Implementing an End-User Data Centralization Solution with Folder Redirection and Offline Files

There's a new 77-page white paper covering the use of Folder Redirection and Offline Files in a very practical way.Here's an excerpt: "The objective of this white paper is to show through a case study how to use different Microsoft products and technologies to put in place a comprehensive solution satisfying the needs of a … Continue reading Implementing an End-User Data Centralization Solution with Folder Redirection and Offline Files →

File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 available for download

Version 1.0 of the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) was announced yesterday during a presentation by Jian Yan and Bartosz Nyczkowski at SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA. The presentation covered a number of details about FSCT and included a demo running FSCT with the HomeFolders workload. If you are not familiar with … Continue reading File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 available for download →

Windows Server DFS-Namespaces Performance and Scalability

The DFS-N test team has completed some extensive Performance and Scalability testing and we wanted to share some of the results. It includes results on standalone namespaces, "2000 mode" domain namespaces and "2008 mode" domain namespaces, under Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Check the post by Marcello Hasegawa at … Continue reading Windows Server DFS-Namespaces Performance and Scalability →

Three ways to design your DFS Namespaces

Introduction In this blog post, we’ll showcase the flexibility you have with DFS-N by showing three distinct ways that you could design a namespace. Note: If you’re not familiar with DFS-N, please read this blog post first: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2009/03/10/the-basics-of-the-windows-server-2008-distributed-file-system-dfs.aspx Scenario The scenario here is simple: you have three file servers in different locations: S1 is in … Continue reading Three ways to design your DFS Namespaces →

Experimenting with PowerShell Cmdlets, Snap-ins and Modules

As I continue to experiment with PowerShell v2 in Windows Server 2008 R2, I will share some of what I learn here on the blog. This time I am focusing on Cmdlets, Snap-ins and Modules. Cmdlets Windows PowerShell introduced the notion of a “cmdlet” (you pronounce it “commandlet”). These are like tools or commands that are typically very simple … Continue reading Experimenting with PowerShell Cmdlets, Snap-ins and Modules →

SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2009 in Santa Clara, CA is coming – Plan to be there on the week of September 14th

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is hosting the 6th Storage Developer Conference (SDC) in the Hyatt Regency in beautiful Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) on the week of September 14th. This event is also co-located with the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest. For those working with storage technologies, this event gathers a unique crowd and includes a … Continue reading SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2009 in Santa Clara, CA is coming – Plan to be there on the week of September 14th →

Strings, Arrays and Functions in PowerShell v2 (and some sample code that speaks for itself :-)

I spent some more time experimenting with PowerShell v2 and here goes my second post about it. This time around I am focusing on how to define variables, use expressions and create functions. The "problem" we're solving 🙂 To make it fun, I decided to create a little script that creates some random … Continue reading Strings, Arrays and Functions in PowerShell v2 (and some sample code that speaks for itself 🙂 →

Experimenting with PowerShell v2

Powershell is a command line interface for Windows that offers a very powerful and flexible model.It is now a feature included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, not an optional download as before.In this post, I show some sample commands that can help you understand some of the basic features and a few more complex ones. … Continue reading Experimenting with PowerShell v2 →

Changes in Roles, Role Services and Features from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2

Introduction This blog post covers the changes in the list of Roles, Role Services and Features from Windows Server 2008 (with Service Pack 2) to Windows Server 2008 R2 (used the latest RC build available to me). To create the tables and lists below, I installed both operating systems, used the "ServerManagerCmd -query" command and did some editing of … Continue reading Changes in Roles, Role Services and Features from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2 →