Monthly Archives: January 2012

Techdays Canada–Presentations now online!

Well after a long wait one of my presentations from Microsoft Canada’s Techdays is finally here.  In this presentation I discussed all of the performance tips and tricks from a production Hyper-V solution.  Often times we get technology implemented and … Continue reading

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Standing up your own System Center 2012 LAB -

Well I promised that this year I would start posting more of my technology adventures.  Well I have spent a ton of time with MDT 2010 Update 1 and I thought it was finally time to take a look at … Continue reading

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Microsoft RemoteFX–USB Redirection

Ok so the first round of testing went well with RemoteFX.  Now let’s check out some of the other cool features like USB Redirection.  I have actually had some of my customers over the past few years go to XenDesktop … Continue reading

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Exchange 2010 SP2–Deployment 1st time

Well I normally forget to document when I do things for a first time but my new years resolution is to make sure I do it more diligently in 2012. Tonight I will be upgrading a production Exchange 2010 SP1 … Continue reading

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Microsoft Remote FX–Deployment in my Home Lab

I have been waiting a long time to test out the performance of Microsoft’s Remote FX.  It was just a bit out of my price range for a home lab until this point.  It still is hard to figure out … Continue reading

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Nit and Grit Labs–My Showcase of Technology

Well I have finally had a few minutes last night to start rebuilding my lab environment. I wanted to showcase many of the technologies that I have been working with over the past few years.  My Lab rebuild includes the … Continue reading

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Performance Tuning your Hyper-V Farm – Configuring Host Reserves

When recently testing performance of Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory I encountered an interesting issue. The performance of my Parent Partition (Host OS) was terrible. Basically all of my guest workloads consumed all available memory on the system. As … Continue reading

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