DFS Replication
Some customers might look at their staging folders with several GB, and wonder if this is normal. I guess normal depends on how many GBs is several GBs, and how big you configured your staging folders to be :) You may have a few GB in your staging folder
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Some customers ask why the 15 minutes interval limit for DFS replication and bandwidth throttling. This is determined by the way that the operation system stores the information of DFS replication. The DFS Replication schedule is stored as a binary attribute
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For those who missed Drew McDaniel’s Live webcast “Deep Dive into Windows Server 2008 File Services”, you now can now view the recording: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032381104&role=attend&pw=3B160CB1 Enjoy!
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IT Manager Webcast: Deep Dive into Windows Server 2008 File Services (Level 300) Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:30 AM Pacific Time The Windows Server 2008 operating system contains many changes to core file services components that dramatically increase availability,
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The previous post referred to some basic backup/restore jargon. Now, let us investigate what the footprint of the DFS Replication service looks like. The following steps have been performed on a server running Windows Server 2008. Locate working directories
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Hello, Below you have a list of KB articles for Windows Server 2008 released or updated this April. 951007 04/02/2008 An event may be logged after you restart Windows Server 2008: "Event ID: 5 Message: The Virtual Storage Filter Driver is disabled through
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This article explains how to install the DFS Replication Service on various flavors/editions of Windows Server 2008. It also explains how to install the DFS Replication service on Windows Server 2008 Core editions. First, let’s take a quick look at which
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We have been asked by a couple of customers whether it is possible to turn off the use of encrypted RPC by the DFS Replication service. Some of these customers were evaluating WAN acceleration solutions which do not work well with encrypted RPC traffic.
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Our friends in the AskDS blog promised, and here it is: The KB article on how to configure DFSR file-type compression in Windows Server 2008 is live! On Windows Server 2003, there was a pre-defined list of file extensions that DFSR didn’t compress in
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An ‘under the hood’ change on Windows Server 2008 A previous blog post mentioned some of the more end-user visible new features in Windows Server 2008. There is another less visible design enhancement on Windows Server 2008. Let us explore this change
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The previous article in this series explained how to migrate replication of the SYSVOL share to the ‘REDIRECTED’ state. In this article, we examine how to complete migration of all domain controllers to the ‘ELIMINATED’ state. Before we begin … Remember
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The previous article in this series explained how to migrate replication of the SYSVOL share to the ‘PREPARED’ state. In this article, we examine how to migrate all domain controllers to the ‘REDIRECTED’ state. Before we begin … Before migrating to the
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Previous articles in this series contained an introduction to the SYSVOL migration procedure and explained how the Dfsrmig.exe tool can be used for SYSVOL migration. Keeping this background information in mind, we’re now ready to start the actual SYSVOL
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Hello, Everyone Ned Pyle just wrote a very interesting post on Customizing file compression in DFSR on Windows Server 2008. Here’s a quick excerpt: When you added a file to a DFSR content set and it was at least 64KB in size, the DFSR service placed a
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Have you ever felt your DFSR infrastructure wasn’t quite replicating up to your expectations, but didn’t know where to begin diagnosis? If this is the case, we recommend taking a look at this recent post by Ned Pyle , our resident DFSR expert: Top 10
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