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Unique Document URLs in MOSS 2007 and the new Document ID feature in SharePoint 2010

Posted over 3 years ago

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A few years ago, I was working with a Microsoft customer to deploy a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) solution. SharePoint 2007 had just been released at the time. The customer needed document URLs stored in SharePoint to continued to work...
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Random thoughts and links on Storage

Posted over 3 years ago

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If there was ever a post true to the part of the tagline of my blog that mentions random thoughts, this is it. :-) This post is a compilation of my tweets from today, which cover several different topics related to Storage. Microsoft Research: Dryad...
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Presentations from Storage Developer Conference 2009 (SDC 2009) are now available for download

Posted over 4 years ago

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The presentations from SNIA's SDC 2009 are now publicly available for download. This SNIA event happened in Santa Clara, CA last September and the decks are now publicly available, after being restricted to conference attendees for a few months. Out...
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Windows Server DFS Namespaces (DFS-N) Reference

Posted over 4 years ago

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I get a number of questions regarding reference information for DFS Namespaces (also known as DFS-N). I gathered here the main links that can get you started on the subject: Here are my own blog posts on DFS Namespaces (all updated for Windows Server...
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Configuring Failover Clusters with Windows Storage Server 2008

Posted over 4 years ago

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The Windows Storage Server Team just released a new 30-page white paper on "Configuring Failover Clusters with Windows Storage Server 2008". This paper will guide you through the process of configuring the networks, domains and clustering features...
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Automatically uploading files from File Server to SharePoint using the File Classification Infrastructure (FCI)

Posted over 4 years ago

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Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced a new File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) and the team has been sharing different ways to put it to good use. The latest one comes as a blog post that describes how to use the FCI SharePoint Upload PowerShell...
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Six Uses for the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target

Posted over 4 years ago

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Scott M. Johnson, a Program Manager in the Windows Storage Server team, has just published a new blog post that might give you some ideas on different ways to use the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target. He outlines six different uses for it: 1) Consolidate...
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Download for Powershell v2 for Windows 7? No need... It's already there!

Posted over 4 years ago

by Jose Barreto - MSFT
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A while back, Microsoft announced the release of PowerShell v2 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 (see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=151321 ). However, it is not clear to everyone that Powershell v2...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation November CTP available for MSDN/TechNet Subscribers

Posted over 4 years ago

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Great news following a very busy week for SQL Server with the PASS Community Summit: The new SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP is now available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers.This download is expected to be available as a general download in a couple...
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Mistakes when configuring your Hyper-V environment

Posted over 4 years ago

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I came across some interesting tips on things to consider in a virtualized environment by Greg Shields (Consultant and Microsoft MVP). They are non-issues (or settled issues) on physical environments and you might overlook them when making the transition...
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Scary SQL Server stuff: tombstones, phantoms, blobs, ghosts and zombies

Posted over 4 years ago

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This post mixes the spirit of Halloween and the passion for SQL Server :-) Have you noticed how SQL Server has a number of things that seem right out of a horror movie? As a test of your SQL Server expertise and for a fun Halloween trivia game...
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Implementing an End-User Data Centralization Solution with Folder Redirection and Offline Files

Posted over 4 years ago

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There's a new 77-page white paper covering the use of Folder Redirection and Offline Files in a very practical way. Here's an excerpt: "The objective of this white paper is to show through a case study how to use different Microsoft products...
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SharePoint 2010 beta in November. Details and documentation right now!

Posted over 4 years ago

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Jeff Teper (Corporate Vice President, SharePoint Server) and Steve Ballmer (CEO) shared SharePoint Server 2010 feature details and announced the November beta during the SharePoint Conference today in Las Vegas. Jeff also posted a long and revealing...
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File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 available for download

Posted over 4 years ago

by Jose Barreto - MSFT
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Version 1.0 of the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) was announced yesterday during a presentation by Jian Yan and Bartosz Nyczkowski at SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA. The presentation covered a number of details about FSCT and...
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TI-55-II calculator, the first device I ever programmed

Posted over 4 years ago

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I recently bought a used TI-55-II on eBay. This is an old (early 80’s) Texas Instruments calculator, one the first programmable ones. I got it mostly for sentimental value, since I used to own one back in Brazil in 1983, my last year in high school. ...
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Windows Server DFS-Namespaces Performance and Scalability

Posted over 4 years ago

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The DFS-N test team has completed some extensive Performance and Scalability testing and we wanted to share some of the results. It includes results on standalone namespaces, "2000 mode" domain namespaces and "2008 mode" domain namespaces, under Windows...
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Three ways to design your DFS Namespaces

Posted over 4 years ago

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Introduction In this blog post, we’ll showcase the flexibility you have with DFS-N by showing three distinct ways that you could design a namespace. Note: If you’re not familiar with DFS-N, please read this blog post first: http://blogs.technet...
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Experimenting with PowerShell Cmdlets, Snap-ins and Modules

Posted over 4 years ago

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As I continue to experiment with PowerShell v2 in Windows Server 2008 R2, I will share some of what I learn here on the blog. This time I am focusing on Cmdlets, Snap-ins and Modules. Cmdlets Windows PowerShell introduced the notion of a “cmdlet...
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SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2009 in Santa Clara, CA is coming – Plan to be there on the week of September 14th

Posted over 4 years ago

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The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is hosting the 6th Storage Developer Conference (SDC) in the Hyatt Regency in beautiful Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) on the week of September 14th. This event is also co-located with the CIFS/SMB...
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The good old days of CP/M 2.2 on a TRS-80 with an 8-bit Z80 CPU

Posted over 4 years ago

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I was reading the news on the release of Windows 7 and stopped to think of the early days of my IT career and what an OS looked like then. I thought way back to one of the first microcomputer disk operating systems I ever used: CP/M. I actually remembered...
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Strings, Arrays and Functions in PowerShell v2 (and some sample code that speaks for itself :-)

Posted over 4 years ago

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I spent some more time experimenting with PowerShell v2 and here goes my second post about it. This time around I am focusing on how to define variables, use expressions and create functions. The "problem" we're solving :-) To make it fun...
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Experimenting with PowerShell v2

Posted over 4 years ago

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Powershell is a command line interface for Windows that offers a very powerful and flexible model. It is now a feature included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, not an optional download as before. In this post, I show some sample commands that...
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Changes in Roles, Role Services and Features from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2

Posted over 4 years ago

by Jose Barreto - MSFT
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Introduction This blog post covers the changes in the list of Roles, Role Services and Features from Windows Server 2008 (with Service Pack 2) to Windows Server 2008 R2 (used the latest RC build available to me). To create the tables and lists below...
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Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 09) provides a snapshot of what Microsoft is up to (keynotes available for review)

Posted over 4 years ago

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Earlier this week Microsoft hosted the 2009 edition of the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2009) in New Orleans. Thousands of partners joined to understand where Microsoft is going and how they can work together with Microsoft. The keynotes were streamed...
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Five ways to check your DFS-Namespaces (DFS-N) configuration with the DFSDIAG.EXE tool

Posted over 4 years ago

by Jose Barreto - MSFT
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Introduction The Distributed File System Namespaces (DFS-N) service is a role service of the File Service role for Windows Server. For a basic description of DFS-N, start with http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2009/03/10/the-basics-of-the...