Category Archives: Microsoft

MMS 2011: Day five wrap up

Last day in Las Vegas! The party last night was not too shabby, even being thrown and attended by some hardcore geeks. The party had a western theme, some good food (ribs, corn on the cob, and the usual western fair), pretty square dancers, and even a decent band (The Scotty Stamp Band). One of the singers did… Read More »

MMS 2011: Day Four

Another beautiful day in Las Vegas. It promises to be another information-packed experience here at the Microsoft Management Summit 2011.

MMS 2011: Day Three

Lots of great monitoring and management topics were covered today at MMS 2011.  It’s a beautiful, sunny day in Las Vegas today, and I write this as I am looking out a giant window with a view of the desert.  A perfectly relaxing time to write down my experience of day 3.

MMS 2011: Day One

So I arrived yesterday for the yearly Microsoft Management Summit.  Man, what a long day.  Left the house at 1:30, didn’t hit the sack at the Luxor until 10:00pm.

Dual boot Windows and Linux

The internet is full of technical articles, many of which are way too complicated for the average computer user who just wants to solve a simple problem.  If you pay close attention, the internet is also a place where the “gurus” spend a lot of time yelling for help in discussion boards and forums.

Running VMware vSphere Client on Windows 7

If you are vSphere administrator, you’ve probably run into this yourself or know someone who has.  Some have this problem, don’t.  There seems to be no rhyme or reason why it happens to some and not others.  Here is how to fix it though.

What is FAT32?

FAT32 is the file system utilized in some of the older versions of Microsoft Windows. It was introduced with OEM Service Release 2 of Windows 95 (also known as OSR2 and Windows 95B). FAT32 is the default file system on Windows 98 (all versions: OEM, retail, and SE) and Windows Me.