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Experimenting with PowerShell Cmdlets, Snap-ins and Modules

As I continue to experiment with PowerShell v2 in Windows Server 2008 R2, I will share some of what I learn here on the blog. This time I am focusing on Cmdlets, Snap-ins and Modules. Cmdlets Windows PowerShell introduced the notion of a “cmdlet” (you Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 09, 2009 10:12 PM 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

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

The Basics of Windows Server 2008 FSRM (File Server Resource Manager)

Overview FSRM (File Server Resource Manager) is a service of the File Services role in Windows Server 2008. You can use FSRM to enhance your ability to manage and monitor storage activities on your file server. The main capabilities of FSRM include: Folder Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:11 AM by josebda | 3 Comments

The Basics of Windows Server 2008 Storage Explorer

1 – What is Storage Explorer Storage Explorer is a new tool in Windows Server 2008 to help you understand how your server SAN storage is configured. It provides information about the storage fabrics (Fibre Channel and iSCSI) and also about the configuration Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:40 AM by josebda | 1 Comments

The Basics of Single Instance Storage (SIS) in WSS 2003 R2 and WUDSS 2003

What is SIS Single Instance Storage (SIS) is a feature of Windows Storage Server (WSS) 2003 R2 and Windows Unified Storage Server (WUDSS) 2003 that helps save disk space by de-duplicating files. If you have two or more identical files in a volume, SIS Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:15 AM by josebda | 2 Comments

The Basics of the Virtual Disk Services (VDS)

Back in Windows 2000 Server days, managing SAN-based storage in Windows was mostly up to your SAN vendor. You would typically need to load a tool to manage your storage device (either graphical or command-line) or sometimes use a web-based application. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:57 PM by josebda | 3 Comments
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The Basics of the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

Back in 2001, I worked for a 300-employee company in Palo Alto as their Systems Engineer and one of the things that gave me the most headaches was backups. We had Windows Server across the board, but the backup application was from a third party, which Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 6:32 PM by josebda | 5 Comments
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