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Interesting Performance Monitoring Tool - Download on microsoft.com

Posted Friday, February 04, 2005 4:40 PM by btrst4
I recently found a tool that can help do performance analysis on servers in your environment. This tool gathers the data from the Performance Monitor and does some level of analysis to help diagnose issues. It is especially good at IIS 6.0 and Active Read More...
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Consulting from home...

Posted Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:29 AM by btrst4
I have posted on this Blog recently about life in MCS. This probably holds true for consulting engagements in general. Setting a comfortable travel schedule is really important when you are on the road all the time. On the other hand, this travel schedule Read More...
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Information about my current MIIS/Exchange project

Posted Friday, October 22, 2004 10:59 AM by btrst4
My current project is using MIIS to assist with an Exchange Resource Forest. The company has decided to run Exchange in the headquarters and each sub-Company would maintain their own Active Directory for login and security. The Exchange forest has placeholder Read More...
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What it is like to work for MCS...

Posted Saturday, October 16, 2004 4:41 PM by btrst4
I got a question asking what it is like to work for Microsoft Consulting Services. This may very well be one of my friends messing with me, but regardless, I thought it might be worth telling some stories now and then. The particular question was about Read More...
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AD uses different attirbute names from what shows up in ADUC

Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:20 PM by btrst4
For the non-LDAP people, this cause quite a bit of confusion. First name is "givenName" and Last name is "sn." Street in ADUC is "streetAddress" in AD (of course, there is also a 'street' attribute to add to the confusion!). There is a page on MSDN that Read More...
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Just update the schema and quit worrying about it!!!

Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:12 PM by btrst4
I am a little sick and tired about hearing that people are tentative about modifying the Active Directory schema! Maybe this is Microsoft's fault since we put so many warnings up about doing this. I say modify it like crazy. In fact, I think we should Read More...
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Sorry, but I have been busy

Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:08 PM by btrst4
What ends up happening is that I start a new project and get horribly busy and have no time to post. I ended up making a bunch of notes of good things to post, so I have a little backlog of things. Expect a bunch here over the next couple days. Read More...
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Using the jpegPhoto attribute in AD - Part II

Posted Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:21 AM by btrst4
The previous post ( http://weblogs.asp.net/btrst4/archive/2004/08/30/222629.aspx ) on this topic showed you how to import picture data into AD. This post shows you how to retieve the data and write it back out to a file. It might be more realistic to Read More...
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If you exporting to AD/Exchange with MIIS, you might need to disable the RUS

Posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 1:41 PM by btrst4
I was working on a project recently and the Exchange 2003 Recipient Update Service (RUS) was adding X.400 addresses and other junk to my mail enabled users. I was basically mail enabling a bunch of users in AD to synchronize the GAL with another email Read More...
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Oh mighty Scriptomatic!!!

Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:12 PM by btrst4
I guess I can write WMI scripts if I have to, but it sure is nice to find samples to do the work. I guess I thought most people were aware (and lived by) the Scriptomatic Utility. I have had a few questions about WMI lately and this excellent utility Read More...
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Cool Performance Monitor tools

Posted Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:31 AM by btrst4
If you have ever used Windows Performance Monitor and had trouble changing the time period for really big perf log files, there is a helpful tool for you. I have often driven myself crazy trying to squeeze that time window down to the hour I want and Read More...
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Changing Exchange server OU's

Posted Monday, June 28, 2004 1:38 PM by btrst4
If you change the OU membership of your Exchange 2000 servers, you may run into a common issue. This issue might be benign, but the events in the event log certainly are disconcerting. The article ( 271335 ) explains in detail. After you move Exchange Read More...
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