• Powershell and writing files (how fast can you write to a file? )

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Guillaume Bordier}
    Hi there, I’ve been working for some time on a tool similar to PAL from mike lagase in order to automate the analysis of loadgen runs. While doing this I had to write large files with PowerShell and was not impressed with the result. I thought I’d share...

  • Where did my disk space go ? [very long directory names, system directories, symbolink and other hard links ...], meet xdir.exe

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Guillaume Bordier}
    [EDIT : posted a statically linked version to remove dependency over VCRT 9.0] Hi geeks, The first thing I do when I receive a new Microsoft-issued laptop is : buy the largest hard disk I can find to replace the one that shipped with it. But...

  • Exchange Server 2007 rollups nightmares - automate the .config file modification

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by Guillaume Bordier}
    Most of you Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 admins or Loadgen users as have been confronted with the problem described here : (Exchange 2007 managed code services do not start after you install an update rollup for Exchange 2007). Those who read the...

  • Hyper-V and Windows 2008 on my laptop - how to deal with wireless networking

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by Guillaume Bordier}
    I received a few weeks ago my latest Microsoft laptop and as usual came the question of which OS to install it with. This time my focus was : go 64 bits and use our latest Windows Server OS, Windows Server 2008 which remarkably was getting out of the...

  • How to use a smartcard within a Virtual Machine

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by Guillaume Bordier}
    As you may know If you see Microsoft field people from time to time, we cannot stay unconnected from the Microsoft internal network (also known as CorpNet, so Big Brother of us huh?) for long. Our VPN is protected with a SmartCard using only Microsoft...