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Mistakes when configuring your Hyper-V environment

I came across some interesting tips on things to consider in a virtualized environment by Greg Shields (Consultant and Microsoft MVP). They are non-issues (or settled issues) on physical environments and you might overlook them when making the transition Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:02 AM 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

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

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

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

Strings, Arrays and Functions in PowerShell v2 (and some sample code that speaks for itself :-)

I spent some more time experimenting with PowerShell v2 and here goes my second post about it. This time around I am focusing on how to define variables, use expressions and create functions. The "problem" we're solving :-) To make it fun, I decided to Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 02, 2009 8:30 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

Changes in Roles, Role Services and Features from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2

Introduction This blog post covers the changes in the list of Roles, Role Services and Features from Windows Server 2008 (with Service Pack 2) to Windows Server 2008 R2 (used the latest RC build available to me). To create the tables and lists below, Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 18, 2009 7:55 PM by josebda | 1 Comments

Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 09) provides a snapshot of what Microsoft is up to (keynotes available for review)

Earlier this week Microsoft hosted the 2009 edition of the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2009) in New Orleans. Thousands of partners joined to understand where Microsoft is going and how they can work together with Microsoft. The keynotes were streamed Read More...
Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 6:53 AM 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

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

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
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