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Mahesh Unnikrishnan is a Senior Program Manager in the File Server Technologies team within Microsoft’s Windows Server Division. He is part of the team that works on the DFS Replication service. … Read more
This is the second in a series of posts on what’s new in VSS in Windows Server 2008. In this article I’ll cover some of the new scenarios with hardware shadow copies and also requirements from storage arrays. This is a primarily an overview and you can find more details in the documentation on MSDN… Read more
This is the first of a multi part series on what’s new in the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) with Windows Server 2008 · Diskshadow Windows Server 2008 has a new requester that ships on all SKUs. VSS requesters are used to create and manage shadow copies. You can find more information about VSS… Read more
This week we had great news for one of our team’s products, DPM (Data Protection Manager). SearchServerVirtualization.com awarded DPM with a gold medal as a “Product of the Year 2007”! To know more about how Data Protection Manager works, see the DPM website. Read DPM Blog and Jason’s post about the award. —Malu Menezes … Read more
Ned Pyle– I’ve been in the IT industry since 1997. – I was a Sergeant in the US Marine Corps infantry (0341 81MM Mortarman, hoorah). – I was born in Annapolis, Maryland but moved to Illinois when I was five. – I grew up in and around Chicago for the next twenty years. – I… Read more
I joined the Storage Solutions Division in November 2007, as a Customer Connection Program Manager. My job is to facilitate our team’s communication with our Customers. And to achieve that, I help people from my team to engage in Forums, Beta programs, Influencer programs and… Blogs! In my free time, I like to play the… Read more
Hello to all Next week, Technet will release a series of live Webcasts for Level 300 Clustering training.Add them to your calendar: · TechNet Webcast: Build High-Availability Infrastructures with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering (Level 300) – Monday, January 21, 2008 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) · TechNet Webcast: Failover Clustering 101 (Level… Read more
Hello, Storage fans Microsoft Cluster team restarted their blogging activities this January.Check out the new content at http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering —Malu Menezes… Read more
The DFS Replication (DFSR) service stores files that encountered replication conflicts and pre-existing files that were removed during initial synchronization in the ‘ConflictAndDeleted’ and ‘PreExisting’ folders respectively. Our resident DFSR guru, Ned Pyle has just submitted a new and updated script to restore data from the DFSR ConflictAndDeleted or PreExisting folders for disaster recovery purposes. Head on… Read more