Perfmon in Server 2008

Kicking the tires with Perfmon in Server 2008 By Rick Vanover, Special to ZDNet Asia Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:35 PM   Over the years, there have been few changes in how we measure Windows performance. Windows Server 2008 introduces a new key feature in the Perfmon tool. No matter what the screen's title bar has labeled through the years, Perfmon is one of the most important tools a Windows administrator can have at their disposal. Windows Server 2008 brings new features to the table, while still providing the same counter functionality you are accustomed to using for troubleshooting and administering Windows servers. Here is a list of some of the key new functionality of the Windows Reliability And Performance Monitor (I'm still going to call it Perfmon) in Windows Server 2008. Data Collector Set: This is a template of sorts of collector elements that you can frequently reuse. This makes it easy to compare the same collectors over different timeframes. Reports: Perfmon now offers reports that provide graphic representations of a collector set's captured information. This gives you a quick snapshot so you can compare system performance as recorded in the timeframe and with the selected counters. Read more » Recent Windows Server TechGuides   Classic Windows NT tip: Dump Registry to text files for tracking Figuring out what changes occur to the Windows registry is difficult. This tip shows how you can do so in Windows NT by exporting to text files. It worked in 1999, and still works today. Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:50 AM Find more stories in::  Microsoft Server 2003 Key features in Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft plans to release an R2 edition of Windows Server 2008 in 2009 or 2010. Here are the key features of the R2 release that you need to know. Tuesday, December 02, 2008 03:24 PM Find more stories in::  Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Virtualization Batch scripting of Windows host file changes DNS is the manageable way to resolve computer names to IP addresses, yet Windows admins usually use host files. When you need to make a change to a bunch of host entries, where do you start? Tuesday, November 25, 2008 03:08 PM Find more stories in::  LANs and WANs, Microsoft Windows

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