Archive for May 2011

May
31

Welcome Michael Smith!

by amy

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We’d like to introduce you to the latest addition to our consulting team, Michael Smith. Michael is an Exchange guru. He is also the author of Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with System Center Operations Manager. 

Country and Time Zone (in GMT):
USA, EST, -5GMT

Areas of Expertise:
Exchange, Directory Services, System Center Operations Center

Certifications and Awards:
MVP Exchange
MCSE NT4/2000/2003
MCITP:EMA and SA
CCNA

Related Work Experience or Business Ownership:
Michael has had over 25 years of experience in the IT field and focuses on providing solutions that support customers goals for operational excellence.

Book:
Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with Operations Manager

Social Networking:

http://theessentialexchange.com

0 Categories : Announcement, Exchange, Michael
May
24

Live Presentation Tonight: Top 5 Migration Blockers

by dave

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ThirdTier’s Dave Shackelford will be presenting tonight at the Los Angeles PacITPros meeting on common migration blockers (both Exchange and AD) and how to get around them. He gave a similar presentation for the Orange County SMBTN meeting last week and it was well-attended.

Tonight’s meeting will be at BlankSpaces on Wilshire on May 24th at 6:30pm:

5405 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036

http://www.blankspaces.com/aboutus/map.php

0 Categories : Uncategorized
May
21

Ever wonder what DUMP_LOG_COORDINATOR_QUEUE wait is?

by edwin
If you've used wait statistics to do performance tuning on your SQL Server systems, I doubt that you would ever see this on your top waits (or if even shows up at all). You would rarely find anything on the Internet about this wait type, although, I did find a placeholder from SQLServerpedia for future information. However, if you have been heavily playing around with the SQL Server undocumented function fn_dump_dblog(), you may have seen this wait type. This occurs when you run this function to read your log backups. Janice Lee (a schoolmate of mine from way back home) blogged about using this function as an alternative to restoring to a point in time. While I did not use this function to do a point-in-time restore of a database, I did find it interesting seeing the DUMP_LOG_COORDINATOR_QUEUE wait type. I actually used it to estimate the amount of INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE commands executed on my database. While it is not pretty straightforward as compared to gathering performance counters, it's the only thing I can do especially if you were brought in for a one time consulting engagement and need to work with what you have.

Note that I did not run this in a production server so I have no issues running the undocumented function. Use it at your own risk.
Categories : Edwin Sarmiento
May
21

Ever wonder what DUMP_LOG_COORDINATOR_QUEUE wait is?

by edwin
If you've used wait statistics to do performance tuning on your SQL Server systems, I doubt that you would ever see this on your top waits (or if even shows up at all). You would rarely find anything on the Internet about this wait type, although, I did find a placeholder from SQLServerpedia for future information. However, if you have been heavily playing around with the SQL Server undocumented function fn_dump_dblog(), you may have seen this wait type. This occurs when you run this function to read your log backups. Janice Lee (a schoolmate of mine from way back home) blogged about using this function as an alternative to restoring to a point in time. While I did not use this function to do a point-in-time restore of a database, I did find it interesting seeing the DUMP_LOG_COORDINATOR_QUEUE wait type. I actually used it to estimate the amount of INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE commands executed on my database. While it is not pretty straightforward as compared to gathering performance counters, it's the only thing I can do especially if you were brought in for a one time consulting engagement and need to work with what you have.

Note that I did not run this in a production server so I have no issues running the undocumented function. Use it at your own risk.
Categories : Edwin Sarmiento
May
11

Cliff’s Great Article on Understanding the Difference Between SBS Standard and SBS Essentials

by amy

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SMB Nation has published Cliff Galiher’s article on understanding the difference between SBS 2011 Standard and SBS 2011 Essentials. While the names are the same, there are some very significant differences.

2011 will see a refresh of SBS, but it also brings us something new; a modification in SBS that poses the potential to be as game-changing as SBS itself. Small Business Server is no longer a single product, but has become a brand with three distinct products.

To read the full article: http://www.smbnation.com/Home/tabid/36/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/791/SBS_Standard_and_Essentials__Which_is_Right_for_You.aspx

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0 Categories : Cliff Galiher, SBS 2011, SMB Nation
May
6

SBS 2011 Launch Show Available for Download

by amy

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A couple of weeks ago Amy Babinchak and Charles Van Huesen recorded  an online version of the SBS 2011 Launch Road Show that has been touring the Country. Even if the show has already passed through your town, you’ll still want to tune in and this version has much more of partner bend to it.

Join us for an insider’s view of Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Standard and Premium. Learn how SBS 2011 can help you grow your business by addressing the IT needs of small and midsize business customers. Learn tips and tricks to help with server installation, configuration and data migration. Further, get an SBS MVP partner’s insider view on the new release. This is the virtual instance of our largely-attended “SBS 2011 Launch Tour.”

Presenters:
Charles Van Heusen (Partner Solutions Advisor)
Amy Babinchak (of Harbor Computer Services and Third Tier, SBS MVP and SBSC Partner Advisory Council Member)

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/contentserver/msrecordings/mtvchkt17sw1zs09/mtvchkt17sw1zs09.wmv

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So who wrote this blog and what do they do for a living anyway?
We’re Third Tier. We provide advanced Third Tier support for IT Professionals like you.

www.thirdtier.net/support

0 Categories : Amy Babinchak, SBS 2011

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