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...

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, gives Login scripts a lashing and encourages us to move on to using Group Policy Preferences. Enjoy! When I’m delivering Microsoft Premier Support Workshops like...

Summary: Gregg O’Brien , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada, makes a case for not throwing sand in your face and correct zipper placement when dealing with a Certificate Revocation List Distribution Point (CDP) in Microsoft Active Directory...

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...

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: Craig Forster , a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, runs us through how he deals with a performance issues for a file server that has plenty of RAM but, for some reason, no available memory. Hi, this is Craig Forster here. I’m...

My sometime partner in crime Chad Duffey posted a tip he came across from a couple of DirectAccess deployments where Win7 clients mysteriously stopped workin g: I'm seeing lots of cases were a Direct Access proof of concept has been set up and it works...

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: Still running Windows Server 2003? Besides making the well-advised recommendation of moving to Windows Server 2012, Frank Plawetzki , a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, runs us through how to monitor servers remotely...

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 concluding post in the series on Site Mailboxes in Exchange 2013...

A public service announcement for Sharepoint 2013 customers: Our colleagues in CTS note (and reminded us ) that the Sharepoint March 2013 Public Updates will be required for future Cumulative Updates – that is, they form the new servicing baseline for...

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...

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...

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 Jaroslav Zikmund, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. This article discusses the recommendations around the placement of the Microsoft Exchange Server File Share Witness (FSW) in Database Availability Groups (DAG) where the DAG member is...

Written by boB Taylor , Principal Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. The wait is finally over!  The SQLDiag Configuration Tool has been released. One of the most heavily used tools in the SQL Server Premier Field Engineer’s tool belt is PSSDiag ....

Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. The venerable Personal Storage Table (PST) file has been present in Microsoft Exchange environments for many years.  In some ways its success has lead to its downfall.  With the...

Written by Alexander Windel, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Let’s say you want to create a disaster recovery (DR) plan for a common, shared enterprise IT service such as e-mail or document collaboration in your organization. One of the results...

  Written by Mohit Gupta, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. I am asked this question by Microsoft SQL Server customers again and again: “What dynamic management views ( DMV ) or dynamic management functions ( DMF ) should I use?” The short answer...

Article by Danijel Klaric, Premier Field Engineer. One of my customers came to me with the following issue and asked if there were “better” solutions available than they found using their own Internet research. They use a mix of Outlook 2007 and Outlook...

Written by Mohit Gupta, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Every now and then we have deadlocks taking place in SQL Server.  Most go unnoticed, either because the frontend application handles it gracefully.  Or no error is not reported out to...

Written by Frank Pawetzki, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer The Issue: This happened to me today on my Windows 7 machine: the installation of Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection ( Release Candidate ) failed with error code 0x80070643 . The...

Written by Chris Tao, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Deploying a large scale Microsoft SharePoint 2010 farm is typically a challenge for Enterprise IT administrators. Not only does the default PSConfig GUI wizard require administrators to manually...

Well, I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like. And I like it when the boots are short and punchy! Jeff continues to tell you everything we know: This time, it’s what the goal state of any boot optimization process should look...