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Upgrading to on-premises Exchange Server 2013
In this post, Mohammed Abdul Rafey, Senior Premier Field Engineer from Microsoft India, continues...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/21/2013
Exchange 2007 On-Premises to Hybrid Deployment with Office365
“I am on Exchange 2007 On-Premise – Where do I go from here?” If that sounds familiar, you may be...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/08/2013
How To Use the Microsoft Authenticator App for Windows Phone to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Facebook
Our old favourite PFE Gregg O’Brien runs through using the Microsoft Authenticator app for Windows...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/01/2013
TechNet Conference: Zoom in on Technology (Nov 12-13)
IT Pros working with Microsoft technologies can expect plenty of new releases this autumn: On...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/01/2013
Setting up Web Server SSL Certificates to Renew Automatically
Amer Kamal offers a solution to a long-standing request for auto-renewing IIS web server...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 08/29/2013
SharePoint 2010 vs IIS MIME maps for MP4s
Another internal email we’re sharing with the world! This one was written by Karl Reigel, who’s a...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 08/28/2013
How to set the Legal Notice using Compliance Settings
Santos Martinez aka ConfigNinja, is back with a tip which illustrates how you can use compliance...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 08/11/2013
Store, ESE Cache and FAST demystified
Richard Schwendiman offers another demystification post, this time looking at Store and ESE process...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 08/04/2013
Security Updates (and Why You Should Love Them)
Mark Dudok, a PFE colleague of mine in sunny Canberra, writes about security patches, and why it’s...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 07/31/2013
SQL Saturday in Baton Rouge… is this Saturday!
This post was written by Mike Huguet, Premier Field Engineer. Along with the team of PFEs...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 07/30/2013
Logging and Reporting the Last Interactive Logon time with Windows 2008+ DCs
In a slight departure from our regular post style, I’m reposting an email sent by Mark Renoden in...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 07/24/2013
Upcoming event: Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013 Integration
As you know, Exchange 2013 is a very popular enterprise messaging application used in over 90% of...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 07/15/2013
Online session: Administering PowerShell in the Enterprise
In a typical enterprise, PowerShell script development is handled at the team level by a small group...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 07/11/2013
PowerShell–your own Autobot for Exchange Server!
For many IT professionals, PowerShell has come to be the best thing since sliced bread. In this...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 07/09/2013
Microsoft PFE is at SQL Saturday 231!
SQL Saturday is a well-known, regularly scheduled training event for SQL Server professionals and...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 07/09/2013
Top 10 issues discovered from Dynamics AX Health Check
The Microsoft Dynamics AX solution is being adopted by increasing numbers of customers worldwide....
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 07/08/2013
The Ghosts that Haunt Hyper-V
Summary: If you’re trying to bind a virtual switch to a wired or wireless network within your...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 06/25/2013
SharePoint 2013 with SSRS 2012 and Kerberos Constrained Delegation
Ryan Bushnell posted an excellent walkthrough of KCD with SSRS 2012 and SP2013! (That’s Kerberos...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 06/06/2013
How To Make the Most of RAP as a Service Support
Summary: Bryan Zink, a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineers based in the US, dives concisely...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 05/20/2013
Touch-friendly layouts with Outlook Web App 2013
With apologies to anyone excited about the prospect, we've had to pull this article, and the...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 05/15/2013
TechEd session preview: Troubleshooting Long Boot and High Resource Consumptions
TechEd 2013 North America is just around the corner. And if it is TechEd, so is it time for our PFEs...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 05/14/2013
Exchange 2010: Why does AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess revert to false?
Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3 and later support the AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess capability, and our old...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 05/14/2013
Sharepoint 2013: Configuring Search Service Topology with PowerShell
Chandrasekar Natarajan, a PFE based in Canada, runs through some example PowerShell scripts for...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 05/14/2013
AskPFEPlat: How Domain Controllers are found across forest trusts
Tom Moser answers a reasonably frequently asked question about cross-organization domain controller...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 05/07/2013
A Quick Look At System Center Advisor (SCA)
Summary: Milad Aslaner, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, gives us a quick peek...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 05/01/2013
So You Want To Block Exchange 2010 Autodiscover. Why Would Anyone Do That?
Summary: Shamsher Dhanoa, a Microsoft Senior Premier Field Engineer based in the US, tells us why...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/30/2013
SQL Server Statistics: Charting Volatile Data And Density Vector Values
Summary: Tony O'Grady, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the UK, continues with his second...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/29/2013
Windows Server 2003 Rapidly Approaches End-Of-Life, Watch Out For Performance Bottlenecks
Summary: Still running Windows Server 2003? Besides making the well-advised recommendation of moving...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/28/2013
A Day In The Life: What does a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer do?
Summary: Because inquiring minds want to know, Milad Aslaner, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/25/2013
How To Equip Your Windows Server Environment With A Blackbox Flight Recorder
Summary: Holger Hatzfeld, a Microsoft Senior Support Escalation Engineer, provides us with a...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/24/2013
The Windows 8 Start Screen
One of the most common FAQ items we get from folks upgrading to Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8, is...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/24/2013
ADCS: Manually Created CDP Extensions Cause CRL Look-up Failures
Summary: Gregg O’Brien, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada, makes a case for not...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/23/2013
Why You Should Stop Using Login Scripts
Summary: Milad Aslaner, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, gives Login scripts a...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/22/2013
The Case For Hosting a ConfigMgr SQL Database on a Dedicated SQL Instance
Summary: Piotr Gardy, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Poland, provides us with...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/21/2013
How To Resolve HttpException (0x80004005): Failed to Execute URL
Summary: Ambuj Nautiyal, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Canada, walks us through a...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/18/2013
Understanding SQL Server Cardinality Estimations by Charting Histogram to Actual Values
Summary: Tony O'Grady, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the UK, helps us understand...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/17/2013
How To Activate the .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 8 Without Internet Access
Summary: Milad Aslaner, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) based in Germany, walks us through...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/16/2013
An easy-to-use dashboard over the SQL Server System Health session
SQL Server 2008 and above provide an amazing diagnostics capability in the form of the System...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/16/2013
What Is Bootckcl.etl and Why Does It Get Generated At Every Boot?
Summary: Milad Aslaner, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, walks us through a...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/11/2013
Sending consistent responses from a shared mailbox
Mike O’Neill guest blogs on the Exchange Team’s blog (still sporting the wonderfully punny “you had...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/10/2013
Unpacking RAP as a Service for Active Directory: Leveraging the On-Demand Assessment
Summary: Bryan Zink, a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the US, continues his...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/09/2013
Unpacking RAP as a Service for Active Directory: Deep Dive on Data Collection and Submission
Summary: Bryan Zink, a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the US, continues his...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/08/2013
Unpacking RAP as a Service for Active Directory: What Should You Do To Be Ready?
Summary: Bryan Zink, one of our esteemed Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineers based in the US,...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/08/2013
Sharepoint 2013: March 2013 Public Update required for future Cumulative Updates
A public service announcement for Sharepoint 2013 customers: Our colleagues in CTS note (and...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/05/2013
A Quick Overview of Microsoft SkyDrive [VIDEO]
Ryan Doon, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Canada, provides us with a consumer-oriented...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/05/2013
Computer Crash: How To Use manage-bde To Recover A Partially Decrypted Hard Drive
Summary: Milad Aslaner, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, walks us through a...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/04/2013
AppFabric Caching and SharePoint
Josh Gavant is a Senior PFE in the Central US PFE team. has recently shared some awesome details on...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 04/02/2013