Tobias Hertkorn , one of our Microsoft Premier Field Engineers from Germany would like to share with you his tips on installing Windows 2012 Essentials, using a neat little trick and help from Hyper-V.   The trick Headless installation can be cumbersome...

Summary: Gregg O’Brien , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada, walks us through some lessons he learned when testing Storage Spaces, a new feature in Windows Server 2012 that’s meant to provide enterprise-level storage performance...

Bruce Adamczak continues to dig into the Server Core installation mode of Windows Server 2012, with some bite-sized nuggets of goodness in his Core Survival Guide. The list of Core topics he’s planning to cover is extensive, but he’s blazing through them...

Summary : This article was contributed by Amber Goins , a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) SP1 introduced important and often-requested new Anti-Tampering features for the Antimalware service, and Amber...

Summary : This article was contributed by Mohammed Abdul Rafey , a Premier Field Engineer based in Bangalore, India.  He shows us how to take advantage of scripting to quickly zero in on who has the ability to do what in an Exchange organization...

(Huh!?) My old PFE flame* Chad Duffey has a short and sweet post on an interesting new feature in Windows Server 2012: Powershell Web Access . There is a nifty feature that comes with Windows Server 2012 which allows you to use PowerShell in a web browser...

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica is a great new feature that replicates all changes on a virtual machine to a counterpart virtual machine hosted by a different server. Basically, any server workload that’s virtualized in Hyper-V can be replicated...

Summary : This article has been contributed by Ryan Doon , a PFE working with Microsoft Canada. In this post (the first of a two part series), he talks about the new Cluster Aware Updating feature of Windows Server 2012, and how it can be used to easily...

Summary:  Mads Damgård, a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (and Microsoft Certified Master in SharePoint!) based in Denmark, provides insight and walks us through some of the things you need to consider when deploying farm solutions for SharePoint...

Summary: Brendan Griffin , Microsoft Certified Master (SharePoint 2010) and Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the UK, provides us with details on working with SharePoint 2013 Search. As you may (or may not) know, SharePoint 2013 search...