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Invitation to provide feedback through UserVoice
I am not sure if everyone is aware of UserVoice but I am here to tell you about it. UserVoice is...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/20/2015
Use Azure custom routes to enable KMS activation with forced tunneling
Previously, if customers enabled forced tunneling on their subnets, OS activations prior to Windows...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/20/2015
Microsoft Ignite sessions dealing with what we do in AskCore
Early in the month of May, Microsoft held it's Ignite Conference (formally known as TechEd) in...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/20/2015
Azure DNS Server Redundancy
Customers may observe that their PaaS role instances and IaaS virtual machines are only issued one...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/18/2015
What is the IP address 168.63.129.16?
The IP address 168.63.129.16 is a virtual public IP address that is used to facilitate a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/18/2015
Task Scheduler "A task or folder with this name already exists"
Hello AskPerf! Blake here with a quick blog to discuss an issue I’ve seen more frequently over the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/14/2015
WMIDiag 2.2 is here!
Hello AskPerf blog readers! Jeff here from the Windows Performance Team once again. I am happy to...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/12/2015
Multiple per device RDS CALS are issued the same device issue…
Hello AskPerf! Ishu Sharma here again from Microsoft Performance team. Today I will be discussing an...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/08/2015
2012 R2 License Server issuing Built-in OverUsed CALs for 2008 R2 Session Host Servers
Hello AskPerf! My name is Prachi Singh and today I will be talking about a behavior that can occur...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/07/2015
Troubleshoot ADFS 2.0 with these new articles
Hi all, here's a quick public service announcement to highlight some recently published ADFS 2.0...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/06/2015
Migrating User Profile Disks in Remote Desktop Services
Good morning AskPerf! This is Sree Krishna and Ramesh from Remote Desktop Services Team. Today we...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/06/2015
Icons of unpublished/old remote apps appearing on RDWEB Page in Server 2012/2012 R2
Hello Askperf! This is Ishu Sharma from Microsoft Performance team. Today I am going to discuss a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/05/2015
Uncover the mystery of a bugcheck 0x24 (NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM)
My name is Nan, I am an Escalation Engineer in Platforms Global Escalation Services in GCR....
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/30/2015
A Treatise on Group Policy Troubleshooting–now with GPSVC Log Analysis!
Hi all, David Ani here from Romania. This guide outlines basic steps used to troubleshoot Group...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/17/2015
Keeping Azure PowerShell Current
I have been supporting Azure for 7 years now and one of the constants is the rapid pace of change of...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/12/2015
Traffic Manager and Azure SLB - Better Together!
This post was contributed by Pedro Perez Can Traffic Manager coexist with Azure Load Balancer? And...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/10/2015
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) 2012 session deployment scenarios “Quick Start”
Good morning AskPerf! Jason here to continue our mini-series on RDS Session Deployment. Please see...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/09/2015
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) 2012 session deployment scenarios "Server Role Deployment"
Hello AskPerf! Jason here again to continue our RDS mini-series. Please see RDS 2012 Session Host...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/08/2015
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) 2012 session deployment scenarios “Standard Deployment”
Hello AskPerf! Jason here again to continue our mini-series. This a part of a complete post series...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/07/2015
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) 2012 Session Host deployment scenarios
Hello AskPerf! Jason here from the Windows Reliability team. As more customers migrate from Remote...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/02/2015
Migrating your Certification Authority Hashing Algorithm from SHA1 to SHA2
Hey all, Rob Greene here again. Well it’s been a very long while since I have written anything...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/01/2015
KB 3046555: End-to-end guide for Deploying MBAM 2.5 in a stand-alone configuration
This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installing Microsoft BitLocker Administration and...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/31/2015
Tips & Tricks with MBAM 2.5 - Part 1: Domain Controller and Group Policy Management
We have periodically received requests on some of the Tips and Tricks regarding Microsoft BitLocker...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/31/2015
Manually modifying IIS bindings to use SSL for MBAM services
Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) needs web services no matter what topology...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/29/2015
MBAM Configuration Manager reports data is repetitive
Let us consider the following scenario of Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM)...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/27/2015
Troubleshooting Common Surface Pro 3 Issues Post Deployment
With the launch of Surface Pro 3, enterprises have been testing/deploying them. Almost all deploy a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/19/2015
The Four Stages of NTFS File Growth, Part 2
A few years ago I wrote a blog entry entitled, “The Four Stages of NTFS File Growth”....
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/12/2015
Step by Step instructions for installing RDS Session Deployment using PowerShell in Windows Server 2012 R2
Hello AskPerf Readers! Dhiraj here from the Windows Performance team to talk about deploying RDS...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/04/2015
KMS Activation High Level Overview
Hello, folks! This blog is aimed to provide a high level overview of the Key Management Server (KMS)...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/23/2015
Highly Available RDS 2008 R2 License Servers
Hello AskPerf! My name is Matt Graham and today I want to address some questions surrounding the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/23/2015
MS15-010 causing font/text issues…
Hello Folks. Wanted to send out a quick note on an emerging issue we are seeing in Support...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/20/2015
Help! My Scheduled Task does not run…
Good morning/afternoon/evening AskPerf! Blake here with a post I’ve been meaning to write/publish...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/18/2015
DFSR: Limiting the Number of Imported Replicated Folders when using DB cloning
Hello! Warren here to talk about a very specific scenario involving the new DB cloning feature added...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/12/2015
Loss of "ssh" via VIP following the assignment of IP addresses to Linux VM's with multi-nic
Problem: When creating a VM with multi nic and multiple subnets the Guests...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/10/2015
Unable to delete VHD, “There is currently a lease on the blob…”
For classic VMs, there are artifacts (metadata about the VHDs) that keep a lease on the VHD even...
Author: anonymouscommenter Date: 01/27/2015
How to use Dumpchk.exe to check your dump files…
Hello AskPerf! Today’s post is a quick one that points to one of Bob' Golding's...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/27/2015
Free Webcasts from Microsoft’s US Central Marketing Organization (USCMO)
The US Central Marketing Organization (USCMO) here at Microsoft is putting on a new and improved...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/15/2015
We Are Hiring Windows Escalation Engineers in Munich, Germany
Would you like to join the world’s best and most elite debuggers to enable the success of Microsoft...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/15/2015
Case of the blank print jobs
Hello Askperf! Anshuman here again with an interesting issue I worked a few weeks ago. The following...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/08/2015
How to migrate local ports when doing print migration
Hello Askperf! My name is Tingu, and today I’m going to talk about an interesting print...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/07/2015
How to make your existing Bitlocker encrypted environment FIPS complaint
Hello, my name is Mayank Sharma and I am a Technical Advisor here at Microsoft. In this blog, I will...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/29/2014
Troubleshooting Windows activation failures on Azure VMs
If you are experiencing Windows activation failures on an Azure VM, please try the following steps...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/23/2014
Disk Performance Internals
Abstract: Storage is the slowest component of most computer systems. As such, storage is often a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/09/2014
Driver Object Corruption Triggers Bugcheck 109
My name is Victor Mei, I am an Escalation Engineer in Platforms Global Escalation Services in...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/20/2014
Recovering Azure VM by attaching OS disk to another Azure VM
If you are unable to administer an Azure VM because of RDP or SSH failures, in many cases rebooting...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/20/2014
Surface Pro 3 Hibernation Doesn’t Occur on Enterprise Install
Hi my name is Scott McArthur and I want to call out a recently published KB article: Surface Pro 3...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/05/2014
Cross Post: Using Bing for technical instant answers and automated solutions
This is a cross post from William Keener’s Support Diagnostics and Automated Solutions blog that we...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/04/2014
Your technical answers and automated solutions via Bing.com
Hello folks, One of our Engineering PMs that supports our Diagnostics and Automated solutions...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/04/2014