Software FX has a tremendous deal going on right now. Not only do you get a great product for half price but all the proceeds will go to the people in Haiti. PowerGadgets is a great tool that allows you to build custom gadgets that are powered by several different data sources. The data could be from WMI, Exchange, SQL, or just about anywhere else. Follow the link below to find out more about PowerGadgets and the great deal going on.
Software FX PowerGadgets For Haiti Special
http://www.softwarefx.com//regionalpromotions/landing.aspx/?sPromotionCode=PGHAITI
Software FX PowerGadgets main site
http://www.softwarefx.com/sfxSqlProducts/powerGadgets/
PowerScripting Podcast had Clint Huffman on their show last week. The final recording was put up last night and now can be listened to. Clint did a great job talking about the PAL tool that he ported over to PowerShell version 2.0. The interview goes into how Clint did it and some of the roadblocks he ran into. Clint also hinted that the next beta version of PAL should be out in the near future. Clint also briefly talked about how you can do some IIS log analysis but is not part of PAL yet. Clint did take the time to talk about this on his blog. Check out the links below and if you are not a current user of PAL you should check it out.
PowerScripting Podcast
http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/episode-97-clint-huffman-and-his-pal-project/
Clint Huffman’s Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/clinth/
Pal On Codeplex
http://pal.codeplex.com/
When you collect performance data from perfmon you have a choice to save the file as a certain format. The most common format I run across is .blg. This format works great when you looking at the performance data through perfmon. Sometimes though it would be nice to pull this data into excel or another program in order to manipulate the data. This is were the program from Microsoft called Relog can be used. It has to be run from the command prompt. Below is the command that would need to be run in order to convert a .blg file to a .csv file. The process is quick and easy.
relog filname.blg -f CSV -o newfile.csv
