The Dirtiest of all ‘Dirty Jobs’: Data Warehousing Front Lines
Ok, so you probably already know that Mike Rowe never shot a ‘Dirty Jobs’ episode on data warehousing, but if…
A special thank you to those who helped to make the System Center 2012 Operations Manager Unleashed book what it is!
Some people say it takes a village to raise a child. I say it takes a globally dispersed village of…
PowerDelivery 2.0.8 adds integrated PowerShell help
Get it off chocolatey here. See the updated cmdlet reference wiki topic for details. This should make it easier to…
Weekly Exchange PowerShell Tip: Determine Moving Mailbox Statistics
Get Mailbox Move Statistics: Get-MoveRequest | Get-MoveRequestStatistics | ft displayname,*stat*,perc*,totalmailboxsize Only In Progress: Get-MoveRequest –MoveStatus…
Lync 2010 and 2013: Why RMS protected documents cannot be viewed in Lync Sharing session
What – RMS protected documents cannot be viewed in Lync Sharing? Correct, and this is by design per Microsoft: …
OpsMgr: Why did my SharePoint 2010 Task for 2007 or 2012 not work correctly?
This is a frequent question, “I ran the SharePoint task why did it fail? There could be a number of…
Powerdelivery 2.0.6 adds pretty 2012 summary page, delivery module API, and build asset cmdlets
I’ve just pushed out another update to powerdelivery. You can get it on chocolatey (‘cup powerdelivery’ if it was already…
Configuring Web Endpoint Monitoring in Azure (#Azure, #SCOM)
I received an email from a colleague of mine about new functionality available in Azure which they discussed at: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/03/04/windows-azure-updates-android-support-sql-reporting-services-active-directory-more.aspx.…
Working in VPN Land, or how I learned to use PowerShell to change Proxy Settings
If you are a consultant, then you learn to live with working in multiple client environments, and that often means…
The Cloud Process pack: Installation and high level configuration in a lab environment (#SCOM, #SCSM, #SCORCH, #SYSCTR)
As part of prep for an upcoming MMS session, I was spending some time assessing the current level of functionality…