Written by Rhoderick Milne, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. As a Microsoft Exchange Server focused Premier Field Engineer I spend a considerable amount of my time with customers at their work place and also when they attend training courses and...

Written by Kip Ng , Principal Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Most companies that I come across run System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007 mixed mode especially when they do not have any Internet-based clients. Of course, there are some...

Written by Daniel Brunet, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. If you found this article, chances are that you searched for some combination of “ SharePoint ” and “ Governance ”.This is the first of a series of articles that will be mainly focused...

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...

Summary : Piotr Gardy , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Poland, provides us with recommendations on why (and how) a ConfigMgr database should be hosted on its own dedicated SQL Server instance. For more useful tidbits, please check out Piotr’s...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer For my follow up article to How to use Windows 7 to lock down removable media and keep your computer safe , I would like to discuss another feature within Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate...

Written by Neil Harrison , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer   If you ever had to deploy an OS image to different varieties of end-user hardware then you’ll know the frustrations that can occur when dealing with the multitude of drivers that may come...

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...

Article written by Matt Abraham, Premier Field Engineer. My customer wanted to assign the "Recipient Management" group to their helpdesk staff, who are responsible for the creation and management of their Exchange mailboxes. However, they didn...

Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3 and later support the AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess capability, and our old Scottish-sounding but Canada-based friend* Rhoderick Milne ran across an interesting mention of it while reviewing disaster recovery operations with one...

Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. The Exchange team recently released SP2 for Exchange 2010 over on the Exchange team blog , and I wanted to use this blog entry to provide links to all the relevant content for SP2 and to raise...

Written by Nicolas Pasquali, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 helps administrators manage and administer Configuration Manager...

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 Chris Tao, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Have you ever been asked the following questions when passing through the immigration counter to enter a foreign country? Who are you? Where are you from? Where are you going to? What are you doing...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. I recently switched disciplines in the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering (PFE) organization, changing from a Platforms-focused position to a System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr...

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 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 Dan Erelis , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. W ith Exchange 2010 comes the new Client access layer, a true middle tier approach in this version of Exchange. No longer do your clients connect to the backend mailbox server but typically through...

Written by Mohit Gupta, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. I was thinking of writing an article about Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL Basics; however, in order to do the examples and demos I wanted to use a database that’s readily available on the...

Matt Abraham posts a few top tips on making Exchange 2013’s version of OWA more touch-friendly , simply by modifying the address! Among his tips are twide (touch, wide) and tnarrow (touch, narrow): You can modify the Outlook Web App view with a couple...

Written by Adis Tucakovic, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Most IT organizations realize that yesterday’s potential issues are today’s actual problems; in turn, management and operations teams are constantly consumed fighting problems today because...

Summary : Tony O'Grady , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in the UK, helps us understand whether or not a SQL dataset is going to produce useful query statistics by looking for patterns in histogram values in comparison to actual values. He introduces...

TechEd 2013 North America is just around the corner. And if it is TechEd, so is it time for our PFEs to show their deep technical skills coupled with the vital insight into typical customer situations. Milad Aslaner , our Windows Core SME from Microsoft...

Written by Daniel Brunet, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In my previous post , I explained the goal of this series of articles is to help SharePoint farm administrators make decisions when they have to maintain one or multiple SharePoint farms...

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...