Kirk “has-more-points-than-I-do” Evans shares some PowerShell to configure the SQL Server Provider for FBA , for Sharepoint 2010. A long time ago, I wrote a blog post that shows how to configure the SQL Server Provider for FBA in SharePoint 2010 . ...

Saud from the UK Manageability Guys has been helping customers migrate from WSUS to System Center Configuration Manager 2012 . For desktop migrations, customers are usually happy to take all updates or the majority of updates and just start fresh...

Awesome tip on how you can search for something (for example, searching for System Center docs within Technet ), with more precision than the usual site:technet.microsoft.com ! This feature allows to use Bing to directly search against the meta...

It’s a time of great change! Michael Hildebrand posted a quick overview of server management in past Windows versions, and a “walk around” the new Server Manager interface in Windows Server 2012 over on the Ask PFE Platforms blog. I say as someone that...

Let’s say you want to block ActiveSync for mobile devices. Did you know that some clients will use Exchange Web Services as a fallback? If you just gasped, this post is for you! (Also: calm down) Disabling EWS isn’t really an option, as quite a lot of...

How long do your enterprise desktops take to boot up to a usable state? 2 minutes? 3? 5? 10? Does this impact business productivity? Has your organization had a WDRAP (if not, then why not)? Is it all about boot times and logon times, or does it go beyond...

He was a skeptic, but Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Jeff Stokes has determined that Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) , a component of the Windows Performance Toolkit (downloadable here ), offers a level of depth and insight not currently available...