Hi everyone, Randolph Reyes (Randy) here with another blog contribution. In this particular engagement, I was working doing an Active Directory Offline Security Assessment (awesome delivery), and one employee with knowledge of using Windows Performance Toolkit stopped me on my way to lunch. Customer: Can we see how long takes an employee to type their… Read more
Get ready to have an opinion! Matthew Reynolds (https://twitter.com/MatthewMWR) here with my personal advice (not announcing any product changes) about which configuration vectors are working well and which are not—for today and tomorrow’s enterprises. Any of these sound familiar? · “I need to run <insert IT task> on every PC in the organization.” · “Our… Read more
Hi everyone here is Randy Reyes with a much needed updated to our slow boot slow login (sbsl) series. It’s been a while since our last entry and I ran into an interesting customer question. Customer: Can we see how long takes an employee to type their user name and password? Randy: Thanks to WPT… Read more
Hey y'all, Mark and Tom and some new members to AskPFEPlat to tackle your questions in the new year. Hope everyone was able to take some time off and re-charge. How are those new year's resolutions going? Be healthier? Read more? Learn a new technology? Get certified? More on that later. By this point in… Read more
Hey Folks, Though I’ve blogged before here I have been a bit rude and never properly introduced myself. Hi, I am James Klepikow, a Senior Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft. Nice to meet all of you. One of the many issues we troubleshoot as Field Engineers is slow boot up time. As you can see… Read more
Hey, y’all, Mark back with some new info on two of my favorite topics, IPv6 and Slow Boot Slow Logon (SBSL). If you’ve disabled IPv6 long ago this post is one you’ll want to pay attention to. Let’s dig in and get you up to speed. What’s Microsoft Recommend Setting for IPv6? The long standing… Read more
Hey y’all, Mark back with another update in our now long running series, Becoming an Xperf Xpert. First some housekeeping. This series is going through a name change. As we wrote in Part 6 that Xperf is dead, long live Xperf! It was time to start using Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA). All posts since then… Read more
Hi everyone Randolph (Randy) Reyes with another SBSL blog post. In this particular engagement we went onsite to deliver a workshop in how to utilize the Windows Performance Toolkit (XPERF) to detect slow boot and slow logon issues. The Before PreSMSS SMSSInit WinlogonInit ExplorerInit Post Boot 8.165 2.454 63.305 1.950 11.400 Boot to Post Boot… Read more
Hi everyone Randolph (Randy) Reyes with another SBSL blog post. In this particular engagement we were able to be more proactive, our job was to check and verified a Windows 7 image prior of mass deployment all around the world. When arriving onsite we notice that 1,000 Windows 7 machines were already deployed and 7,000… Read more
Hi my name is Randolph Reyes (Randy) with my first blog contribution! I am Premier Field Engineer specializing in Active Directory and Windows Desktop. Today I will like to share a recent trace taken from a Windows 7 system. In this particular engagement WD RAP as a Service+ we detected almost all the Windows 7… Read more