DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework created by Sun Microsystems for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time. Originally developed for Solaris, it has since been released under the free Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) in OpenSolaris and it’s descendant illumos, and has been ported to several other Unix-like systems.
Windows 2008 was born on February 2018 and Microsoft released Windows 2008 R2 on October 2009. I think, Windows 2008 R2 was one of most popular Windows servers in history.
Now, Windows 7, Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 are old men. We have to say goodbye to these guys in this year and next year.
Windows is still most popular operating system for clients in over the world. Windows is installed on more than 80% of all desktop and laptops. So our users are addicted to Windows. I have real experience about our customers with other operating systems. Actually, most people is born in a home with Windows desktops or Windows laptops. They have grown up with Microsoft Outlook and other Windows application, so they can’t work with other operating systems.
The Security Compliance Toolkit (SCT) is a set of tools that allows enterprise security administrators to download, analyze, test, edit, and store Microsoft-recommended security configuration baselines for Windows and other Microsoft products.
When you run a server system in your organization, you might have business needs not met using default server settings. For example, you might need the lowest possible energy consumption, or the lowest possible latency, or the maximum possible throughput on your server. This guide provides a set of guidelines that you can use to tune the server settings in Windows Server 2016 and obtain incremental performance or energy efficiency gains, especially when the nature of the workload varies little over time.
The original version of Microsoft Server Performance Advisor (SPA) was released in 2005-2006. It primarily targeted Windows Server 2003, including the core operating system and server roles such as Internet Information Services (IIS) and Active Directory. The goal of the tool is to help you assess your server performance and troubleshoot server performance issues.
As an IT admin, one of the responsibilities you have is to ensure systems continue to run smoothly. That is true for a number of activities and components, such as monitoring if a disk is going to run out of space, determining how much memory and processing a Hyper-V host is consuming so you can plan for new VMs, and many other examples.
Windows Admin Center (Formerly Project Honolulu) is a new browser based management tool. Windows Admin Center the evolution of traditional in-box server management tools for situations where you might have used Remote Desktop (RDP) to connect to a server for troubleshooting or configuration. It’s not intended to replace other existing Microsoft management solutions.
I have this issue on my physical machine when NAC Agent is installed on them and sometimes, we faced with “There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request“. The issue was happened randomly and we have to restart the machine for resolving issue. Microsoft has published a KB and you can read the solutions for the problem: Netlogon Event ID 5719 or Group Policy Event 1129 is logged when you start a Domain Member Also a hotfix has been released for Windows 7 about DHCP relay agent delay, I suggest that installed the hotfix on your clients: Event ID 5719 and event ID 1129 may be logged when a non-Microsoft DHCP Relay Agent is used
