Author Archives: brian.wuchner

SRM with vSphere Replication & the not so detailed exception

Posted on July 16, 2012 by brian.wuchner

I have been working on an SRM lab for the Indianapolis VMUG Demo Day event — which is on Thursday July 26th. If you are going to be in the area you should check out this free event (please register … Continue reading →

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VMware View 5.1 and Windows 7

Posted on July 3, 2012 by brian.wuchner

I have been working on a VMware View lab environment for the Indianapolis VMUG Demo Day event. If you are going to be in the Indianapolis Indiana area on Thursday, July 26th 2012, you should stop by and check out … Continue reading →

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Improving performance with Get-MailboxFolderStatistics

Posted on June 19, 2012 by brian.wuchner

In a previous post I mentioned some performance improvements I made in an Exchange script that used Get-MailboxFolderStatistics. A portion of this script selected the size (in megabytes) of the top 5 folders in each users mailbox. I made a … Continue reading →

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Improving SQL Update/Insert performance

Posted on June 14, 2012 by brian.wuchner

I was recently reviewing a Powershell script that had slow performance. The script used Get-MailboxFolderStatistics to pull information from an Exchange Server environment and insert (or update) a record in a SQL database based off the email address. The code … Continue reading →

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Get Regular Expression matches

Posted on June 8, 2012 by brian.wuchner

Recently I was given a task at work…someone pointed at a haystack and asked me to find a needle. Actually, the task involved reading the body of hundreds of email messages looking for telephone numbers. Regular expressions and powershell make … Continue reading →

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