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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Remote Desktop Connection Broker (Part One)
Good Morning AskPerf! Welcome to Day Fifteen of our Launch Series. There is only one more week to go! If you remember Windows Server 2003 R2 then you probably also remember that Terminal Services...
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Remote Desktop Connection Broker (Part Two)
Welcome back – Happy Friday! Day Sixteen of our Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series is upon us. There are only six more days to go and excitement is growing! Following on from...
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Remote Desktop Services Virtualization...
Good Morning AskPerf Nation! Our Launch Series is at Day Seventeen. There are only five more days to go! Today we’re continuing on with Remote Desktop Services, with a look at Remote Desktop...
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Remote Desktop IP Virtualization
Happy Sunday everyone! It’s Day Eighteen of our Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series – only four more days to go till the big day! Today we’re wrapping up our look at some of the new...
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: AppLocker
Happy Monday everyone. It’s Day Nineteen of our Launch Series, which means that there are only three more days until Windows 7 appears on store shelves! Today, we’re going to provide a really quick...
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Problem Steps Recorder
Hi all, and welcome to Day 21 in our Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series. Tomorrow is the big day! To wrap up our Launch Series, I want to talk today about a really cool tool included...
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Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: The Big Day is HERE!
That’s right folks! It’s October 22nd – the big day is finally here! Over the last twenty-one days, we’ve touched on a number of different features of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. We hope...
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Remote Desktop Services: Announcements
Good morning all – today’s post is a very brief one regarding new announcements concerning Remote Desktop Services. The original announcements were made on the Remote Desktop ServicesTeam blog.RDS CAL...
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Suggested hotfixes for WMI related issues on Windows platforms *Updated...
Hi all,Some of the most difficult issues we face here on the Performance Team are WMI related issues. WMI is very pervasive, and when it breaks, you can experience a myriad of symptoms that are often...
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What to do if your Windows 8 Modern App fails to start
Good morning AskPerf! David Alessi here from the Windows 8 client team. One of the biggest support issues we’ve seen is with Windows 8 Store (formerly Metro/Modern) Apps failing to start. This post...
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2012 R2 License Server issuing Built-in OverUsed CALs for 2008 R2 Session...
Hello AskPerf! My name is Prachi Singh and today I will be talking about a behavior that can occur when users attempt to pull licenses from a 2012 R2 License server via a 2008 R2 Session Host. Under...
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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 issue where multiple per device Remote Desktop Services CALS are issued to the same device. Before...
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WMIDiag 2.2 is here!
Hello AskPerf blog readers! Jeff here from the Windows Performance Team once again. I am happy to announce that the new version of WMIDIAG is finally here. It’s now compatible for Windows 8/8.1 as well...
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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 past few months. Here is the Scenario: When you try and create a new Scheduled Task via the command...
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Walkthrough on Session hint / TSVUrl on Windows Server 2012
Hello Askperf, my name is Naresh and today we are going to discuss how we can connect to a Windows 2012 Remote desktop collection from thin clients or other clients that are not session hints aware....
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Windows 10 is coming!
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...
View ArticleWindows 10 (RTM) RSAT tools now available…
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...
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Remote Desktop Licensing Service Stopping
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...
View ArticleOffice Applications only print 1-2 pages
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...
View ArticleAskPerf Blog transition…
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...
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