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Using PowerShell for Message Analyzer Text Log Parsers
Using PowerShell for Message Analyzer Text Log ParsersHi Everyone, Brandon Wilson here with you again to discuss how to use PowerShell to generate parsed data output for log files for Message Analyzer...
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We Must Fundamentally Transform Our Approach to Security
This week, we have a different style of article. In this post, folks step back and look at "big picture" strategy rather than the technical/tactical details of IT operations. This broadly...
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Managing Hybrid Identities Across Portals
Greetings! Hilde here once again to bend your ear about hybrid identity.Just between you and me, I can be a bit of a slow learner. Some people can process new information and ideas at the speed of...
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Scheduling Start and Stop Times for Azure VMs
Here in PFE, we LOVE our labs. That should be apparent by all the posts we have on the subject. Labs are the best way to dig in and discover how things really work before going into production, or if...
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Disaster Recovery – A Reminder
Happy Monday, folks!A short post to remind us all about one of my favorite topic "families" (and one of my customer's most over-looked).We all know that disaster recovery and business continuity...
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Finding Pesky Stale DNS SRV Records
Good day to you all - Dougga here with a simple post today using tools you know. Stale DNS SRV records are common due to no scavenging on DNS zones and each zone has to be setup correctly to have...
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Monday Mailbag – The Free Downloads Edition!
Greetings – Hilde here with a Monday Mailbag for your viewing pleasure…In a recent mailbag, we posted about an update for KMS on Windows Server 2012 R2 for activating Windows 10. We mentioned that...
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How to Troubleshoot Office 365 Service Slowness?
Hi Folks,Lakshman Hariharan here with a post to share with you one reason why Office 365 services might be perceived as “slow.” In my role as a Premier Field Engineer, I perform many “Office 365...
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Making a Little More Sense out of Windows as a Service and Windows 10 Branches
Greetings and salutations! Hilde here to chat a bit about Windows as a Service (WaaS) and the “Branch” concept in Windows 10 … and vent windows.However, before we get into today’s discussion, I have to...
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Windows 10 Start Menu Flexibility
Greetings and Happy Halloween from the Platforms PFE ghosts and ghouls.Believe it or not, some people eagerly welcomed the return of the Start menu in Windows 10.I'd bet that a lot of you folks are...
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From Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2: A Tale of a Successful...
I seemed to be running into more and more Hyper-V Failover Cluster migrations with my customers as of late. Some of these are migrating from VMWare to Hyper-V, but some of these are simply migrating...
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KMS Migration from 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2 and KMS Activation Known...
I’m receiving a lot of requests for assistance here lately around KMS. In short, the request goes something like this: I use KMS for volume activation of Microsoft products. How do I migrate my KMS...
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After Migrating Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Cluster to Windows Server 2012...
Lots of my customers are upgrading their Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Cluster nodes to Windows Server 2012 R2. The increased stability and reliability that Windows Server 2012 R2 combined with the...
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An alternative way to connect PowerShell to Azure using an Azure AD account
Hello folks, its Rick here. A while back I had shared with you a way to connect PowerShell to your Azure Subscription via the certificate method using Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile cmdlet. This method...
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I Have a Great Idea – but how do I tell Microsoft?
At Microsoft, we value input from the people that use our products every day. We work hard to make sure that our products are user friendly and will accomplish the tasks that make your job as an IT...
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Becoming a Premier Field Engineer 2.0 Cloud/Azure Edition
Greg Jaworski here again after a long blogging hiatus. Several years back I wrote a popular blog post about becoming a Premier Field Engineer...
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Mailbag – Holiday 2015 Edition
Season's Greetings from the AskPFEPlat PFEs!A solid Mailbag today with items from Paul Bergson, Rick Bergman, Matthew Walker, Mike Kline and Mike Hildebrand. Also an AskPFEPlat alum – Mark Morowczynski...
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Recovering from Failed Disks in Tiered Storage Spaces on Windows 10 via...
I have a Windows 10 workstation at home which has a tiered storage space with 2 SSD and 6 HDD. I have a mirrored virtual disk using both tiers and I use this for regular storage, file sharing, and...
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Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) Implementation Hints and...
Hi, Jessica Payne from Microsoft Enterprise Cybersecurity Group's Global Incident Response and Recovery team guest starring on the Platforms PFE blog today.Credential theft is a major problem in the...
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Microsoft InTune for the Old-School GPO Admin
Happy New Year, people! Let me welcome you to the first post of 2016 for the Ask PFE Platforms blog.I have a history of posting on our blog around the holidays/New Year's and 2016 is no different.Last...
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