Hi, this is Sanjoy Chatterjee, program manager for DFS Namespaces here to talk about client failback. Several branch office failure scenarios can result in client being bound indefinitely to a remote server even after availability to their local, preferred...

In 2004 we released the File Server Migration toolkit along with a new DFS feature known as consolidation roots (described in this KB article ). In the FSMT documentation we specifically state that Windows 9x clients cannot access consolidation roots...

Several newsgroup customers have recently reported Explorer refresh issues when connecting to shared folders using a DFS path. For example, if you connect to a shared folder directly (without using the namespace) and create a file or rename a file in...

Hi, this is Shobana Balakrishnan here to talk about staging folders in DFS Replication. Staging folders are used to (a) isolate the files from the changes on the file system, and (b) amortize the cost of compression and computing RDC hashes across multiple...

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific Time With the addition of new storage capabilities built into the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 platform, there are many business reasons to upgrade your server operating system. This webcast shows...

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Shola Aluko, Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation, will host a webcast that compares the storage features of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with those of Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003...

[We've had several customers ask us about SMB 2.0. Many thanks to Navjot Virk and Prashanth Prahalad providing this post. --Jill] Vista comes with a major revision of the SMB protocol identified as SMB 2.0. The existing SMB 1.0 protocol was built to...

A customer recently tested FSRM and noticed the following, “In our testing, we have two root folders, A and B, with separate quota policies for each. If we move a subfolder of A to B, we don’t see the moved subfolder get the B policy. It seems to maintain...

Several customers have asked about gotchas or other limitations for using File Server Resource Manager on server clusters. Georgi Matev, the program manager for this feature, responds: FSRM quotas are fully supported on clustered file servers. We’ve...

With the increasing demand on storage resources, information technology (IT) administrators must oversee larger and more complex storage infrastructures yet still track the kinds of information available in it. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 File Server...

Recently Shobana Balakrishnan, our DFS Replication program manager, hosted a webcast to discuss migrating FRS replica sets to DFS Replication in Windows Server 2003 R2. In this webcast she describes a script (ReadFRS.vbs) that can be used to migrate FRS...