I was looking through some email today and saw a newsletter from ZDNet at the top of my inbox. Normally these don’t get my immediate attention, but for some reason, today… it did. There was a post from Mary Jo Foley (linked below) looking at the upcoming file system in Windows Server 8, ReFS. I […]

I have been trying to talk myself into learning Microsoft PowerShell for quite some time. It was always cool for a little while and then, like many other things, it just got dull and lost its shine. Until recently it was something I knew I would need to learn someday because Microsoft would eventually put […]

This week has been interesting, mainly in that I was reminded about the simple things in Active Directory and how much harder they become when you dont pay them enough attention. Replication is much like Ron Burgundy – kind of a big deal. If you do not pay enough attention to replication between domain controllers in Active Directory, bad things happen.

I learned recently that everybody starts somewhere and helping those interested in starting somewhere seems to me to be something those of us who’ve been doing this for a while should be a little more than interested in.

I finally got the data migrated to new storage at my organization. The information moved very quickly and went off without a hitch (and minimal yelling/frustration). The one area I found that was not so friendly is the Share Permissions on the destination storage.

My plans for reviewing/playing around in Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 have been quite up in the air lately, but may finally be coming to fruition, although differently than I originally planned. Since I have installed an EMC Celerra as my organizations primary storage, I thought testing a WSS front end to that system might be appropriate. In a previous post, I was planning to test this in my home lab, but given the considerations I am looking at for my organization, testing there makes loads more sense.

In this installment of the Storage Migration Tools series RichCopy is the tool of choice. It is a free tool offered by Microsoft (without support of course) that uses a simple and easy to use GUI interface to copy files.

I noticed today that Service Pack 1 for Windows 7/2008R2 was released. Since I am curious just to see what is noticably new here I was more than happy to load it and see what I got.

Recently my organization purchased an EMC Celerra Array in the interest of making our file storage more scalable and available for the users. We are also going to start down the virtualization path, but I am going to try the one step at a time approach.

RoboCopy is a command line tool from Microsoft that allows for multi-threaded file copying. It functions similarly to Copy.exe or XCopy.exe but has a few of its own nuances which will be look at here.