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July 2009 - Posts

Experimenting with PowerShell v2

Powershell is a command line interface for Windows that offers a very powerful and flexible model. It is now a feature included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, not an optional download as before. In this post, I show some sample commands that Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 25, 2009 12:30 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

Changes in Roles, Role Services and Features from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2

Introduction This blog post covers the changes in the list of Roles, Role Services and Features from Windows Server 2008 (with Service Pack 2) to Windows Server 2008 R2 (used the latest RC build available to me). To create the tables and lists below, Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 18, 2009 7:55 PM by josebda | 1 Comments

Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 09) provides a snapshot of what Microsoft is up to (keynotes available for review)

Earlier this week Microsoft hosted the 2009 edition of the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2009) in New Orleans. Thousands of partners joined to understand where Microsoft is going and how they can work together with Microsoft. The keynotes were streamed Read More...
Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 6:53 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

Five ways to check your DFS-Namespaces (DFS-N) configuration with the DFSDIAG.EXE tool

Introduction The Distributed File System Namespaces (DFS-N) service is a role service of the File Service role for Windows Server. For a basic description of DFS-N, start with http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2009/03/10/the-basics-of-the-windows-server-2008-distributed-file-system-dfs.aspx Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:59 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

Micro-blogging on Twitter: a few thoughts and tips

As I posted a few days ago , I’m now micro-blogging on twitter as well as regular-blogging here. One week or so into the experience, I can tell you that it looks a lot different from inside :-) Angles First of all, there are many angles on micro-blogging. Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:56 PM by josebda | 1 Comments
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Proud to be a Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Earlier this year (or last fiscal year :-), I participated in a grueling three-week training and passed four exams (one of them a lab exam) to become one of just a dozen Microsoft Certified Masters on SQL Server 2008 worldwide. This was certainly the Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 11, 2009 7:07 AM by josebda | 0 Comments
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File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) Release Candidate available for download

The File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) is a capacity planning software for CIFS/SMB/SMB2 file servers. It’s also useful for identifying performance bottlenecks. FSCT results include the maximum number of users for a file server configuration, throughput Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:11 AM by josebda | 0 Comments
 
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