Archive for November, 2010

VCAP-DCA Study Guide

Posted: 29th November 2010 by neil in VCAP-DCA, Virtualization
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Sean Crookston, an IT Consultant has released an absolutely brilliant study guide for those looking to study got VMWARE’s VCAP-DCA. You can view and download it from here: http://www.vfail.net/vcap-dca/ http://www.vfail.net/vcap-dca-studyguide-ver3.pdf

How to move a WSS 3.0 Sharepoint Database

Posted: 29th November 2010 by neil in Sharepoint
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If you install WSS 3.0 and you install the default SQL Server Express edition you do not get an option to install the database to a specific location. By default the database is installed in C:\Windows\SYSMSI\SSEE\MSSQL.2005\MSSQL\Data.  If you have it installed on server hardware with drives configured for best performance and redundancy i.e. RAID 1 [...]

Performance Tuning Windows Server 2008 R2

Posted: 7th November 2010 by neil in Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2
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Tim Newton from the performance team at Microsoft has written 2 really good articles on how to monitor and tune performance on Windows Server 2008 R2. He goes into counters, CPU, memory, pagefiles etc etc. Definitely worth a read http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2010/08/06/performance-tuning-windows-server-2008-r2-pt-1.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2010/11/05/performance-tuning-windows-server-2008-r2-pt-2.aspx

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