Checking health of Windows Server 2008
Is there a Windows Server 2008 overall health check that can be run?

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  5:23 PM
Windows Server 2008, Windows Server Management, Windows Server Performance

Performance monitor alerts on Windows Server 2003
We have a 2003 server here that we are trying to catch a runaway process on. I know how to go into perfmon and set a page file monitor, but I can’t seem to understand the counter. I want to set it at a specific GB file size or % or total. Is the size [...]

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2011  2:55 PM
Performance monitoring, Server management, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Management, Windows Server Performance

Post mortem on Windows server 2003
My Windows server 2003 failed. How can I perform a post mortem to see why it failed? Is there a guide or application?

Answer Question   |  April 12, 2011  4:06 PM
Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 administration, Windows Server 2003 performance, Windows Server Performance

Windows Server 2000 – Restart service when consecutive performance monitor thresholds are exceeded
I need to be able to automatically restart a service on a Win2000 server when 3 consecutive performance monitor thresholds are exceeded. I can run a batch file/command that restarts the service when the threshold is exceeded by setting up a Performance Alert, but 3 consecutive thresholds are required to prevent false positives (spikes) restarting [...]

Answer Question   |  February 16, 2011  3:07 AM
Performance monitoring, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Server Performance

Windows Server 2008 freezing up
When a file is accessed on a file share where mcafee is scanning all files the server freezes up for a few seconds while the file is being scanned. How can I fix this issue on Windows Server 2008?

Answer Question   |  July 13, 2011  2:40 PM
File Shares, McAfee, McAfee Virus Scan, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Administration, Windows Server Performance

Windows System performance
I have more systems these are very slow what should i do to increase the performace of desktop and server 2003 2 which files i have to delete from C:drive those are not in use 3 which tools we have to use to check and increae the performance of system. If RAM and CPU are [...]

Answer Question   |  May 23, 2012  3:53 PM
Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance, Windows XP

Windows Server 2008 task manager
Hello. Watching task manager in a Win 2008 server system, i noticed that it  reports about Physical Memory: Total 3070MB Cached 2051MB Free 12MB But resource monitor reports 41% Used Physical Memory. So how much memory is free? 12MB from task manager or 59% from resource manager?

Answer Question   |  August 4, 2011  8:01 PM
Task Manager, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server Performance

What is LSARPC
We have Windows 2003 Servers as our domain controller. we are facing some problem with CPU utilization. When I captured to traffic using sniffers I figured out a portocl called LSARPC  which is freqently used by clients to communicate with Domain Controllers. I am wondering what is this LSARPC?

Answer Question   |  August 30, 2012  7:32 AM
CPU Utilization, Domain Controllers, LSARPC, Sniffers, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance, Windows Server Protocols

What is a SMB protocol?
We have Windows 2003 Servers as our domain controller. We are facing some problem with CPU utilization. When I captured to traffic using sniffers, I figured out a protocol called SMB which is frequently used by clients to communicate with Domain Controllers. I am wondering what is this SMB protocol?

Answer Question   |  May 14, 2013  7:29 AM
CPU utlization, Domain Controllers, SMB, sniffer, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance, Windows Server Protocols

network slow
machines in Win2k server domain working very slow( i.e while loging , copying data , printing on Network printer)

Answer Question   |  August 20, 2009  9:46 AM
Network performance, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance

Running queries causing system to hang
A few weeks ago we had a major crash that was caused by a bad install. I wiped the machine and reinstalled the OS (Windows Server 2003). At first everything appeared to be fine. We are using: 2 x 4 core 2.33 GHz Xeon E5345 Intel s5000XVN motherboard 12GB Ram ATI Radeon x300 Video The [...]

Answer Question   |  April 6, 2009  8:02 PM
SQL Server 2005, System performance, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance

Server 2003 memory performance configuration
We have a SQL application running in an n-tier environment. Some of the users are complaining about application performance. I am going through the environment looking at all of the elements involved in processing this application. The information below shows all of the server systems involved in the application and the page file and RAM [...]

Answer Question   |  February 20, 2009  8:35 PM
Server Performance, SQL, SQL Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance

Slow login to domain.
Hello. I am experiencing slow login of users to domain. There are around 100users and the PDC is Windows 2003. I can not also access the shared folders in the file server which is a Secondary domain controller also. Does anybody have any ideas. Best, dbrakaj

Answer Question   |  November 4, 2008  5:47 PM
Network performance, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance

Something is slowing down my server Dell PowerEdge 1800
Almost every day something starts running on the server and performance slowly grinds to a stop causing me to have to reboot. I look at the processes and the only ones showing up are store.exe and system. There are no Events in the Event Viewer to shed some light as to what is hanging up [...]

Answer Question   |  October 29, 2008  8:32 PM
Dell PowerEdge, Dell PowerEdge 1800, Dell PowerEdge Performance, Server Performance, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance