July 13, 2010 | In: Project Management
It's morning, you are late for work, you grab your coffee and hop in the car to get on your way. You check the rear-view mirror to make sure nothing is behind you. You also check the side mirrors to make sure both sides are clear. You begin backing...
October 19, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Last time I looked at building onto our WMI automation script with processor creation. Today, I want to cover how to add memory resources into the script. Once again, I will take advantage of the existing patterns for creating this script. # Set up...
October 16, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Last time I covered automatic Hyper-V through WMI for virtual disks. Now, I want to cover how to automate the creation of processor resources. One thing you will notice is that the pattern used to create virtual disks through WMI will be very similar...
October 15, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
I have built my fair share of VMs using both Hyper-V Manager and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM), but as an engineer, I wanted a way to build multiple VMs without the repetitive clicking involved in doing so within the graphical tools. Fortunately,...
October 7, 2009 | In: VMWare
Not sure if this is a common issue or if I just hit a perfect storm with an ESX host and a Windows guest OS. Here is how it played out…… We had an application that checks the time and date stamps between its host server and the database server that it...
October 7, 2009 | In: Windows
Now that we are a couple of weeks away from the official retail launch date of Windows 7, I thought I would list out some of my favorite and most used keyboard shortcuts in this new operating system from Microsoft. For me, the most used are grouped into...
August 13, 2009 | In: Archiving, Compliance
Ran across this post on the Bow Tie Law Blog talking about some items from the Napster case and Fawn Hall (you know, Ollie North) along with some of their own thoughts around litigation hold and litigation hold letters. Very interesting read showing the...
August 12, 2009 | In: Exchange
As I was running a mailstorm against my Exchange 2007 virtual environment, I noticed that for some reason I had a few mailboxes that were missed in the random seeding that was happening. I didn’t really care that these were missed, since I already had...
August 6, 2009 | In: Technology, twitter
Check this post DDOS Attack Against Facebook, Twitter, Et Al. Was Because of One Guy's LiveJournal [DoS] from Gizmodo: According to a Facebook executive, the target of today's DDOS attacks on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, YouTube and other social media...
August 6, 2009 | In: Windows
The moment many of us geeky types have been waiting for. Windows 7 RTM and its' many versions showed up TechNet Plus subscriptions today. Still waiting for Windows Server 2008 R2 to show up, but in any case, I will be grabbing this tonight and upgrading...
July 28, 2009 | In: Software
A bit earlier today, I had been retweeting a number of articles and quotes on Twitter. An Eddie Izzard quote prompted a response from @TalonNYC. I will admit, on first look, the response seemed a bit non-sensical, because there was no context around...