8 April 2010 0 Comments

Part 1: How Microsoft IT using Configuration Manager Dashboard?

Today Configuration Manager Dashboard was released worldwide. One of the great feature of this solution is that it is customizable and extensible dashboard solution to view key Configuration Manager Datasets within a single summarized dashboard

1 April 2010 0 Comments

Chem4Word : Introducing Chemistry Add-in for Word

For those interested in adding chemical symbols to documents – checkout the Chem4Word project , you can install the Chem4Word add-in which utilizes the Chemical Markup Language and makes it easier for students, chemists and researchers to insert and modify chemical information, such as labels, formulas and 2-D depictions. Introducing Chemistry Add-in for Word Every discipline has its own language. The ability to communicate and collaborate in a discipline-specific language is essential to scientific research, especially in an environment characterized by staggering volumes of data

1 April 2010 0 Comments

Basic analysis of an unmanaged memory dump (C++)

Properly collecting a User Mode memory dump is only the first step in uncovering the cause of a crash or hang.   The remainder of this post will assume that you have already configured WinDBG correctly and captured a memory dump using the techniques outlined in previous posts.   For the purpose of this posting we will assume the following scenario

31 March 2010 0 Comments

SSAS Profiler Scheduler

I have been asked by many customers and seen in many social sites, people were asking about the procedure of scheduling SSAS profiler traces so one fine day thought of writing a utility. I have developed a small application which will help in scheduling SSAS Profiler Tracing using predefined Trace Template. This Utility can be useful if you want to collect traces for an issue which occurs during weekend or night time when nobody is available in office to manually Start / Stop Traces.

28 March 2010 0 Comments

Configuration Manager Site Roles versus Core Service Delivery Impact

Last week I was working with service management team for defining the service impact in Microsoft IT for the services which are dependent on Configuration Manager. The Configuration Manager has multiple site roles and each site role has its own importance for service delivery