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Configuring Failover Clusters with Windows Storage Server 2008

The Windows Storage Server Team just released a new 30-page white paper on "Configuring Failover Clusters with Windows Storage Server 2008". This paper will guide you through the process of configuring the networks, domains and clustering features, including Read More...
Posted Friday, December 18, 2009 8:40 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

Automatically uploading files from File Server to SharePoint using the File Classification Infrastructure (FCI)

Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced a new File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) and the team has been sharing different ways to put it to good use. The latest one comes as a blog post that describes how to use the FCI SharePoint Upload PowerShell script Read More...
Posted Monday, December 14, 2009 3:28 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

Implementing an End-User Data Centralization Solution with Folder Redirection and Offlines Files

There's a new 77-page white paper covering the use of Folder Redirection and Offline Files in a very practical way. Here's an excerpt: "The objective of this white paper is to show through a case study how to use different Microsoft products and technologies Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 10:00 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

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...
Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:57 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

File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) Release Candidate available for download

The File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) is a capacity planning software for CIFS/SMB/SMB2 file servers. It’s also useful for identifying performance bottlenecks. FSCT results include the maximum number of users for a file server configuration, throughput Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:11 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) at TechEd 2009

I wanted to call your attention to four new blog posts this morning from Nir Ben Zvi (Senior Program Manager Lead, Microsoft File Server Team) and Matthias Wollnik (Program Manager, Microsoft File Server Team) introducing the Windows Server 2008 R2 File Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 2:00 PM by josebda | 2 Comments

Windows Storage Server 2008 and the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.2

I am glad to share that Windows Storage Server 2008 (WSS 2008) and the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.2 have been released to the Microsoft OEM partners. This is the successor to Windows Storage Server 2003 (WSS 2003) and Windows Unified Data Storage Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:25 PM by josebda | 2 Comments

An Open Source NFS Client for Windows

Microsoft is sponsoring research at the University of Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI) to develop an open source NFS client for Windows. CITI developed the open source Linux-based reference implementation of NFSv4 that is Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:57 PM by josebda | 0 Comments
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SQL Server 2008 I/O Performance

Here are some notes on “SQL Server 2008 I/O Performance” I took while attending an advanced class on SQL Server taught by Greg Low (from http://sqlblog.com/blogs/greg_low/ and http://www.sqldownunder.com/ ). Please note that, although these notes were Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6:40 PM by josebda | 0 Comments
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SQL Server 2008 Database Compression

Here are some notes on “SQL Server 2008 Database Compression” I took while attending an advanced class on SQL Server taught by Greg Low (from http://sqlblog.com/blogs/greg_low/ and http://www.sqldownunder.com/ ). Please note that, although these notes Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:23 AM by josebda | 1 Comments
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SQL Server 2008 Storage

Here are some notes on “SQL Server 2008 Storage” I took while attending an advanced class on SQL Server taught by Greg Low (from http://sqlblog.com/blogs/greg_low/ and http://www.sqldownunder.com/ ). Please note that, although these notes were taken during Read More...
Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 5:53 PM by josebda | 1 Comments
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SQL Server 2008 DR, Testing, Waits and Queues

Here are some notes on “SQL Server 2008 DR, Testing, Waits” I took while attending an advanced class on SQL Server taught by Ron Talmage (from http://www.solidq.com/na/MentorDetail.aspx?Id=38 ). Please note that, although these notes were taken during Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:24 PM by josebda | 2 Comments
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SQL Server 2008 Statistics

Here are some notes on "SQL Server 2008 Statistics" I took while attending an advanced class on SQL Server taught by Kimberly Tripp ( http://sqlskills.com/AboutKimberlyLTripp.asp ). Please note that, although these notes were taken during the class, I Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:19 PM by josebda | 0 Comments
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