Summary: Chris Whitehead , Microsoft Certified Master (SharePoint 2010) and Premier Field Engineer based in the UK provides us with pointers to the best content and additional information that IT Pros need which is not well documented in one place. It...

Summary : Pawel Krolak , a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Poland, walks us through his self-selected top 30 exciting new features and capabilities of SharePoint Server 2013 (5 features each across 6 different areas) that can be used...

Hello everyone, my name is Yong Rhee and I’m a Premier Field Engineer.  In this post, I’m excited to discuss a new Premier Support offering called Risk Assessment Program (RAP) as a Service ( or RaaS for short ). For those that are not familiar with...

Summary: Gregg O’Brien , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada, provides insight and walks us through how to configure DirectAccess in Windows Server 2012 to work with an External Hardware Load Balancer. DirectAccess is quickly becoming...

Our very own editor-at-large by night and Microsoft Principal Premier Field Engineer by day (and night as well!) Arvind Shyamsundar takes us on a tour of some of the top issues detected across Microsoft’s broad customer base by the Microsoft Premier...

This post was contributed by Rhoderick Milne , everyone’s favourite Canadian-Scottish Premier Field Engineer. Microsoft Exchange Server is the leading messaging platform in the world today, and can be found in SMBs, large enterprises and also behind cloud...

Summary: Sam Hassani , Microsoft Certified Master (SharePoint 2010) and Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the UK provides us with an introduction of SharePoint 2013 Apps, explains why there is a need for Apps in SharePoint, and then demonstrates...

A Very Happy New Year 2013 from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team! Back to work now! Nilesh Patel , our PFE in the US East region, has created some very detailed guides on deploying PKI solutions: In the first article , he walks us through...

Summary: Jaroslav Zikmund, one of our Czech Republic-based Microsoft Premier Field Engineers who focuses on Messaging, provides us with some insights and details on enhancements in Exchange 2013 for protecting email via Active Directory Rights Management...

Summary:   Tamer Maher El-Sharkawy , one of our esteemed Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineers, catches up with Lync engineer extraordinaire Doug Deitterick (Microsoft Certified Master in both OCS and Lync) during the Lync 2013 Ignite Roadshow...

Post contributed by Craig Forster , our Premier Field Engineer (PFE) in Denmark. He shares his top tips to keep your clusters healthy – this is based the collective experience of our PFEs, so treat this as the ‘inside scoop’ During the transition from...

More than once, I have made the mistake of installing Windows 2008 R2 with a full GUI, when I really just needed the Windows Core flavor. Now the only supported way to fix that was a complete rebuild. Argh Worry not anymore! With Windows Server 2012 there...

Our colleagues in Korea are always at the leading edge of technology. My friend Ji Yong Seong from the PFE Korea team has created a wonderful blog post on a new feature in SQL 2012 SP1 CU2 which enables backup / restore of databases to and from Windows...

Jeff Ingalls , an Identity Management PFE based out of the U.S. West Region, handles proactive onsite support and training for Microsoft’s Identity products, such as Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (FIM.) Over the past year he has been working to bring...