Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer.  Continuing on from his prior post .  System Center Operations Manager (a.k.a. OpsMgr) provides a facility to share out either the rich or web console to your different support...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. A service catalog (or catalogue), as defined in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)   Service Design , is a list of services that an organization provides, often...

Written by Ryan Doon , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Lately there is a question that I always seem to receive and it always starts with “What is the Microsoft Best Practice when it comes to ___________”. That blank represents a wide range of questions...

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 Mohit Gupta, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In my last post I talked about how to get the list connections (e.g. who is connected and requests are they running on SQL Server). I talked about how to use dm_exec_connections, dm_exec_sessions...

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...

I highly recommend giving this a read so you are ready for Windows Server 2012.  The dude had a hand in proofing the book and even has a sidebar on page 25 on performance monitoring.  Give it a read, rumor has it there may be some floating around...( read more ) ...read more

Now that System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is out, you may think what should I do or how I make sure I’m ready to interview for the new product. The first think I will recommend is looking at this blog that I put a while ago, Do you want...

Written by Chris Tao, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In my last article , we discussed the nature of metadata, the need for metadata management in the modern enterprise, and some fundamental information about Project Barcelona. In this article, we...

  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...

Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Since Exchange servers are now storing an ever increasing amount of data, it is imperative that people can quickly search and retrieve the content from their mailbox.  This may have been...

Written by Michel Audet, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Monitoring how much data is stored on a particular drive and displaying it in a graph and/or report format is often requested by customers running Microsoft System Center Operations Manager ....

Written by Chandrasekar Natarajan , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In a Microsoft SharePoint 2007 site, when we take the mouse pointer on the top link bar we get the drop down menu for that particular site. The drop down that shows up after placing...

Written by Joe Lefort, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Better late than never. I finally got a bit of free time to try to explain part two of the ICE NAT and media stuff I began a while back – that being STUN and TURN. First off, not all NATs...

Article by Pascal L’Huriec, Senior Premier Field Engineer. I recently faced an issue with Out-of-Office (OOF) replies not working properly under Exchange 2007 SP3 with RU3 which was not easy to identify, and I thought it was interesting enough to share...

Written by Chandrasekar Natarajan , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. When the User Profile service application is configured in Microsoft SharePoint 2010, by default NT Authority\Authenticated Users and All Authenticated Users are granted permissions...

Article by Matt Abraham, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. A common issue with Exchange 2010 is that you are unable to allow a Distribution list to be managed by a “group”. This was changed by design in Exchange 2010 to allow greater...

Written by Chandrasekar Natarajan , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Let’s say in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 you create a new " ContentType " project by specifying the SharePoint site and solution type as farm solution. Inherit this new...

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...

Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Frank Plawetzki posted a great article on issues that can affect how clients retrieve their Offline Address Book ( OAB ).  This has also been the source of some recent work for myself...

Written by Joe Lefort, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In my last article, Why You Need To Understand NAT When Setting Up Lync or OCS ,  I talked a fair bit about the edge and NAT. I thought this article would be all about the STUN and TURN...

Written by Chandrasekar Natarajan , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In a typical ASP.NET application, using a User Control is pretty straight forward, we just need to map the control to an ObjectDataSource and bind its settings. But in Microsoft SharePoint...

Written by Joe Lefort, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Microsoft Lync and OCS are fairly easy to set up if all you want to do is have internal IM/presence and conferencing. The moment you decide to open your SIP domain up to the outside world...

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 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...