ALM Rocks!

In Orchestrator 2012, you have runbook servers that execute your runbooks. Those runbook servers have throttling limits, that limit the maximum amount of concurrent runbooks that can run on a runbook server. By default, this value is 50, but it can be increased/decreased, depending on your environment. If your primary  [ Read More ]

Let’s face it, now more than ever there is a LOT of data our there, about us, about our customers, about pretty much anything. And this data is being generated faster than ever before.  But the biggest problem is, how do we consume that data? How do we “unlock the  [ Read More ]

My talk day is finally here! Watch the video here (after it is recorded today, of course). Download the PPT and Demo Files here. Remember, I’m giving away chocolate at my talk!  I’ll see you there!

So my talk day is getting closer and closer.  I’ve run through the demos twice, and added a new demo that I originally wasn’t planning to do. I’m excited about this talk. It has the same title as last year’s talk, but there are some new ideas in there, as  [ Read More ]

I’m working on rebuilding my local lab environment.  One of the pieces that I need for that environment is an Exchange Server.  I’m not proficient with Exchange, but I figured the installation couldn’t be that bad.  And for the most part it was not.  However, the installation kept failing every  [ Read More ]

This has been an exciting week if you are a Visual Studio or Team Foundation Server user.  Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 both launched on Wednesday, September 12.  Microsoft had a huge launch event in Seattle for it, and even created a new website around the launch,  [ Read More ]