Hello, my name is Mayank Sharma and I am a Technical Advisor here at Microsoft. In this blog, I will discuss FIPS compliance with Bitlocker. Microsoft's solution for completely encrypting data inside laptops, desktops and removable drives. So let’s ...read more

If you are experiencing Windows activation failures on an Azure VM, please try the following steps to resolve the issue. An example of an error message you may see is: Error(s): Activating Windows(R), ServerDatacenter edition Error: 0xC004F074 The Software ...read more

Hey y’all, Mark back again to help close out another successful year of blogging. We’ve been at this for three years, which feels insanely long as well as feeling like this just started up a few weeks ago, which is weird. Trust me. We want to thank you ...read more

Hi folks, Lakshman Hariharan and Martin Solis here with a post on how to secure domain controller to domain controller communications using Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (WFAS) Connection Security Rules. Be forewarned that this is a long post ...read more

Hey y’all, Mark, Tom and the AskPFEPlat crew back for our last mailbag of 2014. It’s getting around the holidays, lots of people start to take vacation including myself. But don’t worry we’re really starting to get into a good ...read more