to the article: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/disk-in-depth-pfe-performance-guide.aspx If you are a disk expert, feel free to critique and/or update… Continue reading Disk in-Depth

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 tools that rocked (and still does) is the ExBPA and the family of Exchange Analyzers.  But did you know in Windows Server you get analyzers as well?  And some are… Continue reading BPAs, not just for Exchange anymore…

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