Summary : Bryan Zink , a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineers based in the US, dives concisely into the details of what you need to do to make the most of RAP as a Service Support. Enjoy! Bryan here again to discuss making the most of the support...

Matt Abraham posts a few top tips on making Exchange 2013’s version of OWA more touch-friendly , simply by modifying the address! Among his tips are twide (touch, wide) and tnarrow (touch, narrow): You can modify the Outlook Web App view with a couple...

TechEd 2013 North America is just around the corner. And if it is TechEd, so is it time for our PFEs to show their deep technical skills coupled with the vital insight into typical customer situations. Milad Aslaner , our Windows Core SME from Microsoft...

Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3 and later support the AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess capability, and our old Scottish-sounding but Canada-based friend* Rhoderick Milne ran across an interesting mention of it while reviewing disaster recovery operations with one...

Chandrasekar Natarajan , a PFE based in Canada, runs through some example PowerShell scripts for configuring SharePoint 2013 Search Service applications and topology configuration: Each Search service application has its own search topology. If you create...

Tom Moser answers a reasonably frequently asked question about cross-organization domain controller location , and shows his work! One key point: This post is about the a scenario where the subnets in the two forests do not overlap (i.e., client’s IP...

Summary: Milad Aslaner , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, gives us a quick peek at System Center Advisor (SCA), a freely available cloud-based service from Microsoft that enables you to assess your server configurations and proactively...

Summary : Shamsher Dhanoa , a Microsoft Senior Premier Field Engineer based in the US , tells us why you would want to block the ever-valuable Exchange Autodiscover feature, along with detailed steps and options on how to do it. Microsoft Exchange...

Summary : Tony O'Grady , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the UK, continues with his second post of 5 advanced articles on charting statistical data with SQL Server. In this post he explores how changes to the underlying data are reflected...

Summary: Still running Windows Server 2003? Besides making the well-advised recommendation of moving to Windows Server 2012, Frank Plawetzki , a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, runs us through how to monitor servers remotely...

Summary: Because inquiring minds want to know, Milad Aslaner , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, provides us some insight into what it’s like to be a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Enjoy! Those who follow my blog posts...

Summary : Holger Hatzfeld , a Microsoft Senior Support Escalation Engineer, provides us with a PowerShell script that deploys customizable performance logs to any or all of you domain-connected servers, effectively mimicking flight recorders for server...

One of the most common FAQ items we get from folks upgrading to Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8, is the new look and feel of the Start screen. Our PFE colleague from the US and Windows Guru - Don Baker has written a good post on the usage of this new...

Summary: Gregg O’Brien , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada, makes a case for not throwing sand in your face and correct zipper placement when dealing with a Certificate Revocation List Distribution Point (CDP) in Microsoft Active Directory...

Summary: Milad Aslaner , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, gives Login scripts a lashing and encourages us to move on to using Group Policy Preferences. Enjoy! When I’m delivering Microsoft Premier Support Workshops like...

Summary : Piotr Gardy , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Poland, provides us with recommendations on why (and how) a ConfigMgr database should be hosted on its own dedicated SQL Server instance. For more useful tidbits, please check out Piotr’s...

Summary : Ambuj Nautiyal , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Canada, walks us through a solution for the circumstance where your .NET application(s) throw the error HttpException: Failed to Execute URL. I was recently working with one...

Summary : Tony O'Grady , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the UK, helps us understand whether or not a SQL dataset is going to produce useful query statistics by looking for patterns in histogram values in comparison to actual values. He introduces...

Summary: Milad Aslaner , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) based in Germany, walks us through how you can activate the .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 8 when you don’t have access to the Internet. Enjoy! I had to install SQL Server 2012...

  SQL Server 2008 and above provide an amazing diagnostics capability in the form of the System Health extended events session. However, not everyone knows about it – part of the reasons being that there is not a convenient way to visualize the data...

Summary: Milad Aslaner , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, walks us through a quick, easy, and built in way to explore boot time process and performance on your Windows machines. Enjoy! Did you know that at each boot your Windows...

Mike O’Neill guest blogs on the Exchange Team’s blog (still sporting the wonderfully punny “ you had me at EHLO ” tagline) on setting up a shared mailbox to send something akin to canned responses . As a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE), I assist...

Summary : Bryan Zink , a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the US, continues his exploration into RAP as a Service for Active Directory, the exciting new toolset and offering from Microsoft Services, and provides us details on how to leverage...

Summary : Bryan Zink , a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the US, continues his exploration into RAP as a Service for Active Directory, the exciting new toolset and offering from Microsoft Services, and provides us details on the data...

Summary : Bryan Zink , one of our esteemed Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineers based in the US, dives into the details of what you need to do to get ready for RAP as a Service for Active Directory in order to optimize your experience with this exciting...