I was glad to see that tje TechNet public site was recently updated to include detailed documentation on Windows Storage Server 2008 and iSCSI Software Target 3.2.See below the main two top items that were posted, along with the topics covered under each one: Windows Storage Server 2008 Windows Storage Server 2008 Getting Started Guide … Continue reading Windows Storage Server 2008 and iSCSI Software Target 3.2 documentation on TechNet
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FAST’10 Technical Sessions
If you work with File and Storage, you probably heard of the annual FAST conference. The most recent one was FAST’10 (8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies), which happened in San Jose, CA on February 23-26.The content from the FAST'10 Technical Sessions was recently published, including presentations, papers and recordings. Please find below … Continue reading FAST’10 Technical Sessions
Unique Document URLs in MOSS 2007 and the new Document ID feature in SharePoint 2010
A few years ago, I was working with a Microsoft customer to deploy a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) solution. SharePoint 2007 had just been released at the time. The customer needed document URLs stored in SharePoint to continued to work even after the document was renamed or moved. I blogged about the issue and a … Continue reading Unique Document URLs in MOSS 2007 and the new Document ID feature in SharePoint 2010
Random thoughts and links on Storage
If there was ever a post true to the part of the tagline of my blog that mentions random thoughts, this is it. :-)This post is a compilation of my tweets from today, which cover several different topics related to Storage. Microsoft Research: Dryad Project: Writing parallel and distributed programs to scale from a small … Continue reading Random thoughts and links on Storage
Presentations from Storage Developer Conference 2009 (SDC 2009) are now available for download
The presentations from SNIA's SDC 2009 are now publicly available for download. This SNIA event happened in Santa Clara, CA last September and the decks are now publicly available, after being restricted to conference attendees for a few months. Out of the dozens of presentations, I wanted to highlight a few that were delivered by … Continue reading Presentations from Storage Developer Conference 2009 (SDC 2009) are now available for download
Windows Server DFS Namespaces (DFS-N) Reference
I get a number of questions regarding reference information for DFS Namespaces (also known as DFS-N). I gathered here the main links that can get you started on the subject:Here are my own blog posts on DFS Namespaces (all updated for Windows Server 2008 R2 and including domain V2 namespaces): The Basics of the Windows … Continue reading Windows Server DFS Namespaces (DFS-N) Reference
Configuring Failover Clusters with Windows Storage Server 2008
The Windows Storage Server Team just released a new 30-page white paper on "Configuring Failover Clusters with Windows Storage Server 2008". This paper will guide you through the process of configuring the networks, domains and clustering features, including performance recommendations for a pair of Windows Storage Server 2008 appliances hosting a File Server or a Microsoft … Continue reading Configuring Failover Clusters with Windows Storage Server 2008
Automatically uploading files from File Server to SharePoint using the File Classification Infrastructure (FCI)
Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced a new File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) and the team has been sharing different ways to put it to good use. The latest one comes as a blog post that describes how to use the FCI SharePoint Upload PowerShell script in conjunction with the FCI File Management Tasks to automatically upload … Continue reading Automatically uploading files from File Server to SharePoint using the File Classification Infrastructure (FCI)
Six Uses for the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target
Scott M. Johnson, a Program Manager in the Windows Storage Server team, has just published a new blog post that might give you some ideas on different ways to use the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target. He outlines six different uses for it: 1) Consolidate storage for multiple application servers.2) Test and Development scenarios are endless, … Continue reading Six Uses for the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target
Download for Powershell v2 for Windows 7? No need… It’s already there!
A while back, Microsoft announced the release of PowerShell v2 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 (see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=151321). However, it is not clear to everyone that Powershell v2 is already part of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. I have seen people still asking for the link for … Continue reading Download for Powershell v2 for Windows 7? No need… It’s already there!
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