A Premier Field Engineer in Denmark
Running AGPM with a Managed Service Account (MSA or gMSA)
Hi,Service accounts are dead. Long live MSAs! But where can you actually use MSAs/gMSAs? One place...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 06/24/2015
Getting started with Storage Replica in Windows Server Technical Preview
Storage Replica (SR) is a new feature that enables storage-agnostic, block-level, synchronous...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 10/04/2014
Migrating DFS Namespace from Windows 2000 Server mode to Windows Server 2008 mode
Hi, I recently helped a customer with this tricky little exercise. The idea was to do the...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 06/30/2014
Office 2013 Security Baselines for SCM are live
Hi, Pat Fetty recently blogged about the new SCM baselines for Office 2013 going live. I opened up...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 06/30/2014
A backup server flooded by DPCs
Hi, I’ve just finished working on a case with a customer that was so interesting that it deserved a...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 02/03/2014
Low throughput when copying files
Hi, I have been helping a customer with a tricky issue recently regarding slow network performance...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 12/05/2013
Removing permission for users to upload their image to AD
Hi, I recently had the pleasure to help one of our Premier customers with a query they have...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 06/23/2013
Installing DHCP on Windows Server 2012 did not create the local groups
Hi again, Another interesting case with a nice, easy solution. While working with a Premier customer...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 06/23/2013
MBAM 2.0 gets released along with Service Packs to most MDOP apps
Hi, Just a quick note to publicise that MBAM 2.0 is now out, and each of AGPM 4.0, DaRT8.0, App-v...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 04/12/2013
Using SONOS as a “Play To” destination from within Windows RT
Hi, I recently became the proud owner of the fantastic Sonos PLAYBAR. And while the Sonos...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 04/08/2013
Troubleshooting Windows Performance Issues: Lots of RAM but no Available Memory
Hi,One of my recent posts was recently polished up enough to appear on the MSPFE...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 12/07/2012
Messages cannot be sent when Exchange Hub Transport Service runs as NetworkService
Hi again, I think the post title is pretty self explanatory. Just to clarify it a little, the...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 10/15/2012
SharePoint and SID History not playing well together
Hi, I struck a problem at a custom and the impact, while it seemed minor on the surface, was...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 10/15/2012
Upgrading the ADMX Central Store files from Windows 7/2008R2 to Windows 8/2012
################################# UPDATE (22 March 2013) ###The ADMX and ADML files for Windows 8...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 08/27/2012
Using Delegation in Scheduled Tasks
This blog is about the ability in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to apply a SID to every...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 03/15/2011
Getting error 0xC004F074 when activating against KMS server
HiThis error code is a very generic output to a KMS client having problems activating. To view your...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 03/03/2011
Cannot bring Cluster Name resource online
Hi,Another quick post with a non-very-obvious solution, this time on a new Windows Server 2008 R2...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 02/04/2011
Delegating access in AD to BitLocker recovery information
Normally in AD, all attributes are readable by “Authenticated Users”. Some attributes...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 01/26/2011
Getting prompted for credentials when accessing read-only Office files on SharePoint 2003 from Windows Vista or Windows 7 with Office 2007 or Office 2010
I faced this problem recently at a customer. They had pure Windows XP with Office 2003 deployed to...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 01/13/2011
Preventing accidental removal from the domain
Hi, another juicy customer question with a cool solution. The problem is this: on all workstations,...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 10/15/2010
Backing up and Restoring Domain-Based DFS Namespaces
I had a question for a customer recently which needed some investigation, as the seemingly...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 09/20/2010
How to set a static IP address and rename a NIC based on a known MAC address
I had a question that I thought I would share the answer for. A customer was deploying multiple...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 08/27/2010
Tuning Free System Page Table Entries when using /3GB and /USERVA=wxyz
If you enable /3GB in the boot.ini of a Windows Server 2003 x86 server, you risk running out of...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 08/06/2010
Upgrading the ADMX Central Store files from Vista to Windows 7
I had a question from a customer and thought I’d share the answer with everyone. They asked...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 07/10/2010
Wildcard DNS Entires
I was working on a case with a customer for something that was too weird to ignore. We wanted to use...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 07/09/2010
Decommissioning WINS
I’ve been working on helping remove WINS from a customers network. One of the big problems was...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 07/09/2010
SCSI vs IDE disks in Domain Controllers running as Virtual Machines on Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2
When installing Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controllers on Hyper-V R2, events were generated by AD...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 04/20/2010
Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server Session Broker and Event ID 1014
I hit a problem recently where we were seeing this event in all the terminal servers in a session...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 10/07/2009
Capturing attempts to exploit Security Advisory 975497
HiIf you’ve heard about this vulnerability which has been located (and published before it was...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 09/12/2009
A work-around when using different proxies for HTTP and SSL in WSUS 3.0 SP1
WSUS 3.0 SP1 introduces a new command line tool to help admins set different upstream proxies (one...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 05/04/2009
Using NAP health certificates to provide IPSec server/domain isolation
Hi I was recently involved with a proof of concept/functional discovery for a large, shared...
Author: Craig Forster Date: 01/08/2009