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...

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: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Article written by Tamer Maher El-Sharkawy, a Premier Field engineer based in the US. Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies are increasingly used to store business-critical data, and are also used as a development platform for business...

Gregg O’Brien is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer from Canada. In this post he talks about the ‘certificate explosion’ phenomenon and suggests a way to mitigate it. Introduction We live in some very exciting times – we have so many devices to choose...

Our colleague from the United Kingdom, Sergio Carrilho , writes about System Center technologies. In a recent blog post , he describes some nuances of working with runbooks (sort of like workflows) when using System Center Orchestrator. I found it intriguing...

Sachin Shah , a PFE from the eastern United States has an interesting walkthrough on migrating Exchange 2007 Managed Folders to Exchange 2010 'Retention Policies’. His blog post is very detailed and has numerous screenshots to explain the process. Check...