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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

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

Windows Storage Server 2008 with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.2 available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers

Overview I am glad to share that Windows Storage Server 2008 (WSS 2008) with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.2 is now available to all MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers. This Microsoft product is offered typically via our OEM partners, but a version Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 6:50 AM by josebda | 10 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

Step-by-step: Using the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target with Hyper-V (Standalone, Full, VHD)

Overview In this post, I will show all the steps required to run Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target. We will cover the specific scenario of a standalone Windows Server 2008 server (as opposed to a clustered one) on a Read More...
Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 1:00 PM by josebda | 6 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

Windows Storage Server (and WUDSS) History at the Windows Storage Server blog

Scott Johnson added another post to the Storage Server blog, this time focusing on the History of the Windows Storage Server, all the way up to the Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 Refresh, released in August of 2007. Did you know, for instance, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:59 PM by josebda | 0 Comments

New Storage Server Blog

Scott Johnson (Program Manager for the Windows Storage Server product line) has just added the the first post on a brand new blog on Windows Storage Server. This first post is a comprehensive list of all the key features of Windows Storage Server and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:40 AM by josebda | 0 Comments

RAID configuration options for WSS and the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target

It’s very common for a server running Windows Storage Server (WSS) with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target or Windows Unified Data Storage Server (WUDSS) to include a RAID controller and many hard drives in the box. I got a question on exactly how to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:56 AM by josebda | 3 Comments

Installing the evaluation version of WUDSS 2003 Refresh and the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target Version 3.1 on a VM

Overview These are step-by-step instructions on how to install the 180-day evaluation version of the Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 Refresh (WUDSS 2003 Refresh) on a virtual machine environment running on Virtual PC 2007. This WUDDS 2003 Refresh Read More...
Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 4:05 PM by josebda | 4 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

Configuring the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target

Introduction This post describes how to configure the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target offered with Windows Storage Server. One of the goals here is to describe the terminology used like iSCSI Target, iSCSI Initiator, iSCSI Virtual Disk, etc. It also includes Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:05 AM by josebda | 6 Comments

High Availability Scenarios

I recently delivered a presentation on Highly Available Clusters focused on the scenarios related to Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 (WSS 2003 R2) and Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 (WUDSS 2003). The scenarios ended up being quite generic, so Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 4:40 PM by josebda | 5 Comments
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