The official blog of the Windows and Windows Server storage engineering teams
Hi all, Ned here again. This is just a quick amplification post: many of us from FileCab will be at TechEd 2014 next week in Houston. Jose has a comprehensive list at his blog: Building your schedule for TechEd 2014? Here are some Storage-related sessions! This event is already sold out, but if you’re a lucky… Read more
Overview When we introduced Work Folders in Windows Server 2012 R2, we included support for PCs running Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1. However, we knew that we needed to continue releasing support for other clients, and the number one request was to support the large number of enterprise deployments of Windows 7. We heard… Read more
Hi folks, With the introduction of Work Folders last year, we wanted to make sure we also offer great documentation and supporting content that IT Pros can use to successfully install and manage Work Folders in their enterprise environments. This effort eventually manifested in a series of blog posts, TechNet articles and videos. To make… Read more
Overview Work Folders is a new component introduced in Windows Server® 2012 R2. It allows Information Workers to sync their work files between their devices. This functionality is powered by the Work Folders service that can be enabled as a Windows Server 2012 R2 File Services sub role. Web Application Proxy is a new Remote… Read more
Hi Folks, Here is another great blog post by Siddhartha Singh , who is one of the senior test leads in the Work Folders team. He has documented the steps required to deploy Work Folders on an Azure VM (IasS). While the process is similar to an on-premise deployment , there are some aspects that… Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I delivered a presentation on Work Folders deployments, and there was a slide on how Work Folders interoperates with other file server technologies. It occurred to me that it is worth writing a blog post about it. File classification infrastructure (FCI) File Classification Infrastructure was released in Windows Server 2008… Read more
Hi folks, Ned here again. If Shakespeare had run Windows, Hamlet would be a play about configuring failover clusters for storage. Today I discuss the Scale-Out File Server configuration and why general use file server clustered shares may still have a place in your environment. These two types of Windows file servers have different goals… Read more
ContextIn Windows Server 2012 R2, iSCSI Target Server made significant improvements in its persistence layer by providing larger, resilient, dynamically-growing SCSI Logical Units (LUs) that are based on the VHDX format. For more details on what is new in this release, see my previous blog post iSCSI Target Server in Windows Server 2012 R2. In… Read more
I’m Tsan Zheng, a Senior Test Lead on the DFS team. If you’ve used DFSR (DFS Replication), you’re probably aware that the largest amount of data that we had tested replication with until recently was 10 TB. A few years ago, that was a lot of data, but now, not so much. In this post,… Read more
In the previous blog post, I provided a step by step guide to set up Work Folders in a lab environment using the Preview release of Windows Server 2012 R2. With the GA release, Work Folders leverages Windows Failover clustering to increase availability. For general details about failover clusters, see Failover Clustering. In this blog… Read more