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Clint Huffman's Windows Troubleshooting in the Field Blog

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Clint Huffman is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) who has been with Microsoft for over 10 years. This blog documents the challenges he faces week to week in hopes that these experiences will help others.

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35 from 12 May 2009 to 10 Jul 2014
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2014 2

  1. Available for pre-order: Windows Performance Analysis Field Guide
  2. How to create a “black box” performance counter data collector

2013 12

  1. Using Autoruns to validate system drivers
  2. Convert a performance counter data collector template into a PAL threshold file
  3. Tracking page file reads and writes
  4. Full debugging of VBScripts using Visual Studio 2005
  5. My personal reminder of common debugging commands
  6. Detecting ephemeral port exhaustion
  7. Physical memory overwhelmed PAL analysis - holy grail found!
  8. Should the paging file be moved from C: drive?
  9. PAL processing, processors, and threads
  10. PAL collector script – PalCollector.ps1
  11. How to create a threshold file for the PAL tool
  12. Page Frame Number (PFN) database

2012 2

  1. Memory combining in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
  2. Can a process be limited on how much physical memory it uses?

2011 4

  1. My IIS7 PowerShell Scripts
  2. How to Speak SAN-ish
  3. The Microsoft TechNet Wiki Performance Guide (PerfGuide)
  4. The PAL Tool on Memory Leaks

2010 5

  1. My Incredible Week at TechEd 2010
  2. PAL v2.0’s New Counter Generation Feature is Powerful
  3. Choose Your Own Adventure: User Mode Versus Privileged Mode Processor Usage
  4. Choose Your Own Adventure: Start Here
  5. W3C IIS Log Analysis using Log Parser

2009 10

  1. About the Author – Clint Huffman
  2. The Case of the Mysterious Black Box
  3. The Case of the Add-on Crashers
  4. The Case of the Relentless Cookie Monster
  5. The Case of the Phantom Hard Page Faults
  6. The Case of the High CPU Web Server
  7. The Case of the Out of Memory BizTalk Server
  8. Another Case of the Missing PTEs
  9. The Case of the Missing PTEs
  10. Starting my blog off again