October 2006 - Posts
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
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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
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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 will
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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
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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
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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
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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
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