Hello All,
I performed an SBS 2008 migration to Windows Server 2012 R2 (and added the Essentials Experience Role) back in February.
For the most part, everything went fine, however since then all users have consistently reporting their workstations have been "slow" since the migration.
Narrowing down "slow", after months of phone calls, troubleshooting, remote sessions, I'm noticing that the workstations themselves have become "slow". All workstations are clean (no one has administrative privs), and the only thing installed on most is Office, Symantec Endpoint AV, N-Able monitoring agent, and 2 IE plugins.
When checking these computers when they are "slow" I'm noticing that the page file has been in use in all of them. All computers have 4-12GB of RAM.
The only behavior through exhaustive troubleshooting I have noticed that has changed since the migration, is the Server Essentials health service, which starts/stops continuously. On all computers there's many (hundreds, possibly thousands) of event log entries per day of this service starting and stopping.
I've noticed that when the service does run, that it does usage quite a bit of CPU/RAM, and I believe I've narrowed it down to the Server Essentials health service that gets installed on to the workstations as part of the client installation package.
Keep in mind that this environment is spotless, and configured best practice. Prior to this all computers were 100% with no complaints (people would compliment how slick I had the environment running). Since the migration, there's been chatter with all users of the 12+ workstations that things have been horrible since the migration. I actually wasn't even notified of the issue since everyone though I was working on it and was aware of it.
No errors are logged with the health service, just numerous/many start and stops.
Anyone else experiencing this?