A common paradigm in the technology field is, “If you’re not using it, uninstall or disable it.”   While that can be an excellent way to reduce the surface area of a system by removing components that you don’t need and may never use, there...

While teaching the Windows Server 2008 Directory Services workshop this week a student asked me, “How can I grant access to the DNS MMC to a user that I don’t want to put into the DNS Admins group because I only want them to be able to view the contents...

(NOTE: IP Addresses changed to protect the innocent) I was onsite with a customer recently who asked me a question: “What is 2002:836b:0F1E::836b:0F1E and why am I seeing it?” I explained that this is a 6to4 address and is automatically assigned to the...

When I was younger, I heard a phrase “The cobbler’s children have no shoes” and similar things which implied that frequently, people within a particular industry are less likely to want to utilize their skills as home when they’re not working.   ...

One of the great things about the Premier Field Engineering group at Microsoft is that we have a fairly aggressive hardware refresh cycle for our engineers in the US.   To keep us with a solid experience as road warriors, our laptops are refreshed...