Tag: Windows 7

Comparing RPC, WMI and WinRM for remote server management with PowerShell V2

1. OverviewIn a recent blog post, I was looking at PowerShell V2 remoting in Windows Server 2008 R2. If you haven’t seen it, take a look at http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2010/03/31/experimenting-with-powershell-v2-remoting.aspx. In that post, I mentioned three different ways to gather information about services on a remove server (throughout this post, I use this task as an example … Continue reading Comparing RPC, WMI and WinRM for remote server management with PowerShell V2 →

Presentations from Storage Developer Conference 2009 (SDC 2009) are now available for download

The presentations from SNIA's SDC 2009 are now publicly available for download. This SNIA event happened in Santa Clara, CA last September and the decks are now publicly available, after being restricted to conference attendees for a few months. Out of the dozens of presentations, I wanted to highlight a few that were delivered by … Continue reading Presentations from Storage Developer Conference 2009 (SDC 2009) are now available for download →

Download for Powershell v2 for Windows 7? No need… It’s already there!

A while back, Microsoft announced the release of PowerShell v2 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 (see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=151321). However, it is not clear to everyone that Powershell v2 is already part of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. I have seen people still asking for the link for … Continue reading Download for Powershell v2 for Windows 7? No need… It’s already there! →

File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 available for download

Version 1.0 of the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) was announced yesterday during a presentation by Jian Yan and  Bartosz Nyczkowski at SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA. The presentation covered a number of details about FSCT and included a demo running FSCT with the HomeFolders workload. If you are not familiar with … Continue reading File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 available for download →

SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2009 in Santa Clara, CA is coming – Plan to be there on the week of September 14th

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is hosting the 6th Storage Developer Conference (SDC) in the Hyatt Regency in beautiful Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) on the week of September 14th. This event is also co-located with the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest. For those working with storage technologies, this event gathers a unique crowd and includes a … Continue reading SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2009 in Santa Clara, CA is coming – Plan to be there on the week of September 14th →

Strings, Arrays and Functions in PowerShell v2 (and some sample code that speaks for itself :-)

I spent some more time experimenting with PowerShell v2 and here goes my second post about it. This time around I am focusing on how to define variables, use expressions and create functions.   The "problem" we're solving 🙂   To make it fun, I decided to create a little script that creates some random … Continue reading Strings, Arrays and Functions in PowerShell v2 (and some sample code that speaks for itself 🙂 →

Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 09) provides a snapshot of what Microsoft is up to (keynotes available for review)

Earlier this week Microsoft hosted the 2009 edition of the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2009) in New Orleans.Thousands of partners joined to understand where Microsoft is going and how they can work together with Microsoft.The keynotes were streamed live (a bit too early on the Pacific side, but it certainly was very interesting).The entire keynotes … Continue reading Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 09) provides a snapshot of what Microsoft is up to (keynotes available for review) →

RC for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 released to TechNet Plus and MSDN (includes filenames and sizes)

If you are a TechNet Plus or an MSDN subscriber, you can now download the Release Candidate (RC) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. There are different files for each client architecture (x64, x86) and server architecture (x64, ia64). Additional files include the language packs for each one, plus the WAIK (Windows Automated … Continue reading RC for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 released to TechNet Plus and MSDN (includes filenames and sizes) →