January 2006 - Posts
Our very own Shobana Balakrishnan, a program manager on our Windows Longhorn Server team, takes you through the server roadmap and demonstrates Windows Server 2003 R2. Think you know everything about Windows Server? You might be surprised by the innovations
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We've published a KB for using access-based enumeration together with DFS Namespaces. Access-based enumeration makes visible only those files or folders that the user has the rights to access. When access-based enumeration is enabled, Windows will not
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Hi, this is Sanjoy Chatterjee again. In this post I will cover how referral timeout works in DFS Namespaces. When clients receive referrals from the DFS server, they cache these referrals in what was called the PKT Cache. The current terminology for that
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Customers often ask about how DFS Namespaces interacts with Offline Files. I asked our new DFS Namespaces PM, Sanjoy Chatterjee, to introduce himself and explain the interaction. I am Sanjoy Chatterjee, the new PM for the DFS group. My goal for posting
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Thought I'd let everyone know about some recent hotfixes for our technologies: KB article 896427 , “After you install security update 885250 (MS05-011), you may not be able to view the contents of a subfolder on a network share by using Windows XP or
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My name is Claude Lorenson, I am a Group Product Manager at Microsoft. I have been working on the storage workload in the Windows Server Product Management team for the last three year. Our team is responsible for the product strategy and the market positioning
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Windows Server 2003 R2 includes an Administration Tools Pack for running some of the R2 snap-ins on XP SP2 computers. A newsgroup customer recently tried this but found that some of the DFS Namespaces options are greyed out. As it turns out, you also
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The Threats and Countermeasures Guide v2 provides you with a reference to all security settings that provide countermeasures for specific threats against current versions of the Microsoft® Windows® operating systems. Chapter 7 covers a number of services
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Happy New Year everyone. Though I'd let you know about the upcoming webcasts we have planned for January. Webcast: Troubleshooting and Debugging the Branch Office Technologies, 1/11/2006 9:30 AM PST This session will focus on identifying problems and
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