[Cross-Post] Debugging Windows Applications with DebugDiag Workshop
What is DebugDiag? If you have seen automation for: Performance Logs (Perfmon) analysis using Clint Huffman’s Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) and Slow boot and slow logon using Matthew...
View ArticleMicrosoft Tech Talk: Irvine, CA., USA office: Oct 5, 2017: Operations...
This is a free event! Hello Everyone! “Operations Management Suite (OMS)” Event Details: Azure-Operations Management Suite (OMS) | Protection and Recovery Speakers: Adnan Ezzi Adnan is a Premier...
View ArticleList of Hyper-V related hotfixes post RTM for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server...
Applies to: Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM Windows 8.1 RTM Note: You should check http://support.microsoft.com for the latest version of the different files....
View ArticleHow to troubleshoot a handle leak using ETW (WPRUI/WPR/Xperf) tracing?
Applies to: Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2012 Does not apply to: Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2003 The reason is, the handle etw tracing...
View Article"Unsupported cluster configuration" VMM
Applies to: System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) CB (2016) Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V 2016 In Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), the VM’s show up as "Unsupported cluster configuration". The...
View ArticleHow to collect a good boot trace on Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 using...
Applies to: Windows Server 2016 Windows 10 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 Windows 8.0 Ok, so you went through my old pal Jeff Stokes post: How to collect a good boot trace on...
View ArticleUsing XPERF to capture ETL traces for Slow Logons
Applies to: Windows Server 2016 Note: Also applies to Remote Desktop Servers (RDS) Windows 10 Windows Server 2012 R2 Note: Also applies to Remote Desktop Servers (RDS) Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012...
View ArticleWindows 10 Enterprise Edition: Burn Win10 ISO to a USB key when running w/ UEFI
Posts in this blog are provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights as specified in the Terms of Use. Like everything in an Enterprise, they should be tested in a test environment before...
View ArticleHow to measure Security product(s) overhead using FltMgr minifilter etw...
Posts in this blog are provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights as specified in the Terms of Use. Like everything in an Enterprise, they should be tested in a test environment before...
View Articlewuauclt /detectnow in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016
Applies to; Windows Server 1709 Windows Server 2016 Windows 10 Administrators trying to use wuauclt /detectnow will notice that it doesn’t do anything. In Windows 10, and Windows Server 2016 or newer,...
View Article[Cross Post] Windows 10: Windows Update: Get-WindowsUpdateLog, no longer...
Applies to: Windows Server 1709 Windows 10 1709 Improved Windows Update Log Formatting with Windows 10 1709...
View Article[Cross Post] Windows Defender ATP now also supports macOS, Linux, iOS and...
Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) * (Post breach) now also supports macOS, Linux, iOS and Android devices. For details: Microsoft partners extend Windows Defender ATP across platforms...
View ArticleWindows 10 ADK/SDK WPT is not compatible w/ Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server...
Applies to: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows 7 SP1 One of the common questions regarding the analysis with Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) is, we captured an ETL trace using the “Windows...
View ArticleWindows 10 1703+/Windows Server 1709: The many svchost’s are finally split on...
Applies to: Windows Server 1709 Windows 10 1709 Windows 10 1703 Many years ago, I had written about: How to troubleshoot Service Host (svchost.exe) related problems?...
View Article[Cross-Post] Microsoft Edge now available in iOS and Android
Applies to: Microsoft Edge for iOS Microsoft Edge for Android Get that seamless Microsoft Edge browser experience from your Windows 10 device when on your mobile device. The RTM of Microsoft Edge...
View Article[Cross-Post] Windows 10: File Associations (e.g. .PDF) best practices
Applies to: Windows Server 1709 Windows 10 1709 Windows 10 1703 Windows Server 2016 Windows 10 1607 Ismael Limbada, Microsoft France CSS Support Escalation Engineer has a nice blog post of the most...
View ArticleSysinternals ProcDump now available for Linux
Hi all, You guys might have seen that .Net Framework was open sourced and ported to Linux. Now, if you are writing .Net Framework (C#, etc…) related code and wanted to troubleshoot the memory leaks,...
View ArticleMDOP hotfixes (AGPM 4.0 SP3, App-V 5.1, MBAM 2.5 SP1, UE-V 2.1 SP1)
Published: Dec. 2017. Applies to: AGPM 4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) App-V 5.1 MBAM 2.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) UE-V 2.1 MDOP hotfixes 4041137 September 2017 servicing release for Microsoft Desktop...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 SP1 DFSR related hotfixes
Published: Dec. 2017. Applies to: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 3002288 DFSR service freezes when it calls a method on a Windows-based server https://support.microsoft.com/?id=3002288 Update(s):...
View ArticleList of AppLocker hotfixes post SP1 for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008...
Applies to: Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 W2K8 R2 Service Pack 1 W2K8 R2 SP1 Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Windows 7 SP1 Win7 Service Pack 1 Win7 SP1 Note: You should...
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