Darryl Russi's Blog

Debugging Tip: Viewing Address of Managed Code

Ever need to write managed code that then talked to unmanaged code elsewhere? Sometimes when...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 02/07/2012

Challenges in Test–Ensuring Testability/Influencing Design

Products are primarily designed for customers, yet a test team must test these products. Who is...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 08/30/2011

Challenges in Test – Impeccable Infrastructure

In order to test a product there is always a fair amount of infrastructure needed to keep the wheels...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 08/22/2011

Challenges in Test–Proving your feature

Technorati Tags: SDET,Test When you take on a feature to test, how does one prove it is right? ...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 08/15/2011

Pasting Code

I have been looking around for a bit for a way to paste code for blog posts.  My requirements...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 05/09/2011

DataContract Serialization with Generics & Read-only Properties

Recently I have been messing around with figuring out how to serialize some data back & forth...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 05/04/2011

Challenges in Test – Knowing your customer

So you know your product & the code, what else is there?  Your customer!  They are the...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 03/22/2011

Challenges in Test – Knowing the code & sometimes ignoring it

A tester just needs to master the art of understanding their product & then file bugs based on...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 03/14/2011

Challenges in Test – Knowing Your Product

So you accepted the challenge of being a tester, got your machine setup with the latest version of...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 03/07/2011

Challenges in Test – Introduction

This time of year at Microsoft is when we have what we call our Mid Year Career Discussion (MYCD)....

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 02/28/2011

FIM Service Database size data point

It is an exciting time as customers plan & start to roll out their FIM 2010 deployments. ...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 02/04/2010

Extending FIM Timeouts

When building out your deployment there may be cases where you want to extend the default timeouts...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 02/02/2010

FIM 2010 RC1 – Update 3 Available

The latest update & last one prior to RTM has been posted to connect.  A few highlights...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 02/01/2010

FIM 2010 RC1 - Update 2 Available

You can find the latest update for FIM 2010 RC1 making it’s way out via Microsoft Update now. ...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 12/09/2009

Configuring FIM Client with Multiple Servers

In my previous post, I covered Server Partitions which showed how to setup multiple servers in your...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 12/06/2009

Service Partitions - Multiple Middle Tiers, Request & Workflow Processing

One of the updates found in FIM 2010 RC1 Update 1 as David points out is the ability to ensure...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 11/22/2009

FIM 2010 RC1 – Update 1 Available

You can now find FIM 2010 RC1 Update1 making its way out via Microsoft update. This is a cumulative...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 11/18/2009

FIM 2010 Performance Testing – Scale & Load

Scale For the discussion of scale the first question is the number of users & groups you expect...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 10/22/2009

FIM 2010 Performance Testing – Policy Objects

Policy Objects are the heart of your deployment where you will implement the business logic...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 10/13/2009

FIM 2010 Performance Testing - Hardware

My goal with this post is to give you some data on the type of hardware we are using internally for...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 10/09/2009

FIM 2010 Performance Testing - Topology

Customers have very different deployment needs for their product, all of these driven based on their...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 10/06/2009

FIM 2010 Performance Testing - Introduction

One of the areas I have been focused on recently has been testing the performance of our...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 10/01/2009

FIM 2010 RC1 Released

Today FIM 2010 RC1 has been released. There have been alot of improvements since RC0 which we...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 09/30/2009

Introduction

After about 7 years at Microsoft, I have decided to join the role of bloggers.  As such I...

Author: Darryl Russi Date: 09/29/2009