Jonathan Hardwick
Improving the performance of Visual Studio
One of our main roles in DevDiv Performance Engineering is to help other teams with performance...
Date: 06/19/2008
Of all my blog posts, the one that generates the most reliable stream of comments is “User comments...
Date: 06/14/2008
With the release of SCCP 2007 I've now been through two complete product cycles of what started out...
Date: 06/05/2008
Ironically I'm almost the last to blog it, but the SCCP team is really happy to announce the release...
Date: 02/06/2008
It's common to use "funny characters" (i.e., non-alphabetic symbols) in Outlook folder names, so...
Date: 10/23/2007
We're pleased to announce the beta release of System Center Capacity Planner 2007! SCCP 2007...
Date: 03/25/2007
Lazy-blogging (verb): The act of letting a thought sit unblogged for long enough that someone else...
Date: 01/14/2007
My apologies if you're seeing any of my old posts reappear as if freshly published. Comment spam has...
Date: 01/03/2007
Or, "What is all this stuff doing on my computer", part II. I've just finished switching my portable...
Date: 09/12/2006
We’ve had these bits bouncing around for way too long, but now they’re finally linked to from the...
Date: 08/01/2006
The great thing about Microsoft webcasts is that they’re archived. So even if you miss the upcoming...
Date: 06/16/2006
Just a quick note that in 3 weeks, Chris Henley will be hosting a public webcast about SCCP 2006....
Date: 06/06/2006
I’m easing back into blogging after taking 6 months off – the good news is this means I’ve got a big...
Date: 05/04/2006
This is a catch-all post for user comments and questions about offline files, aka client-side...
Date: 03/01/2006
Short answer: System Center Capacity Planner is on TechNet disc 0422, which went out this month....
Date: 01/25/2006
I’ll be making lots of updates to the nonadmin wiki this week. Yesterday it was three months’ worth...
Date: 01/24/2006
I’m helping out on the SCCP booth at Exchange Connections in San Diego this week, and we’re handing...
Date: 11/01/2005
A week ago we updated the public beta of System Center Capacity Planner. This “beta refresh” of SCCP...
Date: 10/30/2005
Thanks to everyone who's blogged about our beta! Special kudos to Eileen Brown, Graham Chastney, Ian...
Date: 10/19/2005
The eagle-eyed will have noticed that the name of our product has changed from System Center...
Date: 10/09/2005
Marketing fluff follows. This is my baby. Grab the bits and kick the tires. Then tell us what to...
Date: 10/07/2005
Raymond Chen complains about the pass colors for this year’s MVP summit. Specifically, since they...
Date: 10/01/2005
Just a quick note to say that, like many other product teams, we'll be at the MVP Summit here in...
Date: 09/28/2005
We've done the "silly Microsoft product names" thing before, but in an internal discussion Larry...
Date: 08/05/2005
Frank Arrigo (Aussie Microsoft blogger extraordinaire) is impressed with how quickly the Wikipedia...
Date: 07/23/2005
...it's the amount I send. This was brought home to me five minutes ago. I'm sat at home, digging my...
Date: 07/15/2005
In an anonymous comment on “Patch for tcserver.exe memory leak on Tablet PC - at last!”, zzz asks:...
Date: 07/06/2005
Ever since the MSN team released their first beta toolbar with Windows Desktop Search, developers...
Date: 06/30/2005
BlogJet is a truly excellent blog-posting tool written by Dmitry Chestnykh (I've raved about it...
Date: 06/28/2005
All my posts for the past month have hit a bug in Community Server that strips out the leading...
Date: 06/26/2005
One of the nice things about working alongside 1,500 other bloggers is that if you let a thought go...
Date: 06/26/2005
Yesterday's Gnomedex demos by the Longhorn RSS team (who also chose that moment to come out of...
Date: 06/25/2005
Ryan Naraine has written a nice article for eWeek about non-admin security in XP. He notes that...
Date: 06/24/2005
Jeff Sandquist and his team have posted graphic evidence* of just how low some developers will go to...
Date: 06/21/2005
The program managers for Microsoft Operations Manager have started their own team blog, and they...
Date: 06/17/2005
Scoble has posted a fascinating Channel 9 video interview with David Ornstein. David describes what...
Date: 06/17/2005
MaxiVista is a software application that lets you use another PC – your laptop, for example – as an...
Date: 06/13/2005
I've ranted before about Microsoft product names, so it's nice to see that I'm in good company: CNET...
Date: 06/08/2005
Another vital resource has sprung up fully-formed on Channel 9 – the Patterns and Practices Security...
Date: 06/08/2005
Way back when, I wrote a couple of posts about ITIL and MOF (ITIL is an industry-standard set of...
Date: 05/29/2005
Tomorrow’s New York Times is running an article by Steve Lohr entitled “A Front-Runner at Microsoft,...
Date: 05/25/2005
I have an entire category about capacity planning, so it's probably time to define what capacity...
Date: 05/24/2005