Written by Jeff Adkin, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. We have all seen it a thousand times before. We need to make a change across tons of SharePoint sites or pull a report on specific values that just are not available in Central Admin. Banging one...

Written by Jon Strand, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Here’s a list of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 features that you'll want to be aware of when you’re considering upgrading from prior versions or when doing a new install. These features should have...

Written by Rob Hansen, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Performance Analyzer 1.0 for Microsoft Dynamics is the tool used by Microsoft Dynamics support teams, Premier Field Engineers, and product team members to diagnose performance issues with Dynamics...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Please note that the following post is all based on beta software, and all features are subject to possible change upon official release. I have done a number of posts around BitLocker...

Written by Tom Stumpf , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Does Microsoft Dynamics AX have any built-in functionality for monitoring system performance? This is a question I frequently get asked, so I thought I would address it here with a quick explanation...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. You have all seen it a million times on the silver screen, our hero is caught, trapped and/or facing impossible odds, and all of a sudden they make a miraculous escape.  It seems...

Written by Jon Strand , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer There's a great deal of information that can be found about installing and upgrading to the CRM 2011 Outlook client within the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Implementation Guide . During the first...

Written by Sean McNellis , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. As businesses are starting to plan for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 installations and upgrades, we’ve begun to see questions within Microsoft Premier Field Engineering regarding environment setups...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In my previous posts I introduced the concept of BitLocker and talked about managing the Trusted Platform Module , now let’s talk about how we can enforce policy to ensure clients are...

We did another podcast to provide some more background on the Performance Analyzer for Microsoft Dynamics AX. Rod Hansen, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer for Dynamics AX,  joined Eric Newell to discuss the key benefits and uses of the toolset...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. There are many volume encryption technologies out there, and some of these are now taking advantage of technology that Microsoft BitLocker has been using from its inception.  The...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Mobile computers (Laptops, Netbooks, Tablets, etc.) have been outselling desktop computers for years now, and why shouldn’t they?  Some modern day laptops offer better 3D Gaming frame...

Written by Kip Ng , Principal Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Operating an IT system nowadays is a no doubt daunting task. As a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE), I have the honor of working with different customers of different sizes in different...

Written by Neil Harrison , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. I often see questions on various Microsoft technical forums requesting information relating to the design of infrastructure to support new Microsoft products in their respective environments...

Editor's note: Care of our friends over at http://mcpmag.com , Clint Huffman , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, provides his take on how you can talk intelligently to SAN administrators and vendors when disk performance issues surface. Here’s a teaser...

Written and recorded by Tyler Johnson, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Anyone that has used Microsoft Windows Server Backup (WSB) in Windows Server 2008 might immediately experience feelings of nostalgia for days gone by, of a simple and fast...

Written by Cheng Pei Koay, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. I was recently trying to migrate System Center Data Protection Manager ( DPM ) Data Sources to a new storage location and faced a number of challenges, so I’d to share my experiences...

Written by boB Taylor , Principal Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Now Available! A smaller, leaner database.  I have released my SQL Server Compression Estimator tool to CodePlex . One of the most exciting additions to SQL Server 2008 was the capability...

Written by Cheng Pei Koay, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Here’s my quick list of 4 tools that should be in the arsenal of anyone who’s troubleshooting high-CPU usage situations on Windows systems. 1) User Mode Process Dumper The User Mode Process...

Written by boB Taylor , Principal Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. As the world moves to a global economy, it becomes more and more important to capture time information with respect to Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ). This format captures the...

Written by Cheng Pei Koay, Premier Field Engineer. If you are deploying file-level antivirus scanners on Exchange servers, make sure that the appropriate exclusions, such as directory exclusions, process exclusions, and file name extension exclusions...

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 Neil Harrison , Premier Field Engineer. When System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (OpsMgr) was released, one of the most interesting new features was the addition of Cross Platform monitoring or, in other words, Unix/Linux monitoring. Having...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. BusinessDictionary.com defines Managed Risk as the following: Identified probability of loss, or exposure to a danger, that has been minimized to an acceptable level through careful planning...

Written by Gerald Ramich , Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. This article is for folks who are trying to troubleshoot Microsoft Outlook Connectivity issues to Exchange servers. I’ll look at a wide number of troubleshooting items, including...