Hold up! The Exchange product group today announced the availability of the next version of Exchange. This was previously referred to as E15, but we can now call it Exchange 2013.
The bits can be downloaded from TechNet here:
While you are at it, the Office 2013 preview can be found here:
Cheers,
Rhoderick
The Microsoft Log Parser is a trusted and venerable tool to have when you are analysing log files.
One issue that does come up when analysing larger Performance Monitor files is that of the default buffer setting in Log Parser. Typically you will see an error message saying “log row too Long”.
When running the ExRAP toolset this will be shown in the console:
Error parsing query: Log row too long
LogF… Read the rest “How to Fix: Log Parser – Log Row Too Long”
Have you used Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V; created a snapshot, deleted it and then wondered why the snapshot files are still hanging around? Like to know what to expect and the EventIDs that are associated with snapshot removal?
Likely you will be familiar with .vhd files which are the disk storage files in currently released versions of Hyper-V. It is also possible for other organi… Read the rest “Monitoring Removal of Hyper-V AVHD Files”
Note: The follow-up can be found here: https://blog.rmilne.ca/archive/2012/07/19/using-pal-template-to-easily-capture-performance-data.aspx
Clint Huffman Tweeted that he released an updated build of the PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool.
This build contains both fixes and other welcome additional improvements to an ever growing list of templates which is always great to see!
For those who have n… Read the rest “Updated PAL Tool 2.3.1 Released”
An updated System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Pack (MP) for Exchange 2010 has been released to the Microsoft download center. This is build 14.03.0038.004 of the MP.
Edit 3-9-2012 Updated MP build 14.03.0038.004 released
EDIT 9-8-2012 - Updated MP build 14.03.0038.003 is currently unavailable due to an issue.
EDIT 8-8-2012 - Updated MP build 14.03.0038.003 released.
EDIT 27-6-2012 … Read the rest “Updated Exchange 2010 SCOM Management Pack – June 2012”
TechEd 2012 North America is almost here, and Twitter will be a great resource to stay atop of all of the great news and announcements.
You can find a list of TechEd Twitter hashtags and also see the official hashtag ttp://www.hashtags.org/msTechEd
Official TechEd 2012 Twitter account: @TechEd_NA
Related hashtag: #msTechEd
Official Windows Azure Twitter account: @WindowsAzure
Related hashtags: #Windows… Read the rest “TechEd 2012 Twitter & Streaming Feeds”
Are you evaluating Windows 8?
Are you running it on a Lenovo machine? Looking for drivers?
Here is a neat page on the Lenovo support site where Windows 8 beta drivers can be downloaded.
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?LegacyDocID=WIN8-BETA
Note that the drivers are provided for testing purposes, as mentioned in the site’s disclaimer… Read the rest “Lenovo Windows 8 Drivers (Beta)”
Introducing Windows Server 2012, by Mitch Tulloch, is now ready for your free download!
This is one of the first books on Windows Server 2012 and provides a high level overview of the next generation of Windows!
You can download it here:
PDF Introducing Windows Server 2012 PDF ebook
EPUB Introducing Windows Server 2012 EPUB ebook
MOBI Introducing Windows Server 2012 MOBI ebook
Alternatively go to TechE… Read the rest “Free E-Book–Introducing Windows Server 2012”
This tool has been out for a while, but have seen multiple customers not leveraging it on their Hyper-V servers as it is not installed by default on Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V hosts.
It is particularly useful for ensuring that the integration components inside the VM are the correct version. Note the Best Practices Analyzer section at the bottom of this screenshot:
You can use Hyper-V … Read the rest “Download Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)”
The SkyDrive team have just released the updated SkyDrive and the associated clients for various mobile devices.
I just finished downloading and installing the Windows Phone 7.5 client from the Marketplace. The settings showed me that I had a total of 7GB of storage space. What happened to the 25GB of previous space? This is discussed over on thi… Read the rest “SkyDrive Updated Quota And Clients”