Written by Kip Ng , Principal Premier Field Engineer. Most companies today have some form of monitoring mechanism implemented to monitor different components of their IT system. There are various monitoring solutions out there. Some are more sophisticated...

Written by boB Taylor , Principal Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Many Microsoft SQL Server DBAs automate as many of their day to day processes as possible, freeing them to attend to higher impact activities. To do so, many DBAs leveraged two undocumented...

Written by Kip Ng , Principal Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. O ne of the most annoying things when we have a problem with OSD (Operating System Deployment) Task Sequences in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 ( ConfigMgr ) is that you...

Written by Gerald Ramich , Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. This article is for folks who are trying to troubleshoot Outlook Connectivity issues. In my experience, many people confuse profile creation with connectivity to the server, so in this...

Written by Neil Harrison , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Have you ever wondered how to create your own dashboard views based off of System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007 R2 data but weren't quite sure how? It turns out that there is a Visio...

Written by Cheng Pei Koay, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. A Windows Server 2008 failover cluster is known to provide high availability for various types of back-end applications and services (note that failover clustering is designed for stateful applications...

Written by Kip Ng , Principal Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Most companies that I come across run System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007 mixed mode especially when they do not have any Internet-based clients. Of course, there are some...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Recently I was asked an interesting question from one of my customers: “What is Microsoft’s recommended practice around using Logon Scripts versus using Group Policy ?” To my knowledge, Microsoft...

Written by Samuel Drey , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer.   I n this article, I’ll provide a quick reference guide and an Excel-based tool that allows you to build monitoring consoles using HTML without being a scripting star.  I call it the...

Written by Dan Erelis , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. W ith Exchange 2010 comes the new Client access layer, a true middle tier approach in this version of Exchange. No longer do your clients connect to the backend mailbox server but typically through...