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Category Archives: OS Tuning

Microsoft Windows 2003 Post-SP2 Hotfixes

15-May-08

Why should we apply hotfixes?
Some IT Administrators take the approach that if they are not experiencing the issues/symptoms referred to in the knowledge base article; they shouldn’t be deploying the hotfix. However, from experience we understand that the vendor doesn’t always document all issues addressed, so there also needs to be an understanding of previous [...]

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SMB Tuning

15-May-08

 Here are 3 good articles written by Michel Roth.
Fileserving in Terminal Server Environments (Part 1)
Fileserving in Terminal Server Environments (Part 2)
Lanmanserver and Lanmanworkstation Tuning
So how do you know if you have a problem? Well on the Terminal/Citrix servers you need to monitor the outstanding Redirector/Current Commands queue. The goal of a Terminal/Citrix Server deployment is to [...]

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Tuning and Tweaking Tips for Terminal/Citrix Server Environments

15-May-08

This is the essentially an index to some blogs and articles for tuning and tweaking Terminal / Citrix Server environments. I am doing this for a number of reasons…

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Processor Scheduling

13-May-08

Multi-tasking Operating Systems just give the illusion that they’re doing things in parallel. In reality, the CPUs rapidly skip from task to task using various algorithms and heuristics, making one think the processes truly are running simultaneously. The choice of scheduling algorithm can be immensely important.

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