Top 3 Reasons to Always use Surrogate Keys in Data Warehousing
There are many things about data warehousing that are subjective. The use of surrogate keys is clearly not one…
Even the Navy SEALs can appreciate good requirements and user centered design!
Mark Thompson, of Time magazine, published an article today that made me smile. Sure it was partially due to good…
Weekly Exchange PowerShell Tip: Tracking Logs
QuickTricks: Using search while in an RDP session (#winserver)
I do a lot of my demonstrations for System Center using a lab environment that I run out of my…
Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 Service Pack 3 released
Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 Service Pack 3 was released very recently. Below is the Microsoft site to…
One does not simply upload a VM to Azure
Meme created by my co-worker Clay More. I would point you to his website/blog but he doesn’t have one. I…
Operations Manager and sudo – not found? (#SCOM, #UNIX)
During a recent Operations Manager Unix/Linux agent deployment we were experiencing failures when deploying the agent because sudo could not…
How to choose the freshest coffee
I’m at a hotel, it’s early, and while getting my morning coffee I took for granted some information I know…
QuickTricks: GSM and multiple management servers (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
When you install Global Service Monitor (GSM) you choose a resource pool which GSM will use. As part of the…