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Windows Server DFS-Namespaces Performance and Scalability

The DFS-N test team has completed some extensive Performance and Scalability testing and we wanted to share some of the results. It includes results on standalone namespaces, "2000 mode" domain namespaces and "2008 mode" domain namespaces, under Windows Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 22, 2009 11:45 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

Three ways to design your DFS Namespaces

Introduction In this blog post, we’ll showcase the flexibility you have with DFS-N by showing three distinct ways that you could design a namespace. Note: If you’re not familiar with DFS-N, please read this blog post first: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2009/03/10/the-basics-of-the-windows-server-2008-distributed-file-system-dfs.aspx Read More...
Posted Friday, August 21, 2009 4:00 PM by josebda | 1 Comments

SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2009 in Santa Clara, CA is coming – Plan to be there on the week of September 14th

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is hosting the 6th Storage Developer Conference (SDC) in the Hyatt Regency in beautiful Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) on the week of September 14th. This event is also co-located with the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 08, 2009 10:04 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

Experimenting with PowerShell v2

Powershell is a command line interface for Windows that offers a very powerful and flexible model. It is now a feature included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, not an optional download as before. In this post, I show some sample commands that Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 25, 2009 12:30 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

Five ways to check your DFS-Namespaces (DFS-N) configuration with the DFSDIAG.EXE tool

Introduction The Distributed File System Namespaces (DFS-N) service is a role service of the File Service role for Windows Server. For a basic description of DFS-N, start with http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2009/03/10/the-basics-of-the-windows-server-2008-distributed-file-system-dfs.aspx Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:59 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2 available as a free download

Microsoft released the File Server Migration Toolkit version 1.2 (FSMT 1.2), which will help you migrate file shares from computers running Windows NT 4.0 Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Storage Server Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:22 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

How many DFS-N namespace servers do you need?

Introduction Whenever you’re deploying Windows Server DFS-Namespaces, you will need to figure out how many servers will be required. Since I moved to the role of DFS-N PM, I noticed that the specific information on how many namespace servers you need Read More...
Posted Friday, June 26, 2009 9:05 AM by josebda | 1 Comments

Using the Windows Server 2008 DFSUTIL.EXE command line to manage DFS-Namespaces

The most common administration activities related to DFS-Namespaces can be performed using the “DFS Management” MMC. This will show up under “Administrative Tools” after you add the DFS role service in Server Manager. You can also add just the MMC for Read More...
Posted Friday, May 01, 2009 11:24 AM by josebda | 1 Comments
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Understanding Windows Server 2008 DFS-N by analyzing network traces

1 – Overview This blog post details the behavior of Windows Server 2008 DFS-N (Distributed File System - Namespaces) clients by looking at network traces. The main goal here is to show the interaction between a DFS-N client, a domain controller, a namespace Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 8:00 PM by josebda | 3 Comments
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The Basics of the Windows Server 2008 Distributed File System (DFS)

Overview In this blog post, we’ll cover the basics of the Distributed File System (DFS) in Windows Server 2008, which offers users simplified access to a set of file shares and helps administrators easily maintain the file server infrastructure behind Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:10 PM by josebda | 4 Comments

2008 SNIA Storage Developer Conference presentations available for download

The presentations from the SDC 2008 are now publicly available for download. This SNIA event happened in Santa Clara, CA on September 22-25 and the decks are now available to everyone, after being restricted to conference attendees for a few months. Out Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:49 PM by josebda | 1 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 File and Storage Solutions webcast - recording now available

I had the pleasure to deliver yesterday a TechNet Webcast on "Windows Server 2008 File and Storage Solutions", which also included details on the upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2. That webcast is now available on-demand (for streaming or download), via Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 2:37 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

Upcoming TechNet Webcast: Windows Server 2008 File and Storage Solutions

If you were unable to attend my presentation on " Windows Server 2008 File and Storage Solutions" during TechEd 2008 EMEA, I will be delivering it again as a TechNet Webcast: Title : Windows Server 2008 File and Storage Solutions (Level 300) Event ID Read More...
Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 7:56 AM by josebda | 1 Comments

Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.1 available as a free download

Microsoft just announced the release of Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.1, which will help you migrate file shares from computers running Windows NT 4.0 Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Server 2008 to computers running Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:52 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

Deep Dive into Windows Server 2008 File Services (Upcoming Level 300 Webcast)

Heads up for an upcoming webcast on the new file service features in Windows Server 2008 by Drew McDaniel, a Senior Program Manager with the Microsoft Storage Solutions Division (SSD). Here's a short description: "The Windows Server 2008 operating system Read More...
Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 9:37 AM by josebda | 0 Comments
 
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