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I'm doing quite a bit of development from home at the moment, and using my old laptop with its single core 1.2GHz processor and 1GB RAM just wasn't productive as I spent more time waiting for Windows to page memory from the swapfile than I did actually working. Of course, it doesn't help...
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The most important performance factor in a BizTalk environment is the SAN and the way it is configured. I’ve tuned a few enterprise BizTalk systems and in most cases the ultimate (and usually unsolvable by this time) bottleneck has been the disk write queue length on the database disk volume(s). Using...
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At my house I have a bit of a north pole theme with my hardware naming conventions. The laptop I'm writing this on is called ICECAP, my media center is called GLACIER, and my desktop is called ICEBERG. Even my wireless network is called AURORA BOREALIS. Now this is a bit of fun in a home environment...
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This is my first post directly to the new Community Server 2007 platform for this website; previous blog entries from the old site will be migrated as I get the chance. So as it's a new platform I thought I'd do something I haven't done before and post a non-technical entry about the new...