The official blog of the Windows and Windows Server storage engineering teams
Hi, this is Sanjoy Chatterjee, program manager for DFS Namespaces here to talk about client failback. Several branch office failure scenarios can result in client being bound indefinitely to a remote server even after availability to their local, preferred server is restored. Customers commonly deploy DFS for availability or for data protection. They will, for example,… Read more
In 2004 we released the File Server Migration toolkit along with a new DFS feature known as consolidation roots (described in this KB article). In the FSMT documentation we specifically state that Windows 9x clients cannot access consolidation roots. A customer recently asked why, and I thought the response from our DFS developer, Dan Lovinger,… Read more
Several newsgroup customers have recently reported Explorer refresh issues when connecting to shared folders using a DFS path. For example, if you connect to a shared folder directly (without using the namespace) and create a file or rename a file in a shared folder, the change is evident immediately. However, when you use the shared… Read more
Hi, this is Shobana Balakrishnan here to talk about staging folders in DFS Replication. Staging folders are used to (a) isolate the files from the changes on the file system, and (b) amortize the cost of compression and computing RDC hashes across multiple partners. As the heuristic is set, staging is beneficial for reasonably large… Read more
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 – 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Pacific Time With the addition of new storage capabilities built into the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 platform, there are many business reasons to upgrade your server operating system. This webcast shows how to make the most of these solutions even if you with limited storage… Read more
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 – 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Pacific Time Shola Aluko, Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation, will host a webcast that compares the storage features of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with those of Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003. We examine both products from a variety of angles, including security, scalability, ease of management, and… Read more
[We’ve had several customers ask us about SMB 2.0. Many thanks to Navjot Virk and Prashanth Prahalad providing this post. –Jill] Vista comes with a major revision of the SMB protocol identified as SMB 2.0. The existing SMB 1.0 protocol was built to support file-serving solutions a couple of decades ago and was based on… Read more
A customer recently tested FSRM and noticed the following, “In our testing, we have two root folders, A and B, with separate quota policies for each. If we move a subfolder of A to B, we don’t see the moved subfolder get the B policy. It seems to maintain the A policy after the move. … Read more
Several customers have asked about gotchas or other limitations for using File Server Resource Manager on server clusters. Georgi Matev, the program manager for this feature, responds: FSRM quotas are fully supported on clustered file servers. We’ve tried to make the experience of working with clusters seamless. For any volume on a shared disk, the… Read more
With the increasing demand on storage resources, information technology (IT) administrators must oversee larger and more complex storage infrastructures yet still track the kinds of information available in it. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 File Server Resource Manager allows administrators to understand, control, and manage the quantity and type of data stored on their servers…. Read more