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Windows Server DFS Namespaces (DFS-N) Reference

I get a number of questions regarding reference information for DFS Namespaces (also known as DFS-N). I gathered here the main links that can get you started on the subject: Here are my own blog posts on DFS Namespaces (all updated for Windows Server Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 30, 2009 10:13 AM 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

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

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

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

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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New White Paper on Hyper-V and SQL Server Consolidation at Microsoft

A new white paper on how Microsoft IT is combining Hyper-V and SQL Server has just been published. This comes from a team that provides thousands of SQL Server instances for internal applications. It includes a lot of interesting new information, including Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:43 PM by josebda | 1 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

Installing Windows Server 2008 on a headless server from a USB disk

I am installing Windows Server 2008 on a new server that has no video card and no DVD drive. It's an interesting challenge to make that one work and I'm relying on using a bootable USB disk and unattend files. In my case, it turns out the server has a Read More...
Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 8:37 AM by josebda | 1 Comments
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