October, 2007

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The Legend of the Single, Multi-Terabyte, Replicating SharePoint Database

Posted over 5 years ago

by Jose Barreto - MSFT
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Documents in Databases The first time I tell anyone that SharePoint Server 2007 stores documents as blobs (binary objects) in the database, people stare at me for a few seconds and usually ask: "Really?" It takes a few moments to explain that this...
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The Basics of the Virtual Disk Services (VDS)

Posted over 5 years ago

by Jose Barreto - MSFT
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Back in Windows 2000 Server days, managing SAN-based storage in Windows was mostly up to your SAN vendor. You would typically need to load a tool to manage your storage device (either graphical or command-line) or sometimes use a web-based application...
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Storing Unstructured Data – From file servers to cloud services

Posted over 5 years ago

by Jose Barreto - MSFT
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After joining the Storage Solutions Division at Microsoft, I got exposed many challenges that were not so close to me before. One of them is how we store and manage unstructured data, including things like file servers, NAS devices, document management...
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Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering in RC0 (includes a 17-minute demonstration)

Posted over 5 years ago

by Jose Barreto - MSFT
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I’m getting ready to work at the Microsoft booth at the Storage Network World next week in Dallas, TX and one of the items we’re showing is the improvements in Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering, this time using the recently released RC0 (Release...
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Shrinking a volume in Windows Server 2008

Posted over 5 years ago

by Jose Barreto - MSFT
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I’m getting ready to work at the Microsoft booth at the Storage Network World next week in Dallas, TX and I learned about this great little feature in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (currently in Release Candidate 0 state): you can now shrink a...
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The Basics of the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

Posted over 5 years ago

by Jose Barreto - MSFT
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Back in 2001, I worked for a 300-employee company in Palo Alto as their Systems Engineer and one of the things that gave me the most headaches was backups. We had Windows Server across the board, but the backup application was from a third party, which...
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What kind of SharePoint site should you create?

Posted over 5 years ago

by Jose Barreto - MSFT
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Web 2.0 is one of those things everyone is talking about. If you’re implementing Web 2.0 with Microsoft technologies, this usually leads to a SharePoint conversation. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) includes built-in templates for...
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Moving to headquarters to work with the Storage Partners Team

Posted over 5 years ago

by Jose Barreto - MSFT
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I just wanted to share that I have joined a new team at Microsoft. After 5 years working with the Cisco Team in Northern California, I am now moving to the Redmond campus in Washington state. As of October 1st, 2007 I am joining the Storage Solutions...