How to trigger a full memory dump based on a user mode process exception
Scenario: You have something kernel related triggering crashes of user mode processes (you think). You are trying to prove it. You're told you need a […]
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Windows 10 VDI Optimization Script
Hello party people! Dude here. Carl Luberti has worked some scriptastic magic on WIndows 10 to make it a friendly (er) VM guest for VDI. […]
How To: Collect ETL/WPT tracing diagnostics when you can never logon to the host.
First, guess who's back?! Me! I left Microsoft of my own accord last year. I came back. I wrote this about my experience, I hope […]
Today’s (Cloud) Tip…Performance Guidance for SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Post courtesy of Evan Basalik One of the most resource intensive applications you can run on Windows is SQL Server. To some extent, this is […]
Another (Cloud) Tip…Federated vs. Managed Users
By Evan Basalik Office 365 authentication has the concept of two types of users – federated and managed. Federated users are ones for whose authentication […]
Today’s (Cloud) Tip… Same sign-on vs. Single sign-on
By Evan Basalik Customers can leverage Directory Synchronization (DirSync) to keep their local Active Directory and Windows Azure Active Directory in sync. The DirSync application […]
(Cloud) Tip Of The Day
This tip of the day is cloud yo! Straight from Evan Basalik, an Senior Support Escalation Engineer! Today’s (Cloud) Tip…Security of customer data in Office […]
How to stand up a MediaWiki on Windows Server 2012 (10 easy steps with pictures)
Step 1. Setup Windows Server 2012 (see my build a lab series for that if you don’t know how). Step 2. Patch it and name […]
Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part VI
So in our previous installment, we were at Server Manager, ready to configure our pristine Domain Controller. So lets get to it! First, click on […]
Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part V, the triumphant return
When we last left our “how to build a Hyper-V based lab” blog post, which is here by the way, we were building our Domain […]