We haven’t posted any blogs for ~2 years, yet it seems that people are still reading/commenting on previous posts.  For me, I’ve moved on to the Security Team here at Microsoft, and there really is no more Performance team.  They’ve been broken up into smaller support teams that support certain topics.  From a Security standpoint, I might be able to...

Hello AskPerf! Wanted to send you a very long overdue note on the current status of the AskPerf Blog site. We are in a transition period on ownership of this blog site going forward. I personally have moved on to another team, and the remaining Performance folks have as well. With that said, a decision will be made hopefully soon, on the future of...

Hello AskPerf!  My name is Susan, and today we are going to discuss an issue where printing through Office applications only produce 1-2 pages out of a multi-page document. For example, you have Windows 2003/2008 Print Server with (e.g. Lexmark Universal v2 PS3 (2.2.5.71)) and Windows 8.1 clients attempt to print from Office applications; only the...

Hello AskPerf! My name is Matt Graham and I'll be discussing an issue that you may see on your RDS Licensing Server. SCENARIO You have both a 2008 R2 and an 2012 or 2012 R2 Licensing server in your RDS environment.  When you look under services.msc, you notice that the Remote Desktop Licensing service is stopped on the 2012 / 2012 R2 server.  You try...

Hey Folks, quick post to let you know that the Windows 10 Remote Server Administration Tools are now available. Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 Details Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 includes Server Manager, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins, consoles, Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers, and command-line...

Hello folks, as I’m sure you already know, Windows 10 will be available tomorrow, July 29th.  With that said, we will be blogging some of the new features that our team will be supporting in this new OS. We will also blog about features that some of other teams support.  Namely, how to manage Windows 10 notifications and upgrade options: How to...