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File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 available for download
Version 1.0 of the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) was announced yesterday during a presentation by Jian Yan and Bartosz Nyczkowski at SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA. The presentation covered a number of details about FSCT and Read More...
New Tolly Group report on the performance of SMB2
The Tolly Group, Inc. has just released a new 39-page report on the SMB2 performance improvements in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Title : Enhanced Network Performance with Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 - Update Abstract : With Read More...
Storage Tips: You can run DFSUtil from Windows Vista
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. Read More...
Ask a question: Windows and Windows Server Backup Forums
We just started a new Forum, directed to Windows Backup and Windows Server Backup questions. Windows Backup forums provide you an opportunity to join a community of Windows customers where you can share knowledge on Windows Backup, get questions answered, Read More...
Backup and Restore Center featured on Mojave experiment
Recently, Microsoft launched a Marketing experiment, taking 140 users who were afraid of Vista and showing them a new and unreleased Operating System, codename “Mojave”. The users were first asked to give a score from 1 to 10 for Vista, and the average Read More...
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) documentation updates - June 2008
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 Read More...
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) writer updates in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1
For Server 2008 the VSS team invested a great deal in hardware shadow copy scenarios which you can read about here . Additionally significant work went into enhancing the APIs for writers and widening their adoption by other applications and components. Read More...
Automated System Recovery (ASR) in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1
Automated System Recovery or ASR as it is more commonly known is the Windows API set to capture the configuration of disks and volumes on a system and restore them in bare metal recovery scenarios. During such recoveries, backup applications (requesters) Read More...
TechNet Webcast: Windows Server "Longhorn" and Windows Vista: Better Together (Level 200)
Here's an upcoming webcast that features Offline Files:: In this session, we look deeper into the technologies that make the combination of Microsoft Windows Server code-named "Longhorn" and Windows Vista a compelling solution for enterprise organizations. Read More...
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