January 2007 - Posts
Jim Allchin has been using Offline Files and loves it! Check out his write-up over in the Windows Vista blog . --Jill
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When it comes to the defragmentation experience, simpler is not always better according to some very vocal Windows gurus. But is Defrag really all that simple? Turns out, there’s quite a bit going on under the covers, especially compared to Defrag in
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The Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility runs on Windows Vista and Windows Server Codename "Longhorn" to restore .bkf backups made using the "Windows NT Backup" application (also called NTBackup) on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Here's the link for
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A Microsoft employee contacted us after he discovered that his 4-GB Microsoft Outlook .ost file was not present after he restored an image made by Complete PC Backup. Given the feature name “Complete PC Backup,” he expected that all files would be restored
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Many of our readers are familiar with how dual-booting Windows Vista and Windows XP can cause restore points to be deleted by Windows XP (see our recent blog post for details). What you might not know is that some third-party tools can also cause the
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We frequently see this question in newsgroups from customers running different editions of Windows Vista. The table below is an excerpt from page 17 of the Windows Vista Product Guide. If you’d like an overview of all the backup features, see section
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We’ve added two new hotfixes to our DFS Hotfix List . One hotfix ( 919633 ) fixes a problem I’ve seen numerous times in the newsgroups where you receive an error message when trying to create a new replication group or add an existing replication group
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There was an interesting post this week over in the Sharepoint Product Team Blog about file servers vs. Sharepoint. The author, Joel Oleson, does a great job comparing and contrasting these. Check it out! -Jill
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A customer planning to deploy servers in remote offices asked us about centrally managing quotas using File Server Resource Manager (FSRM). With business requirements changing periodically, the customer needed an easy way to make updates across the servers.
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The Windows Server Product Team would like to hear from the User Group Community. This is a direct anonymous survey, with the goal to improve services targeted towards User Groups. We want to know what your experience is with the community resources and
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