This came across my desk a few weeks back, but I thought I’d post about it after I had a chance to look over it. It’s good value – i.e. free and you can’t knock that. Now a number of these books are developer focused, but there’s still some great content in there for non developers too. Here’s the two posts where you can get your free Microsoft eBooks from … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2012
How to troubleshoot slow Internet surfing.
There’s a lot of things that go on under the covers of a domain joined computer that you just don’t realise most of the time. One of the recent things I was involved in today was the investigation of a client network that had slow internet. Here’s how the problem was investigated. From the users desktop – see exactly how the problem manifests itself. For … [Read more...]
Performance Testing Windows Servers as a NAS
Over the last two nights, I’ve shown you performance testing I’ve done on non Windows based NAS devices, Windows based NAS devices and now tonight, on pure Windows Servers. In my test environment I’ve got a couple of servers configured as just Windows Servers, ie – no Domain Controller roles or anything else. HP ML110G6 – this has 2 x 250GB SATA drives in a RAID 1 … [Read more...]
Performance testing Windows based NAS devices
Following on from last nights article about Performance Testing of non Windows based NAS devices, tonight, I’ll give you some results of some of the NAS devices that are based on Windows. As I said last night, this is all about getting a general feel for the performance of these devices vs categorical winners and losers and it’s based on what I happen to have in my lab / … [Read more...]
Performance Testing non Windows based NAS devices
I decided to do some very basic performance testing of non Windows based NAS devices that I’ve got here at in my lab / production network. The aim of this is not to come up with a winner or loser, but to understand what levels of performance I might expect from these NAS devices. I’ll break this testing up into two categories, and tonight's blog post will feature the non … [Read more...]