I stumbled across this great pdf, call it Microsoft Licensing for Dummies or whatever you want, but it has a great breakdown of how licensing should be undertaken to be fully legit.
Server & CAL Licensing
Enterprise CAL Suite
Core CAL Suite
Server Licensing
Licensing Exchange Server
It even has a stab at Sharepoint, but I think that this is better [...]
The guys over at PSS SQL Blog have written a short but really sweet article about how to really detect whether you have a bottleneck with SQL Server implementations.
It gives a few pointers of what to look for if you really start digging including:
PAGE I/O Waits (select * from sys.dm_os_wait_stats where wait_type like ‘%PAGEIO%’)
Virtual File [...]
Here’s an interesting little piece comparing Microsoft’s PowerShell to good old Bash.
It is as non-biased as I have seen these comparisons be and it does a good job of pointing out the major difference, PowerShell is object-oriented and Bash isn’t. I don’t think that this in itself is reason enough to consider one better [...]
A customer recently asked me how to increase the boot disk size of a Windows VM to increase the space available to WSUS.
I recommended using the WSUSutil command to move the data to a different drive rather than extend a boot drive.
Extending drives in ESX is very straightforward and it will work on a boot [...]
I found a bunch of great cmdlets that have now been bundled into the free Quest ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory package.
A blog at the Washington Post offers some little tidbits on how to make your websites more secure.
You can read the post here, bear in mind that it is totally IIS focussed, but pretty useful nonetheless.
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