Additional performance tuning resources

• Applies to:

  ✅ Windows Server 2025, ✅ Windows Server 2022, ✅ Windows Server 2019, ✅ Windows Server 2016, ✅ Windows 11, ✅ Windows 10

Use the links in this topic to learn more about the concepts that were discussed in this tuning guide.

Microsoft Windows Server Websites

• Windows Server Catalog

• Windows Sysinternals

• Transaction Processing Performance Council

• Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit

Power Management Tuning Resources

• Power Policy Configuration and Deployment in Windows

• Using PowerCfg to Evaluate System Energy Efficiency

• Interrupt-Affinity

Networking Subsystem Tuning Resources

• Scalable Networking: Eliminating the Receive Processing Bottleneck—Introducing RSS

• Windows Filtering Platform

• Networking Deployment Guide: Deploying High-Speed Networking Features

Storage Subsystem Tuning Resources

• Disk Subsystem Performance Analysis for Windows (Parts of this document are out of date, but many of the general observations and guidelines captured are still accurate and relevant.)

File Server Tuning Resources

• Performance Tuning Guidelines for Microsoft Services for Network File System

• [MS-FSSO]: File Access Services System Overview

• How to disable the TCP autotuning diagnostic tool

Active Directory Server Tuning Resources

• Active Directory Performance
• How to configure Active Directory diagnostic event logging in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows 2000 Server

Virtualization Server Tuning Resources

• What's New in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016

• Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Configuration Guide

• NUMA Node Balancing

• Hyper-V WMI Provider

• Hyper-V WMI Classes

• About Virtual Machines and Guest Operating Systems

• Optimizing and Troubleshooting Hyper-V Storage

• Optimizing and Troubleshooting Hyper-V Networking

Print Server Tuning Resources

• Print Server Scalability and Capacity Planning

Server Workload Tuning Resources

Note

Microsoft Server Performance Advisor is no longer available. Please use the resources in this section instead.

• Performance Tuning for NTttcp

• Ttcp

• How to use NTttcp to Test Network Performance

• Using the File Server Capacity Tool

• Using the SPECsfs2008 File Server

• Performance Tuning for the Sales and Distribution Workload

• Performance Tuning for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)

• How to: Configure SQL Server to Use Soft-NUMA

• How to: Map TCP/IP Ports to NUMA Nodes

• ALTER SERVER CONFIGURATION (Transact-SQL)

Performance Tuning Guidelines for previous versions of Windows Server

Use the performance tuning guidelines to improve performance for older versions of Windows Server.

Here's a list of performance tuning guidelines for previous versions of Windows Server:

• Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 R2

• Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012

• Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2