Mike Poulson's Thoughts on lots of stuff

Check out part 2 of my Home power monitoring blog to see how I found out the cost to watch the "Big Game" tonight! http://www.mikepoulson.com/2012/02/home-circuit-power-monitoring-part-2.html

As part of my automation solution I have created plugins to interact with network devices. While working with the Brocade Turbo Iron 10gig switch running version 04.2.00b. I found a defect in the way the switch does Vlan Management via SNMP. The issue...

In 2009 the EEC was completing the it major remodel and part of our new design was to secure each rack from unauthorized access. I set out to create a solution on a limited budget. Reason to secure racks : The EEC works with Microsoft top customers to...

Over at my personal blog ( www.mikepoulson.com ) I have a post on using Differencing Disks with an SCVMM template. The main issue I ran into when first doing Diff disks with VMM was making sure the Parent VHD was on the target HyperV host. The PowerShell...

Check out my Home power monitoring post. http://www.mikepoulson.com/2011/07/new-home-power-monitor.html Currently uses both Microsoft-hohm and Google Power meter. I will soon have to find a new solution.

First google powermeter was shutdown now Microsoft Hohm. Where am I to view all my power monitoring information? http://blog.microsoft-hohm.com/news/11-06-30/Microsoft_Hohm_Service_Discontinuation.aspx

Yesterday I took and passed 70-652 (TS: Windows Server Virtualization, Configuring) and today I took and passed 70-693 (Pro: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator). 70-693 does not yet have any books or eLearning course for it. I used...

http://www.mikepoulson.com/archive/2010/11/01/configuring-dell-equallogic-management-interface.aspx

Today, Brocade announced our new unified management platform—Brocade Network Advisor—the industry’s first management platform capable of managing fibre channel, IP, FCoE, wireless and MPLS networks. Brocade Network Advisor will be available...

L2TPv3 is a great feature for extending a Layer2 network across sites. This is very useful when you are using Live Migration with HyperV or when you want to pass traffic (at Layer 2) to a different location. See http://www.mikepoulson.com/archive/2010...

Well I am back at Microsoft. :) I will start posting new things but it will be at http://www.mikepoulson.com not here (blogs.msdn.com) unless I think it is super cool. Mike

Update 7/17/2011: New links Today I am posting sample code on how to manage IIS 6 and Active directory using ADSI in VB.NET. And managing DNS (creating zones, records and enumeration) using WMI in VB.NET. There are four separate projects. ...

Today is my last day at Microsoft. In an attempt to save time by not crossing the 520 bridge I am taking a job at a company in Seattle. I will continue to post future items at http://www.exmsftblog.com/blogs/mpoulson

I have had lots of people ping me for additional help on my original post at http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/03/09/548255.aspx . So here are some updates. The path that has the STBCode key will not be the same for everyone. MCE generates...

Today out of the blue I got a DHL box delivered to me that contained a few copies of redvsblue Season 4 ( http://www.redvsblue.com ). My team does some work for the redvsblue people so it was quite nice to get free copies of the shows. For those of...

Shoot me mail mpoulson at microsoft dot com with your resume. Full job description: Do you want to be part of a team that helps deliver on the hosting story for Microsoft? We interact with product teams, hosting evangelists, marketing and customers...

How much more personal information must be stolen or miss placed by companies before people learn to encrypt their data ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12916803/ ) . It is NOT hard to do. Windows offers you EFS( http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol...

These are the steps to do a hard reset of your HTC tornado/Faraday based Smartphone. When you do this all custom data on the phone will be removed and the default setup will be put in place You have 2 options on doing this. The first way requires you...

So there are many key things to remember when creating your WMI queries make them as specific as you can. For example if you have ~5000 zones on your Microsoft DNS server and you are looking to see if a single record exists in one of those zones the...

This is part 2 of a 2 part post. Post two: The NEW way of doing DSL on campus About 2 years ago me and a co-worker were approached by 2 teams on campus that had a large number of DSL lines and did not want to pay the fee that Verizon charged...

This is part 1 of a 2 part post. Post one: The OLD way of doing DSL on campus. So for the past few years I have been part of a team that provides DSL access to various test teams on campus. For a company like MSFT testing the "home scenario...

Vista removed some DHTML support that was used in Exchange 2000/2003 OWA. To get it to work correctly you need to update all your exchange servers (frontend and backend) with KB 911829 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911829 ). Once you install this...

http://weblogs.asp.net/hosterposter/archive/2006/03/22/440886.aspx

So up in Canada (one of the best places on earth) there are 2 Bald Eagles with 2 eggs. There is a project that put a very high quality web cam up to watch the nest. As of yesterday my team assisted in providing this project some additional bandwidth....

These are the settings to get T-Mobile TZones to work. Also note that these are the settings if you get the $5.99 web plan on your smartphone (which is not suppose to work ;) GPRS settings: Name: T-Zone GPRS Connects to: WAP Network Access...