No there are some registry tweaks. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132 From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2008 as a fileserver Tune=restart nightly? :-) On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com>> wrote: All that said if you're stuck with these things we can take a shot at tuning the box some. X64 is another option that will help drastically. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> c - 312.731.3132 From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com>] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver This is an expressly unsupported scenario and is one of the first things I look at when I'm dealing with a file server perf issue. Here is an overview slide on this exact topic from a talk I am doing next week. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian -----Original Message----- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com<mailto:andyognen...@gmail.com>] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver Do the XP machines work until Outlook is opened? Some notes from MS about PSTs on network shares not being supported: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019 "All operations take longer." "Write operations can take approximately four times longer than read operations." - Andy O. ________________________________________ From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com<mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com>] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver Most people have psts on their home drives on the fileserver, (please don't blame me I hate PSTs), the XP machines will slow down to a crawl. Word docs, etc won't save, drives are disconnected and machines will freeze. Vista however still running. I'll have to reboot the server to cure the problem. Everyone is OK then something happens(Unknown) and it all happens again. This is the 3rd time it has happened. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com>] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2008 as a fileserver So can you elaborate on what slow performance means? When, where, what, etc... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com<mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com>] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 as a fileserver I have loaded a server with 2008 STD 32bit with file services and it seems that the xp/2003 machines have slow performance connecting or reading drives. I have checked the taskmgr and cpu is low 1-10% and memory low (4gb installed and 700mg - 950 mg used). Virus protection loaded (Symantec in a non-cache mode). A few of the domain admins have vista but we have no problems, so I don't know if it is because we a admins or because we have vista. I do have an xp machine next to me that doesn't experience problems, but I only use it to run other admin tools that don't run on vista (phone system etc.) Anyone have an idea what might be wrong? Or is 2008 as big a P.I.T.A. as vista is? Luke L. Brumbaugh Network Engineer Butler Animal Health Supply Ph:(614) 659-1736 ********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Animal Health Supply ********************************************************************** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
