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How to make your existing Bitlocker encrypted environment FIPS complaint
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1 day ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hello, my name is Mayank Sharma and I am a Technical Advisor here at Microsoft. In this blog, I will discuss FIPS compliance with Bitlocker. Microsoft's solution for completely encrypting data inside laptops, desktops and removable drives. So let’s
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Troubleshooting Windows activation failures on Azure VMs
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7 days ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
If you are experiencing Windows activation failures on an Azure VM, please try the following steps to resolve the issue. An example of an error message you may see is: Error(s): Activating Windows(R), ServerDatacenter edition Error: 0xC004F074 The Software
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The Most Popular Posts of 2014
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8 days ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hey y’all, Mark back again to help close out another successful year of blogging. We’ve been at this for three years, which feels insanely long as well as feeling like this just started up a few weeks ago, which is weird. Trust me. We want to thank you
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Securing DC to DC communication with IPsec using Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (WFAS) Connection Security Rules
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15 days ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi folks, Lakshman Hariharan and Martin Solis here with a post on how to secure domain controller to domain controller communications using Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (WFAS) Connection Security Rules. Be forewarned that this is a long post
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Mailbag: Tech the Halls (Issue #4)
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18 days ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hey y’all, Mark, Tom and the AskPFEPlat crew back for our last mailbag of 2014. It’s getting around the holidays, lots of people start to take vacation including myself. But don’t worry we’re really starting to get into a good
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Disk Performance Internals
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21 days ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Abstract: Storage is the slowest component of most computer systems. As such, storage is often a performance bottleneck. This article discusses the disk performance kernel provider, partition manager. By understanding how the disk performance provider
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How to (correctly) check file versions with PowerShell
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22 days ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Howdy folks Matthew Reynolds (@MatthewMWR ) here. I focus on enterprise Windows optimization and security for Microsoft Services. You might remember me from How Many Coffees Can You Drink While Your PC Starts ( http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica
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PSA: Incorrect MTU size causes connectivity issues with Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2
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29 days ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Greg Jaworski here to make readers aware of a support issue where network interface drivers may set an overly large MTU value of 1514 bytes. Problems arise when such large packets cannot be passed by the underlying network infrastructure. As this blog
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Mailbag: Black Friday (Issue #3)
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1 month ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Mark and Tom here again with Mailbag Issue #3. Keep a copy of these first issues in the walls somewhere , they’ll be worth a fortune one day. We hope all of our friends in the US had a great Thanksgiving and that all of our friends around the rest
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ADFS Deep Dive: Planning and Design Considerations
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1 month ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
In the previous blog post on comparing sign-in protocols, the goal was to give you a primer on the terminology so when we start talking about WS-FED or SAML, you have an idea of what we’re talking about. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s available here
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Driver Object Corruption Triggers Bugcheck 109
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1 month ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
My name is Victor Mei, I am an Escalation Engineer in Platforms Global Escalation Services in GCR. Some customers I worked with have strong interests in debugging; but usually they got frustrated when I told them “To find the cause from this dump
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Recovering Azure VM by attaching OS disk to another Azure VM
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1 month ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
If you are unable to administer an Azure VM because of RDP or SSH failures, in many cases rebooting or resizing the VM may resolve the issue. You can troubleshoot the VM by attaching the OS disk as a data disk to a different Azure VM using the steps
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When Creating a New Resource or Role in Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster, the Network Name Fails to Come Online or Failed to Create Associated Computer Object in Domain
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1 month ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
There is an issue I have seen repeatedly in the field since Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 released. It typically surfaces when attempting to add roles to Windows Failover Cluster. Since my customers are large SQL shops, this issue typically
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Mailbag: So Far Off To a Good Start (Issue #2)
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1 month ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hey y’all, Mark and Tom back with our second Friday mailbag. So far so good on trying to keep our regularly scheduled mailbags. We even got a few other PFEs to join in for this one so let’s get right to it. This post will cover the following
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Troubleshooting Basics for the Netlogon Parser (v1.0.1) for Message Analyzer
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1 month ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi all, Brandon Wilson here again to talk to you a bit more in depth about the Netlogon parser for Message Analyzer. Last time, I gave you a basic introduction on the anatomy of the parser, how to open log files, and the basics on navigation with the
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Surface Pro 3 Hibernation Update You’ll Want To Apply
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1 month ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hey folks Joao Botto with a quick link to some very important Surface Pro 3 information that Scott McArthur published on the AskCore blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2014/11/05/surface-pro-3-hibernation-doesn-t-occur-on-enterprise-install
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Surface Pro 3 Hibernation Doesn’t Occur on Enterprise Install
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1 month ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hi my name is Scott McArthur and I want to call out a recently published KB article: Surface Pro 3 doesn't hibernate after four hours in connected standby http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2998588 If you are deploying an image to Surface
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Cross Post: Using Bing for technical instant answers and automated solutions
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1 month ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
This is a cross post from William Keener’s Support Diagnostics and Automated Solutions blog that we wanted to add to our site. It relates to Bing and instant answers about Microsoft Products/Technologies/Support issues and here on the AskCore site, we
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Your technical answers and automated solutions via Bing.com
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1 month ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hello folks, One of our Engineering PMs that supports our Diagnostics and Automated solutions published a blog regarding Bing and how you can use it to answer your technical questions and provide automated solutions. Here is a brief overview: Bing
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ADFS Deep-Dive: Comparing WS-Fed, SAML, and OAuth
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1 month ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
David Gregory back again for another blog on federation and sign-in protocols. Explaining federation so that people can truly understand it isn’t easy. There are a lot of moving parts, various technologies, and sea of acronyms that many times don’t
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Mailbag: Return of the Mailbag Returns
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hey y’all, Mark and Tom back here with the return of the mailbag returns. Give yourself 5 internet points if you get that Simpsons reference. Before today our mailbag posts were very random and we are trying to get on a more regular mailbag posting
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Becoming an WPA Xpert Part 11: Troubleshooting Long Group Policy Processing
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hey Folks, Though I’ve blogged before here I have been a bit rude and never properly introduced myself. Hi, I am James Klepikow, a Senior Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft. Nice to meet all of you. One of the many issues we troubleshoot as Field Engineers
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Understanding ATQ performance counters, yet another twist in the world of TLAs
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hello again, this is guest author Herbert from Germany. If you worked an Active Directory performance issue, you might have noticed a number of AD Performance counters for NTDS and “Directory Services” objects including some ATQ related counters. In this
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Unable to restart server due to registry bloat over 2GB
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hello AskPerf! Pushing up a blog today to discuss the registry bloat issue that has been recently addressed in the following KB: Computer cannot be restarted if the registry hives are larger than 2 GB Symptom You have a computer that is running the x64
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RDP Fails with Event ID 1058 & Event 36870 with Remote Desktop Session Host Certificate & SSL Communication
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2 months ago
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Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]
Hello AskPerf! Sanket here from the Windows Platforms team here to discuss an issue with Remote Desktop Services where RDP does not work when you try to connect from a remote machine. With that, let’s get started! I’m sure most of you have come across
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