Mike Poulson's Thoughts on lots of stuff
Enumerating TFS Permissions for items within the TPC for audit and logging
https://www.mikepoulson.com/2014/04/enumerating-tfs-permissions-for-items.html
Date: 04/08/2014
A new pediatric oncology camp in Chicago
I have been working with a new pediatric oncology camp that is getting started in Chicago that will...
Date: 03/26/2014
Enumerating TFS 2012 Build ActivityLog via API
Check out the post at https://www.mikepoulson.com/2013/08/getting-detailed-tfs-build-log.html on how...
Date: 08/23/2013
Migrating TFS (2010 or 2012) Personal Queries from one project to another via Powershell
Over at my personal Blog I provide a powershell example of how users can migrate their personal TFS...
Date: 08/14/2013
Watching the "Big Game" cost me $.24 in power!
Check out part 2 of my Home power monitoring blog to see how I found out the cost to watch the "Big...
Date: 02/05/2012
VLan nembership management defect in Brocade Turbo Iron 10Gig ToR switch
As part of my automation solution I have created plugins to interact with network devices. While...
Date: 08/22/2011
Securing Server Racks with RFID at the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center
In 2009 the EEC was completing the it major remodel and part of our new design was to secure each...
Date: 08/16/2011
How to create differencing disk VM from template on SCVMM 2012 via PowerShell
Over at my personal blog (www.mikepoulson.com) I have a post on using Differencing Disks with an...
Date: 07/28/2011
Per Circuit home power monitoring
Check out my Home power monitoring post....
Date: 07/18/2011
Microsoft announces shutdown of hohm.microsoft.com
First google powermeter was shutdown now Microsoft Hohm. Where am I to view all my power monitoring...
Date: 06/30/2011
PASSED Exams: 70-693 and 70-652 in less than 24 hours
Yesterday I took and passed 70-652 (TS: Windows Server Virtualization, Configuring) and today I took...
Date: 12/17/2010
Configuring Dell EqualLogic management interface
https://www.mikepoulson.com/archive/2010/11/01/configuring-dell-equallogic-management-interface.aspx
Date: 11/01/2010
Brocade Announces Unified Mgmt Platform for IP and SAN networks
Today, Brocade announced our new unified management platform—Brocade Network Advisor—the...
Date: 09/15/2010
L2TPv3 performance tweaks for GeoCluster Live Migration
L2TPv3 is a great feature for extending a Layer2 network across sites. This is very useful when you...
Date: 09/15/2010
Blog moved to new home https://www.mikepoulson.com
Well I am back at Microsoft. :) I will start posting new things but it will be at...
Date: 02/07/2008
Managing Microsoft IIS, Active Directory and DNS from .net
Update 7/17/2011: New links Update 8/23/2013: Fixed links Today I am posting sample code on how to...
Date: 11/10/2006
My last post
Today is my last day at Microsoft. In an attempt to save time by not crossing the 520 bridge I am...
Date: 11/10/2006
Media Center 2005 and the DirecTV D11 Set-top-Box (getting IR to work) v2
I have had lots of people ping me for additional help on my original post at...
Date: 09/21/2006
RedvsBlue Season 4 DVDs arrived
Today out of the blue I got a DHL box delivered to me that contained a few copies of redvsblue...
Date: 06/02/2006
ISP Scenario hosting team is Hiring a Full time Operations Administrator
Shoot me mail mpoulson at microsoft dot com with your resume. Full job description: Do you want to...
Date: 05/31/2006
For the love of god Encrypt your hard drive!
How much more personal information must be stolen or miss placed by companies before people learn to...
Date: 05/22/2006
How to hard reset a Tornado based Smart Phone (Cingular 2125 or TMobile SDA)
These are the steps to do a hard reset of your HTC tornado/Faraday based Smartphone. When you do...
Date: 05/19/2006
How to speed up those Queries to MicrosoftDNS with WMI
So there are many key things to remember when creating your WMI queries make them as specific as you...
Date: 05/10/2006
DSL testing on campus Part 2 of 2 (the NEW way)
This is part 2 of a 2 part post. Post two: The NEW way of doing DSL on campus About 2 years ago me...
Date: 05/09/2006
Hotfix required to get Exchange OWA to work on Vista
Vista removed some DHTML support that was used in Exchange 2000/2003 OWA. To get it to work...
Date: 05/03/2006
Limiting what databases users can see in SQL 2k5
https://weblogs.asp.net/hosterposter/archive/2006/03/22/440886.aspx
Date: 04/21/2006
Live Bald Eagle Cam
So up in Canada (one of the best places on earth) there are 2 Bald Eagles with 2 eggs. There is a...
Date: 04/11/2006
T-Mobile T-Zone settings for WM5 smartphones
These are the settings to get T-Mobile TZones to work. Also note that these are the settings if you...
Date: 04/05/2006
invoking IIsApplicationPool.EnumAppsInPool may result in 'Unknown name' exception
So if you are using ADSI to invoke EnumAppsInPool to get all the applications assigned to a given...
Date: 03/15/2006
Media Center 2005 and the DirecTV D11 Set-top-Box (getting IR to work)
So today I got my a new D11 Set top box (STB) from DirecTV. I put it in place and then started up...
Date: 03/10/2006
How does IIS generate the Site ID?
So in IIS 6 when you create a new site programmatically you have the option to specify a SiteID or...
Date: 03/06/2006
Don't assume the SQL user is a DBO
Following up to my other post https://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/03/06/544576.aspx. When...
Date: 03/06/2006
Don't write that application in Full Trust
If you are writing an ASP.NET web application that is to be used in a hosted environment (like a...
Date: 03/06/2006
When using IIS adsi and IIS:// IIS must be installed
If you are using ADSI to manage your IIS servers via .net you need to make sure IIS is installed on...
Date: 03/03/2006
Before the Fall = Another Great Movie
Yesterday the SO, some friends and myself went to the U district here in Seattle to see Before The...
Date: 02/25/2006
5 Years at MSFT and I get a Crystal from the SuperMan Movie
Has it been that long? I started as a contractor in Aug of 2000, 6 months later I was a FTE. Name...
Date: 02/08/2006
Adding a system path to a Windows Mobile 5 Smart phone
You can add paths to HKLM\Loader\SystemPath as a Multi_value String. For example \Storage...
Date: 01/30/2006
Cingular 2125 Wifi and AKU2
So it has been confirmed that the WiFi Radio in the 2125 does NOT exist. So that means there is not...
Date: 01/25/2006
Smartphone dialing 911 even when Locked?
Modify the regkey HKLM\Security\ECall with your fav reg editor. It is a multi-Value string with the...
Date: 01/25/2006
Keep those old Compaq DL 360G1 Power Supplies
My team has a bunch of old DL360 G1 server that we are planning on getting rid of. They have all had...
Date: 01/25/2006
Watching Divx and WMA Pro 5.1 movies on your v1 Media Center Extender
So the only problem I have with my V1 media Center Extender is that my movies (DVDs that I have...
Date: 01/23/2006
PC based registry editor for Windows Mobile 5 SmartPhone
Requires the .net FrameWork 1.1 Runs on the host PC...
Date: 01/16/2006
Page down and up in Pocket IE on your SmartPhone
https://www.modaco.com/Scrolling_in_Pocket_IE-t231431.html...
Date: 01/16/2006
Bill Clinton and new Microsoft CEO?
Don't ask me I have no clue if it is true or not. But still interesting to think about....
Date: 01/13/2006