Richard and Greg talk to Phil Peery from Premier Field Engineering at Microsoft about the state of Active Directory out in the world. Phil works with a large variety of customers in the New York area in his PFE role, and explores some of the problems that his customers have had with Active Directory.

Phil Peery is a member of the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering group's New York Metro area team, and has been with the company for 5 1/2 years. Phil is an Active Directory, Windows Platforms, and Performance engineer, and provides Microsoft customers with services such as ADRAP's, and teaches a number of Workshops including Active Directory Troubleshooting and Windows 2008 Networking. Passionate about delivering the message on 64 bit Windows and Windows 2008, Phil has been instrumental in driving the development of Windows 2008 Chalk Talks, delivering the talks to many customers in the NY Area, showing the value and new features of the Windows 2008 server platform.