Lalita Jat is a Premier Field Engineer from India who works on Exchange Server technologies. In this post she talks about Site Mailboxes, an exciting new collaboration feature. This is the first post in a two part series in which we will discuss...

Written by Milad Aslaner, Premier Field Engineer. From Germany. How do I actually add a driver to the DriverStore? Hey everyone, this is Milad from Germany. Today I wanted to quickly write about how you can add additional drivers to the DriverStore. All...

Hmm… let’s see… I can remember the old Program Status Register from the Intel x86 days. Or maybe PSR stands for Physicians for Social Responsibility? No? Then what is it? Our colleague, Mike O'Neill from the PFE – US West team explains what PSR is all...

If XPerf seemed too much like rocket science, how does an XPerf Wizard grab you? Jeff Stokes found one in the Windows Assessment Toolkit. It is the Windows Assessment Toolkit.  Unlike the Windows Assessment Server, which I’ll speak to later, Windows...

Summary: Gregg O’Brien , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada, faces a problem with some Hyper-V guests, and troubleshoots it. Spoiler : He fixes it. Recently I was working in my lab to test a configuration I was working on with a customer. I...

SBSL Hotfix Rollup Mark at AskPFEPlat announced the release of a new slow-boot-slow-login (SBSL) hotfix rollup particularly useful for corporate Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 customers: Hey y’all, Mark here with some great news. A massive Slow...

AskPFEPlat have published an extensive checklist of Hyper-V best practices , based on their experience in the field. It’s an update from the Windows Server 2008 R2 set previously developed by Roger Osborne The following is a checklist I initially developed...

Krishna Golla has a grab-bag of SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn FAQs suitable for DBAs and Infrastructure types, covering everything from the hotfixes recommended for AlwaysOn, to whether Availability Groups can be defined outside a domain boundary. For example...

If you are attending this year’s Microsoft Management Summit ( MMS 2013 ), you can’t miss these sessions.  Created by industry experts from Microsoft Services Premier Field Engineering, these sessions promise to deliver some of the best notes from...

Summary:  Milad Aslaner , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (still) based in Germany, shares some customer questions around Windows Store app deployment. Recently I was onsite at one of our customers, to discuss Windows Modern Apps. The customer...

Summary : This article is contributed by Ryan Doon , a Premier Field Engineer based in Canada. In this post (the second of a two part series), he walks us through a video demonstration of the new Cluster Aware Updating feature of Windows Server 2012,...

Windows 8 replaces the older Virtual PC technology with Hyper-V , for a full-featured virtual machine manager, and this allows for some really interesting new networking scenarios. Over at AskPFEPlat , Mike Leary posted a quick guide to setting up...

Summary:  Milad Aslaner , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, walks us through a real-life scenario of how he managed to reduce Windows client boot times by about 100 seconds with a few simple tweaks.  Enjoy! As a Premier Field...

Doug Deitterick has put together a rundown on the various scenarios for which you can use LyncServerUpdateInstaller.exe to install Lync server updates : Just like previous versions of OCS/Lync, there are two methods to update the servers with OCS/Lync...