Archive for March 7th, 2010

Getting disk offset information with Powershell

March 7, 2010

Disk partition alignment is important, let Lewan tell you why.  Powershell rocks!

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/archive/2010/03/01/getting-partition-offset-information-with-powershell.aspx

How to disable Speedscreen on XenDesktop

March 7, 2010

VMware Guest Console (VGC)

March 7, 2010

This looks like a great future product/tool for VMware environments.

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1445-Technology-Preview-VMware-Guest-Console-VGC.html

Citrix demo applications

March 7, 2010

New version of Exchange Server Profile Analyzer

March 7, 2010

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

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

March 7, 2010

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

PXE Booting VMware ESX 4.0

March 7, 2010

ICA SDK and .NET

March 7, 2010

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