Brian's Blog
Azure One Stop Reference Guide
I wanted to write a post on Azure but did not want to repeat information that is already available....
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 11/19/2010
Virtualization and Cloud Part 2
In my last post I talked about how Virtualization is one of the key underlying technologies that...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 09/27/2010
Virtualization and Cloud Part 1
Much has been written about Cloud and how it will change everything. Almost everyone finds a way to...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 09/10/2010
Free Deployment help for Windows Server 2008
Windows Sever 2008 is out the door, Hyper-V has shipped and SQL 2008 is not far behind. Customers...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 07/18/2008
Read-Only Domain Controller
For this post I would like to talk about one of the new features to Active Directory (AD) that ships...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 06/09/2008
Make your apps highly available with Hyper-V and Server 2008 failover Cluster
Many applications are now required to run 24X7 with little or no downtime. They are also expected to...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 04/22/2008
Hyper-V Beta is in Windows Server 2008
The launch of Windows Server 2008 has come and gone and you can now download RTM version of Server...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 03/05/2008
WS 2008 App Compat
Windows Server 2008 is almost out the door. So one big question is will your applications run on...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 01/30/2008
A Look at Server Core in Windows Server 2008
RC0 for Windows Server 2008 is out. If you don’t already have it you can download it from the...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 10/29/2007
Using ServerManagerCmd
Longhorn is now officially Windows Server 2008. Beta 3 is now out and you can download the beta from...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 08/03/2007
New Job New Post
Just looked and saw that my last post was Oct. 2006. Time sure flys by. Let's see what has changed....
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 06/11/2007
Custom Validation Rule for Web Test
The other day someone on the Team System Testing forum posted a question about Web Test validation...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 10/02/2006
Programmatically get Work Items from TFS
My manager needed a report on bugs (work items) in TFS (Team Foundation Server). The bugs were in...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 09/19/2006
Unit Testing on Vista's IIS
Ok you are now unit testing your web service and everything is going fine. So now you decide that...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 09/13/2006
Save Time by Unit testing your webservices
Ok folks here we go, the first post on my new blog. My current job at Microsoft is a Developer Tools...
Author: Brian Combs MSFT Date: 09/06/2006