Master PowerShell Tricks – Volume 2

Master PowerShell Tricks – Volume 2

Jan 20, 2017 | , , | 0 |

With the amazing success of our first release of Master PowerShell Tricks Volume 1 we have commenced Volume 2 already. This time we have added some amazing new Authors to the series. It is going to be another huge success and hit the #1 Best Sellers list just like Volume 1. Here is a quick look at the talent that we have assembled for this Volume: About the Authors Dave Kawula – MVP Dave is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. His background includes data communications networks within multi-server...

Read More
Edmonton MVPDays Early bird tickets Sold Out #mvphour @mvpdays

Edmonton MVPDays Early bird tickets Sold Out #mvphour @mvpdays

Jan 20, 2017 | | 0 |

Still want to attend MVPDays? Well you can you just have to pay for your ticket. I know you are asking yourselves: Man I wish I was faster and got one of the Free Early Bird tickets! Now I have to pay $99.00 to attend. Why would I do that? Well let’s see what your $99.00 gets you: Access to some of the brightest Speakers from all over North America You are fed all day long (Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, and a Cocktail hour at the end) (FYI…The food and beverage costs are a lot more than $99.00 per person...

Read More
Free E-Book Available for the next 72 Hours – Master Storage Spaces Direct

Free E-Book Available for the next 72 Hours – Master Storage Spaces Direct

Jan 17, 2017 | , , | 0 |

Just for you we have a promotion running on our latest book called Master Storage Spaces Direct Volume 1. This time it is 100 % free on Amazon for the next 72 hours.   In this book, you will learn how to deploy Microsoft HyperConverged solution called Storage Spaces Direct. We have included as bonus content in this book all of the scripts that we used to stand up our own lab environments. So, after reading this you should be able to stand up very own Microsoft HCI Solution. You can learn a lot more about the content this...

Read More
Free E-Book for the next 48 hours – Master PowerShell Ticks

Free E-Book for the next 48 hours – Master PowerShell Ticks

Jan 16, 2017 | , , | 0 |

  Just for you we have a promotion running again on Master PowerShell Tricks Volume 1. This time it is 100 % free on Amazon for the next 48 hours.   http://amzn.to/2jhiQBT         The coolest part about this is we are currently ranked #329 on the Bestsellers list at #Amazon.       So, you have one job… Download the book, read it, enjoy it and help us get closer to #1.   Thanks,  ...

Read More
Free – Azure Training!

Free – Azure Training!

Jan 5, 2017 | , , | 0 |

On-going training is something that anyone in IT needs. IT changes as fast as the clouds come and go! You need to keep up! There are several ways to easily keep your head in the clouds using Microsoft’s resources and social media. The New Year is here and one of your new year resolutions or opportunities that you have is to take advantage of free training that is provided by Microsoft. It’s time to upgrade, it’s time to improve your skills, yearly performance plans and salary talks are coming. Be prepared! Get educated and get compensated for your knowledge...

Read More
Comparing Office 2016 and Office365 ProPlus

Comparing Office 2016 and Office365 ProPlus

Dec 29, 2016 | , , | 0 |

With the widespread adoption of Office365, a popular question that comes our way is whether to deploy the Office 2016 Client, Office365 Client, or a hybrid of the two. The Office365 ProPlus client is available to license as a standalone monthly/annual subscription, or comes included in many of the subscription levels available on Office365.com, whereas Office 2016 is licensable software that adheres to traditional software purchase practices…a one-time cost for the license which you then own for the life of the product. In this post I’m not going to provide you with a cost-benefit analysis of subscription vs. perpetual...

Read More
PowerShell – My way to prepare a SQL Server VM

PowerShell – My way to prepare a SQL Server VM

Dec 22, 2016 | , | 0 |

As I get called on a lot of to do SQL Server installations, I’ve come up with what I’ve found works best for me. Every location has different infrastructure, security, networks and their way of doing things. Since I’m the one doing the installation, and I know I’ll get called back in the future at some point to upgrade, troubleshoot or manage the SQL Server environment, I like to have a set of standards. Documentation, I actually do enjoy writing it (yes I may be sick), but having a self-documenting PowerShell script is even better!

Read More
PowerShell – Start-Service, Stop-Service, they work, but not always well enough!

PowerShell – Start-Service, Stop-Service, they work, but not always well enough!

Dec 16, 2016 | , | 0 |

Well as the title suggests, I’m happy with the code, but I always find myself adding more and more code around the cmdlets. Service control in Windows has been pretty straight forward for the past few decades. Obviously PowerShell can control the state and configuration of services, but one thing I’ve always run into with service control is reacting to how the service stops and starts and also managing the state of dependent services. I’m sharing some short code functions that I use.

Read More
Hyper Converged for the best price possible – E-Book

Hyper Converged for the best price possible – E-Book

Dec 12, 2016 | , | 0 |

Well based on some extremely wonderful feedback from our attendees of the North American MVPDays Community Roadshow we have released our 2nd @mvpdays e-book. This one was compiled by Dave Kawula MVP @davekawula. The book reveals what you need to know about the Hyper Converged industry and how to acquire your infrastructure for the best possible price. The book documents the way the typical maintenance contracts are calculated and how you can completely eliminate them by using technology that you already own and trust from Microsoft. It focuses on key elements: The facts about maintenance renewals Top 10 critical...

Read More
Master PowerShell tricks Volume 1

Master PowerShell tricks Volume 1

Dec 12, 2016 | , | 0 |

Update…. Order your copy today. Our E-Book is available on Kindle from Amazon Below is a preview of the Kindle Version that was just released as of today. December 19, 2016. The book documents the following Master PowerShell tricks that these two experts employ with they day jobs at IT System Admins. My personal favourite was the Simulating a Ransomware attach with PowerShell. Other topics in this first E-Book are: Using PowerShell to retrieve the lists of a users is a member of Identifying large exchange mailbox folders via PowerShell Deploying a domain joined Nano Server via PowerShell Enabling...

Read More
PowerShell – Is your AD Sites and Services missing subnets?

PowerShell – Is your AD Sites and Services missing subnets?

Nov 30, 2016 | , , | 0 |

This has been a very common pain point for Active Directory administrators. AD is perfectly planned according to Microsoft’s best practices and successfully deployed. But as time goes on, network admins change the network topology, devices are added here and there and if there is no formal process of adding new networks, AD Sites and Services will mostly likely not be updated to reflect these changes.

Read More
Massive Savings on Hyper Converged Infrastructure with Project @Data_Raft #S2D

Massive Savings on Hyper Converged Infrastructure with Project @Data_Raft #S2D

Nov 29, 2016 | , | 0 |

Many customers and friends have been asking me why I am so passionate about the developments with Microsoft flagship operating system Windows 2016. The answer is really simple. It is because of the massive value that has been added free of charge allowing us to build out our own Software Defined Data Center. Specifically, Storage Spaces Direct, is the single biggest feature addition in the core Windows 2016 stack that I can think of.   We have been crunching the hyper converged numbers for quite some time now. Basically, I have seen almost every flavor of Hyper Converged infrastructure...

Read More
Countdown to Orlando MVPDays

Countdown to Orlando MVPDays

Nov 24, 2016 | , | 0 |

We are less than 1 week away from our last stop on the North American MVPDays Community roadshow. This time we are heading all the way down to Orlando Florida on December 2, 2016. We still have space left to come out and see some amazing presenters and support your local MVP’s. When at the Channel 9 Studio @Ch9 in Redmond last month we recorded this quick countdown show for you. MVPDays was founded by Cristal and Dave Kawula back in 2013. It started as a simple idea; “There’s got to be a good way for Microsoft MVPs to...

Read More
Why Do Hyper Converged Installs fail?

Why Do Hyper Converged Installs fail?

Nov 24, 2016 | , , | 0 |

About two years ago the term Hyper Converged infrastructure was not common in most discussions around that IT water cooler. Now it seems like this is all that people are talking about. Hyper Converged has skyrocketed onto the Gartner Magic quadrant and customers are buying it faster than vendors can build it. Let’s take a step back and have a look at this video from Microsoft Product Manager Cosmos Darwin. In less than 5 minutes he will explain what Hyper Converged Infrastructure is. Ok so here is how I normally explain it to people. In traditional converged infrastructure, there...

Read More
Hyper-V Operational Training Part 2

Hyper-V Operational Training Part 2

Nov 24, 2016 | , | 0 |

Welcome to our second in a series of Hyper-V Operational Training.   This training started prior to the release of Windows Server 2016.   Most of it is based on current technology on Windows 2012 R2 however there is a ton of amazing content.   In todays session we will focus on the Windows 2012 R2 Networking Stack including: Network Architecture Teaming Configuring with PowerShell Automation Troubleshooting The premise of this training is to teach you everything that you need to know about Hyper-V and System Center from an operational standpoint.   I like to call it Operationalizing your ops team....

Read More
Hyper-V Operational Training – Part 1

Hyper-V Operational Training – Part 1

Nov 23, 2016 | , | 1 |

Welcome to our first in a series of Hyper-V Operational Training.   This training started prior to the release of Windows Server 2016.   Most of it is based on current technology on Windows 2012 R2 however there is a ton of amazing content. The premise of this training is to teach you everything that you need to know about Hyper-V and System Center from an operational standpoint.   I like to call it Operationalizing your ops team.   When your project team is done and now you are left with having to operate all of the day to...

Read More
Huge Milestone – Episode 50 – MVPDays Countdown Show – Orlando

Huge Milestone – Episode 50 – MVPDays Countdown Show – Orlando

Nov 23, 2016 | , | 0 |

Wow I can’t believe we finally did it. 50 Episodes are up and live at http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/interview-with-an-mvp I have to say a huge thank you to our fearless Microsoft CPM MVP Lead – Simran Chaudry @sim_100. He was the one that pushed us to start getting our content up on @CH9 Channel 9. Cheers to the next 50. We hoped you enjoyed the ride so far there is a lot more content coming. Thanks,   Dave, Cristal and all of our special guests on Interview with an...

Read More
Windows Time Sync – The fixes!

Windows Time Sync – The fixes!

Nov 18, 2016 | , , , | 0 |

As many of you know when running a simple standalone machine at home, at work, in a datacenter or in the cloud, time keeping can be tricky. Very odd though, it’s been around for over a decade and people/enterprises still can’t seem to figure out how it really works or how they should configure it.

Every Windows computer has a lovely service on it that is called W32Time with a description that reads “Windows Time Service”. This service is set to manual, and for all intents and purposes can be left that way.

Read More

Translate our Blog

Subscribe to our Blog

Authors

Microsoft MVP

MODE

Nutanix NTC

Veeam Vanguard

Follow me on Twitter

Follow @AllanRafuse on Twitter

Blogs we follow

vbrisket.com
deploymentbunny.com
canitpro.net
deploymentfundamentals.com Hyperv.veeam.com