A collection of scripts for making adjustments and improvements to Windows.
Identify possible issue (mitigate with that) and necessary improvements in the bat/ntfs.bat script.
You don't have all info, as author of that script is on vacation.
Someone converted configs into powershell and you need to locate bugs
and suggest needed enhancements for the powershell/ntfs.ps1 script.
The security and Windows team have provided you with a regedit file regedit/general_tweaks.reg to make enhancements for Windows Server 2022/2019.
Ensure that you backup your registry before applying this file.
Carefully review all parameters before applying the file and add at least 3-4 improvements.
Additionally, provide explanations for each enhancement.
Identify and explain any unnecessary parameters.
Your boss has asked you to assess the performance of Windows Server 2022/2019 because Grafana metrics indicate a significant increase in IO latency on the storage system. There are no new entries in your change logs, and no changes at the virtualization level except for VMware Tools updates.
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How to investigate the issue using a trace log (based on xperf). Hint: Measuring DPC ISR Time
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How to troubleshoot if vmtoolsd.exe is calling a function and the symbols hub is showing some errors. Hints: Check the configurations in the xperf folder and make a pull request adding +1 symbol server that allocates VMware Tools PDB.
Your colleague has asked you to validate policy from CIS Benchmarks for Windows Server 2022 for your production servers. You have to describe following details:
- Process of enrollment (dev-test-stage-preprod-prod)
- Policy validation procedure (perftest-sec-test-benchmark-test)
- Report generation (how it will be better to provide) or provide alternative solution.