“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 song of “O Brother Where Art Thou?” when I’m supposed to be talking about the Exchange Server that doesn’t? It’s the Chewbacca defense! This Exchange Server is so hosed I… Continue reading When an Exchange Server doesn’t Exchange…
Tag: Windows Performance Toolkit
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 a solid .etl file you may ask? Well, that’s what this post is all about. This is how the Dude does it. The Dude you see is listening to Simple… Continue reading The dude does xperf…
RunAsRadio.com spot
Look for the Dudes’ interview with Richard Campbell on RunAsRadio, where I get into a discussion on Slow Boot/Slow Logon scenarios, tools to use and common culprits. The spot appears on May the 18th! Links discussed on the interview are: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/10130.root-causes-for-slow-boots-and-logons-sbsl.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/yongrhee/archive/2012/02/19/list-of-performance-hotfixes-post-sp1-for-windows-7-sp1.aspx Thanks! Jeff Stokes
Xperf-o-Rama
At the Premier Webcast I ran today I was asked a couple times if I could link some ‘getting started’ type guides to the content. So I made a blog post. All of this is public Microsoft information, nothing secret here. Just organized a little better. So, first, how does xperf work? Second, http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/pdc09/ppt/CL16.pptx Lastly,… Continue reading Xperf-o-Rama
The Dude’s Greatest Hits
As requested by several customers, I’m putting up a list of tools I find useful in troubleshooting, etc… First up…. Data Gathering I use the following tools to gather data from systems. Each has its own place, much like a mechanic has many tools, so does the average engineer… PFE MPS Reports. I use these… Continue reading The Dude’s Greatest Hits
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.