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5 Things You Need To Know About Lync 2013 Performance and Configuration
Veteran Lync Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Frank White shares his top 5 most common Lync...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/02/2013
New Age Collaboration with Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013 – Part 1
Lalita Jat is a Premier Field Engineer from India who works on Exchange Server technologies. In this...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/26/2013
How to add a driver to the DriverStore
Written by Milad Aslaner, Premier Field Engineer. From Germany. How do I actually add a driver to...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/25/2013
Uncovering a hidden gem: PSR.exe
Hmm… let’s see… I can remember the old Program Status Register from the Intel x86 days. Or maybe PSR...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/22/2013
XPerf for the layman using the Windows Assessment Toolkit
If XPerf seemed too much like rocket science, how does an XPerf Wizard grab you? Jeff Stokes found...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/19/2013
Hyper-V: Virtual Machines Freeze at 10% When Starting Up
Summary: Gregg O’Brien, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada, faces a problem with some...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/18/2013
Updated Hyper-V Best Practices Checklist for Windows Server 2012
AskPFEPlat have published an extensive checklist of Hyper-V best practices, based on their...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/12/2013
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn FAQs
Krishna Golla has a grab-bag of SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn FAQs suitable for DBAs and Infrastructure...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/11/2013
Going to MMS 2013? Check out these sessions delivered by Microsoft Premier Field Engineers!
If you are attending this year’s Microsoft Management Summit (MMS 2013), you can’t miss these...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/08/2013
Some Windows Store / Modern App Deployment FAQs
Summary: Milad Aslaner, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (still) based in Germany, shares...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/07/2013
What is Cluster Aware Updating in Windows Server 2012? (Part 2) [VIDEO]
Summary: This article is contributed by Ryan Doon, a Premier Field Engineer based in Canada. In this...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/07/2013
Build an isolated Hyper-V test lab on a Windows 8 machine!
Windows 8 replaces the older Virtual PC technology with Hyper-V, for a full-featured virtual machine...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/06/2013
Simple Techniques to Reduce Windows Boot Times and Increase Productivity
Summary: Milad Aslaner, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, walks us through...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/06/2013
Applying Lync Server 2013 Cumulative Updates with LyncServerUpdateInstaller.exe
Doug Deitterick has put together a rundown on the various scenarios for which you can use...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 03/04/2013
Why Windows Server 2012 Parity Storage Spaces Might Perform Slowly
Summary: Gregg O’Brien, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada, walks us through some...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 02/25/2013
Bruce’s Core Survival Guide
Bruce Adamczak continues to dig into the Server Core installation mode of Windows Server 2012, with...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 02/19/2013
Anti-Tampering for the Antimalware Service in System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 SP1
Summary: This article was contributed by Amber Goins, a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer....
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 02/19/2013
PowerShell Web Access?
(Huh!?) My old PFE flame* Chad Duffey has a short and sweet post on an interesting new feature in...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 02/18/2013
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica: How Troubleshoot Kerberos Error 0x8009030C 0x00002EFE
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica is a great new feature that replicates all changes on a virtual...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 02/07/2013
What is Cluster Aware Updating in Windows Server 2012? (Part 1)
Summary: This article has been contributed by Ryan Doon, a PFE working with Microsoft Canada. In...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 02/05/2013
Planning Deployment of Farm Solutions for SharePoint 2013
Summary: Mads Damgård, a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (and Microsoft Certified...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 02/04/2013
How To Customize SharePoint 2013 Search Results Using Query Rules and Result Sources
Summary: Brendan Griffin, Microsoft Certified Master (SharePoint 2010) and Senior Microsoft Premier...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 02/01/2013
How To Configure SharePoint 2013 On-Premises Deployments for Apps
Summary: Chris Whitehead, Microsoft Certified Master (SharePoint 2010) and Premier Field Engineer...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/31/2013
Understanding SharePoint Apps as an IT Pro
Summary: Sam Hassani, Microsoft Certified Master (SharePoint 2010) and Microsoft Premier Field...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/30/2013
Backup your SQL 2012 database to Windows Azure blob storage!
Our colleagues in Korea are always at the leading edge of technology. My friend Ji Yong Seong from...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/29/2013
The Top 30 New Reasons to Use SharePoint Server 2013 for Public-Facing Internet Sites
Summary: Pawel Krolak, a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Poland, walks us through...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/29/2013
How to Configure DirectAccess in Windows Server 2012 to Work with an External Hardware Load Balancer
Summary: Gregg O’Brien, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada, provides insight and...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/24/2013
Enhancements to Exchange 2013 integration with AD RMS
Summary: Jaroslav Zikmund, one of our Czech Republic-based Microsoft Premier Field Engineers who...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/23/2013
Lync 2013 New Features - IGNITE Roadshow [VIDEO]
Summary: Tamer Maher El-Sharkawy, one of our esteemed Senior Microsoft Premier Field...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/21/2013
Keep your Failover Clustering deployment healthy!
Post contributed by Craig Forster, our Premier Field Engineer (PFE) in Denmark. He shares his top...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/10/2013
If Exchange Dies, So Does Your Business - The Top 10 Ways to Keep IT Up!
This post was contributed by Rhoderick Milne, everyone’s favourite Canadian-Scottish Premier Field...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/10/2013
10 Top SQL Server Issues Uncovered By The SQL Server Risk Assessment Program
Our very own editor-at-large by night and Microsoft Principal Premier Field Engineer by day (and...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/08/2013
Monitoring FIM 2010: Event descriptions
Jeff Ingalls, an Identity Management PFE based out of the U.S. West Region, handles proactive onsite...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/08/2013
GUI / Core conversion in Windows Server 2012
More than once, I have made the mistake of installing Windows 2008 R2 with a full GUI, when I really...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/07/2013
PKI Deployment: Step-by-Step Guides
A Very Happy New Year 2013 from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team! Back to work now!...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 01/01/2013
Achieving the best return on your investment in SharePoint, with SPRAP
Article written by Tamer Maher El-Sharkawy, a Premier Field engineer based in the US. Microsoft...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 12/31/2012
How to Avoid Having Users Enroll for Multiple Certificates
Gregg O’Brien is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada. In this post he talks about the...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 12/27/2012
Runbook nuances in System Center Orchestrator 2012
Our colleague from the United Kingdom, Sergio Carrilho, writes about System Center technologies. In...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 12/26/2012
Migrating Messaging Records Management (MRM)
Sachin Shah, a PFE from the eastern United States has an interesting walkthrough on migrating...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 12/20/2012
The Case of the Disappearing Memory
This article has been contributed by Vasco Preto, a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft Portugal....
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 12/19/2012
Case Study: Using ProcMon to resolve a 401 error
This article has been written by Ambuj Nautiyal, a PFE with Microsoft Canada. In this post he talks...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 12/18/2012
DirectAccess for Windows 7 works! But stops sometimes. Why?
My sometime partner in crime Chad Duffey posted a tip he came across from a couple of DirectAccess...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 12/10/2012
Troubleshooting Windows Performance Issues: Lots of RAM but no Available Memory
Summary: Craig Forster, a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, runs us through how he deals with...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 12/05/2012
Continuous Availability File Server in Windows Server 2012
Dave Guenthner, a Premier Field Engineer working in the United States, discusses an exciting new...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 12/04/2012
Virtual Machine Network Monitoring the Easy Way, with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012
Gregg O’Brien is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada, where French people are...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/28/2012
Fixing the Great Rollback of November 2000, 2012 (and other time rollback problems)
Mark M* has even more information to help you address Active Directory time rollback problems, over...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/27/2012