April 2006 - Posts
At least once a month a customer asks us whether a namespace can be used to combine the contents of multiple shared folders into a single view. This is a fair interpretation of a namespace, though this is not how a DFS namespace works in Windows Server.
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Executive Chat: Storage in Windows Server 2003, Windows Storage Server 2003, and Windows Longhorn Server Please join Gabriel Broner, General Manager for the Windows Core File Services team, for an open discussion about all things storage in Windows Server
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Customers commonly ask us when to use DPM, DFS Replication, or both. We’ve published two guides on how to choose or combine these technologies—check out the DPM and Windows 2003 R2 Datasheet and Data Protection in DPM and Windows Server 2003 R2 for details.
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I’ve seen three recent posts in our microsoft.public.windows.server.dfs_frs newsgroup from DFS Namespaces customers who are trying to determine why clients are being referred to unexpected targets. Here is one example: “We seem to having problems with
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A blog reader recently contacted us about his DFS Replication deployment and asked why the health reports show surprisingly large bandwidth savings on a relatively small replicated folder. The customer writes, “I have noticed a great savings in bandwidth,
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A customer recently asked about how to migrate NTFS quotas to FSRM quotas. Georgi Matev, the program manager for FSRM, responds: If NTFS-based quotas were used for user home directories, the migration is pretty straightforward. First, the customer needs
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Looking for additional SIS info? Check out this SIS Whitepaper . This white paper describes the basic architecture of the Single Instance Storage (SIS) feature of the Microsoft® Windows® Storage Server 2003 R2 operating system. This feature helps organizations
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