For IT administrators and businesses deploying Windows Server 2025, the anticipation around the Resilient File System (ReFS) has been a blend of opportunity and frustration. On paper, ReFS stands as Microsoft’s resilient evolution of decades-old NTFS, promising transaction-consistent storage...
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Few topics spark as much debate among Windows power users as the merits and pitfalls of alternative filesystems such as Btrfs, ZFS, and Microsoft’s own ReFS. These technologies, once the exclusive realm of Linux and BSD servers or enterprise-scale applications, now tantalize even mainstream...
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If you ever found yourself staring at your installation drive mid-Windows setup, wondering if there’s more to life than NTFS, congratulations: you are part of a very exclusive club—one that probably has meetings in dimly lit server rooms and speaks in disk sector hexadecimal. For over ten years...
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Anyone familiar with the diskspd utility? I have had success with it testing server storage but how would I test a mass storage device like a Compellent Storage\Cluster?
Can I create an iscsi connection to the storage from the server
Fixes a performance issue in SQL Online Transaction Processing when you store SQL database files on an SMB network file share. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Storage Server 2008 R2.
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Fixes a performance issue in SQL Online Transaction Processing when you store SQL database files on an SMB network file share. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Storage Server 2008 R2.
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Describes the client-side package of Update Rollup 2 for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, for Windows Home Server 2011, and for Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials.
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Describes the client-side package of Update Rollup 1 for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, for Windows Home Server 2011, and for Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials.
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I am using a computer as a storage area network, which means i have a shared hard drive mapped to 12 computers in the network, since i upgraded the operating system from server 2003 to windows 7 professional 64bit I'm having a problem that only the computers with windows 7 can access the...
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Hi,
we are testing now computer running on Windows 7 with roaming profiles.
I have problem which I couldn't find anywhere (possible bad keywords).
It's not only one computer - at least 5 new installed computers have this issue.
Problem is that whenever I want pin some shortcut from start menu...
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We have an issue here at work. We changed storage servers and as a result, we changed the computer name of the servers. Offline Files with XP are enough of a headache, but now I cannot figure out how to adjust each user's computer accordingly to synchronize to the NEW storage server and NOT the...