Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA) is a great feature of Windows Server 2012 and up.

I have been writing some Bash scripts recently using VSCode and I kept getting the error + $’\r’ : command not found when I went to run them in the console (Bash on Windows).

Groups are something that took me a while to get my head round.

Containments help you populate groups as well as structure Distributed Applications (DAs).

I often trawl event logs to work out how long a server has been up.

If you don’t licence Service Manager 2012 R2 when you install it and forgot to do so before the 180 days runs out, your in trouble.

Microsoft implemented Dynamic Fair Share of CPU in RDS 2008R2. This makes sure that you don’t get one greedy user, hogging all the CPU.

After you have created a Windows Server 2012 R2 failover cluster you may receive event id 1196 errors in Cluster Events.

We run Exchange 2010 with Outlook 2010 clients. Recently we had a weird problem where Outlook was showing the mailbox was approaching it’s 200MB limit, even though the mailbox size limits in Exchange had been increased to more than this (500mb Warn , 600Mb Send and 700MB Prohibit Send and Receive).

I’ve started authoring SCOM management packs as part of a project I’m working on.