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Using Exchange EWS to Obtain Exchange Online Meeting Details from Room Mailboxes
Exchange PFE Daya Patil shares with us a recent script she wrote to help obtain the meeting details...
Date: 10/11/2017
Replacing Windows Server 2016 TP5 AD FS with RTM Experience
Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Frank Plawetzki guides us though his recent Windows 2016 AD...
Date: 02/17/2017
Exchange / Office 365–Some Useful PowerShell Scripts
Over on the Exchange team blog site, one of our Exchange/Office 365 PFE's, Mike O'Neill, has posted...
Date: 10/11/2016
PowerShell Script to Convert Shared Mailbox or User Mailbox with Delegates into Distribution Group
Exchange PFE Daya Patil shares with us a recent script she wrote to help convert a shared mailbox...
Date: 08/23/2016
Script To Get Common Recipients Between Distribution Groups
Gautham Allur Subramanya is PFE from India, and shares a PowerShell script used to report on common...
Date: 04/12/2016
Exchange 2013/2016 JBOD Storage Validation Considerations
Senior Exchange PFE Nélio Lemos takes us though some important pre-deployment considerations for...
Date: 03/15/2016
MSPFE Deploying Windows 10 Free eBook
Microsoft Premier Engineers Andre Della Monica, Russ Rimmerman, Alessandro Cesarini, and Victor...
Date: 02/29/2016
Using Site Columns to Create Searchable Metadata in SharePoint Online
Dan Harrington is a member of the Search Engineers PFE team. While assisting a colleague with a...
Date: 01/08/2016
Creating DPM Replica Manually Using Windows Explorer
Sachin Kumar is a Premier Field Engineer from India and will take us through the steps to create a...
Date: 12/09/2015
List Mobile Devices In Exchange 2013
Premier Field Engineers Abdul Rafey Mohammed and Daya Patil walk us though how to easily list...
Date: 12/07/2015
Configure Organization-Wide Free/Busy Information In An Untrusted Cross-Forest Topology
Exchange expert Frank Plawetzki recaps a recent rude reminder about the intricacies of Exchange free...
Date: 11/19/2015
How to View SharePoint Online Crawl Logs in Office 365
PFE Srinivas Varukala discusses a recent customer question where there was a request to view the...
Date: 11/17/2015
Using Exchange EWS To Obtain Voicemail Statistics
Exchange PFE Daya Patil demonstrates how versatile the Exchange Web Services API is by providing...
Date: 08/31/2015
Decommissioning Legacy Exchange Servers
PFE Pascal L'Huriec takes us through the steps to that are needed when decommissioning legacy...
Date: 08/26/2015
Exchange Server 2013 CU9 – Watch your IMAP clients
Exchange expert Frank Plawetzki bei Deutschland discusses a breaking issue with Exchange 2013 and...
Date: 08/24/2015
Using Exchange EWS To Delete Corrupt OOF
Daya Patil discusses the solution to one of her recent engagements where the OOF rule in some...
Date: 07/22/2015
MSPFE On RunAS Radio
PFE Mike O’Neill recently guested on the RunAs Radio podcast. A synopsis of his session and a link...
Date: 03/09/2015
PowerShell Script To Determine Number Of Emails Sent To Per External Domain
Exchange PFEs Daya Patil and Abdul Rafey Mohammed share one of their recent PowerShell scripts to...
Date: 03/05/2015
How To Monitor Mailbox Permission Changes On Executive Mailboxes
In this latest instalment to MSPFE, Kostas Nomikos demonstrates the flexibility of the Exchange...
Date: 03/03/2015
Using Exchange EWS To Clear Purges Folder
This instalment of EWS fun is brought to you by Daya Patil, a Premier Field Engineer who specialises...
Date: 02/02/2015
Unable To Capture Lync Client Tracing
Akshay Katti brings us the details of a recent case where he had to troubleshoot a Lync Online issue...
Date: 09/30/2014
Exchange Server 2013 CU5 Installation Issue
Our resident Exchange expert Frank Plawetzki bei Deutschland takes us through a recent production...
Date: 06/10/2014
Why you should avoid manual ‘server hardening’
Sachin Kumar, a Premier Field Engineer from the India team, discusses a very important topic in this...
Date: 05/29/2014
Business Intelligence with SharePoint 2013 and SQL 2012
Luis Du Solier, our Sr. PFE specialized in SharePoint for LATAM would like to share with you a very...
Date: 05/20/2014
A strange case of Admin group memberships
After a bit of a break, we are back on the MSPFE blog with a field story yet again. This time, Saji...
Date: 05/12/2014
Checklist : Upgrading to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2007
Daya Patil, who works as a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft India, focused on Exchange and Active...
Date: 03/20/2014
Lync 2013 Persistent Chat HADR Part Two
PFE Richard Schwendiman who specialises in Exchange and Lync, recently released some deep dive...
Date: 02/12/2014
Lync 2013 Persistent Chat HADR–Part One
PFE Richard Schwendiman who specialises in Exchange and Lync, recently released some deep dive...
Date: 02/10/2014
Freeing memory for Hyper-V VMs on Windows 8/8.1
Alexander Miloev takes us through an interesting exercise in tuning the memory for Windows client...
Date: 02/05/2014
Installing Forefront UAG Service Pack 4 Destroys Existing Configuration
Microsoft TMG and UAG ninja Gregg O’Brien walks us through how he resolved a recent critical...
Date: 01/27/2014
Boost your IT with Communications Management
Technology does not exist in a vacuum! Premier Field Engineer Konstantinos Sofianos discusses how to...
Date: 01/23/2014
Windows Performance Jump Start
Do you want to improve performance for computers that are starting slowly? Do you need to diagnose...
Date: 01/15/2014
MEA Services Webcast Series
Technology is evolving each and every day and the demand for quick accessible Readiness, is more...
Date: 01/02/2014
Windows 8.1: Common Myths Around Windows Modern Applications, Microsoft Accounts and Sideloading
The Windows Guy (PFE Milad Aslaner) is back with a new blog post around the biggest myths I see at...
Date: 12/16/2013
Tips and Tricks from the Field on the new Distributed Cache Service in SharePoint 2013
Want the “real world” scoop on the new Distributed Cache Service in SharePoint 2013? In this...
Date: 12/11/2013
The Windows XP journey ends soon. Are you ready for April 8, 2014?
It’s only 4 months until Windows XP becomes an ex parrot. PFE superstar Milad Aslaner walks us...
Date: 12/09/2013
Distribution Group Management Across Exchange Server Versions
How to manage distribution groups across different versions of Exchange? It’s a great...
Date: 12/05/2013
Dude! What’s flowing in my Exchange environment?
Akshay, Rafey and Lalita (a.k.a. ‘Exchange Ninjas’ ) are Premier Field Engineers from the Global...
Date: 12/03/2013
ADFS Configuration Wizard Fails with Error “The certificates with the CNG private key are not supported”
Want to allow ADFS to be installed correctly? Our trusty Canadian PFE Gregg O’Brien shows us a...
Date: 11/29/2013
Sleepy Network Cards? In a server!? Yawn!
Mike O’Neill covers a common odd-outage-related scenario over at the Exchange Team blog - a...
Date: 11/27/2013
How to create a url alias using IIS URL Rewrite
Want to allow someone to shortcut their way to a particular part of a website? Jonathan Yong, one of...
Date: 11/26/2013
Disabling DPI Scaling on Windows 8.1 - The Enterprise Way
A common observation post upgrade to Windows 8.1 is that certain applications look a bit ‘blurry’...
Date: 11/21/2013
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 – SCEP Policy behavior
Michael Michailidis, our PFE from Greece, shares a recent System Center Endpoint Protection scenario...
Date: 11/12/2013
Moving from command line tools to PowerShell for Active Directory
Mr. Ashley McGlone, our famous PFE (‘GoateePFE’ on Twitter!) from the US Central Region team,...
Date: 10/31/2013
Mentors in the Community
At Microsoft Services, we are not just about work. We take great pride in our efforts to reach out...
Date: 10/29/2013
Understanding and Managing the Certificate Stores Used for Smart Card Logon
Don Baker, a Senior PFE with our US Public Sector team, jotted down a cheat sheet that’ll be useful...
Date: 10/22/2013
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 – OS Deployment Fails with Error 0x80004005
Some administrators may experience an error when trying to deploy an OS image using System Center...
Date: 10/21/2013