Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server Licensing For Dummies (2008-6-27)

I’ve been on a bit of a mission of late to find articles that make the sometimes complex seem more simple.
I don’t know about you, but I find navigating around the Sharepoint licensing model a complete and utter nightmare. So how pleased was I when I found Lady Licensing. Simple diagrams covering the [...]

PowerShell v2 To Ship Mid 2009?!? (2008-6-27)

For those of you that are interested in PowerShell to the point that you’d be curious as a possible release date then Jeffrey Snover may be your man.
A blog post of his indicates that v2 is feature complete and although he cannot explicitly mention a release date he intimates that mid 2009 is a good [...]

Free SQL Server Tools (2008-6-27)

I think I have stumbled across the best free SQL Server tools list in the world ever…!
The guys at sqlteam have compiled a list so comprehensive that I don’t know where to begin:

SMSS Add-Ons
Analysis Tools
Performance Monitors
Upgrades & Migration
Code Formatting

You’ll have loads of fun with this page for a long time, I know I did. [...]

PowerShell For Dummies (2008-6-26)

I don’t know about you, but not being a programmer means I sometimes struggle with some of the concepts. I hope you find this article by Jeffry Snover over at the MSDN PowerShell blog as useful as me.
It gives a very nice analogy of how you can equate objects and their functions to riding [...]

VMotion Info In Excel 2007 (2008-6-24)

ICT Freak have posted about how to use a connection to the VirtualCenter SQL Server database from Excel to display useful VMotion information.
Check out article here.

SQL Server SAN Snapshots (2008-6-16)

SQL Server can be fantastic, but when the databases get to be really large it can become very difficult to fit in a backup window.
Inevitably people start to investigate SAN based snapshots. Almost all storage vendors have the capability to talk directly with SQL Server to quiesce the DB long enough to take the snapshot, [...]