Mr. Proactive and Miss T. Proactive

Where Premier Field Engineering shares with the community

Really? Delegating Help Desk Accounts to unlock user accounts in the environment will not work?

One afternoon while working at one of my customer sites, I noticed a user calling a Help Desk...

Date: 11/09/2012

Calendar Repair Assistant does not run by default

While onsite one day with a customer we received a report that a calendar item was not on one of the...

Date: 08/13/2012

Tools for an Exchange Administrator

Part of being proactive means that you’re prepared to react quickly when a problem occurs. That...

Date: 06/03/2012

Support Lifecycle and Products you need to consider upgrading

As a Premier Field Engineers we always focus on the Health of the customer’s environment and a big...

Date: 05/10/2012

Behavior of Meeting Forward Notifications

Mrs. Proactive said “I had tough time finding any information on the behavior of Meeting Forward...

Date: 05/02/2012

Why you might want to consider installing Exchange 2010 SP1 RU5 now

As many of you are probably aware, the Exchange Team has released Update Rollup 5 for Exchange 2010...

Date: 09/12/2011

Maximum Recipients Per Message and Exceptions

While this is documented very well on TechNet, it sometimes takes a some time to find and memory...

Date: 08/25/2011

ALERT: Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 Removed from Download Center

This is just to let you know that we strongly recommend that you read the latest information at the...

Date: 07/13/2011

SharePoint 2007/WCF Services Bug: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.”

I just finished working through an issue with one of my customers. My customer had written a WCF...

Date: 06/17/2011

SharePoint 2007: “Could not load file or assembly 'NewWebPart' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.”

I ran into this error yesterday, while trying to create a test web part for a client. I tried...

Date: 06/17/2011

How to Reduce the Performance Impact of a Site Recovery

In SCCM, management points can get flooded with policy requests after a disaster recovery. This can...

Date: 05/06/2011

“These are not the Public Folders you are looking for…”

I was helping a customer review their infrastructure when we started looking at an error they were...

Date: 05/05/2011

Extra Logical Reads Are Not So Logical

When normalizing a database, foreign keys are commonly created in order to maintain data integrity...

Date: 05/02/2011

Dependency magic: Now you don't see it, Now you do

If a user-defined function (UDF) is created prior to creating a stored procedure, object...

Date: 04/18/2011

Read this if you are installing security updates this weekend

We know that this is after the work day for many of you, but we didn’t want you to miss this since a...

Date: 04/15/2011

Some details about the re-released Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 3 (RU3)

As stated before, we the Exchange Team Blog announced the re-release of Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1...

Date: 04/07/2011

Re-released - Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 3 (RU3)

Well, the moment many of us have been waiting for is finally here! Today, the Exchange Team Blog...

Date: 04/06/2011

We are hiring!

Want to work in the BEST JOB in a GREAT COMPANY? Premier Field Engineering is hiring!  We have...

Date: 04/04/2011

Exchange Server 2007 SP3 RU3 has been re-released

On the Exchange Team Blog, the Exchange product team posted two updates regarding Exchange 2007 SP3...

Date: 03/31/2011

Potential for database corruption as a result of installing Exchange 2007 SP3 RU3

Yesterday afternoon, on the Exchange Team Blog, the Exchange product team posted that we are seeing...

Date: 03/30/2011

Tip: Exchange Server Deployment Assistant

I get asked all of the time for some kind of checklist from Microsoft that you could run through for...

Date: 03/28/2011

SMB connections from non-Microsoft clients may fail after applying security update MS11-014

Are you having problems connecting from non-windows SMB clients to Windows 2003 servers after...

Date: 03/24/2011

Outlook Automatic Configuration Fix

There is an issue with some previous Outlook cumulative updates that will cause some clients to fail...

Date: 03/21/2011

Hello World!

Hi There! My name is Mr. (Scoop) Proactive, and I am one of the Community Leads for Premier Field...

Date: 03/04/2011