My study resources for the next 12 months 🙂
Month: January 2010
CCIE study schedule
One thing which always motivates me is reading other people’s success stories. I have quite a few CCIE’s on my twitter friends list because it always amazes me of the amount of time and effort that goes into achieving this certification. I will never do it my self as I have never logged onto a …
Microsoft have given me £950,000!!
I feel really lucky at the moment!!! Microsoft are awarding me £950k!! How lucky am i!! Microsoft Promotion Award Team Prof. Minerva McGonagall Stamford New Road, Altrincham Cheshire WA14 1EP London. United Kingdom. MICROSOFT WINNING NOTIFICATION. It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read …
Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2
Grab it here: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/Perf_tun_srv-R2.mspx This guide describes important tuning parameters and settings that you can adjust to improve the performance of the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. This guide describes each setting and its potential effect to help you make an informed decision about its relevance to your system, workload, and performance goals. This …
NetApp Storage Documents
Some good documents to download from netapp: NetApp Storage Best Practices For Microsoft Virtualization NetApp Implementation Guide For Microsoft Virtualization NetApp Solution Guide: Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Server Mixed Workload on Microsoft Hyper-V and NetApp Fabric MetroCluster
Configuring a postmaster Mailbox in Exchange 2007
By default, an exchange 2007 installation does not contain a postmaster mailbox which catches all NDR’s. You have to create the mailbox manually and then configure it. This has to be done on every hub transport server in your organisation. Step 1 is to create the postmaster mailbox. This only has to be done once: …
End a process in powershell
I recently encountered a problem where i wanted to end multiple processes that were running. In my quest to learn powershell I had a look to see if could do it via this method. It was a simple one line cmdlet: stop-process -name iexplore Simples! NAME Stop-Process SYNOPSIS Stops one or more running …
Free Windows 7 Deployment Guide
This deployment guide goes through the steps from migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=dfafb346-97dd-4fca-947e-3d9149834da6
Second Shot is back!
Second Shot is back which gives you the opportunity to take an exam again for free if you fail it the first time. More info here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/offers/Career.aspx#certification Offer details: Dates: January 13, 2010 – June 30, 2010. Details: You must register, obtain a voucher code, schedule, pay, and take the first and (if necessary) the …
Making of Avatar
Intrestng article about the data center used to make Avatar (yes you heard it, a whole data center!! http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/346361/Data_Center_Plays_Supporting_Role_in_i_Avatar_i_?taxonomyId=154 Couple of facts: Each minute of Avatar represents 17.28GB of data There are 34 racks containing more than 4,000 Hewlett-Packard blade servers The computing core includes about 35,000 processors and 104TB of RAM No wonder it …