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 …
Retrieve a list of all powershell cmdlets
If you want a list of all powershell cmdlets run this command. I have exported it to a text file 🙂 Get-Command | Format-List
Powershell alias
CommandType Name Definition ———– —- ———- Alias % ForEach-Object Alias ? Where-Object Alias ac Add-Content Alias asnp Add-PSSnapIn Alias cat Get-Content Alias cd Set-Location Alias chdir Set-Location Alias clc Clear-Content Alias clear Clear-Host Alias clhy Clear-History Alias cli Clear-Item Alias clp Clear-ItemProperty Alias cls Clear-Host Alias clv Clear-Variable Alias compare Compare-Object Alias copy Copy-Item Alias …
Managing Exchange Administrators with Powershell
To view Exchange Administrators with powershell we can use the get-exchangeadministrator commandlet. This will tell me the current exchange administrator groups in the domain. Example below is: [PS] C:\Windows\system32>get-exchangeadministrator | format-list Identity : EXCHANGELAB.LOCAL/Users/Administrator Scope : Organization wide Role : OrgAdmin Identity : EXCHANGELAB.LOCAL/Microsoft Exchange Security Groups/Exchange Organi zation Administrators Scope : Organization wide …