Notes and disclaimers: This blog post contains raw notes for some of the SNIA’s SDC 2015 presentations (SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2015) These notes were typed during the talks and they may include typos and my own misinterpretations. Text in the bullets under each talk are quotes from the speaker or text from the speaker…
Year: 2015
Twenty years as a Microsoft Certified Professional – time flies when you’re having fun
I just noticed that last week was the 20th anniversary of my first Microsoft certification. I had to travel nearly 500 miles (from Fortaleza to Recife) to reach the closest official testing center available in Brazil in August 1995. You’re probably thinking that I started by taking the Windows 95 exam, but it was…
Drive Performance Report Generator - PowerShell script using DiskSpd by Arnaud Torres
Arnaud Torres is a Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft in France who sent me the PowerShell script below called “Drive Performance Report Generator”. He created the script to test a wide range of profiles in one run to allow people to build a baseline of their storage using DiskSpd.EXE. The script is written in PowerShell…
Using PowerShell and Excel PivotTables to understand the files on your disk
Introduction I am a big fan of two specific technologies that usually don’t get mentioned together: PowerShell and Excel PivotTables. It started when I was explaining PivotTables to someone and the main issue I had was finding a good set of example data that is familiar to everyone. That’s when it hit me. People…
New PowerShell cmdlets in Windows Server 2016 TP2 (compared to Windows Server 2012 R2)
1. State the problem With the release of Windows Server 2016 TP2 a few weeks ago, I was wondering what new PowerShell cmdlets are now included (when you compare to Windows Server 2012 R2). However, the list of cmdlets is so long now that it is hard to spot the differences by hand….
Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage PowerShell cmdlet popularity
If you follow the blog, you probably saw a little PowerShell script I published a while back to measure the popularity of the cmdlets in a certain module using a Bing search. As an example, that blog showed the popularity of the cmdlets in the SmbShare module. Now I got curious about how the cmdlets…
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 PowerShell cmdlet popularity
If you follow the blog, you probably saw a little PowerShell script I published a while back to measure the popularity of the cmdlets in a certain module using a Bing search. As an example, that blog showed the popularity of the cmdlets in the SmbShare module. Now I got curious about how the cmdlets…
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 PowerShell cmdlet popularity
If you follow the blog, you probably saw a little PowerShell script I published a while back to measure the popularity of the cmdlets in a certain module using a Bing search. As an example, that blog showed the popularity of the cmdlets in the SmbShare module. Now I got curious about how…
Do you have a suggestion? Check the User Voice sites for several Microsoft products and services
Several teams at Microsoft are now using a User Voice site as your place to suggest ideas on how to improve specific products and services. These sites make it easier for the teams to receive your suggestions and listen to what you say. Here are the User Voice sites that I could find: ASP Net…
Microsoft Ignite 2015 sessions related to OneDrive and SharePoint
Microsoft Ignite 2015 was a great event, but there were so many sessions that it was truly impossible to watch everything that looked interesting. However, all sessions were recorded and by now they should be available on Channel 9 for streaming. Even with all the recordings available, it’s hard to find the links to all…