Building a Scale-Out SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Farm using Windows Network Load Balancing Part 1

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a series of articles on building a scale-out SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Farm. Part 1 of this series is already available on MSSQLTips.com. This was inspired by the SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster installation series as I’ve been searching for available guides online […]

Configuring Alternate Access Mapping in SharePoint 2010

It took me quite a while to get back to writing articles for both MSSQLTips and MSSharePointTips. Now, I’m back and the first article to be published this year is all about configuring alternate access mappings on SharePoint 2010. Check out the article here. There’s a corresponding PowerShell command to do the same task so watch out […]

Disaster Recovery Is More Than Just Technology Part 3: The Lion, The Switch and The Wardrobe

You were in your favourite bar one Saturday night when, suddenly, you hear your mobile phone ring. You pick up the phone and heard the sound of a screaming voice on the other end (no, it’s not your wife telling you to go home and take out the trash). The background noise is preventing you […]

Check for Free Space on your Drives – LazyAdmin PowerShell version

When tasked to automate a task, I rely on my scripting background to get the job done. Back then, it was all VBScript. Now that more and more customers are moving to Windows Server 2008 servers, I try to convince my customers to use PowerShell for all their scripting needs. A few weeks back, a […]