This is the second in a series of posts on what’s new in VSS in Windows Server 2008. In this article I’ll cover some of the new scenarios with hardware shadow copies and also requirements from storage arrays. This is a primarily an overview and you can...

This is the first of a multi part series on what's new in the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) with Windows Server 2008 · Diskshadow Windows Server 2008 has a new requester that ships on all SKUs. VSS requesters are used to create and manage...

This week we had great news for one of our team’s products, DPM (Data Protection Manager). SearchServerVirtualization.com awarded DPM with a gold medal as a “Product of the Year 2007”! To know more about how Data Protection Manager works, see the DPM...

Hello to all Next week, Technet will release a series of live Webcasts for Level 300 Clustering training. Add them to your calendar: · TechNet Webcast: Build High-Availability Infrastructures with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering (Level 300...

Hello, Storage fans Microsoft Cluster team restarted their blogging activities this January. Check out the new content at http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering -- Malu Menezes

The DFS Replication (DFSR) service stores files that encountered replication conflicts and pre-existing files that were removed during initial synchronization in the 'ConflictAndDeleted' and 'PreExisting' folders respectively. Our resident DFSR guru,...