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Jordan Krause
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Jordan Krause has been an IT professional for more than 20 years and has received 9 Microsoft MVP awards for his work with Microsoft server and networking technologies. One of the world's first experts on Microsoft DirectAccess, he has a passion for helping companies find the best ways to enable a remote workforce. Committed to continuous learning, Jordan holds certifications as an MCSE, MCSA, and MCITP Enterprise Administrator, and has authored numerous books on Microsoft technologies. Jordan lives in beautiful West Michigan (USA), but works daily with companies around the world.
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System Insights

We summarized System Insights in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Windows Server 2019, but we definitely want to revisit it here in our chapter on troubleshooting. This is because this tool gathers all the right parts and pieces to help us build a comprehensive story about what is going on with our servers, and to help predict critical points at which servers may run out of resources and need to be upgraded or expanded.

System Insights is all about predictive analytics. It is available on any Windows Server 2019 (you just need to enable it) and utilizes performance counters to monitor the system and record data. This data is stored on the local server, which is important because it means you do not have to go through a bunch of work and hoops to implement some kind of centralized database for retaining the data, nor do any cloud work to maintain these metrics. The information collected by System Insights is individual per server and is retained on each server for...

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Jordan Krause

Jordan Krause has been an IT professional for more than 20 years and has received 9 Microsoft MVP awards for his work with Microsoft server and networking technologies. One of the world's first experts on Microsoft DirectAccess, he has a passion for helping companies find the best ways to enable a remote workforce. Committed to continuous learning, Jordan holds certifications as an MCSE, MCSA, and MCITP Enterprise Administrator, and has authored numerous books on Microsoft technologies. Jordan lives in beautiful West Michigan (USA), but works daily with companies around the world.
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