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IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please see my updated blog post on this topic for OneDrive for Business: http://mmman.itgroove.net/2014/08/how-to-check-your-onedrive-for-business-usage/ Checking your Skydrive Pro Quota (usage) can be a pain, as there’s no real easy way to know how much of your quota you’re using.  As it turns out, you can follow the steps below. Go to your SkyDrive …

Power BI has reached a new milestone going full plaid… err, more like General Availability.  Of course, it’s not generally useful to anyone who’s not at least partially using Office 365.  The link to the GA announcement is below.  The pricing is a bit wowsers until you start to realize what you’re getting for that …

New FREE eBooks from Microsoft. Full Details available here or see below. Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2Mitch Tulloch with Symon Perriman and the System Center teamJanuary 2014180 pages Get a high-level overview of System Center 2012 R2—and get a running start transforming your datacenter and cloud-optimizing your business. This guide introduces core features and …

You can update firmware on Dell servers that are NOT running Windows using either the Dell Server Build disk along with the latest copy of the Dell Server Update Utility disk (monster download, so be prepared to wait for it) OR using the UEFI BIOS (System Services) and the Dell Server Update Utility disk. The …

Many thanks to this URL for the details: http://royal.pingdom.com/royalfiles/pingdom_uptime_cheat_sheet.pdf Uptime (percent) Downtime per month Downtime per year 100% 0m 0m 99.999% 0.4m 5m 99.99% 4m 52m 99.9% 43m 8h 46m 99.8% 1h 26m 17h 31m 99.7% 2h 10m 1d 2h 17m 99.6% 2h 53m 1d 11h 2m 99.5% 3h 36m 1d 19h 48m 99.4% 4h …

Last night our daughter needed help with her math homework. Conveniently, I had to run out the door so I left Sean in charge of helping her. I have to say, normally I don’t feel like it’s been that long since I’ve been out of middle school, but apparently since I left there in the …

Recently I needed to be able to remove a known string from the end of a text column in PowerPivot.  In my case, I had a client column, and in some cases the client column contained values with a colon and X on the end (such as “Bob’s Fishery:X”).  Using the expression below, I was …

I’ve found that when using the DAX search function that I often need to include the two optional parameters (“start num” and “not found value”).  SEARCH(<find_text>, <within_text>[, [<start_num>][, <NotFoundValue>]]) I’ll explain the reasoning behind my statement.  What I’ve found when not using the optional parameters, if that if you have no matching value from your …

If you have been following my blog over the last little while you will know that I have faced a few challenges with Veeam in terms of setting up remote jobs (backups across the WAN).  Well, I think I finally have some good news. I was originally trying to do full Veeam backups of ESXi …

Sonicwall firewalls are all capable of supporting site-to-site VPN connections to other firewalls and each firewall model has a specified maximum number of tunnels that it can support.  From 5 tunnels on a TZ105 through to 10,000 on the SuperMassive Series (ooooo, I want one of these for Christmas!!!!), they all work in the same …