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Using A PAL Template To Easily Capture Performance Data

Posted on 19th July 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

I recently blogged about using PAL to analyse an existing performance monitor log file. That is great if you have an existing log, but what if this is not the case? How can we easily capture the correct counters in the log file? Again PAL can come to the rescue!

Let's assume that PAL is installed as detailed in the previous blog post, if not hit that post and get the tool running. I’ll wait for y… Read the rest “Using A PAL Template To Easily Capture Performance Data”

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Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell-Part 3

Posted on 19th July 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In the previous articles in this series we looked at the basic aspects of PowerShell and then the underlying mechanisms that are used to connect both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 management tools to Exchange. These articles can be found as follows:

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Ready For The Next Episode?

Posted on 16th July 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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

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How to Fix: Log Parser – Log Row Too Long

Posted on 5th July 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”

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Updated PAL Tool 2.3.1 Released

Posted on 26th June 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”

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Updated Exchange 2010 SCOM Management Pack – June 2012

Posted on 19th June 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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.

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TechEd 2012 Twitter & Streaming Feeds

Posted on 7th June 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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

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Lenovo Windows 8 Drivers (Beta)

Posted on 7th June 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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)”

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Free E-Book–Introducing Windows Server 2012

Posted on 6th June 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”

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SkyDrive Updated Quota And Clients

Posted on 23rd April 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”