It's a milestone today (12/27/07) for me. Seven years ago today, I joined Microsoft to work on an product that would later become Microsoft's fastest growing server product in Microsoft History. I had just completed my MCSE in NT 4.0 and took a couple...

It's been quite the year. Even this blog has captured a few of the events of the past year. I recently passed the 200 mark. Let me start off by saying I have some of the best friends in the world and a lot of them read this blog without me even telling...

Windows Live Quick Applications (beta) Get free source code to build social networking sites Our good friend Angus just released Tafiti ( www.tafiti.com ) as a Windows Live Quick App http://codeplex.com/wlquickapps and http://dev.live.com/quickapps...

If you're in the office and finding there's all of a sudden a chance to read up and catch up on tools, here's 12 things to do over the holidays. 1. Read up on SP1 from TechNet and then the new SP1 information on MSDN Test and Deploy WSS SP1 and MOSS...

1) Put your Search db and on separate disks transaction logs, both the fastest most optimized disks with fast optimized spindles for writing (dedicated disks are essential) 2) Optimize your temp db : grow it, give it space, you can even split it into...

Back in the day we use to run everything as an account that is local administrator. This really isn't a best practice anymore. Worst case is to run everything with domain admin priviledges. It unnecessarily exposes your environment. Let me compare and...

Many of you may think this is basic info, so don't over think what I'm saying here. I'm sitting in Shane Young's Admin class and realizing that the services on server and the server roles match up isn't very clean. Let me share some thoughts on server...