Powershell DSC first thoughts
In order to enhance the time-to-market (TTM) and overall competitiveness of the products, companies have been following a release small and release often methodology. Using this methodology, products...
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With SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced SQL dynamic management views, or DMVs, as well as dynamic management functions, or DMFs. They provide plenty of information about server and database state,...
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Configuring a Hyper-V cluster to make use of Cluster Shared Volumes may be relatively easy, but there are a number of precautions to take and details to consider if you want to avoid storage...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 User Object Permissions
In many database systems, it is a requirement to grant read permission for all databases. To achieve this, there is no other way but grant read permission to each and every database. Let’s first create...
View ArticleMark Russinovich’s RAMMap helps troubleshooting memory Usage
Memory management in Windows is one of those topics that confuses a lot of people, including experts. Here’s a random example: Windows pre-populates memory with commonly-used data to reduce the amount...
View ArticleGetting Started with Powershell DSC – Part 1
DSC Configuration Management Architecture The Desired State Configuration (DSC) configuration management architecture is fairly straightforward. Rather than using a typical architectural diagram, I...
View ArticleActive Directory Schema explained Part 1
What is Active Directory Schema? The schema is the blueprint for data storage in Active Directory. Each object in Active Directory is an instance of a class in the schema. A user object, for example,...
View ArticleGetting Started with Powershell DSC – Part 2
In first part of this article i described the DSC module and his architecture. Now is time to get more insides of it by discussion about Requirements for Configuration Authoring, push and pull mode....
View ArticleActive Directory Schema explained – Part 2
In fist part of the series we discussed about the Active Directory Schema Attributes. In this article we will discuss about the Schema Classes. Classes (classSchema Objects) Schema classes are defined...
View ArticleGetting Started with Powershell DSC – Part 3
In first 2 articles in the series we discussed about basic DSC now is time to start learning how to use some of the built-in DSC resources Introduction The configuration scripts in Windows PowerShell...
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