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...
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...
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...
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? ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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. ...
Date: 02/04/2010
Extending FIM Timeouts
When building out your deployment there may be cases where you want to extend the default timeouts...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Date: 09/30/2009
Introduction
After about 7 years at Microsoft, I have decided to join the role of bloggers. As such I...
Date: 09/29/2009