Getting disk offset information with Powershell

Use the Microsoft Exchange Server Profile Analyzer tool to collect estimated statistical information from a single mailbox store or across an Exchange Server organization. The collected data can be used for such tasks as analyzing the performance and health of a server that has mailboxes, improving capacity planning models, and improving testing methodologies and tools.

32 bit – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8F575F60-BD80-44AA-858B-A1F721108FAD&displaylang=en

64 bit – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C009C049-9F4C-4519-A389-69C281B2ABDA&displaylang=en

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Exchange 2010 reduces disk IO even further, here’s how

March 7, 2010 by danbrinkmann

If you weren’t aware Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 saw a significant reduction in the amount of disk IO…well Exchange 2010 reduces that disk IO even further and here’s how.

http://blogs.technet.com/bobh/archive/2010/03/02/save-a-fortune-on-storage-with-exchange-2010.aspx

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PXE Booting VMware ESX 4.0

March 7, 2010 by danbrinkmann

Very cool stuff here for automating the deployment of ESX.

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2010/03/02/pxe-booting-vmware-esx-40/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slowe%2Fcontent%2Ffeed+%28blog.scottlowe.org+Content+Feed%29

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ICA SDK and .NET

March 7, 2010 by danbrinkmann

If you’re a developer and interested in Citrix maybe this article has some information for you. I’d be curious if anyone has any needs that they think aren’t being addressed by the Citrix product suite and how this might help them overcome that…drop me a note if you are seriously looking at building your own app against the SDK.

http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2010/03/02/Fun+with+the+ICA+Client+Object+(ICO)+and+.Net+Console+Applications

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Choosing a thin client OS for XenDesktop

March 6, 2010 by danbrinkmann

Feature	Windows XPe	Linux	Wyse ThinOS with TCX	Comments
Flash Redirection	Yes	No	No	Wyse ThinOS with TCX supports flash acceleration which is not as desirable as flash redirection.
Multimedia Redirection	Yes	Yes	Yes	All clients support multimedia redirection for video codecs such as wmv, mpeg and avi.
USB Remoting	Yes	Yes	Yes	All clients support isochronous USB remoting such as Webcams and offer USB PDA sycronization. Wyse ThinOS utilizes the TCX software.
VOIP – Optimized Speech codec	Yes	Yes	No	XPe and Linux client support the new Citrix speech codec. Wyse ThinOS uses TCX Rich Sound which is less desirable.
WAN – Branch Repeater Client	Yes	No	No	Only XPe clients support the Branch Repeater Client, but the Linux client supports HDX IntelliCache WAN Optimization. Wyse has a Virtual Desktop Accelerator for software WAN acceleration.
HDX 3D Graphics	Yes	Yes	No	The Linux client does not support decoding of GPU-compressed data streams.