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4/30/2009

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidates are now available on MSDN Subscription Downloads

by @ 4:42 pm. Filed under general

Nuff said right???

 

Ok may be a little more… Windows 7 blows Windows Vista out of the water for performance and stability. Period.

 

Oh here is something funny if you don’t much like SQL Server or if you were trying to download Windows 7 this morning….

Database glitch causes Windows 7 download server meltdown

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This morning at 6AM PDT, when Windows 7 Release Candidate downloads were officially made available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers, it looked like a sequel to that botched release. After 20 minutes or so of smooth downloads, both sites began bogging down, and the situation deteriorated rapidly as the minutes passed. For several hours after the official launch, most subscribers who tried to log on found themselves unable to reach the download pages.

This time, though, the problem wasn’t capacity. Instead, a source tells me, the glitch was caused by a SQL Server database that reached excessive fragmentation levels because of the tremendous surge of queries. How massive was the demand surge? The number of requests to the MSDN and TechNet databases in less than an hour was equal to more than a week’s traffic under normal circumstances.

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DEC 2009 Opening Video Sequence I wrote about in my DEC 2009 Wrapup posting…

by @ 4:00 pm. Filed under general

Very humorous. 🙂

 

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4/27/2009

To the ActiveDir.Org Crowd…

by @ 8:32 am. Filed under tech

I got this from Tony and I wanted to post it, looking at the site and trying to send email to the list it appears their ISP already chopped the lines…

 

Hi all

The ISP that we have been using to host ActiveDir.org for the past 8 years is shutting down and we are preparing to transfer the site to another hosting service.  The mailing list subscription and site user account information will remain the same and no action is required on your part.

A potential fly-in-the-ointment is that we understood the hosting termination notice period from our ISP was 30 days from Monday 27th April.  Now we understand that the ISP has requested the termination from their upstream provider AT&T and that cut-off is expected “within 30 days”.  Needless to say, this has put us in some difficulty and we are doing our best to transfer the site to our new provider asap.

There may be some disruption to service during this time.  We ask for your patience and apologise for any loss of service.

Cheers

Tony and Matty

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4/17/2009

Ethical Behavior…

by @ 10:07 am. Filed under quotes

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

 

  -Albert Einstein

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Embrace…

by @ 10:07 am. Filed under quotes

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

   – Albert Einstein

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Imagination…

by @ 10:07 am. Filed under quotes

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

   – Albert Einstein

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Weakness…

by @ 10:06 am. Filed under quotes

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

    – Albert Einstein

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4/16/2009

Indexing objectClass in Active Directory…

by @ 1:40 am. Filed under tech

Another discussion recently popped up on AD Org about indexing the objectClass attribute. Don Hatcherl (previously mentioned on this blog multiple times – short and sweet, when he talks about AD, I and everyone else with any sense listens…) said the following about indexing objectClass…

…An early version of ESE (the one shipped in Exchange 4.0, and that never shipped with AD) had perf problems indexing highly non-unique values.  We handled this during development by inventing the ObjectCategory concept and creating a climate of fear to prevent people from indexing ObjectClass.  Both of these were, in retrospect, stupid ideas.  By the time Windows 2000 shipped ESE’s perf problem (ok, ok, this particular ESE perf problem) had been fixed, but by then there was too much organizational inertia around ObjectCategory to get rid of it.  It took until Windows 2008 to do the correct thing.

You should do two things:

1) index ObjectClass

2) accept my apology for the confusion

DonH

Thanks Don!

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4/8/2009

Task Scheduler needs serious improvement…

by @ 1:20 am. Filed under rants

I recently had a blow up of a server at work and unfortunately it was a server I adopted rather recently and so hadn’t been able to put the time into the discovery work on it that needed to be done. Well another group that the server was apparently shared with decided to do some updates and unfortunately blew the box out of the water. At this time I find out that the backup process in this customer was data only, not bare metal. Oi.

So one of the most painful aspects of this whole thing is around scheduled tasks. The JOB files are in intact, however, the creds (or even the SID of the runas ID) aren’t actually stored in the file and in fact there is NO WAY to ascertain what creds used to be used. This is amazingly annoying and painful as I sit here trying to work out creative ways to figure this out. I can think of multiple ways to get his info when the scheduler service is up and running ok but if all you have are JOB files there is nothing, or at least nothing I can find.

In looking this over I found that there isn’t even a way to properly export tasks. This is just plain silly. Does MSFT think that the one machine you deploy a dozen or more tasks to will always be up and running and survive forever?

Ugh.

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RICHCOPY RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC!!!

by @ 1:15 am. Filed under tech

I have spoken about this tool before. The old version I have is hands down the best file copy app out there. I expect this newer version that is now publicly available is just as good… Thanks to Scott C for letting me know this was now out there.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx

 

   joe

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