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Performance Tuning Guidelines For Windows Server 2003

Tuesday, 24 January 2006 by Michel Roth

I don't know if I mentioned this document before. It's all about performance. It's relatively old by now (October 2003) but still good.

"For most customer workloads, Windows Server 2003 performs very well out of the box. However, you may want to tune certain server settings to obtain incremental performance gains, especially when the nature of a server workload will not vary much over time. This document describes important tuning parameters and settings that can result in improved performance. Each setting and its potential effect are described to help you make an informed judgment about its relevance to the system, workload, and performance goals."

The document covers:

Performance Tuning for Networking
Performance Tuning for Storage
Performance Tuning for IIS 6.0
Performance Tuning for File Servers
Performance Tuning for Active Directory
Benchmarking Web Workloads (WebBench)
Benchmarking File Server Workload (NetBench)
Benchmarking Active Directory Workload (DirectoryMark)
Benchmarking Networking Workloads (Ttcp, Chariot)

Download it here.