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We are a team of Microsoft Premier Field Engineers (PFEs) from the UK, specialising in System Center products, mainly Configuration Manager and Operations Manager. A PFE works with Premier customers focussing on the health of a product, training, and maximizing the product's potential.

This blog is a collection of our notes and findings we believe and hope will be useful to others.

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Are My Backups Really Taking Place?

Posted over 2 years ago

by Rob York
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Something which I have seen as a recurring theme a few times with customers is with backups failing and them not realising. While, of course we would always recommend that you have a test environment with some Hyper-V images where you can always test...
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Improving ConfigMgr Console Performance - Disable TechCenter Homepage

Posted over 2 years ago

by Rob York
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In Configuration Manager 2007 does it take a while for the console to start? If so, then this little tip will help. The Console home page attempts to connect to Microsoft whenever you open up the console. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...
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Fully Automating P2V Migration for Software Assurance in ConfigMgr

Posted over 2 years ago

by Rob York
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I ’ve had this topic on my to-do list for a few months now. I presented on P2V Migration at a customer day we hosted at Thames Valley Park in February. My hesitation came from not really knowing how much to cover in terms of the blog. I’m...
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PKI – It’s a trust Thing!

Posted over 2 years ago

by Rob York
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Part 4 of what currently still stands at a four part series. But I have high hopes for further posts. I was going to start off the intro to this blog by congratulating Jason on avoiding falling into the cliché trap of using Bob & Alice and...