Overview In this blog post, we’ll cover the basics of the Distributed File System (DFS) in Windows Server 2008, which offers users simplified access to a set of file shares and helps administrators easily maintain the file server infrastructure behind those file shares, including options for load ...

Indiana University University Improves Service Availability, Reduces IT Workload with Virtualization Indiana University is one of the largest state university systems in the United States, with nine campuses, 100,000 students, 7,000 faculty members, and 11,000 staff members. The university’s Auxil...

Background: In an earlier post I talked about some new features for Windows 2008 and Vista.  One of those new features that is often overlooked are the data collector sets (DCS).  One particular role that leverages data collector sets is active directory.  Active directory has put “...

They certainly don’t want an open hand from a Democratic president. It seems they don’t want to help some of their own (disillusioned) constituents, either. The GOP certainly doesn’t want it to be harder to prevent a filibuster in the Senate; just look at the grief that Al Franken is getting. ...

They certainly don’t want an open hand from a Democratic president. It seems they don’t want to help some of their own (disillusioned) constituents, either. The GOP certainly doesn’t want it to be harder to prevent a filibuster in the Senate; just look at the grief that Al Franken is getting. ...

I am installing Windows Server 2008 on a new server that has no video card and no DVD drive. It's an interesting challenge to make that one work and I'm relying on using a bootable USB disk and unattend files. In my case, it turns out the server has a USB interface and using USB to bo...

Originally Microsoft Hyper-V only included the command-line tools for configuring iSCSI devices. Now, anyone who has had to use these tools (namely iscsicli) will tell you that they are incredibly complicated and are very hard to use.  Now with Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 we have included the gra...

Mike Kolitz has just released "WIM2VHD".  This is a tool that allows you to take the WIM file off of a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 install DVD and turn it directly into a virtual hard disk that can be used by Hyper-V, Virtual Server or Virtual PC.  Not only is this handy ...

Mike Kolitz, früherer MVP und nun Microsoft Mitarbeiter hat ein Tool veröffentlicht, mit dem direkt aus einer WIM-Datei eine VHD für den Startvorgang erstellt werden kann. Somit muss das Windows Setup nicht mehr ausgeführt werden. Da das Tool brandneu ist, funktioniert es auch nur mit den neuest...

In Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 VHD support is now part of the platform.  This means that you do not need to enable Hyper-V to mount and manipulate virtual hard disks.  You can mount virtual hard disks directly on your Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 system in two ways.  The ...