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Do you have any favorite forums, blogs, and other sources of information about file services and storage? We’d love to know where else you find information and get your questions answered! Let us know in the comments of this post, or send us email. –Jill… Read more
Our DFSR guru Rob Post recently helped a newsgroup customer troubleshoot why certain .jpg files would not replicate. The customer described the problem as: The file does not get replicated when it is copied into a DFS replicated directory. No errors are found in DFSR log files. Changing the contents of the file in hex… Read more
Thanks to Shobana Balakrishnan, Richard Chinn, and Brian Collins for contributing to this blog. Overview Anti-virus applications have caused interoperability problems with file replication in the past, namely with NTFRS (File Replication service). In particular, excessive replication can be triggered by poorly behaved anti-virus applications as their scanning activities are interpreted as file changes needing replication. … Read more
At least once a month a customer asks us whether a namespace can be used to combine the contents of multiple shared folders into a single view. This is a fair interpretation of a namespace, though this is not how a DFS namespace works in Windows Server. Below is an example of one such question,… Read more
Executive Chat: Storage in Windows Server 2003, Windows Storage Server 2003, and Windows Longhorn Server Please join Gabriel Broner, General Manager for the Windows Core File Services team, for an open discussion about all things storage in Windows Server 2003, Windows Storage Server 2003, and Windows Longhorn Server. Join us to exchange points of view,… Read more
Customers commonly ask us when to use DPM, DFS Replication, or both. We’ve published two guides on how to choose or combine these technologies—check out the DPM and Windows 2003 R2 Datasheet and Data Protection in DPM and Windows Server 2003 R2 for details. –Jill … Read more
I’ve seen three recent posts in our microsoft.public.windows.server.dfs_frs newsgroup from DFS Namespaces customers who are trying to determine why clients are being referred to unexpected targets. Here is one example: “We seem to having problems with our site referrals for DFS. Our root DFS “Global” has 6 links underneath for various parts of the business, some… Read more
A blog reader recently contacted us about his DFS Replication deployment and asked why the health reports show surprisingly large bandwidth savings on a relatively small replicated folder. The customer writes, “I have noticed a great savings in bandwidth, but I have also noticed that every day the service claims to have saved around 75… Read more
A customer recently asked about how to migrate NTFS quotas to FSRM quotas. Georgi Matev, the program manager for FSRM, responds: If NTFS-based quotas were used for user home directories, the migration is pretty straightforward. First, the customer needs to create one or more FSRM quota templates that encapsulate the desired quota policy. The next… Read more
Looking for additional SIS info? Check out this SIS Whitepaper. This white paper describes the basic architecture of the Single Instance Storage (SIS) feature of the Microsoft® Windows® Storage Server 2003 R2 operating system. This feature helps organizations reduce storage needs for file servers by identifying duplicate files within hard disk volumes and providing an… Read more