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Blog Post: The Most Popular Posts of 2014

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 ...read more

on 22 Dec 2014
Blog Post: Mailbag: Tech the Halls (Issue #4)

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 ...read more

on 12 Dec 2014
Blog Post: Mailbag: Black Friday (Issue #3)

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 ...read more

on 28 Nov 2014
Blog Post: Mailbag: So Far Off To a Good Start (Issue #2)

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 ...read more

on 14 Nov 2014
Blog Post: Mailbag: Return of the Mailbag Returns

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 ...read more

on 31 Oct 2014
Blog Post: Lingering Object Liquidator for Active Directory is now live

Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]

Hey y’all, Mark back with some news about a new tool you might want to take a look at. Up until today, there hasn’t been a really easy way to scan for and remove lingering objects. Friend of the blog and all around Active Directory expert Justin Turner ...read more

on 24 Sep 2014
Blog Post: A 5 Second Boot Optimization If You’ve Disabled IPv6 on Windows Client and Server by setting DisabledComponents to 0xFFFFFFFF

Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]

Hey, y’all, Mark back with some new info on two of my favorite topics, IPv6 and Slow Boot Slow Logon (SBSL). If you’ve disabled IPv6 long ago this post is one you’ll want to pay attention to. Let’s dig in and get you up to speed. What’s Microsoft Recommend ...read more

on 15 Sep 2014
Blog Post: Active Directory: Mixing Server 2003 DCs and Server 2012 DCs May Result In Kerberos Authentication Errors

Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]

Hey y’all, Mark here again with a quick announcement. Our brothers in arms at AskDS have just posted something that you need to be made aware of if you have a mix of 2003 DCs and 2012 R2 DCs in your environment. Head over for all the details and ...read more

on 24 Jul 2014
Blog Post: Becoming an WPA Xpert Part 10: WPR and the Command Line

Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]

Hey y’all, Mark back with another update in our now long running series, Becoming an Xperf Xpert. First some housekeeping. This series is going through a name change. As we wrote in Part 6 that Xperf is dead, long live Xperf! It was time to start using ...read more

on 21 Jul 2014
Blog Post: It’s The End of FRS as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]

Hey y’all, Mark here with a quick post you should check out. Friend of the blog Ned “wears the black hat” Pyle has put up a post everyone needs to read, and subscribe to their blog while you’re there it’s quite good, on FileCab http://blogs.technet.com ...read more

on 24 Jun 2014
Blog Post: LSASS Crashing, CNF Objects May Be the Cause

Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]

Hey y’all, Mark back with a rare but hard-to-troubleshoot problem where CNF or conflict mangled NTDS Settings objects cause LSASS to crash on Active Directory domain controllers. The goal of this article is to create some awareness and have you install ...read more

on 23 Jun 2014
Blog Post: Windows Unplugged Event Dates, Don’t Miss Out

Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]

Hey y’all, Mark back with a quick thing to make you aware of. Friend of the blog and former Springboard Series editor Stephen Rose is going back on the road like a famous rock band to talk Windows and he might be coming to a city near you. All the info ...read more

on 7 May 2014
Blog Post: Exploring Windows 8.1 Update – Start Screen, Desktop and Other Enhancements

Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]

Welcome to Ask PFE Plat's coverage of the next chapter in Microsoft's on-going refinement of Windows. As with 8.1, we continue to evolve and improve the OS and last week, at the Build 2014 conference, we released "Windows 8.1 Update" ...read more

on 7 Apr 2014
Blog Post: How to Build Your ADFS Lab Part4: Upgrading to Server 2012 R2

Kaushik Ainapure [MSFT]

Hey y’all Mark and Tom back again with part 4 in our most likely never ending ADFS series. It’s going to end up being as long as Game of Thrones when it’s all said and done, I can feel it. At this point you should have an ADFS server , an ADFS Proxy and ...read more

on 31 Mar 2014
Blog Post: Performance Tuning For Windows Server 2012 R2, AV Exclusions and Windows 7 VDI Image Hot Fixes

Anonymous

Hey y’all, Mark here again with a quick post for you. There are three new articles that just came out that we wanted to make sure you folks didn’t miss. Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 R2 - This one is something I get asked about ...read more

on 13 Nov 2013
Blog Post: How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012 Part 1

Anonymous

Hey y’all Mark and Tom here with a series we think you guys will dig. I feel like half of our blog posts are building a lab of some kind. We love our labs in PFE. That’s how most of us learn. Set up a lab, play around with the technology, and get it configured ...read more

on 9 Dec 2013
Blog Post: Scale Out File Servers on Windows Server 2012

Anonymous

Hey y’all Mark here with a quick post. We wanted to call attention to some fabulous work another Microsoft blogger has done. You may have heard of him. Ned ‘I’m famous on the internet’ Pyle. Old Ned use to be the editor in chief of AskDS until he left ...read more

on 20 Dec 2013
Blog Post: How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012, Part2: Web SSO

Anonymous

Mark and Tom here again, continuing our series on ADFS. In this post, we'll show you how to use some sample-code to configure a web application for Web Single Sign-On (Web SSO) with ADFS. What's Web SSO? While Federated Web Single Sign-on ...read more

on 23 Dec 2013
Blog Post: The Most Popular Posts of 2013 and Belated Birthday

Anonymous

Hey y’all, Mark back again for another year end recap. It has been an eventful year. We’ve added more bloggers to our team which is great, really increased our readership(it seems like you guys like us!) and have made it a full 2 years in existence on ...read more

on 6 Jan 2014
Blog Post: How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012 Part 3: ADFS Proxy

Anonymous

Hey y’all Mark and Tom back after a small hiatus. We (well mostly Mark because this was his responsibility) got distracted by other things like “helping customers”, “the Olympics” and “I’m tired I’ll do it tomorrow, what’s on Netflix streaming?”. Hopefully ...read more

on 17 Mar 2014

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Blog Post: The Most Popular Posts of 2014

Blog Post: Mailbag: Tech the Halls (Issue #4)

Blog Post: Mailbag: Black Friday (Issue #3)

Blog Post: Mailbag: So Far Off To a Good Start (Issue #2)

Blog Post: Mailbag: Return of the Mailbag Returns

Blog Post: Lingering Object Liquidator for Active Directory is now live

Blog Post: A 5 Second Boot Optimization If You’ve Disabled IPv6 on Windows Client and Server by setting DisabledComponents to 0xFFFFFFFF

Blog Post: Active Directory: Mixing Server 2003 DCs and Server 2012 DCs May Result In Kerberos Authentication Errors

Blog Post: Becoming an WPA Xpert Part 10: WPR and the Command Line

Blog Post: It’s The End of FRS as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Blog Post: LSASS Crashing, CNF Objects May Be the Cause

Blog Post: Windows Unplugged Event Dates, Don’t Miss Out

Blog Post: Exploring Windows 8.1 Update – Start Screen, Desktop and Other Enhancements

Blog Post: How to Build Your ADFS Lab Part4: Upgrading to Server 2012 R2

Blog Post: Performance Tuning For Windows Server 2012 R2, AV Exclusions and Windows 7 VDI Image Hot Fixes

Blog Post: How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012 Part 1

Blog Post: Scale Out File Servers on Windows Server 2012

Blog Post: How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012, Part2: Web SSO

Blog Post: The Most Popular Posts of 2013 and Belated Birthday

Blog Post: How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012 Part 3: ADFS Proxy