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How to Setup a Debug Crash Cart to Prevent Your Server from Flat Lining

This is Ron Stock from the Global Escalation Services team and I recently had the task of live...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 01/31/2013

Case of the Unexplained Services exe Termination

Hello Debuggers! This is Ron Stock from the Global Escalation Services team and I recently worked an...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 01/30/2013

Behavior Change When Working with Pass-Through Disks in Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters

Welcome back to the CORE Team blog. I want to discuss a behavior change in Windows Server 2012...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 01/24/2013

Configuring Change Notification on a MANUALLY created Replication partner

Hello. Jim here again to elucidate on the wonderment of change notification as it relates to Active...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 01/21/2013

FREE: Online Microsoft Virtual Academy Virtualization Jump Start Classes

The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 01/20/2013

PFE's Risk Assessment Program as a Service (RaaS)

This is just a quick post to advertise our PFE folks and their new RaaS Service. Yong Rhee and Julio...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2013

Removing a Mount Point Disk from a Cluster Group

Hello everyone. Today’s post is going to cover the steps needed to follow should you ever have...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 01/14/2013

Error in Failover Cluster Manager after install of KB2750149

On Tuesday, Jaunary 8, the below recommended fix was released and available on Windows Update for...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 01/14/2013

Tracing with Storport in Windows 2012 and Windows 8

Welcome back to the CORE Team Blog. Paul Reynolds here. I would like to let everyone know about...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 01/12/2013

Intermittent Mail Sack: Must Remember to Write 2013 Edition

Hi all, Jonathan here again with the latest edition of the Intermittent Mail Sack. We've had some...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 01/07/2013

Happy New Year 2013!!!

Happy New Year AskPerf Blog Readers! Can you believe that 2012 is now over? Seems like...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 01/01/2013

Use Caution When Implementing IPC for Performance Counters

Recently I was working with a developer who had created performance counters that work in...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 12/31/2012

Where has all my Physical RAM gone?

Hello AskPerf! Ranajoy here from the Windows Performance Team. One of our highest call generators...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 12/19/2012

Determining the source of Bug Check 0x133 (DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION) errors on Windows Server 2012

What is a bug check 0x133? Starting in Windows Server 2012, a DPC watchdog timer is enabled which...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 12/07/2012

Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) interaction with Proxy Servers

Welcome back to the CORE Team blog. Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) is an automated feature that allows...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 12/03/2012

Troubleshooting Pool Leaks Part 7 – Windows Performance Toolkit

In Part 1 of this series we identified a pool leak in non paged pool. In Part 2 and Part 3 of...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/30/2012

Working with multiple network adapters in a virtual machine

Thanks for coming back to the CORE Team blog site. This blog will address working with multiple...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/28/2012

Revenge of Y2K and Other News

Hello sports fans! So this has been a bit of a hectic time for us, as I'm sure you can imagine....

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/27/2012

Just when you thought… (Part 2)

In Part 1, I covered configuring the Hyper-V Failover Cluster and the Scale-Out File Server...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/26/2012

Just when you thought…..(Part 1)

Just when you thought you had things figured out - in the words of the legendary Bob Dylan,...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/19/2012

Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Let the fun begin!

Over the past 2 weeks, we’ve touched on a number of different features of Windows 8 and Windows...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2012

Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: A brief look at the new Server Manager

Well, we are about finished. Only one post left after this one. Today marks the 15th...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/06/2012

Upgrading to Windows 8 – Part 5

Known Issues Hi Again, Welcome back to the Upgrade to Windows 8 Series. In today’s post we...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/05/2012

Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Windows PowerShell Web Access

Day 14 is upon us! In today’s post, we are going to take a look at the new feature in Windows...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/05/2012

Introducing Server Manager in Windows Server 2012

Hello AskCore! Today I will discuss the Add roles and Features of the new interface of Server...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/04/2012

Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: How do I print in Windows 8 Modern UI Applications?

It’s day 13 of our Launch Series and we are nearing the finish line. Today we are going to...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/04/2012

Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: What’s new with Printing in Windows 8?

Hello AskPerf! Welcome to day 12 of our Launch Series. Today we are going to take a look...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/03/2012

Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Session based Desktop Deployment

It’s day 11 of our Launch Series, and day 4 of our RDS series. The past few posts, have...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2012

Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: VDI Personal Desktop Collections

Welcome to day 11 of our Launch Series, and part 3 of our RDS series. The past few posts have...

Author: Kevin Ledman [MSFT] Date: 11/01/2012