Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Minilyzer Shell Script

Minilyzer uses the Microsoft "Debugging Tools for Windows" to analyze Mini and Full memory dump files that are created when a BSOD occurs and generates a report detailing the event. More info and download are here.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Troubleshooting IIS Performance and Application Errors using LogParser

Great document from my colleague Benjamin Perkins. Also be sure to visit his blog for IIS related troubleshooting.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Hyper-V for Developers

I tried several setups but at the end used these instructions for my VMs.
Many thanks to Ken Kilty.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Automatic memory dump option in Windows 8

This setting allows the system to reduce the pagefile size below the size of the RAM.
Before, the default dump type was "kernel" which sets a pagefile size to be "equal" to the size of RAM.
Now, if the dump type is set to "automatic", the initial size of the system-managed pagefile can be smaller than the size of RAM. Should a crash occur and the pagefile is large enough to contain a kernel dump, then a kernel dump will be written. Otherwise you'll get a minidump.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Training Crucial Conversations

If you start a conversation, always think this: what if we would switch boots?
(Thanks to Martin)

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Nirsoft BlueScreenView

 Handy if you just want to run a quick check:

Friday, October 14, 2011