Windows Storage Team. Sign in Windows Storage Team Windows Storage and Filesystems Options Search Blogs Tags Archive Archives MSDN Blogs > Windows Storage Team Posts Subscribe via RSS Sort by: Most Recent | Most Views | Most Comments Excerpt View | Full Post View Windows Storage Team Two new modules related to Storage Spaces for Windows PowerShell Posted over 2 years ago by Bruce Langworthy - MSFT 0 Comments Hello, I’ve just posted two new modules for Windows PowerShell that I wrote which are designed to help with the management and diagnosis of Storage Spaces.
Page 1 of 3 (54 items) 123. All Attributes. Screen freezes at Login. Assessing Like A Microsoft Technician. I have been doing more and more site assessments for Active Directory, Exchange, Lync, and VMware. As such, I’ve been slowly refining the toolset that I use to gather data and troubleshoot existing environment issues. Here is a list of site assessment tools I’m finding that I regularly return to for rapid analysis or information gathering at a site.
All of these tools are free. I should probably state that if you don’t know the concepts and best practices around a technology then any tool used on it loses much of its purpose. After all, a hammer in the hands of a skilled carpenter may be used to build a house whereas that same hammer in the hands of a baboon may be used bust open a skull. Windows Environment Utilities Active Directory Risk And Health Assessment (ADRAP) – Scoping Tool This scoping tool is used by Microsoft engineers prior to having a live engineer assess an environment. Download ADRAP – Scoping Tool Here MS Product Support Reports (MPS) Some of interest to you might be: IT Operations. Generate Exchange Environment Reports using Powershell. Update 16th September – V1.6.1 – Exchange 2016 support and various bug fixes (see here for more information) Update 2nd February – V1.5.8 – Exchange 2013 CU and SP support, HTTPS and CAS array names shown, initial Office 365 Hybrid support (see here for more information) Update 19th January – V1.5.6 – Exchange 2013 support and bug fixes (see here for more information) Update 17th August – V1.5.4 – New features and bug fixes (see here for more information) Update 24th July – V1.5.3 – Bug fixes (see here for more information) Update 21th July – V1.5 – Re-write with new features including Exchange 2003 support for mixed environments and more detailed information (see here for more information) Update 21th June – V1.1 – Bug fixes, Exchange 2007-only support in addition to 2010/2010+2007, and new features.
As an Exchange administrator, there’s times when it’s useful to have a visual, straightforward and concise document that gives you a good overview of your environment. . . OpsVault — Operate and Optimize IT.
TechNet. CA Service Desk Manager. BackTrack 5. Disk Partition Alignment (Sector Alignment) for SQL Server: Part 4: Essentials (Cheat Sheet) - Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek: SQL Server Performance, Best Practices, & Productivity. The purpose of this post is to document Disk Partition Alignment Essentials. It is intended for engineers who are already familiar with disk partition alignment yet want a “cheat sheet”. As most of you know, partition alignment is an essential best practice. We are seeing I/O enhancements in the lab & at important real-life customer sites of 25% - 40% measured by a variety of metrics. Your mileage may vary. It will be sometime before Windows Server 2008 is ubiquitous & existing partitions are re-built.
In the meantime, disk partition alignment will remain a relevant technology Disk Partition Alignment is an essential foundation of high I/O performance. Additional details are available in a previous post: Disk Partition Alignment (Sector Alignment) for SQL Server: Part 1: Slide Deck In addition, stay tuned for the white paper sponsored by SQL CAT at www.sqlcat.com.
Attached Document etc... Using ADSI Edit to Resolve Conflicting or Duplicate AD Integrated DNS zones - Ace Fekay's Active Directory, Exchange and Windows Infrastructure Services Blog. Using ADSI Edit to Resolve Conflicting or Duplicate AD Integrated DNS zones Ace Fekay, MCT, MVP, MCITP EA, Exchange 2010 Enterprise Administrator, MCTS Windows 2008, Exchange 2010 & Exchange 2007, MCSE 2003/2000, MCSA Messaging 2003Microsoft Certified TrainerMicrosoft MVP: Directory ServicesActive Directory, Exchange and Windows Infrastructure Engineer First published 3/2006. Article recompiled/updated on 6/10/2010 and 12/9/2010 to clear up any ambiguities regarding the procedure.--- Preface and Scope Of this Article You may have a duplicate zone if a zone either exists in both the Domain NC and one of the Application Partitions, if you get an unusal error message stating, "The name limit for the local computer network adapter card was exceeded," or you've installed DNS on another DC and manually created the AD zone and didn't wait for it to automatically populate.
Zones or DNS data disappearing? Here's another symptom of a Duplicate Zone in the AD database: AD Integrated Zones Explained.