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SMB3 Networking Links for Windows Server 2012 R2
Someone asked me for a good collection of links about SMB3 Networking, including SMB Multichannel, SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA) and SMB Performance. Here’s what I offered: SMB Multichannel TechEd 2012...
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What’s new in SMB 3.1.1 in the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2
1. IntroductionEvery new version of Windows brings updates to our main remote file protocol, known as SMB (Server Message Block).If you’re not familiar with it, you can find some information in this...
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Twenty years as a Microsoft Certified Professional – time flies when you’re...
I just noticed that last week was the 20th anniversary of my first Microsoft certification. I had to travel nearly 500 miles (from Fortaleza to Recife) to reach the closest official testing center...
View ArticleRaw notes from the Storage Developer Conference 2015 (SNIA SDC 2015)
Notes and disclaimers: This blog post contains raw notes for some of the SNIA’s SDC 2015 presentations (SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2015) These notes were typed during the talks and they may...
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My Top Reasons to Use OneDrive
As you might have noticed, I am now in the OneDrive team. Since I’ve been here for a few months, I think I earned the right to start sharing a few blogs about OneDrive. I’ll do that over the next few...
View ArticlePerhaps OneDrive
Perhaps OneDrive Perhaps OneDrive’s like a place to save A shelter from the storm It exists to keep your files In their clean and tidy form And in those times of trouble When your PC is gone The...
View ArticlePowerShell for finding the size of your local OneDrive folder
I would just like to share a couple of PowerShell scripts to find the size of your local OneDrive folder. Note that this just looks at folders structures and does not interact with the OneDrive sync...
View ArticleThe ABC language, thirty years later…
Back in March 1986, I was in my second year of college (Data Processing at the Universidade Federal do Ceara in Brazil). I was also teaching programming night classes at a Brazilian technical school....
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Splitting logs with PowerShell
I did some work to aggregate some logs from a group of servers for the whole month of February. This took a while, but I ended up with a nice CSV file that I was ready to load into Excel to create some...
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Build 2016 videos related to OneDrive
Here is an unofficial list of Build 2016 videos that are related to OneDrive: Session Title: OneDrive API – Overview, What’s New, and Scenarios Presenter: Sean Maloney Description: Overview of the...
View ArticleVisuality Systems and Microsoft expand SMB collaboration to storage systems
Last week, Microsoft and Visuality Systems announced an expanded collaboration on SMB. Visuality is well known for their work supporting the SMB protocol in embedded devices. If you own a printer or...
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SNIA’s SDC 2016: Public slides and live streaming for Storage Developer...
SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference (SDC 2016) is happening this week in Santa Clara, CA. This developer-focused conference cover several storage topics like Cloud, File Systems, NVM, Storage...
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PowerShell script organizes pictures in your OneDrive camera roll folder
I just published a new PowerShell script that organizes pictures in your OneDrive camera roll folder. It creates folders named after the year and month, then moves picture files to them. Existing files...
View ArticleInteresting OOF messages
It’s that time of the year when everyone is taking time off and some of us will leave out-of-office messages. The typical boring OOF (shouldn’t they be called OOO or OoOf?) should tell when you’re...
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My top tweets from 2016
These are my top tweets from each month in 2016, according to https://analytics.twitter.com. January 2016 New blog post: My Top Reasons to Use OneDrive...
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Loading CSV/text files with more than a million rows into Excel
1. The Problem If you usually load a very large CSV (comma-separated values) file or text file into Excel, you might run into the dreaded “File not loaded completely” message: As the message explains,...
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Using PowerShell to generate a large test CSV file with random data
I recently posted a new blog that shows how to load a very large CSV file into Excel, breaking the limit of 1 million rows in a single Excel sheet. If you haven’t seen it, you should check it out:...
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My top tweets from 2017
These are my top tweets from each month in 2017, according to https://analytics.twitter.com. January 2017 Top Tweet (earned 4,849 impressions) Free Azure training via Microsoft on Open edX. These are...
View ArticlePath to the Server (An Ode to SMB Multichannel)
Read while listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXQUu5Dti4g Path to the Server On Ode to SMB Multichannel by Jose Barreto There’s a client somewhere looking for file shares And it’s...
View ArticleLinks about OneDrive Ransomware Detection and OneDrive Files Restore
Announcements Office Blogs: Defend yourself from cybercrime with new Office 365 capabilities By Kirk Koenigsbauer, Corporate Vice President for Office, Microsoft...
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