Well I haven't really posted in a while but I have good reasons, sort of. March went by quickly as I had to finish up an MBA class and moved apartments across the city of Chicago. April I really don’t know what happened but I’ve been working on...

I was doing a WDRAP and I ran across an interesting case that required me to do some digging that I thought I’d share this out in one source. When we took an xbootmgr trace which we do with all our WDRAPs we saw broken readyboot that was identical...

In my last post I described a little bit about ReadyBoot and when looking at a xbootmgr trace what to look for when viewing the ReadyBoot data. I also described one method on how to fix it if there are no cache hits. So great, you fixed the one machine...

The more I work with the xperf/xbootmgr the better I get with it. I still feel like I have a lot to learn though. I wrote a previous post, http://blogs.technet.com/b/markmoro/archive/2011/08/20/dipping-my-toe-into-the-xbootmgr-water.aspx , about troubleshooting...

Hello from Austin/Dillion! Here is a quick post. A question I get semi frequently is "how do I stay up to date on the latest hotfixes for 'insert product name' ?" Great question. The best way I can think to do it is through RSS. Here is a listing...

A few months back I thought I was going to write a blog post about how to look for RID Pool depletion in environments. Then I got side tracked with something (probably finding out why Mad Men isn't on yet) and Ned Pyle wrote an awesome post that would...

Hello from Chattanooga, Where my luggage got here a full day later then me. I'm here to deliver an Active Directory Risk Assessment Program or an ADRAP which does an exhaustive check of the health/risk of Active Directory. If you've never had one I...

Greetings from the mothership aka rainy Seattle, I spent this past week in Windows Desktop Risk Assesment Program (WDRAP) training which was actually pretty fantastic. If you are a Premier customer talk to your TAM about getting one scheduled. A...

I had this discussion with a fellow PFE David Gregory , who use to be out of Chicago but now has moved to a better place (read Southern California), at a Polo Loco in Compton, CA. The same one 2Pac rapped about, you know the one I'm talking about. This...

Bet you thought there would be no post for July didn't you. Well I threw this one together right quick. I had a fellow TAM ask me that quesion the other day. They had a customer that wanted to run a Microsoft application in Hyper-V. They had no...

Hello from Chicago, I am actually at home here in Chicago here for a hot minute while I'm on critsit duty. I look forward to getting a call tonight while I'm at my good friend Dave Hazekamp's house watching the Bulls playoff game. Lately I've been...

Hello from Toronto, Here is a quick post. What are the ports that are needed by AD? How can you verify they are open from a client? How can you test this? Port Query! This will run through all the pre-defined AD ports and verify the client...

Greetings from Anchorage! In a former life I use to be a systems engineer just like you. One of my responsiblities was our print environment. One of the final things I had to do before I left was to migrate all the end users printers to the new printer...

Greetings from Charlotte, Last day of the month so you know what that means...I should probably write a blog post so I can say I've done at minimum one a month. I've been working with a few customers on various aspects of Group Policy. One thing that...

When I first started this blog I thought I'd be blogging all the time. Then life got in the way. Flights to both coasts, what seems like only two outlets in every terminal in O'Hare, and an MBA class later, it's been a month before I sat down to write...

Hey Everyone, Sorry for the delay in posts. I was traveling a bit and not prepared to write a post from the road (aka I forgot my lab's IP address/I was out of ideas.) Then the Holidays hit and you know how that goes. Alright on to the fun stuff...

Hey Everyone, I figured it's probably a pretty good idea to be able to boot into a few test VMs off my laptop if I was to ever get stuck at an airport for a long period of time without a good Internet connection (4 Hrs layover in SFO Feb 2011, it...

Hey Everyone, Has anyone worked with anyone that always liked the last version of whatever product better? A good friend and former colleague of mine sometimes fell into that category. And by sometimes I mean all the time. One of his complaints...

Hey Everyone, I'm a Premier Field Engineer or PFE here at Microsoft focusing on Platforms(Active Directory, etc) out of the central region. Anyways life before I was a blue badge, about a whole month ago, one of the things I really valued was finding...