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IPv6 for the Windows Administrator: How Name Resolution Works in a Dual...
Hello, this is Venkat Kalyanasundaram, Senior PFE from New York Metro area. As someone that works a lot with IPv6 I see the same set of questions come up over and over again. I want to take some time...
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Performance Tuning For Windows Server 2012 R2, AV Exclusions and Windows 7...
Hey y’all, Mark here again with a quick post for you. There are three new articles that just came out that we wanted to make sure you folks didn’t miss. Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server...
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IPv6 for the Windows Administrator: The 2002: (6to4 Tunnel) Address and its...
Hello, this is Venkat Kalyanasundaram back with another IPv6 post for everyone. We discussed in my previous post IPv6 for the Windows Administrator: How Name Resolution Works in a Dual IPv4/IPv6...
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How to Save the DNS Cheese. Protect AD-Integrated DNS Zones from Accidental...
As a quick follow on to our recent post about DNS deletion auditing, here's an ounce of prevention for you - well actually about 3 tons worth - courtesy of Brent Whitlow, Bryan Zink and your blogger-de...
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How To Split and Migrate Child Domain DNS Records To a Dedicated DNS Zone
Hello, my name is Pierre Ricca, and I am a Premier Field Engineer focused on Active Directory and PowerShell scripting. I started working at Microsoft France as PFE in November 2010. An important part...
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Announcement……MDOP 2013 R2 Released!
In a previous post, we mentioned how to create recovery images using DaRT 8.0 SP1. However, that version didn’t support creating recovery images for Windows 8.1. This week we released MDOP 2013 R2...
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How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012 Part 1
Hey y’all Mark and Tom here with a series we think you guys will dig. I feel like half of our blog posts are building a lab of some kind. We love our labs in PFE. That’s how most of us learn. Set up a...
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Domain and DC Migrations: How To Monitor LDAP, Kerberos and NTLM Traffic To...
Hi everyone Adrian Corona here, this time I’d like to talk about a scenario that I get asked about a lot: Domain / Domain Controller Migrations.A very (if not the most) important piece of a successful...
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Scale Out File Servers on Windows Server 2012
Hey y’all Mark here with a quick post. We wanted to call attention to some fabulous work another Microsoft blogger has done. You may have heard of him. Ned ‘I’m famous on the internet’ Pyle. Old Ned...
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How to Build Your ADFS Lab on Server 2012, Part2: Web SSO
Mark and Tom here again, continuing our series on ADFS. In this post, we'll show you how to use some sample-code to configure a web application for Web Single Sign-On (Web SSO) with ADFS. What's Web...
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Troubleshooting Adventure: A Real Life Memory Pool Leak
Hi this is Jerry Devore with my first blog contribution. I am dedicated Premier Field Engineer specializing in Active Directory for a couple enterprise customers in the mid-west. Dedicated PFEs are...
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The Most Popular Posts of 2013 and Belated Birthday
Hey y’all, Mark back again for another year end recap. It has been an eventful year. We’ve added more bloggers to our team which is great, really increased our readership(it seems like you guys like...
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Microsoft PKI OCSP Responder Now JITC Certified and Lab Setup Guide
Hello all, my name is Jesse Esquivel and I’m a platforms PFE with one of my specialty’s being security/PKI. I’ve been working with PKI in the Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal spaces for the last...
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Quick Reference: Troubleshooting, Diagnosing, and Tuning MaxConcurrentApi Issues
Hi this is Brandon Wilson again. In my newest “Quick Reference” (get the joke?), we will be narrowing the scope for troubleshooting and tuning MaxConcurrentApi issues.There is a lot of information out...
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Understanding the UserAccountControl Attribute in Active Directory
Dougga here. Not a password policy blog post, I am finally off of that issue. But I couldn’t help myself and included something about passwords in this post <grin>.Users and Computers have and...
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Biometrics in Windows 8.1
Welcome to my first blog post on askpfeplat! My name is Milad Aslaner and I’m a Premier Field Engineer specialized in Windows Reliability. Some of you might know me from my sessions TechEd, TechNet and...
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How to Customize Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 – Get...
Greetings and happy Monday!! Hilde here - coming to you from the Seattle area, where I'm fortunate enough to be attending our premier internal technical training event. In this post, I'll cover a...
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Becoming an Xperf Xpert Part 7: Slow Profile Load and Our Very First Stack Walk
Hi my name is Randolph Reyes (Randy) with my first blog contribution! I am Premier Field Engineer specializing in Active Directory and Windows Desktop. Today I will like to share a recent trace taken...
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Migrate from Windows XP to the future with the Microsoft Assessment and...
Hello, Jeff Stokes here, the dude as it were...so, if you hadn't noticed, XP end of life is quite soon. If you are still trying to find the random XP machine in your environment, Ashley McGlone, Mr....
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How To Use the Active Directory Performance Testing Tool on Windows Server 2012
Hi, my name is Tom Ausburne and I am a Premier Field Engineer specializing in Active Directory. I recently had a customer ask if Microsoft had any tools to do Active Directory “stress” testing. A...
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