We just received a link from one of our MVPs to a webcast he's hosting on October 26 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time. Below is a bio and overview of the webcast. Charlie Russel is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and coauthor of the upcoming Windows...

I'm excited to announce our newly published FAQ on DFS Replication on TechNet . Topics range from interoperability to performance and just about everything in between. Enjoy! --Jill

A customer in the public Windows Vista newsgroups recently asked us about the –i and –w parameters in the command-line tool Defrag.exe. Georgi Matev provided some helpful answers below: The -i option means that unless the machine is idle, defrag.exe...

Savvy beta testers have noticed that the option to create an extended partition is no longer available in Disk Management in Windows Vista. Instead, the only option is New Simple Volume . The type of volume this command creates depends on the number of...

We've added a couple new questions in our Disk Defrag FAQ to cover questions about defrag running at unexpected times (based on Task Scheduler history) and how to check whether Defrag is running. --Jill

A newsgroup customer noticed that an executable file he’d recently downloaded to his Documents folder disappeared after he used System Restore in Windows Vista to restore his computer’s system files to an earlier point in time. He asked why the executable...

Just letting everyone know that we have updated our DFS Replication limits blog post to address customer questions regarding our scalability formula. Check it out and let us know what you think! --Jill

We’ve seen numerous reports of the following event within Microsoft and from our customers. EVENT LOG Application EVENT TYPE Warning SOURCE SRMSVC EVENT ID 12317 COMPUTERNAME SERVER2 TIME 5/1/2006 12:15:45 PM MESSAGE File Server Resource Manager failed...

Beta testers using the file backup application in Windows Vista have complained about being prompted for a user name and password after they try to back up to a network share. It’s especially frustrating for users who know they already have access to...

This is a common observation among customers using FSRM. They report that quotas work as expected, but from the client perspective, the assigned quota limit for a user’s share is not displayed correctly. For example, in Windows Explorer, users see the...

A frequent question among our FSRM users is how to set FSRM quotas on a server cluster. Georgi Matev, the FSRM PM, responds: Configuring a quota on a folder must be done on the node that currently owns the volume on which the folder is located. Once...

Here's an overdue transcript of our NTFS beta chat held in July. NTFS chat transcript --Jill

DFS gurus might recall that DFS site costing functionality can be negatively impacted when the Bridge all site links option is disabled in Active Directory. Fortunately this has changed for Windows Server 2003 SP1. Details are provided in the How Active...

If you didn't have a chance to attend TechEd, check out this video of Navjot Virk and Dan Stevenson presenting the new backup features and vastly improved offline files experience for Windows Vista. --Jill

It’s always interesting to see a hot topic emerge for an established technology like DFS (aka DFS Namespaces). We’ve seen this question come up in our DFS_FRS newsgroup, on internal discussion aliases here at Microsoft, and from our early adopter customers...

Check out our latest beta chat transcript on UDF in this article . --Jill

I asked one of our program managers, Dan Stevenson, to address the questions we've received about security and privacy and the Shadow Copy feature (aka Previous Versions) in Windows Vista. Below Dan describes how shadow copies work and provides ways to...

A customer asked us how efficiently DFS Replication replicates changes made to Microsoft Windows Imaging Format (WIM) image files. (WIM images are created by ImageX, the disk imaging tool in Windows Vista.) It just so happens we tested this recently with...

One of my fellow bloggers, Keith Combs, has published a great screencast of a CompletePC Backup demo in Windows Vista. You can check out his blog post and screenpast on Keith Combs' Blahg . --Jill

We've posted the transcript for our Windows Vista File Backup chat as an article on this blog. Enjoy! --Jill

Several customers have asked us recently whether DFS Replication traffic can be routed through a private network on multi-homed servers. Although DFS Replication does not provide any configuration options for this, one of our DFS Replication gurus, Richard...

[Updated 11/27/06 to fix broken links] If you'd like to use the DFSR WMI provider to configure and monitor DFS Replication, take a look at the sample scripts up on the Windows SDK website . The DFSR WMI classes are documented here . --Jill

You can view it here: Disk and Volume Management chat trancript Enjoy! --Jill

Our team has been hosting a series of Q&A "chats" for the features we own in Windows Vista. Though attendance is limited to Vista beta testers, we're posting the chat transcripts as articles for everyone to view. I've just added the following transcripts...

This is a common topic in the DFS_FRS newsgroup . Customers will describe how some users are unexpectedly denied access to targets in the namespace whereas other users can access the targets without problems. Customers also ask whether there are DFS permissions...