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Hyper-V is amazing – you can do pretty much anything with a VM when it’s online now – even move it to an entirely new host with no shared anything. Apart from change the amount of memory in the VM! (Yes, I know about dynamic...
Read the noteShadow Copies can be a lifesaver – when used correctly. They are not a replacement for backups, but can sometimes stop you reaching for that backup tape stored in the depths of the IT office (yes, in that cupboard!). I recently...
Read the noteI had an example over the weekend whereby I needed to run a PowerShell command at a certain time due to a maintenance window. Rather than using task scheduler, as this was a one-off, I decided to use PowerShell to achieve this....
Read the noteSometimes you just want to see how much free memory is on each of your cluster nodes. Here’s a quick powershell line to report that back:
Read the noteA look back at RDStat, a collection of tools I built to show users the load on a Remote Desktop cluster. This legacy package is preserved here as a project history.
Read the noteThere are times when you have a bright idea and think “I wonder if someone has done that before”. Well earlier this week I had one of those moments! Our remote desktop infrastructure was crawling to a halt – it has become so...
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