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Using PowerShell Runspaces to Generate GPO Reports
Stephen Mathews here to talk to you about generating Group Policy Object reports quickly and efficiently. I had a customer ask me if there was an easy way to find all the RunOnce GUIDs in their GPOs....
View ArticleA Bit About the Windows Servicing Model
Hello, Paul Bergson back again with a discussion on the upcoming changes to our monthly patch releases to align down-level supported operating systems, updating practices to coincide with the Windows...
View ArticleAskPFEPlat Ask Me Anything-September 2016
UPDATE (9/26/2016 @ 10:45a ET): Thank you all for your participation in this AskPFEPlat Ask Me Anything Q&A blog session! We are ending active questioning at this time. Rest assured, if you have...
View ArticleWindows Server 2016 Evaluation Edition Available for Download
Happy Monday folks and what a great Monday it is. Microsoft Ignite is taking place this week. I’m super excited for all the announcements that will take place this week and the great things ahead. For...
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Securing Credentials for Privileged Access
Hello, Paul Bergson back again. I have been on the road a bit more than normal doing security training/POC deliveries (POP-SLAM *1) for our customers related to Pass-the-Hash and credential...
View ArticleBest Practice Analyzer for Hyper-V
This blog post brought to you by eighteen year veteran Microsoft Premier Field Engineer David Morgan. Goal of this Post Today I’d like to impart to you how you can collect a few of what Microsoft...
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Windows Failover Cluster Storage Quick Test
This blog post brought to you by eighteen year veteran Microsoft Premier Field Engineer David Morgan. Goal of this Post One of the best troubleshooting tools around for Windows Failover Cluster since...
View ArticleKMS Activation for Windows Server 2016
Hi everyone. Graeme Bray here with a quick article around KMS and Server 2016. KMS and Server 2016 you say? Shouldn’t I be using Active Directory Based Activation? Yes, you should, but in case you...
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Two Unusual Azure AD Connect Configuration Issues
Hello, my name is Michael C. Bazarewsky, and I’m a Public Sector Secure Infrastructure PFE, spending most of my time working on Azure-related engagements. Today, I wanted to present two quick notes...
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The Riverbed Field Guide for the AD Admin
Unexpected TCP resets, intermittent “Network Path Not Found”, and SMB dialects being downgraded. These errors point to something very odd and potentially very bad, happening on the network. If you are...
View ArticleAnnouncing Extended Support for WSUS 3.0 SP2
Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here just passing along a friendly note that consumers of WSUS will probably be jumping for joy to hear. Nathan Mercer and Michael Niehaus have published some useful news in...
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Two Ways To Accept Pipeline Input In PowerShell
Hello everyone, my name is Preston K. Parsard, and I’m a Premier Field Engineer. I’ve been focusing on Azure and PowerShell engagements recently and would like to present an illustrated article about...
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Convert a Federated Domain in Azure AD to Managed and Use Password Sync –...
Hi all! I am Bill Kral, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, here to give you the steps to convert your on-premise Federated domain to a Managed domain in your Azure AD tenant. In this case, we will...
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Basic Network Capture Methods
Hi everyone. This is Michael Rendino, a Premier Field Engineer from Charlotte, NC and former member of the CTS networking support team. With my networking background, I have spent years reviewing...
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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10
Hello everyone, my name is David Loder, long-time reader, first-time PFE blogger, based out of Detroit, Michigan. And I have a confession to make. I hate servers. Or more precisely I hate logging in to...
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The Case of the Vanishing Static Reverse DNS Records
Hey everyone! PFE Tim Beasley here coming to you live from the warm, cozy sands of Bora Bora…Pfft yeah. I wish! … No I’m in Missouri…where it’s miserably winter outside. But I digress, I am writing...
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Turn on that Scary DC
Stephen Mathews here; now tell me, do you have a domain controller you’re afraid to turn on? Maybe it lost power and nobody noticed for a couple months or you don’t trust your AD restore procedures;...
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Build an Inexpensive Learning Machine
This blog post brought to you by eighteen year veteran Microsoft Premier Field Engineer David Morgan. Goal of this Post In this post, I’ll be showing you one method you can build out an entire...
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Removing Self-Signed RDP Certificates
Hello all. Jacob Lavender here for the Ask PFE Platforms team to talk a little about a common scenario that I’m often presented with – How to rid Windows machines of the self-signed remote desktop...
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Convert a Managed Domain in Azure AD to a Federated Domain using ADFS for...
Hi all! I am Bill Kral, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, here again to give you the steps to convert your on-premises Managed domain to a Federated domain in your Azure AD tenant this time. Here is...
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