From time to time in my support job I come across customers having problems, sometimes strange ones, that turns out in the end to be due to anti-malware software of some kind or another. By its nature anti-malware software has to be quite invasive if...

I came across this great “portal article” (by which I mean it has links to resources on a particular topic) about Developer Tools & Platforms Performance It starts of with a short plug for Microsoft advisory services but then moves onto a long list...

One answer: Fiddler is pretty good for sniffing web traffic from any process (not just the browser). Also WCF now has some good tracing abilities . Traces can then be viewed using the Service Trace Viewer tool . There may be other answers, but I HTH....

The Microsoft UK Premier support blog has updated its list of blogs by UK individuals and teams working for Microsoft UK Premier support. You can find the list here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspremuk/archive/2010/09/24/premier-support-uk-existing-blogs...

A couple of years ago I was having trouble viewing an XPS document on Window Server 2008 . Today I hit the same issue again but this time on Windows Server 2008 R2. Previously in 2008 the XPS Viewer was listed as a sub feature of .NET Framework 3.0. In...

If you are having trouble installing updates, either a service pack or other update, on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 then the System Update Readiness Tool might help you out. You might even want to consider it...