At least once a month a customer asks for a command-line method to enable and disable referrals for a folder target (aka link target). Neither dfscmd.exe nor dfsutil.exe provides a way to do this. In response to the many requests we get for this functionality...

Just a quick heads-up that we've released a new hotfix 912850 titled "FIX: You cannot access performance counters in the Distributed File System (DFS) Replication health report on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 R2." If you've seen these...

We’ve heard a lot of feedback recently from beta testers regarding the loss of restore points caused by dual-booting Windows XP. We’d like to explain the reasons behind this behavior, the impact on various recovery features, and why a backported fix is...

Hi, I'm Navjot Virk, program manager for Offline Files in Windows Vista, and I'll be blogging a multi-part series about the new features in Offline Files. Offline Files is a feature of Windows Vista that enables access to files on an SMB server even...

If you've tested the beta versions of Windows Vista, you may have noticed that the Disk Defragmenter tool has been overhauled. We get lots of questions about why we made these changes, how the new tool works, etc. so we've started a Defrag FAQ and will...

A customer recently sent us the following question: “What permissions are required for dfsrdiag queries? When running a dfsrdiag backlog query, a user is getting ‘[ERROR] Failed to connect to WMI services on computer: [FQDN]’. Does the user need admin...