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Installing IE9 Offline on Windows Seven and Windows Server 2008-R2
Planning to deploy Internet Explorer 9 on you servers not allowed to communicate with the Internet? Here are some background information.IE9’s setup will by default perform installation of software...
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Checklist for Getting the TRIM Command to Work with SSD drive on Windows 7
What is the TRIM Command and why you should careThe TRIM command is a way for the operating system to notify the SSD drive that it should perform a garbage collection (a proactive clean-up) on the disk...
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LSA Lookup Cache
In a Windows world, security is often linked to security principals (user, group, computer or domain name) and SID (Security Identifier). There are multiple programmatic ways translate names to SID and...
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Random Thoughts on Disk Defragmentation
Mostly applicable to Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 and sometimes to earlier Windows versions…Defragmentation vs. SSD DriveDefragmenting is actually useless due to the nature of the SSD technology: there...
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Microsoft File Server Capacity Tool v1.2 is Out!
The ultimate File Server benchmarking and analysis tool by Microsoft has just be updated to support clustering-based high availability scenario’s.As reminder, this comprehensive and scalable yet...
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Memory Pressure on Windows Server 2008 R2 File Server due to System Cache
Recent questions in TechNet Forums reminded me of an issue faced when building large file servers running on Windows Server 2008 R2. By large I mean serving a lot of files, from thousand to millions or...
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Windows Server 2012: Performance Tuning Guidelines
You might have missed the release of the Performance Tuning Guidelines document recently updated for Windows Server 2012Download from MSDN Web siteAs reminder, the following guides are still...
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Windows: The Confusion over DisableLoopBackCheck, DisableStrictNameChecking...
I’ve been answering technical questions in Forums and at customers for a while now and in the recent years there were many related to issue related to DisableLoopBackCheck and DisableStrictNameChecking...
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Windows: High CPU Utilization due to Access-Based Enumeration
Good evening,On Windows Server 2008-R2 File Servers with Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) enabled, you might notice abnormally high CPU-usage when many users are opening session or browsing through...
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IntroductionVery recently I’ve been troubleshooting an issue related to LDAP queries against Active Directory using .Net’s System.DirectoryServices namespace. I was surprised to see that the main query...
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