The ABC language, thirty years later…

Back in March 1986, I was in my second year of college (Data Processing at the Universidade Federal do Ceara in Brazil). I was also teaching programming night classes at a Brazilian technical school. On that year, I created a language called ABC, complete with a little compiler. It compiled the ABC code into pseudo code … Continue reading The ABC language, thirty years later… →

PowerShell for finding the size of your local OneDrive folder

I would just like to share a couple of PowerShell scripts to find the size of your local OneDrive folder. Note that this just looks at folders structures and does not interact with the OneDrive sync client or the OneDrive service. First, a one-liner to show the total files, bytes and GBs under the local OneDrive … Continue reading PowerShell for finding the size of your local OneDrive folder →

Perhaps OneDrive

Perhaps OneDrive By Jose Barreto A parody of "Perhaps Love", by John Denver ----- Perhaps OneDrive’s like a place to save A shelter from the storm It exists to keep your files In their clean and tidy form And in those times of trouble When your PC is gone The memory in OneDrive will bring … Continue reading Perhaps OneDrive →

My Top Reasons to Use OneDrive

As you might have noticed, I am now in the OneDrive team. Since I’ve been here for a few months, I think I earned the right to start sharing a few blogs about OneDrive. I’ll do that over the next few months, focusing on the user’s view of OneDrive (as opposed to the view … Continue reading My Top Reasons to Use OneDrive →

Raw notes from the Storage Developer Conference 2015 (SNIA SDC 2015)

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 … Continue reading Raw notes from the Storage Developer Conference 2015 (SNIA SDC 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 … Continue reading Twenty years as a Microsoft Certified Professional – time flies when you’re having fun →

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 v1 and … Continue reading Drive Performance Report Generator – PowerShell script using DiskSpd by Arnaud Torres →

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 … Continue reading Using PowerShell and Excel PivotTables to understand the files on your disk →

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. … Continue reading New PowerShell cmdlets in Windows Server 2016 TP2 (compared to Windows Server 2012 R2) →

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 … Continue reading Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage PowerShell cmdlet popularity →