We were seeing high CPU usage (98-99%) for MonitoringHost.exe on many servers with managed agents in SCOM R2 across a mix of platforms (Windows 2003, 2008, virtual, physical, SQL, 32-bit, 64-bit) which would grind the server to a holt and dramatically affect multiple VMs if the affected server is a Hyper-V host. Our short term [...]

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I’ve recently been doing some testing with Quality of Service (QoS) at the workstation level to see if we can get improvements with audio / video quality with Office Communicator 2007 R2. After making the registry change (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Microsoft\RTC\Transport\QoSEnabled) and starting the QoS RSVP service I did some testing. The video and audio quality on [...]

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