If you use the reporting functionality for DFS Replication in the DFS Management tools you will want to pick up the following hotfix to allow reporting functionality to work during the month of December: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912154 . You...

Beta testers and even MS employees often ask us why restore points take up so much disk space and whether this can be adjusted. I also see the opposite problem reported—testers are surprised that so few restore points are being kept on the system. The...

Here's an upcoming webcast that features Offline Files:: In this session, we look deeper into the technologies that make the combination of Microsoft Windows Server code-named "Longhorn" and Windows Vista a compelling solution for enterprise organizations...

Our RDC experts just published a technical whitepaper on RDC. Check out Optimizing File Replication over Limited-Bandwidth Networks using Remote Differential Compression by Dan Teodosiu, Nikolaj Bjorner, Joe Porkka, Mark Manasse, and Y. Gurevich. Abstract...

If you're interested in using Windows Vista to share files, check out this TechNet article recently published. Here's a brief abstract: Microsoft® Windows Vista™ has made some important changes to the way that file and printer sharing works. This article...

A customer deploying a new server recently asked us which VSS hotfixes he should install. Turns out there are quite a few VSS hotfixes out there, and he asked if he needed to install them all in order or just a subset. Here’s the rundown of what to install...

An observant Windows Vista user noticed a registry named NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem and asked us what this means. Last Access Time is a file attribute that’s updated when a file is...

Savvy Windows Vista users have been asking tough questions about some of the design decisions we made for the File Backup feature in Windows Vista. We created this FAQ to explain our decisions. We don’t expect everyone to agree with us, and we are taking...

We were delighted to receive the following email from one of our managers who is now our biggest fan of the File Backup program in Windows Vista. Though we’ve heard plenty of feedback about the lack of location-based backup in Backup, this is one scenario...

When you set up a replication group in Windows Server 2003 R2, you are given the choice of several topologies, including hub and spoke. A common misconception about this topology is that the hub is a “master” and changes made on spokes will not be replicated...