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Random thoughts of a Premier Field Engineer

The Cobbler’s Children have now shoes

When I was younger, I heard a phrase “The cobbler’s children have no shoes” and similar things which...

Date: 01/08/2013

Why are they in there? One customer’s tale of reducing the membership of their Domain Admins Group.

This week I was onsite with a customer performing a visit called the Risk and Health Assessment...

Date: 05/18/2012

What is 2002:836b:0F1E::836b:0F1E and why am I seeing it?

(NOTE: IP Addresses changed to protect the innocent) I was onsite with a customer recently who asked...

Date: 02/23/2012

Clean up your own virus ridden PC

As someone who works with computers, I’m often getting calls from my family and friends asking me to...

Date: 06/01/2011

Follow-up my IPv6 post

As a follow-up to my earlier post about leaving IPv6 enabled in the OS and bound to the NICs, I...

Date: 06/01/2011

Why you should leave IPv6 alone

A common paradigm in the technology field is, “If you’re not using it, uninstall or disable...

Date: 02/02/2011

Ceton InfiniTV 4 + Windows 7 = Media Center Goodness!!!!!

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a few weeks, but only now have finally gotten around to...

Date: 09/04/2010

So Cool…Windows Intune

This week I’m attending the TechReady conference.   For those of you who have never heard...

Date: 07/26/2010

It Snows Up North

I seem to have a habit of alternating between technical and non-technical posts, and this seems to...

Date: 11/10/2009

Moving in to a new laptop – Windows 7 x64 Goodness

One of the great things about the Premier Field Engineering group at Microsoft is that we have a...

Date: 10/18/2009

Granting access to DNS Management MMC to a non-admin

While teaching the Windows Server 2008 Directory Services workshop this week a student asked me,...

Date: 09/03/2009

WinRE, Page files, and GPMC Scripts

Since this blog is hosted on Technet, it is probably good to talk about technologies from time to...

Date: 08/30/2009

RTM of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 reached RTM today.  ...

Date: 07/23/2009

My July 2009

I almost titled this “My 4th of July was better than you’re 4th of July” but thought better of it....

Date: 07/14/2009

Some Cool technologies I deal with...

OK, so while I've mentioned a bit of what I do, I should mention the sorts of technologies that I...

Date: 04/27/2007

Welcome to my Blog

Hello, After reading so many other blogs, I figured that it was about time for me to start one of my...

Date: 04/27/2007