March 2009 - Posts

Determining the Maximum Sizes of Kernel Memory Pools
26 March 09 07:23 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   

While onsite with customers, I have found several more cases where the Windows Server 2003 32-bit is running dangerously low on kernel memory. Here lately it has been a lack of pool paged memory. In any case, you can use my earlier blog posts to estimate Read More...

Filed under: memory, 32bit, kernel, analysis, performance, Windows

Helpful PowerShell One-Liners
23 March 09 10:16 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 1 Comments   

While doing a BizTalk Health check this week, the customer and I thought it would be cool to try to do as much as possible in an interactive PowerShell session to collect the data we needed. We created a lot of PowerShell one-liners and I thought I’d Read More...

Filed under: BizTalk, WMI, PowerShell

Microsoft BizTalk Server Explained in Simple Terms
18 March 09 05:52 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 2 Comments   

At TechEd 2008, I manned the Microsoft BizTalk Server booth. Nearly every question I got was, “I’ve heard of BizTalk, but what does it do?”. If you are like me 3 years ago which is sounds like many people are, I wish someone would have just came out and Read More...