Performance News, Information, Blogs, and Analysis, on BrianMadden.com

We use a "tag" system for keeping track of topics on BrianMadden.com. Here's everything we have that's been tagged with "Performance". This includes forum posts, blog entries, podcasts, videos, and presentations.

Original blog posts about Performance: 63

Confirmed: VMware buys every part of RTO Software except what they owe Citrix. Here's our full analysis.

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about the fact that Symantec had suddenly stopped selling their Workspace Profiles product which they OEM'ed from RTO Software. I wondered why this was, and suggested that perhaps it was because Symantec competitor...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 3:31 AM by Brian Madden

Filed under: Business Information, Performance, RTO Software, VMware, VMware View
Best practices for virtualizing terminal servers, from Project VRC Phase 2

Ruben and I are getting close to the release of the Project VRC phase 2 white paper. (Here's a primer on Project VRC if you haven't heard of it.) Although we've been discussing and presenting the best practices from the first paper around...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2010 11:00 PM by Jeroen van de Kamp

Filed under: Performance, Project VRC, Remote Desktop, Terminal Server
Sequencing With Tim Mangan Episode 9 is now available

I've posted a new episode of " Sequencing With Tim Mangan ", an occasional series looking at the Microsoft App-V product in action. In this episode, we look at sequencing the latest version of Camtasia Studio from TechSmith . I use Microsoft...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2009 1:01 AM by Tim Mangan

Filed under: Performance, Application Streaming, Softricity, Microsoft MVP, Virtualization, VDI, Videos, App-V

Blog posts from around the web about Performance: 54

Remote Desktop Session Host Capacity Planning in Windows Server 2008 R2

The white paper, RD Session Host Capacity Planning in Windows Server 2008 R2 , is now live on the Download Center. This white paper describes the most relevant factors that influence the capacity of a given deployment, methodologies to evaluate...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 2:13 PM by Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team Blog

Filed under: Performance, WS08 R2, Author: Costin Hagiu, Author: James Baker
Announcing the Remote Desktop Protocol Performance Improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 white paper

With the growing trend toward desktop virtualization, it is Microsoft’s goal to provide enterprises with a flexible model for centralized computing, whereby the broadest range of client devices can help securely access company data and applications from...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 5:00 PM by Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team Blog

Filed under: RDP, Performance, Author: Nelly Porter, Windows 7, WS08 R2, Author: Graham Fagg;, Author: Alexander Lukhtanov
How to Analyze Kernel Performance Bottlenecks (and Find that ATI’s Catalyst Drivers Cause 50% CPU Utilization)

Normally, finding the cause for high CPU utilization is easy – just start Task Manager. But what if the component consuming CPU cycles is a driver that runs in the kernel? In that case, there is no regular process Task Manager could attribute the...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2010 12:10 PM by Helge Klein

Filed under: Performance, CPU, Drivers, Kernel, Windows Internals, ATI

Forum posts tagged with Performance: 179

Citrix Hot Desktop

For the past couple of years we installed the hotdesktop in our hospital and have found it to be a very fragile product. It seems to be very susceptible to upgrades from Citrix, Microsoft patching, etc. The goal with using the product was to allow users to login/logoff the PC quickly so we could provide...

Posted to Client / End User Issues by makamer on Fri, Mar 5 2010
2008 TS lag or pause

I am experiencing the following issues and hope someone can help. I have raised a support ticket with Microsoft and they haven't been too helpful thus far. When a user types characters in a document, characters do not appear on the screen until this lag has ended. Keyboard input and mouse input are...

Posted to Terminal Services by mick1978 on Thu, Mar 4 2010
Monitoring Times in TS2008R2

Hi, I am looking to monitoring certain aspects of my TS environment. 1. Login time - from the time successful credentials are entered to display of the desktop. 2. Amount of time an appication loads in a session. Ie from clicking the icon to being presented with an application login prompt or being able...

Posted to Terminal Services by Johnny Bravo on Fri, Jan 15 2010