October 2, 2008 — It seems that the day of entering everything via DOS commands have come full circle as larger enterprise environments take advantage of high availability technologies like Windows Failover Clustering. I was setting up a test environment today which consisted of eight nodes in a Windows 2008 Server Environment. The days of using the GUI and…

September 29, 2008 — Interesting quote from Steve Ballmer on virtualization that he gave during his September 25 Churchill Club speech: “If you want virtualization on 80 percent of servers instead of 5 percent of servers, you better not charge three times as much as the price of the server for the virtualization,” Ballmer said. “For certain high-end applications,…

August 2, 2008 — There are situations where you may want to generate a number of test mailboxes whether it be for a demo or another scenario.  With Exchange 2007, you can leverage Powershell cmdlets to complete this process for you in just seconds. First, I start out with the a CSV file that contains a limited number of…

June 30, 2008 — Every once in a while I run into a case where my Windows performance counters go a little whacky.  That is, when I am in Performance Monitor, my objects and their respective counters display text are replaced with a 3-4 integer description instead.  I have no idea how this happens, but this tends to break…

May 2, 2008 — I spent the last week in Las Vegas at Microsoft Management Summit 2008.  MMS is a conference that focuses on the technologies that Microsoft offers to manage infrastructure like desktops, servers and beyond. I hadn’t realized how much the technologies had changed in the last several years.  When I was still working for Microsoft I…