Hello, Everyone Ned Pyle just wrote a very interesting post on Customizing file compression in DFSR on Windows Server 2008. Here’s a quick excerpt: When you added a file to a DFSR content set and it was at least 64KB in size, the DFSR service...

Hello, Just a quick update: we had new content posted on Microsoft Downloads page. Check it out below: Windows Server 2008 : · Windows Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guides Contains interesting Step-by-step articles, like: - Configuring a Two-Node File...

This Monday we added another member to the Storage Blogs family. The Storage Blog at Microsoft is an executive level channel with updates and commentary, pointers to high-impact other storage blogs, articles on trends and other interesting content...

Have you ever felt your DFSR infrastructure wasn’t quite replicating up to your expectations, but didn’t know where to begin diagnosis? If this is the case, we recommend taking a look at this recent post by Ned Pyle , our resident DFSR expert: Top 10...

Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V has been in public beta for a while now and lots of people have been experimenting with it. One aspect that I am focusing on is storage for those virtualized environments and more specifically the options related to SAN storage...

In our first post in this series, we examined the SYSVOL migration process and understood how things work at a high level during the process of migration of the SYSVOL share from the FRS service to the DFS Replication service. Windows Server 2008 includes...

Automated System Recovery or ASR as it is more commonly known is the Windows API set to capture the configuration of disks and volumes on a system and restore them in bare metal recovery scenarios. During such recoveries, backup applications (requesters...

The File Replication Service (FRS) is used for replicating the contents of the SYSVOL share between Windows domain controllers. However, Windows Server 2008 domain controllers, which are operating in the Windows Server 2008 domain functional level, can...

This is a summary of recent revisions to the VSS documentation on MSDN. 1. IVssBackupComponents::AddNewTarget has an error in the remarks section fixed. 2. The “ Usage Conventions ” topic has expanded information about binary compatibility...

In Windows Server 2008, the DFS Replication service can be used for replication of the SYSVOL share between domain controllers operating in the Windows Server 2008 domain functional level. The DFS Replication service supports replication of the contents...