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SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation November CTP available for MSDN/TechNet Subscribers

Great news following a very busy week for SQL Server with the PASS Community Summit: The new SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP is now available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers.This download is expected to be available as a general download in a couple Read More...
Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 10:07 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

Mistakes when configuring your Hyper-V environment

I came across some interesting tips on things to consider in a virtualized environment by Greg Shields (Consultant and Microsoft MVP). They are non-issues (or settled issues) on physical environments and you might overlook them when making the transition Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:02 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

Scary SQL Server stuff: tombstones, phantoms, blobs, ghosts and zombies

This post mixes the spirit of Halloween and the passion for SQL Server :-) Have you noticed how SQL Server has a number of things that seem right out of a horror movie? As a test of your SQL Server expertise and for a fun Halloween trivia game, try to Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 3:10 PM by josebda | 0 Comments
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Implementing an End-User Data Centralization Solution with Folder Redirection and Offlines Files

There's a new 77-page white paper covering the use of Folder Redirection and Offline Files in a very practical way. Here's an excerpt: "The objective of this white paper is to show through a case study how to use different Microsoft products and technologies Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 10:00 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

SharePoint 2010 beta in November. Details and documentation right now!

Jeff Teper (Corporate Vice President, SharePoint Server) and Steve Ballmer (CEO) shared SharePoint Server 2010 feature details and announced the November beta during the SharePoint Conference today in Las Vegas. Jeff also posted a long and revealing blog, Read More...
Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 10:28 PM by josebda | 0 Comments
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File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 available for download

Version 1.0 of the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) was announced yesterday during a presentation by Jian Yan and Bartosz Nyczkowski at SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA. The presentation covered a number of details about FSCT and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:57 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

TI-55-II calculator, the first device I ever programmed

I recently bought a used TI-55-II on eBay. This is an old (early 80’s) Texas Instruments calculator, one the first programmable ones. I got it mostly for sentimental value, since I used to own one back in Brazil in 1983, my last year in high school. Looking Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 29, 2009 7:50 PM by josebda | 0 Comments
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Windows Server DFS-Namespaces Performance and Scalability

The DFS-N test team has completed some extensive Performance and Scalability testing and we wanted to share some of the results. It includes results on standalone namespaces, "2000 mode" domain namespaces and "2008 mode" domain namespaces, under Windows Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 22, 2009 11:45 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

Three ways to design your DFS Namespaces

Introduction In this blog post, we’ll showcase the flexibility you have with DFS-N by showing three distinct ways that you could design a namespace. Note: If you’re not familiar with DFS-N, please read this blog post first: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2009/03/10/the-basics-of-the-windows-server-2008-distributed-file-system-dfs.aspx Read More...
Posted Friday, August 21, 2009 4:00 PM by josebda | 1 Comments

Experimenting with PowerShell Cmdlets, Snap-ins and Modules

As I continue to experiment with PowerShell v2 in Windows Server 2008 R2, I will share some of what I learn here on the blog. This time I am focusing on Cmdlets, Snap-ins and Modules. Cmdlets Windows PowerShell introduced the notion of a “cmdlet” (you Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 09, 2009 10:12 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2009 in Santa Clara, CA is coming – Plan to be there on the week of September 14th

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is hosting the 6th Storage Developer Conference (SDC) in the Hyatt Regency in beautiful Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) on the week of September 14th. This event is also co-located with the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 08, 2009 10:04 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

The good old days of CP/M 2.2 on a TRS-80 with an 8-bit Z80 CPU

I was reading the news on the release of Windows 7 and stopped to think of the early days of my IT career and what an OS looked like then. I thought way back to one of the first microcomputer disk operating systems I ever used: CP/M. I actually remembered Read More...
Posted Friday, August 07, 2009 10:00 PM by josebda | 0 Comments
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Strings, Arrays and Functions in PowerShell v2 (and some sample code that speaks for itself :-)

I spent some more time experimenting with PowerShell v2 and here goes my second post about it. This time around I am focusing on how to define variables, use expressions and create functions. The "problem" we're solving :-) To make it fun, I decided to Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 02, 2009 8:30 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

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
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