The Microsoft Storage Solutions Division is participated at SNW this Fall at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas, Texas. The goals at the event were to strengthen industry awareness and enterprise credibility of Microsoft storage technologies and showcase...

We are glad to announce the release of Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.1 ! With this version you will be able to migrate and consolidate shared folders from servers running Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000 family of servers, Windows 2003...

There are a couple of ways to check the progress of initial replication. You can either use the Event Viewer snap-in or WMI to check whether your replicated folders have finished initial replication. Event Viewer: A separate event (4104) is thrown...

So you have heard about a tool DFSDiag which is meant to be used to help you diagnose your DFS Namespace. You just type DFSDiag.exe and... voilà you got the list of the commands you can use. Oh yes you also have the “DFSDIAG_ERROR” message...

Earlier this week, I sat down with our friends at Total Wine to talk about how they are using System Center. It's one of the first times that I've gotten to talk about technology and 'wine' instead of 'whine" - so check out the TechNet Radio interview...

Microsoft User Research is conducting a study focusing on the next version of Active Directory Users and Computers between November 10 and November 14, 2008 . This is a great opportunity for IT administrators who have experience with ADUC to provide feedback...

For each target, we support 254 LUNs. Each HBA can support 128 Targets per “Bus” where bus might be an artificial construct, and there could be 8 buses per HBA (officially). So, per HBA (theoretical): 254 * 128 * 8 = 260,096 LUNs per HBA The...

Hello, Below you have a list of KB articles for Windows Server 2008 released or updated last month. 954052 09/25/2008 A hotfix is available to address the USB transmission rate drop on Windows Vista-based and Windows Server 2008-based computers that are...

If the issue is a veto on a query for removal, you can look for which application has the reference on SetupApi logs. Oh.exe, or Process Explorer may also help to identify the process that’s causing the lock. SetupApi Logs SetupApi is a system component...

If you opened a file, and in the meanwhile the connection to the server was lost, and you don’t have CSC enabled, any further attempt to read/write will fail. DFS Failover is only performed when the client opens a file or folder. It does not apply...

Here’s a couple of post by Jose Barreto that Storage fans will find interesting: - Adding Storage Management abilities to your Windows application using VDS (Virtual Disk Service) - “FSCT” - A CIFS/SMB/SMB2 File Server Tool for Capacity...

Access-based Enumeration allows users to list only the files and folders to which they have access when browsing content on the File Server. ABE was first introduced in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, eliminating the confusion of connecting to a file...

If the clients can only access and view a subset of files or folders present in a shared folder, it might be for one of the following reasons: 1. Share and NTFS permission Please check if you have granted the users with the different Share and NTFS permissions...

It’s common to find forum questions about DFSR not replicating *.bak files. By default DFSR has file filter on replicated folder that excludes the files with names starting ~ or files with extension *.tmp or *.bak from replication. You can change...