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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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When we shipped Windows Server 2003 R2 , many customers requested a way to enable and disable referrals for a link target using command line. Neither dfscmd.exe nor dfsutil.exe back then provided a way to do this. In response to those requests, Dan Lovinger
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1. New Command Line Interface (CLI) DFSUtil.exe in Windows Server 2008 comes with a new CLI, which is based on Keywords, Required Parameters and Optional parameters instead of Switches and Arguments. With this change, we intend to make the usage of the
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DFS Namespaces or DFSN management command line tools are available on Windows Server 2008 and also on Windows Vista SP1 as part of the Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). The three available tools are Dfsutil.exe, Dfscmd.exe and Dfsdiag.exe.
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1. In "Overview of Actual File Restoration" ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384575.aspx ), the table of requester actions has been updated to remove the call to SetBackupSucceeded and add a call to GetWriterComponents . 2. In "Using VSS Automated
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Hi, All! Jose Barreto just posted an article describing different ways to implement Windows Server Failover Clustering with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V . The scenarios described include: 1 - Parent-based Failover Clustering with two physical servers 2
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Hello, Below you have a list of KB articles for Windows Server 2008 released or updated this May. 949429 05/27/2008 The virtual IP address of a Windows Server 2008 NLB cluster is bound to the NetBIOS host name of a particular server or of multiple servers
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I just posted a new article describing the process to install the VSS Hardware Provider (and, incidentally, the VDS Hardware Provider) for the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target, which is part of Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 (WUDSS 2003). Check
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Storage team is bringing 8 sessions and 2 Hands-on Lab to Microsoft TechED IT Pro 2008! Karandeep Anand, Jason Buffington, Ram Kailasanathan, Drew McDaniel and Edwin Yuen will be hosting the sessions from the Storage side. Clustering and High availability
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I just posted a new article describing the process to install the VDS Hardware Provider (and the VSS Hardware Provider) for the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target, which is part of Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 (WUDSS 2003). This package, referred
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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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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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