Starting the initial testing to see if an ESE database can survive on flash drives....

As we woke up Friday morning, our bedrooms had that certain briskness in the air that indicates only one thing ... power outage. Nika (a friend/roommate) and his kid went to school to see if there is any school, power out there too. We got a hold of...

Analysis of the fairly simplistic space usage on the biggest Active Directory database to date....

This is small piece of code and lengthy desc of how it works, for createing / writing a Unicode file via a perl script....

From one of my more educated buddies at Microsoft... My mom teaches high school physics. She said that most of her students haven't even heard of the Soviet Union. (The exceptions are the ones who happened to take history.) I realize...

Continuing battle to keep explorer alive and "healthy" ......

Process life support guidance....

Just bringing repadmin /showbackup out of the closet. Useful command to see when the last back up of a given Naming Context was taken, from any DC that hosts that NC....