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The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog
Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2-Now Available
Posted
5 months ago
by
Nir Ben-Zvi
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Identify, classify, and protect data across targeted file servers in your organization The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce that the Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available for download...
The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog
Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Now Available
Posted
8 months ago
by
Nir Ben-Zvi
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Consistently identify, classify, and protect data across all file servers in your organization The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce the Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta. Join the Beta...
The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog
Microsoft IT Uses File Classification Infrastructure to Help Secure Personally Identifiable Information
Posted
8 months ago
by
Nir Ben-Zvi
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I'd like to bring to your attention a recently published Technical Case Study from Microsoft IT that showcases how Microsoft IT is using FCI. Learn how Microsoft Information Technology (IT) used File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) to create a...
The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog
TechEd 2011 demo install step-by-step (Hyper-V, AD, DNS, iSCSI Target, File Server Cluster, SQL Server over SMB2)
Posted
8 months ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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We have a new blog post out that explains the demo setup used in the TechEd 2011 presentation about Windows Server 2008 R2 File Services Consolidation. In the post, you get step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce the environment used in the presentation...
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File Server Team sessions at TechEd 2011 this week
Posted
8 months ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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If you're attending TechEd 2011 this week, here are sessions from the File Server team: WSV313 - Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 for Application Storage, Diskless Boot, and More! Speaker(s): Jian (Jane) Yan Tuesday, May 17 at 5:00 PM, room: B101...
The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog
Using 4k sector and advanced format drives in Windows. HotFix and support info for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
Posted
9 months ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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If you work with storage, you probably already heard about the “4K Sector Drives”, “Advanced Format Drives” and “512e drives”. These new “4K sector drives” abandon the traditional use of 512 bytes per sector...
The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog
FSCT test results detail the performance of Windows Server 2008 R2 File Server configurations - 23,000 users with 192 spindles
Posted
9 months ago
by
Jose Barreto - MSFT
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The File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) is a free download from Microsoft that helps you determine the capacity of a specific file server configuration (running Windows or any operating system that implements the SMB or SMB2 protocols). It simulates a specific...
The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog
Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 for Windows Server 2008 R2 available for public download
Posted
10 months ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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Today, Microsoft has made the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 publicly available to all users of Windows Server 2008 R2. The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target has been available for production use as part of Windows Storage Server since early 2007....
The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog
Windows Server Backup automatic disk usage management
Posted
10 months ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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This blog applies to Automatic Disk Usage management and Version Management for versions lying on local disk. This does not apply to versions lying on Network shares. Windows Server Backup Overview Windows Server Backup is the built-in backup...
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File Server improvements from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2. 8 items for 8 years…
Posted
11 months ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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A new blog post covers a set of Windows Server 2003 File Server problems that were fixed in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Obviously a lot has changed in Windows Server File Services in the last 8 years, but the post highlights 8 specific...
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New white paper providing guidance for sizing NTFS volumes
Posted
11 months ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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Introduction Today, Microsoft released a new white paper, available here , discussing best practices and guidance for sizing NTFS volumes and some details on CHKDSK execution times on Windows Server 2008 R2. When planning Windows file server...
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Two new blog posts on Windows Storage Server 2008 R2
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over 2 years ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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Scott M. Johnson has published two new blogs post on the Windows Storage Server blog: The first post is a compilation of links covering all kinds of Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 content. http://blogs.technet.com/b/storageserver/archive/2010/11/16...
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Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 and the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 are available on MSDN/TechNet - here's how to install them
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over 2 years ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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You probably heard that Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 has been Released To Manufacturing (RTM) last week. That means that the OEMs will soon deliver a new generation of Windows-based NAS appliances with a file server (SMB2, NFS) and an iSCSI Target ...
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Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 is now available!
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over 2 years ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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It's a pleasure to let you know that Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 (which includes the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3) has been released to manufacturing (RTM). Scott M. Johnson (Program Manager in the File Server Team) has just shared via a...
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New five-part blog series on DFS Replication
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over 2 years ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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Ned Pyle, a Senior Escalation Support Engineer with the Directory Services team at Microsoft, has just started a new blog series focusing on DFS Replication. Here’s how he introduces it: Hello folks, Ned here again to kick off a new...
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Using the multiple NICs of your File Server running Windows Server 2008 (and 2008 R2)
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over 2 years ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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New blog post covers Multi-NIC File Server configurations: When you set up a File Server, there are advantages to configuring multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs). However, there are many options to consider depending on how your network and services...
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Using Kerberos security with Server for NFS
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over 2 years ago
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Jose Barreto - MSFT
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I'll discuss how to configure a UNIX based NFS client to connect to Windows Server for NFS using Kerberos security with RPCSEC_GSS. Traditionally NFS clients and servers use AUTH_SYS security. This essentially allows the clients to send authentication...
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File Classification Infrastructure webcasts with DataGlobal and Titus labs
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over 2 years ago
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Nir Ben-Zvi
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File Classification – Taming the Wild Beast of Unstructured Data by Microsoft (Apr. 19, 2010) It’s a jungle of electronically stored information that has proliferated far beyond the ability of manual data management. In fact, this unstructured data has...
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Using File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) and AD RMS to automatically protect sensitive information
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over 2 years ago
by
Nir Ben-Zvi
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Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure provides a built-in solution for file classification allowing administrators to automate manual processes with predefined policies based on the data’s business value. ( Windows Server 2008 R2 File...
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File Classification Infrastructure blog posts by Titus labs - Dec. 2009
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over 3 years ago
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Nir Ben-Zvi
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Additional blog posts by Titus labs that discuss: Owner based automatic file classification: http://sharepointmetadataandclassification.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/owner-based-classification.html FCI SharePoint upload script: http://sharepointmetadataandclassification...
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Automatically uploading files from File Server to SharePoint using the File Classification Infrastructure (FCI)
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over 3 years ago
by
Nir Ben-Zvi
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Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced a new File Classification Infrastructure that enables assigning metadata to files and applying file management tasks based on the file metadata ( Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure – Managing data...
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What to do when your system misbehave
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
chfok
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<This is the 5th article in a series of posts discussing backup and recovery offerings in Windows 7. > Imagine one day you got to your desktop and realized that some programs on your machine started crashing; or you’ve noticed some degradation...
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Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) and Automated System Recovery (ASR) doc updates
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over 3 years ago
by
dinesh
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This is a summary of recent additions and revisions to the VSS and ASR documentation on MSDN and TechNet. 1. The following new API elements have been documented: a. IVssComponentEx2 interface ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library...
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Windows 7 Disk Defragmenter User Interface Overview
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Jose Barreto - MSFT
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Introduction The Vista and Windows Server 2008 Defragmentation UI was limited to essential information and controls. Based on user feedback it was found that the UI was too minimal. In Win7 the UI intends to make the defrag operations more transparent...
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Managing backup disk space
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
chfok
6
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<This is the fourth post in a blog series on backup and recovery offerings in Windows 7. > If you’re reading this post it’s likely that you’ve already set up Windows Backup on your Windows 7 PC and running it on a schedule to protect your data...
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