Are the Backups secured? Yes . The Complete PC Backup (CPC) or Windows Server Backup (WSB) can be only invoked by a user belonging to either Administrators or Backup operators Group. § Disk: Backups are ACLed to be accessible only for only Administrators...

April is a busy month. We just had the MVP Summit here at our home at Microsoft Redmond campus. The event was so successful we decided to post some information about this in the blog! But what are MVPs? MVPs are Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals...

You can use Storage Manager for SANs to create and manage logical unit numbers (LUNs) on both Fibre Channel and iSCSI disk storage subsystems that support Virtual Disk Service (VDS). The arrays are managed by the VDS hardware providers. The picture below...

Webcast: Upcoming Changes to Data Protection Manager 2007 (Level 200); Wednesday, April 23, 2008; 8:00AM Pacific Time Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 delivers on the promises of blending continuous data protection and traditional...

Our friends in the AskDS blog promised, and here it is: The KB article on how to configure DFSR file-type compression in Windows Server 2008 is live! On Windows Server 2003, there was a pre-defined list of file extensions that DFSR didn’t...

An ‘under the hood’ change on Windows Server 2008 A previous blog post mentioned some of the more end-user visible new features in Windows Server 2008. There is another less visible design enhancement on Windows Server 2008. Let us explore this...

Recently, the Failover Clustering team released several White Papers about High Availability and Clustering in Windows Server 2008: § Microsoft High Availability Overview § Overview of Failover Clustering with Windows Server 2008 § Quick...