Midnight Musings of a Technical TAM
Providing technical information and guidance for Microsoft customers
New Technical Blog
It's been several months since I moved out of the TAM role into my present role as Support...
Author: srachui Date: 09/03/2014
Final Blog Post...
For everyone who has been following this blog in past months and years (though I'm not sure it's...
Author: srachui Date: 10/24/2013
Useful Administrator Resource - Microsoft Reliability Workbooks
Today I learned about a resource available for administrators of many of Microsoft's most popular...
Author: srachui Date: 05/14/2013
Windows Server 2012 Self-Study Guide (The Fundamentals)
As I start this blog entry, it's been nearly 8 months since I created my last self-study guide. For...
Author: srachui Date: 04/06/2013
Microsoft Project 2010 Self-Study Guide
Though it's taken a while for me to get to it, as promised I am focusing this post on self-study...
Author: srachui Date: 07/24/2012
Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration Self-Study Guide
I had not initially planned on this being my next self-study guide, but a request from my someone on...
Author: srachui Date: 07/18/2012
System Center 2012 Self-Study Guide (Part 6 - Orchestrator and Service Manager)
In this post, we're turning to two more components of System Center 2012, Orchestrator and Service...
Author: srachui Date: 06/28/2012
System Center 2012 Self-Study Guide (Part 1 - System Center Overview)
I have received multiple requests for a study guide related to the newest versions of System Center...
Author: srachui Date: 06/06/2012
Windows PowerShell Self-Study Guide
This time, I've put together a list of resources for those interested in Microsoft's PowerShell...
Author: srachui Date: 06/04/2012
SharePoint 2010 Self-Study Guide
Recently, I started creating some self-study guides to help my customers who are interested in...
Author: srachui Date: 06/04/2012
GPOs and Slow Link Detection
Several months ago, one of my customers came to me with a concern. It seems that certain of his...
Author: srachui Date: 02/27/2012
Group Policy Basics - Part 3: How Clients Process GPOs
So now that we've investigated the structure of a GPO and looked at how clients know which GPOs to...
Author: srachui Date: 02/22/2012
Group Policy Basics - Part 2: Understanding Which GPOs to Apply
In the previous post, I talked about the structure of a GPO. Now, I'll turn to the question of what...
Author: srachui Date: 02/15/2012
Group Policy Basics - Part 1: Understanding the Structure of a Group Policy Object
As a Windows administrator, you almost certainly have used Group Policies to control the settings...
Author: srachui Date: 02/13/2012
Identifying Attributes That Are Members of the Partial Attribute Set in Active Directory
In my earlier post, I showed how to add an attribute to the Partial Attribute Set in Active...
Author: srachui Date: 02/10/2012
Global Catalogs and the Partial Attribute Set
Recently, while working with a customer who was trying to understand why a Global Catalog query...
Author: srachui Date: 02/10/2012