Keeping browsing experience in users’ hands
In April last year we announced some changes to our criteria around Adware designed to ensure that users maintain control of their experience. These changes are described in our blog, Adware: a New...
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Adding Work Folders to Office locations
With the latest Windows 10 Nov release, Work Folders can be surfaced as a location where user can easily access the document under it.This new feature is announced on this page:...
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Changes implemented by Essentials Role on Windows Server 2012 R2
[This post comes to us courtesy of Sandeep Biswas and Rituraj Choudhary from Global Business Support]Today we will discuss about the changes made to the server when the Essentials Experience role is...
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Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 currently removed from Download Center
We recently released Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 RTM delivering many requested improvements and fixes, via the Microsoft Download Center as announced in a previous blog post. However, we...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 VPN Interoperability with Cisco ASA
The IKEv2 implementation difference between Windows RRAS Gateway and Cisco ASA results in the non-interoperability between the two VPN devices (documented in this VPN Interoperability guide ). This...
View ArticleTop Support Solutions for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
Top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when you use System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (updated quarterly).Note: Some content is for earlier versions of...
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Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) Implementation Hints and...
Hi, Jessica Paynefrom 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...
View ArticleTop Support Solutions for System Center 2012 Service Manager
A list of links related to the most-frequently used solutions by Microsoft Support Engineers when customers experience issues related to System Center 2012 Service Manager.
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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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Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) CPU assignment tips and tricks
Hello First a small introduction. I am Marco Cancillo and have been working at Microsoft since 2013 as a Sr. Support Engineer in the western Europe CTS Network team. Within my work I have seen...
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New Support for Windows Server Data Deduplication in Limited Local Hyper-V...
A popular request from our customer base for Windows Server Data Deduplication has been to support the Hyper-V scenarios (i.e., VDI and virtualized backup) on storage local to the Hyper-V server. This...
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Deploying Network Controller using Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2016...
IntroductionThis article helps you evaluate the Software Defined Networking (SDN) features in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4. In particular, it focuses on using System Center Virtual Machine...
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New Video: The Best EMS Overview Available
Over the last year, the Enterprise Mobility Suite has grown at an unbelievable rate, and this explosive progress means that we have to work harder than ever to communicate clearly about how to use it,...
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Best way to connect to Office 365 and Azure AD (latest data) + Azure AD...
Howdy folks, Last March I published a blog post with data on how organizations were choosing to connect their on-premises identities (in Windows Server Active Directory) to their cloud identities (in...
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Coming soon: Support for new Windows 10 features, Apple VPP for Business, and...
We will be releasing the next service update for Microsoft Intune between January 6 and January 14. New features and enhancements will be made available as part of this service update including:Support...
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Navigating the Windows 10 Servicing Options
One of the biggest changes you are likely already seeing with Windows 10 is something we call the Windows distribution rings. These are the good kinds of rings (e.g. onion, Saturn, wedding), not the...
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Troubleshooting Work Folders on Windows client
Work Folders syncs files between client and server. Although most issues are discovered by users, it could be root caused on the server, the client or the network. This blog post shares the most common...
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Podcast: Navigating the Windows 10 Servicing Options
In this podcast, we look at the important topic of how/why Windows 10 is changing (for the better!) the way we handle deployment and management in the enterprise.This is a topic I covered in depth in...
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Backup and Restore DHCP with Failover Configuration
[This post comes to us courtesy of Vithalprasad Gaitonde from Product Group and Gopalakrishnan Krishnan from Global Windows Networking Support] The DHCP service has evolved with its own in-built...
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Five things you should know about cloud security
By contributing author, Tim Rains, Chief Security Advisor of Microsoft’s Enterprise Cybersecurity GroupSecurity threats continue to dominate news cycle today. As more companies move to the cloud,...
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