Yes indeed! The January TechNet Webcast Schedule is Live!We’ve got lots of great content for you this month; especially the two sessions I’m doing on Exchange Server Security.TechNet Webcast: Implementing Exchange Server 2003 Security (Part 1 of 2): Securing Services and Messaging Protocols (Level 200)Monday, January 16, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time … Continue reading A New Year of TechNet Webcasts Begins!
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 039 I have talked about and demonstrated the new SQL Server Upgrade Advisor in my live events recently. When showing that you can include a profiler trace file for the sake of the analysis, I was asked,“But what events should we trace? What trace would be the most useful for the advisor?”And the … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 039
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 038 The MSDN web site has links to some SQL Server 2005 Virtual Labs.“What’s this ‘virtual lab’ thing of which you speak?”Virtual labs are hosted sessions on a pre-installed virtual machine, along with lab notes to work through various scenarios on the installed software.“But, can’t I just do that on my … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 038
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 037 This question was asked at our event TODAY in Des Moines, IA.“Can the SQL Server 2005 Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) aslo tune databses running on SQL 2000?”Short answer. YES!And in fact, something I didn’t mention at the event, but is also quite useful in the new tool; the new … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 037
Here is a “best of” Q&A from our webcast we did today on an overview of DNS. This was part 8 of the 12 part Windows Server 2003 Administration series I delivered earlier this year. BIG THANKS to Mr. Bryan von Axelson for helping out as our sole Q&A person today. As you see below, … Continue reading Windows Server 2003 Administration Webcast Series (Part 8 – DNS) Q&A
TechNet Virtual Labs“Ever wanted to test Microsoft's newest software in a sandbox environment? Wouldn't it be great to be able to test new servers immediately, without formatting hard drives or dedicating one or more computers to the project? Now you can, with the TechNet Virtual Labs.”For those of you not already aware of these, I … Continue reading TechNet Virtual Labs
Earlier Today I delivered a webcast (content number ADD-03) on considerations for planning a complex AD design. I thought I’d post some of the Q&A here, and maybe expand on some of the answers also.Thanks again to Blain Barton, Chris Avis, and Rob Westover, for helping out in a pinch to handle Q&A for all … Continue reading Best of Q&A from our TechNet Webcast: Successfully Implementing a Complex Active Directory Design (Level 200)
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 036 Credit for this one goes to Chris Avis, who had this asked of him in an event recently…“With ‘instant file initialization’, what is it really doing?”Here’s a document that describes it well.From the document: In SQL Server 2005, data files can be initialized instantaneously. This allows for fast execution of … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 036
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 035 Credit for this one goes to Chris Avis, who had this asked of him in an event recently…“What is the max number of filegroups supported as part of a single database?”Well… it’s a nice big binary number: 111111111111111 (or 32,767 for you decimal lovers). The answer is found here.—Got an … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 035
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