I ran into an issue where I needed to count the number of xml files in a directory.  The problem was there are 10,000 other files in the directory.  The…

From http://www.expta.com/2009/06/windows-server-2008-r2-service-pack.html You may have known that Windows Server 2008 RTM shipped as Service Pack 1. This is because the Windows Server 2008 code base is shared by Windows Vista, and…

Today I took the 70-400 Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring and passed with a 980. I was shooting for a 1000 and fell one question short.

* This event was Recorded on Thursday, April 30, 2009. * http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032409727&CountryCode=US Agenda – Deployment and Performance Best Practices – High Availability and Disaster recovery Best Practices – Virtualization Best…

In the MMS keynote today Bob Kelly, Corporate Vice President, Server & Tools, announced that Operations Manager 2007 R2 RTM will be released in 30 days. If you are not…

An updated Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack has been released sorta. **UPDATE** The Management Pack has been updated on the site. Here are the changes. Fixed performance issues caused by…

The beta software is now available for download on Microsoft Connect. To download, simply go to our site on Connect and sign in with your Live Id. What is VMM…

The Windows Network Load Balancing (NLB) Management Pack monitors the health of NLB on computers that are running Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 to improve the availability, performance, and…

I needed to schedule a group of URLs into Maintenance Mode.  I already created a script to schedule one URL but setting up 30 would be a pain to manage. …