Jeffs world, party time, excellent Hi some random stuff of late… Firstly, I had a head concussion, which is why I’ve been quiet lately… I had a head concussion a year ago February. This article I wrote on my blog is about some recovery I did and some insights I think are worth sharing. The article… Continue reading Man about town
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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 full memory dump of the system at time of the crash of the user mode process. How to do it? Glad you asked! <edit> (to back this out, delete the… Continue reading How to trigger a full memory dump based on a user mode process exception
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. Edit – non-persistent pooled VMs may have issues. Undocumented/untested/etc. Twitter post is here and includes a nice picture I took at Gibbs Gardens in North Georgia. If you prefer to go… Continue reading Windows 10 VDI Optimization Script
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 you enjoy it. There and back again, an IT tale… Anyways, I was asked a few times recently, Dude, how do you collect an ETW trace for boot/logon if the… Continue reading How To: Collect ETL/WPT tracing diagnostics when you can never logon to the host.
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 demonstrated by the vast amounts of performance guidance and troubleshooting documents that exist all over the web. When running SQL Server in an Azure Virtual Machine (i.e., IaaS), there is… Continue reading Today’s (Cloud) Tip…Performance Guidance for SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines
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 Office 365 communicates with an on-premises federation provider (ADFS, Ping, etc) that then talks to an on-premises authentication directory (i.e., Active Directory or other directories) to validate a user’s credentials.… Continue reading Another (Cloud) Tip…Federated vs. Managed Users
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 runs on a regular basis and copies on-premises attributes to Windows Azure Active Directory. Applications like ACS and Office 365 then use Azure Active Directory to validate users’ identity and… Continue reading Today’s (Cloud) Tip… Same sign-on vs. Single sign-on
(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 365 We employ all of the follow methods to secure customer data in Office 365: 1) Network segmentation to ensure physical separate of back-end services and devices from public-facing interfaces… Continue reading (Cloud) Tip Of The Day
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 it blah blah. Step 3. Download Microsoft Web Platform 4.5: http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=microsoft+web+platform+4.5 Step 4. Run it. Step 5. Click Database, then “MySQL Windows 5.1” and click “Add” Step 6. Click “Applications”… Continue reading How to stand up a MediaWiki on Windows Server 2012 (10 easy steps with pictures)
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 “Local Server” on the left pane. What do we notice in the image below? Computer name is goofy so lets fix it. Clik the hyperlink for the machine name, which… Continue reading Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part VI