Canberra Premier Field Engineering: Team Blog
Technical notes from Canberra's team of Microsoft Field Engineers.
Routing Traffic between Subnets in your Hyper-V Lab
Sometimes I need to replicate customer issues in a Hyper-V lab to fully understand and fix the...
Author: Scott Duffey (Scottduf) Date: 04/22/2013
Identify Accounts with Kerberos Pre-Authentication Disabled (In the UI)
If you need a repeatable way to identify accounts with Kerberos pre-authentication disabled you can...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 03/18/2013
Using IM and Presence in Exchange Server 2010 OWA against a Lync Server 2013 Front End Pool
Hi Everyone it's been a while since I published a post and the absence from posting has had me...
Author: Steve Moore - SFB - Office 365 Engineer Date: 03/04/2013
PowerShell Web Access (very) Quick Start. [Yep, PowerShell in your web browser...]
There is a nifty feature that comes with Windows Server 2012 which allows you to use PowerShell in a...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 02/16/2013
The Direct Access connection process... according to Netmon.
The direct access connection process is reasonably straight forward at a high level. When the DA...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 01/12/2013
Direct Access for Windows 7 Works! ... and then it stops.
I'm seeing lots of cases were a Direct Access proof of concept has been set up and it works really...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 12/07/2012
Where are site-linked Group Policy Objects Stored? And why should you care?
Background: A couple of weeks ago I was in the office writing up a report for a Group Policy Health...
Author: Scott Duffey (Scottduf) Date: 11/15/2012
Ever needed to find Server Side Outlook rules that forward mail outside of your organisation?
Hi All I was recently asked by a customer to check through Outlook Mailbox rules for rules that...
Author: Steve Moore - SFB - Office 365 Engineer Date: 11/05/2012
Fake Internet Connectivity for your Lab (Tricking NCSI)
Hello Everyone! Quick and dirty post today just so i don't forget to write it down... Sometimes in...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 10/09/2012
Issues with Perfmon reporting - Turning ETL into HTML
Hi Everyone. It's Marc here. Another of your friendly Canberra PFE's. Recently I came across a...
Author: Marc Dudok Date: 07/05/2012
Managing Lync with Powershell - Lync Server Admin Guide Powershell Supplement
Hi Everyone I recently discovered that we released a Powershell Supplement to the Lync Server...
Author: Steve Moore - SFB - Office 365 Engineer Date: 06/05/2012
Have you ever wondered what web service URLs are used by the Lync client? STrace is your tool.
Hi Everyone I recently stumbled onto a handy little tool called STrace, from Microsoft, which can be...
Author: Steve Moore - SFB - Office 365 Engineer Date: 06/04/2012
Lync Installation Error: Prerequisite installation failed: SQLExpressRtcLocal 536870913
Hi Everyone Ewan, a Lync guru, PFE colleague and all round top bloke, and I were teaching a Lync...
Author: Steve Moore - SFB - Office 365 Engineer Date: 05/17/2012
Installing Lync Databases on a SQL Cluster (or standalone SQL back end) - Error_Create_DB (-4)
Hi Everyone I hit an interesting hurdle the other day at a customer location where we were deploying...
Author: Steve Moore - SFB - Office 365 Engineer Date: 05/09/2012
Auditing Group Policy changes
Hi there, it's Jimmy from the Canberra office on managing and detecting changes to Group Policy. In...
Author: JimmyF_Aus Date: 05/01/2012
Un-Hosting & Re-Hosting Active Directory Partitions
This technique allows you to "re-host" a partition on an Active Directory domain controller without...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 04/13/2012
Granular Active Directory replication for advanced troubleshooting scenarios
This post introduces an advanced functionality of repadmin.exe which allows us to initiate...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 04/11/2012
Backing up GPOs with a Powershell script
Hi everyone One of the recommendations I often make to customers is to ensure that they are...
Author: Steve Moore - SFB - Office 365 Engineer Date: 04/10/2012
Active Directory Replication: Change Notification & You
**UPDATE: One of our readers has kindly pointed out the correct intra-site replication interval of...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 03/25/2012
Visit to Microsoft Technical Support (Las Colinas, Texas)
Microsoft Premier Field Engineering is giving me an amazing opportunity to spend a few weeks with...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 03/14/2012
Kerberos Troubleshooting
There is an amazing white paper published on this topic which is available here:...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 01/01/2012
Sharepoint 2010 monitoring & Troubleshooting
The slide deck from the Canberra Premier Briefing day is attached. This was put together by our...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 12/18/2011
"Managing Exchange Server 2010 with Powershell" slides from Premier Briefing Day in Canberra
Thanks for those die hard Exchange Admins who came along to the Premier Briefing Day in Canberra...
Author: Steve Moore - SFB - Office 365 Engineer Date: 12/18/2011
Branchcache slides from Premier Briefing Day in Canberra
Thanks for those that came along to the Premier Briefing Day in Canberra 2011. This is the slide...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 12/16/2011
Server Performance Advisor 3: First Look
The latest version of the server performance advisor has been released. Version 3 ALPHA can be...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 09/02/2011
Blue Screen: Beware Verifier Settings on Production Machines
Recently we had a case where the customer was reporting blue screen crashes every time the server...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 09/02/2011
Outlook 2010 - Allowing or blocking attachments with Group Policy
Hi All if you need to allow or disallow a set of attachment files in Outlook 2010 with an Exchange...
Author: Steve Moore - SFB - Office 365 Engineer Date: 08/24/2011
MSExchangeTransport 5031 Routing - Access Denied Errors and Network Service
Hi All If you are seeing access denied 5031 errors sourced from the MSExchangeTransport service like...
Author: Steve Moore - SFB - Office 365 Engineer Date: 08/12/2011
Ever wondered how to work out when a particular attribute of an AD object has changed?
Hi all I recently got asked to work out when a particular Active Directory object attribute was...
Author: Steve Moore - SFB - Office 365 Engineer Date: 08/04/2011
Create a quick 100 users with PowerShell
1..100 | ForEach { Net User “TestUser$_” Password1 /ADD /Domain}
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
Identify the ISTG's
To locate the ISTG role holders for all sites Click Start, click Run, type Ldp, and then click OK....
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
Dumping the AD Database
A good way to gain understanding into the way AD works is to take a look inside the database. To...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
Auditing Improvements
Big improvements from 2003 to 2008 in the level of granularity and also the detail. For example,...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
Testing the DcLocator Process
Comments Off DcLocator calling DSGetDCName function: NLTEST /DSGETDC:contoso.com...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
Multiple Domain Controllers in a site with a RODC
Generally a RODC is designed for sites where physical security is an issue, so placing a RWDC in the...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
Adding attributes to the RODC Filtered Attribute Set
To add an attribute to the Filtered Attribute Set (the stuff that wont replicate to a RODC) you...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
Forest Functional Levels - What you get
Windows 2000 Default AD Features Windows 2003 - Forest Trusts - Domain Rename - Link Valued...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
Domain Functional Levels - What you Get
Windows 2000 Native: - Universal Groups - Group Nesting - Group Conversion between security and...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
Portqry.exe to troubleshoot dynamic ports
Download portqry if its not already installed:...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
Group Policy Notes
Where to look for policies that have been applied to the user and computer: Computer:...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
Kerberos Delegation Lab
If you want to mess around with Kerberos delegation but dont want to install any heavy multi-tiered...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
Kerberos Notes
Kerberos is not a Microsoft technology, it was developed by MIT and documented as RFC 1510 (1510 is...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
"Preparing Network Connections" - Domain Controller in a Lab
If you get yourself into trouble with DNS on a domain controller you might sit on the "Preparing...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011
2003 Branch Office Deployment Guide
The 2003 Version of the Branch Office Deployment Guide (BODG) is brilliant. It takes you through an...
Author: Chad Duffey Date: 07/08/2011