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The Startup Script is Dead
Get ready to have an opinion! Matthew Reynolds (https://twitter.com/MatthewMWR) here with my personal advice (not announcing any product changes) about which configuration vectors are working well and...
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How to Setup a Password Expiration Notification Email Solution
"Hello World!" Hi there! Mike Kullish, here. I'm a PFE based out of Minneapolis, MN with a focus on AD, Hyper-V and DFS but I try to help customers with anything on the Windows Desktop and/or Server...
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Windows To Go at Microsoft Ignite 2015
Hey y’all, Mark and Yong Rhee here. We hope everyone enjoyed our session. We’ll post the recording when it becomes available. As promised we have a slew of bonus content for you. You can take a look at...
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How to find expensive, inefficient and long running LDAP queries in Active...
Hey y’all, Mark back again. I’d like to say in my best TV show announcer voice, we have a real treat for you today. Have you ever wondered what clients were sending expensive or inefficient LDAP...
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Mailbag: All ADFS All The Time (Issue #11)
Hey y’all Mark and Tom here. Thinks are starting to return to normal so hopefully we should be back to a regular posting schedule. Tom should have some more time since HIS hockey team is already out of...
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Getting Started with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit for Windows Server 2012 R2...
A while back (and longer than I’d like to admit), I wrote a post on getting started with Windows Deployment for Windows Server or Windows client using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. I’ve helped many...
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How To Provide Feedback On Windows Server
Hey y’all, Mark here. Today is a national holiday in the USA which means technically, for me, Dante from Clerks would say, “I’m not even supposed to be here today!” That being said we had a real quick...
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How Shared VHDX Works on Server 2012 R2
Hi, Matthew Walker here, I’m a Premier Field Engineer here at Microsoft specializing in Hyper-V and Failover Clustering. In this blog I wanted to address creating clusters of VMs using Microsoft...
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Working with the VMAgent on Microsoft Azure IaaS VMs
Ahhh, welcome to summer. The cool splashing blue water of the municipal pool. Blue-raz slushies from Tropical Snow. Bright, clear blue skies. Sometimes all that blue makes me think of Azure - the...
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ADFS Deep-Dive: Troubleshooting
Just in case if you haven’t seen this series, I’ve been writing an ADFS Deep-Dive series for the past 10 months. Here are links to the previous articles:ADFS Deep-Dive- PrimerADFS Deep-Dive- Comparing...
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Windows Server DHCP Server Migration – Two Issues from the Field
Hey folks – Hilde here with a post about some DHCP migration snafus I've bumped into recently.Many of my large, enterprise customers have DHCP servers that were deployed over a decade ago, humming...
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Active Directory Risk Assessments – Lessons and Tips from the Field – Volume #1?
Greetings – Hilde here to pass along some wisdom for AD shops everywhere. Recently, I was part of a conversation with a handful of true Active Directory rock-stars here in Premier Field Engineering who...
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Connect to a Home Network from Anywhere via Azure, Point to Site and Site to...
Hi all, this is JJ Streicher-Bremer, Platforms PFE. A long time reader, first time poster.I was recently onsite with a customer and using their guest wireless network. I wanted to connect into my lab...
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DNS Policies in Windows Server 2016 Tech Preview 2
Hello - Gary Green and Mike Kline here to bring you Ask PFE Plat's very first post regarding Windows Server 2016 (well, Technical Preview #2, to be specific)! Over the years, Microsoft Windows Server...
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Mailbag: Hi Mom! (Issue #12)
Greetings all – Mike Hildebrand, Mike Kline and a few others here with some musings for an out of sorts "Monday Mailbag." It's the end of an era… Last week, Windows Server 2003 reached its "End of...
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Mailbag: The Windows 10 Double-Bubble Edition (Issue #13)
Welcome to the last Friday before Windows 10 launches! If you've been playing along at home, you likely realized that we did a mailbag post just a few days ago - on Monday of this week. Well, what can...
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Third-party Active Directory Migration Tools and KB 3070083
Hello, Chad Munkelt here with my very first post for the Ask PFE Platforms blog. I wanted to discuss a new hotfix that Microsoft released recently: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3070083This...
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Diving into the Netlogon Parser (v3.5) for Message Analyzer
Brandon Wilson here again talking to you about the next generation of the Netlogon parser for Message Analyzer, which is available with the installation of Message Analyzer 1.3.1. Some of this is going...
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Leveraging Windows Native Functionality to Capture Network Traces Remotely
Happy Monday everybody! Victor Zapata here again to share some network tracing and PowerShell love. Like many of you, I’m frequently called on to troubleshoot issues that involve network connectivity...
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PSA: Great Series on Windows Performance
This is David Gregory and I wanted to share with you guys a great series on Windows Performance by Mark Renoden, Roger Southgate and Scott Duffey, some PFE’s from Australia. They did a good job of...
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