Server Hardware Explained

We’ve loved Brien Posey’s series on server hardware. Now that it’s wrapped up (all 9 parts!) it’s worth a look at the whole.

Xangati Introduces Performance Profiling for VDI End-Users

Chris Wahl goes deep and geeky into the latest beta of Xangati’s VDI monitoring tool. It’s worth taking a look to see what they’re up to!

PCoIP Log Viewer 2.0

This is a tool I've been using almost daily in my current project and for the past few months. Now It's finally been released to the public! The tool has been created by Chuck Hirtsius – one of the EUC Specialist's within VMware.  The release you see here today is the first release of the [...]

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VDI Paging Files – Big? Small? Or Non At All?

For the past few months I have been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of Large VDI environments, where the problems lay and where performance can be improved. When designing VDI environments, a couple of things that you should consider are the .vswp file and the GuestOS paging file. In this article [...]

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PowerShell… What an awesome tool

I have been trying to talk myself into learning Microsoft PowerShell for quite some time.  It was always cool for a little while and then, like many other things, it just got dull and lost its shine. Until recently it was something I knew I would need to learn someday because Microsoft would eventually put [...]

BYO(a)D Reaction

The other day (Nov 16, 2011 to be exact), my fellow nerd and Tech Field Day delegate, Tom Hollingsworth crafted a great blog post on the new movement in IT, and business in general… Bring Your Own (Apple) Device to work. If you have not read the post yet… you gotta check it out.

Trust. It is an interesting thing in Active Directory.

This week has been interesting, mainly in that I was reminded about the simple things in Active Directory and how much harder they become when you dont pay them enough attention. Replication is much like Ron Burgundy – kind of a big deal. If you do not pay enough attention to replication between domain controllers in Active Directory, bad things happen.

Service Pack 1 is here… for some

I noticed today that Service Pack 1 for Windows 7/2008R2 was released. Since I am curious just to see what is noticably new here I was more than happy to load it and see what I got.

VMware View 4.5: Rebalance

Rebalance: A desktop rebalance operation that evenly redistributes linked-clone desktops among available datastores. When testing this, customers can often see unexpected results. This is often due to their misconception of how this function of View works.

Storage Migration Tools: RoboCopy

RoboCopy is a command line tool from Microsoft that allows for multi-threaded file copying. It functions similarly to Copy.exe or XCopy.exe but has a few of its own nuances which will be look at here.