NOTE: This blog post was reviewed and approved by peers and program management of the team responsible for production and release of this convenience rollup. Hi everyone. Robert Smith here to let you know about a new convenience rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Microsoft has released a one-time convenience roll-up… Read more
Brad Watts with another blog on System Center Operations Manager. One of the common scenarios I run into with customers is monitoring service accounts with Operations Manager. Specifically, three common scenarios dealing with service accounts: · Account Locked Out: typically there are a group of service accounts that you need to know immediately if they… Read more
Hello everyone. This is Randy Turner to share some insights learned with implementing Dynamic Access Control (DAC.) There are numerous posts which I will share at the end to discuss the steps to implement all the features covered by DAC, but very little on how to adopt these changes. DAC is just an outcome from… Read more
Hello again, Allen Sudbring here Premier Field engineer in the Central Region. Today I want to talk about an exciting new feature coming with the Anniversary update to Windows 10 that was announced at the Build 2016 conference, Bash command Shell on Windows 10. I am extremely excited about this feature because I work with… Read more
Introduction Hello Everyone! Allen Sudbring here, Platforms PFE in the central region. Today I wanted to share some information I have been working on with my customers concerning Microsoft’s newest version of Window Server, Nano Server. Nano Server is a lightweight, stripped down version of Windows Server optimized for private clouds and datacenters. Nano server… Read more
Hello, my name is Paul Bergson and this is my first time writing a blog for AskPFEPlat. I am a platforms PFE in the Premier division of Microsoft. If my name looks familiar, it could be because I spent about 10 years in TechNet’s Directory Service Forum as an MVP and Moderator (pbbergs). I wanted… Read more
Hi everybody! My name is Stephen Mathews and you may know me from my 3-part PowerShell Basics video series on Taste of Premier. Today I’m here to show how to create a bootable Windows PreInstallation Environment USB drive to use on our Microsoft Surface devices. I was onsite with one of my customers, as a… Read more
Hi all – This is Jerry Devore back again with a quick post on the “Protected Users” group. As a PFE, I work with several enterprise customers who have a global presence, and have become very focused on protecting highly privileged accounts. The major concern that’s at the top of their list is “How do… Read more
My name is Brad Watts and I’m a SCOM PFE. I wanted to take a little bit of time to demonstrate how you can use the Power BI Desktop application to build useful Key Performance Indicator reports from the information collected by System Center Operations Manager. Power BI toolset allows you to interact with various… Read more
Hi Matthew Walker here again. So in the course of learning the new features of Windows Server 2016 it is very useful to be to be able to have an environment built out quickly. There are multiple ways to address this. My co-worker Jaromir has his way which is built upon https://ws2016lab.codeplex.com/ I’m going to… Read more