New England Premier Field Engineer Blog - Now With PUBSEC!!

Hello! I am a PFE for Microsoft on the Public Sector Team. With this blog I hope to bring the most useful and relevant information to everyone as I write about my experiences from the Field.

KDC Options and the missing Bit Mask

Hey Folks! So, a question came up recently about the Ticket Options in security events 4768 &...

Date: 04/28/2015

What to do when DNS Scavenging scares you!

Hey Folks, One of the more often asked questions we get is regarding DNS Scavenging. In Josh Jones'...

Date: 10/09/2013

Everything you ever wanted to know about why that pesky firewall keeps causing you problems with your Forest Trusts among other things..

So, I have had more than one customer with this issue. And it's not just trusts but, all sorts of...

Date: 05/30/2013

The Great Rollback

https://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/11/23/fixing-when-your-domain-traveled-back-in-ti...

Date: 11/29/2012

(Or, Everything you ever wanted to know about AD DR Plans but couldn’t find in one place..) As part...

Date: 05/20/2011

Drive Cleanup and WinSxS

  An issue arose today where a customers SQL machine ran out of disk space on the system drive...

Date: 05/12/2011

What in the world are RIDs for anyways?!

So the question came up today.  ‘We know what the RID master does with his Pools of RID numbers...

Date: 04/12/2011

Inaugural Post!

Hello Everyone! I wanted to take the opportunity to welcome you to what will be a veritable treasure...

Date: 02/28/2011