Mark at AskPFEPlat announced the release of a new slow-boot-slow-login (SBSL) hotfix rollup particularly useful for corporate Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 customers:
Hey y’all, Mark here with some great news. A massive Slow Boot Slow Login (SBSL) hotfix rollup for enterprises that includes 90 post Windows 7/2008 R2 hotfixes is available for download. The hotfixes focus on performance (Hooray!) and stability (Hooray again!). There are improvements to the DFSN client, Folder Redirection, Offline Files and Folders, WMI, and SMB client to name a few. There also improvements to Group Policy which gets blamed for pretty much everything when I’m doing a WDRAP. You can read the full list of improvements here.
Also, he’s got a cool tip for IT Pros to really demonstrate their value on this one!
Second, use Xperf to baseline before and after the update is applied. We’ve been talking about Xperf forever here. Use this as an opportunity to really be the hero. Show the improvement that can affect EVERYONE in the enterprise daily. Multiply that by how many work days there are and that is a nice thing to hang your hat on. Not a bad day at the office.
Great idea – take a baseline, measure the improvement. Awesome.
The full post is here.
Posted by Tristan Kington, MSPFE “Editor”