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Understanding Content Management storage options in Config Manager 2012
First-time blogger Arnold Gagnon describes Content Management Storage Options in System Center...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/26/2012
PSA: When good clocks go bad!
Mark Morowczynski posted about a developing situation where the public usno.navy.mil time clock...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/19/2012
Windows Azure IaaS – how to build and upload a custom Virtual Machine template
Did you know that Windows Azure now offers a preview Infrastructure as as Service (IaaS) Virtual...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/12/2012
Bruce continues to learn Windows Server 2012 (and wants to drag you along with him)
There’s no better way to learn something than to teach someone else! (With some possible...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/07/2012
Set up Incident Management with System Center 2012 Service Manager
PFE Antoni Hanus posted a getting-started-quickly guide on System Center Service Management for...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/07/2012
Backing up your PC or Physical to Virtual
Joao Botto, a Premier Field Engineer from the United States, writes about different backup and...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/05/2012
File Share witness vs Disk witness for local clusters
This article was contributed by Ryan Doon, a PFE working at Microsoft Canada. Clustering in Windows...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/05/2012
Getting started with IPv6
This article has been written by Gregg O'Brien, who works as a Premier Field Engineer in Microsoft...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/01/2012
Prioritizing OpsMgr alerts using Distributed Applications
Michel Audet, a Premier Field Engineer from Microsoft Canada, tackles the very important issue of...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/22/2012
VDI: Want to jam more virtual hosts in?
What can be said about Jeff Stokes (Dude, where’s my PFE!?) that hasn’t been said before? My money’s...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/18/2012
CRM 2011 Upgrade Best Practices
If you’re looking at an upgrade to CRM 2011, you could do far worse than to check out...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/18/2012
Security, Security, Security, Security!
Lots of security-related news to catch up on. (Ed note: I’m one of the developers/maintainers of the...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/16/2012
Beauty Contest: What’s a good-looking boot?
Well, I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like. And I like it when the boots are...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/15/2012
Deploy iOS and Android Apps? We do that?
That was my reaction, anyway! According to Matt from ConfigMgrDogs, yep, we do that! With all of the...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/10/2012
Faking Internet Connectivity for your Lab (Tricking NCSI)
Sometimes, you’d do anything to keep your connection icons tidy! Chad (from the Canberra PFE team)...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/09/2012
Kerberos in Load Balanced (MSCRM) Environments
A topic very near and dear to my heart, after years of writing about Kerb (Kerbie Goes Bananas),...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/04/2012
Cloning, rolling back, and snapshotting Virtual DCs with Windows Server 2012
Tom at AskPfePlat has put some time in to looking at virtualized Domain Controller support in...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/01/2012
Monitor Windows Server 2012 from SCOM 2007R2 with a new MP
Monsieur Holman brings word of a Base OS MP Update. Lets talk for a minute about Windows Server...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/27/2012
What You Should Know About Geographically Dispersed Exchange High Availability and FSW
Written by Jaroslav Zikmund, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. This article discusses the...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/27/2012
Xperf Xpertise vs WDIServiceHost
Mark at AskPFEPlat digs into an Xperf startup trace and talks through identification of normal vs...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/26/2012
Groom your SQL Server for its ongoing health
Pedro Azevedo Lopes shares his prescription for a better-looking SQL Server in his post About...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/24/2012
Boot Tracing for Windows XP (or: why’s it taking so long?)
Get the impression that PFE work with performance a lot? Well, we do. We try to ensure that whatever...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/24/2012
How To Let Proxy Users Specify Alternate Credentials with Forefront TMG 2010
You're using Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (a.k.a. TMG 2010) as a proxy server and want...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/24/2012
Howto: Boot tracing for Windows 7 (so it’s right the first time)
Perf PFE Jeff Stokes provides some simple steps that should produce a good boot trace for a Windows...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/20/2012
How to Create a Graphical Event Log Viewer with PowerShell
In a follow-up to his popular post on How To Create Video Games Using PowerShell, Jeff Adkin, a...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/20/2012
Enriched Remote Access experience in Windows Server 2012
Article written by Aydin Aslaner, a Premier Field Engineer based in Dubai (UAE). He is a...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/19/2012
Measure Boot Performance with the Windows Assessment and Deployment Toolkit
Article written by Bhumit Shah, Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft India, who specializes in tuning...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/19/2012
How to: Ensure Hyper-V live migrations move at “Warp Speed!”
David Hail over at the PFE Virtualization Blog notes a correlation between BIOS power state settings...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/17/2012
How To Expand Your Stand-Alone Primary Site With ConfigMgr 2012 SP1
Article written by Santos Martinez, a US-based Microsoft Premier Field Engineer and resident...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/14/2012
Are your AD site link descriptions (too) messy?
Not any more, they’re not! As long as you take Ashley McGlone’s advice in Freaky neat Active...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/13/2012
System Center 2012 SP1 beta out now
While filling us in on his weekend plans, Rhoderick accidentally lets slip that System Center 2012...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/11/2012
How To Create Video Games Using PowerShell
Just in case you thought PowerShell was just for automating administrative tasks, Jeff Adkin, a...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/10/2012
Why Exchange Databases Might Remain Dirty After ESEUTIL /R Recovery
You’re trying to recover your Exchange database from the “dirty shutdown” state to “clean...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/06/2012
SharePoint 2010 Management Shell - .Net 4.0 runtime version error
Written by Tamer Maher El-Sharkawy, Premier Field Engineer Issue: When you launch a SharePoint 2010...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/05/2012
Migration scripts to help move from WSUS to Configuration Manager 2012
Saud from the UK Manageability Guys has been helping customers migrate from WSUS to System Center...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 08/29/2012
Search Technet with Bing for product-specific docs using metadata!
Awesome tip on how you can search for something (for example, searching for System Center docs...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 08/28/2012
Windows Server 2012 - a look at the new Server Manager
It’s a time of great change! Michael Hildebrand posted a quick overview of server management in past...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 08/27/2012
Blocking Exchange Web Services by User-Agent
Let’s say you want to block ActiveSync for mobile devices. Did you know that some clients will use...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 08/23/2012
Why Use Windows Performance Analyzer Instead of xperfview?
He was a skeptic, but Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Jeff Stokes has determined that...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 08/02/2012
Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell (Part 3)
Written by Rhoderick Milne, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In the previous articles in this...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 07/19/2012
How to Implement OpsMgr Delegation Models (Part 2)
Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Continuing on from his...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 07/06/2012
Service Catalogues and The Service Description (Part 1)
Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. A service catalog (or catalogue),...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 07/05/2012
Best Practices for Patching Windows 2003/2008 Clusters
Written by Ryan Doon, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Lately there is a question that I always...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 07/02/2012
How To Monitor Deadlocks in SQL Server
Written by Mohit Gupta, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Every now and then we have deadlocks...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 06/28/2012
A Microsoft SQL Server DMV/DMF Cheat-Sheet (Part 2)
Written by Mohit Gupta, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In my last post I talked about how to get...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 06/27/2012
Solving "The Delegates settings were not saved correctly" Error on Exchange 2010
Article by Danijel Klaric, Premier Field Engineer. One of my customers came to me with the following...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 06/26/2012
Introducing Windows Server 2012 Free e-book available
I highly recommend giving this a read so you are ready for Windows Server 2012. The dude had a...
Author: Jeff Stokes Date: 06/05/2012