Recently I had cause to investigate performance and tuning of BizTalk Server 2004, and found that although there was some useful and interesting information available, there was usually little actual guidance on how to apply even the simplest settings to your specific solution/environment. When you take a look at the guidance available for tuning IIS, there are some reasonably simple steps that you can follow to get you started; for example you can make some simple changes to machine.config based ......
I was recently introduced to the PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool. This is a great tool that allows you to produce HTML reports based on the analysis of performance monitor counter logs. It applies complex thresholds based on those defined by Microsoft. The HTML reports produced include charts and very useful descriptions and links for important counters, they also contain various degrees of alerts for when thresholds are exceeded. These reports can be very useful aids when performance tuning ......