Once again, I'm here at TechED. This is a great opportunity to learn about the latest and greatest Microsoft technologies. You can also collaborate with peers, and talk with a wide range of vendors. I'll be posting some notes from various sessions that I'm attending. The notes will likely not...
So today I received a request for assistance from another project on a very peculiar problem their system was experiencing. They were deploying a new version of their system and the 'go live' date was fast approaching. Their thin client architecture relies on a Citrix server and during some final...
For eveyone that has been waiting for some juicy technical details on the Cisco Nexus 1000v, Cisco and VMware have broken the silence and published a document describing many of the new features. It consists mostly of a table comparing the various features that the built-in VMswitch has verus the...
Microsoft has released rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 SP1. To read all of the fixes in this rollup, see this link. As always, Microsoft recommends you update your systems to the latest RU, after thorough lab testing.
According to this article at Extremtech, ATI will release updated video drivers for Vista and Windows 7 on a monthly basis. To download the new drivers go to this link. New drivers were released today, and I'm downloading them as I type this.
Check out this article for a very scary flaw in current Intel CPUs which could render an exploit virtually impossible to detect. The exploit was discovered by the same researchers that developed the Blue Pill hypervisor rootkit.Hopefully Intel and motherboard manufacturers can release firmware updates to patch this bug.
1. Snaphotsa. What is the maximum number of read-only and read-write snapshots per LUN?b. Is a separate pool (reserve) of disk space required for snapshot use?c. Are snapshots space efficient?d. If a LUN has 10 read/write snapshots, and if the source LUN is modified, are 10 copies of that data...
The project I'm supporting is looking at 'mid range' enterprise Fibre Channel storage arrays. As part of the investigation, I perform market surveys of leading vendors. After we narrow down the field, I submit a long list of technical questions. While vendor's web sites make their array sound like the...
I'm working on a server consolidation and technology refresh project which is pretty exciting. We are taking dozens of legacy rack mount servers and consolidating them into blade servers using VMware ESX server. Features like VMmotion and site recovery manager will likely make it into the architecture as well.This week...
I've been truly enjoying Windows 7 for past several weeks, and think it kicks Vista's butt. However, for some reason IE8 was slow on Windows 7, so much so I was pulling out my hair. By slow I mean 30 - 90 seconds for a new tab to appear. I disabled...
As much as the next person I don't like seeing ads displayed while I'm web browsing and try to minimize the amount of ad tracking cookies. Ads can also be a source of malware, so it makes sense to block them from a security standpoint.With the exception of a few...
One very promising feature of Windows 7 when paired with Windows Server 2008 R2 servers is DirectAccess. DirectAccess uses IPsec and IPv6 to allow remote computers to securely, and without using a VPN, to access corporate resources. It also allows you to deploy and maintain group policies, and remotely manage...