Most of you Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 admins or Loadgen users as have been confronted with the problem described here : (Exchange 2007 managed code services do not start after you install an update rollup for Exchange 2007). Those who read the...

Hi there, I’ve been working for some time on a tool similar to PAL from mike lagase in order to automate the analysis of loadgen runs. While doing this I had to write large files with PowerShell and was not impressed with the result. I thought I’d share...

[EDIT : posted a statically linked version to remove dependency over VCRT 9.0] Hi geeks, The first thing I do when I receive a new Microsoft-issued laptop is : buy the largest hard disk I can find to replace the one that shipped with it. But...

I received a few weeks ago my latest Microsoft laptop and as usual came the question of which OS to install it with. This time my focus was : go 64 bits and use our latest Windows Server OS, Windows Server 2008 which remarkably was getting out of the...

I've been a consultant for Microsoft France for more than 8 years and I deal with large Exchange and Windows deployments. I tought I'd share some though (probably mainly technical) in french and english. 14 years after the first blog I cannot be...

Premier post en français.. pour parler des techdays 2008 à Paris palais des congrès. Cet évènement extraordinaire fut un réel succès auprès des clients et partenaires de Microsoft France. Le niveau des sessions était souvent très bon et je vous conseille...

As you may know If you see Microsoft field people from time to time, we cannot stay unconnected from the Microsoft internal network (also known as CorpNet, so Big Brother of us huh?) for long. Our VPN is protected with a SmartCard using only Microsoft...

My previous post about Exchange 2007 SP1 RU5 at () explained why Exchange Services where so slow to start after RU5 was applied : .Net code checks for the Microsoft Certificate Revocation List at each startup. As explained in http://support.microsoft...

Hi there, Gil came up with a very clean way to activate bluetooth on Windows Server 2008 x64 . For all those like me who need Hyper-V AND bluetooth on their laptop, this is an excellent news. The two attached file may help you collect the files...

Quick update from my previous post about rollups. RU4 still has the same CRL check behavior and the script I published has been rolled out nicely at several customers. So even though it is obviously not supported  by Microsoft in any way, you may...

At his blog Scott Yost treated us with a very cool powershell script to create xml files reqiured to build a .cab and install root certificates on windows mobile. Since a customer just asked me for it, I thought I'll finish his script to allow several...

Today I had some spare time, and totally randomly stumbled across those two blogs The windows debugging team blog : http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/default.aspx The WMI http://blogs.msdn.com/wmi/default.aspx If you ever wondered if there...