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Windows Anti-Virus Exclusion List Published Wed, Aug 17 2011 10:40 | Thomas K.H. Bittner: A comprehensive all exclusion list for Windows Server Systems has been published on TechNet Wiki. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/953.aspx

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, Data Protection Manager, Active Directory, Certificate Service, Forefront, Network Services, File Services, CRM, DNS, Windows Client, DFS, BizTalk, App-V, MED-V, Cloud Computing, Group Policy, IIS, SCDPM

Deploy massive DFSN Target Link Change Published Mon, Jul 25 2011 16:19 | Thomas K.H. Bittner: When you need to make changes to your user DFS environment, a tool like dfsutil.exe is your friend. Latest when you want to replace your old Windows Server 2003 File and Distributed File Service, you will be faced to add or change the DFS target links...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Tools, Migration, Active Directory, Network Services, File Services, DFS

Best Practise Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection Published Thu, Jul 14 2011 15:06 | Thomas K.H. Bittner: Here is a very detailed article from Microsoft MVP Alan Burchill from Australia going through the configuration of Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection. And showing the specific Group Policy Settings to achieve a user friendly feature deployment. A...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Office, Active Directory, File Services, Windows Client, Group Policy

Error 0x80070035 – The network path was not found Published Thu, Jun 30 2011 14:30 | Thomas K.H. Bittner: In an environment with Site-to-Site VPNs and Windows 7 clients on the branch offices you can be faced with the Error 0x80070035 – The network path was not found, when users try to access file services provided with DFS shares. The standard protocol used...

Filed under: General, Storage, Windows Server, Active Directory, Network Services, File Services, Windows Client, DFS

NetApp Storage Systems in Microsoft Systems Environment Published Tue, May 3 2011 13:05 | Thomas K.H. Bittner: NetApp published a new article and guide how their storage environment and solutions work in Windows Systems architectures and infrastructures. The article gives you a lot valued information about how it works with Domain Controllers in Active Directory...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Managed Services, Migration, Active Directory, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, DFS, Security, Group Policy

Snapshots are not supported with Windows DFSR Published Tue, Mar 22 2011 9:36 | Thomas K.H. Bittner: If you are running virtualized Windows Server with DFSR, snapshots are not supported as with any other Windows Multi-Master Database. DFSR does not implement USN rollback quarantine protection like Active Directory Domain Services. More details here ...

Filed under: General, Storage, Windows Server, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Tools, Active Directory, File Services, NetApp, DFS

Running, Filtering and Saving Scans in Best Practise Analyzer Published Sat, Sep 25 2010 13:39 | Thomas K.H. Bittner: Who knows the Best Practise Analyzer for Exchange (ExBPA) is already familiar exporting scan results to other file formats to save or achive. The Best Practise Analyzer (BPA) coming with Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Roles doesn’t have this opportunity...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Remote Desktop Services, ISA Server, Tools, Active Directory, PKI, Certificate Service, Forefront, Network Services, File Services, BPA, DNS, DFS, Security

More Performance with SMBv2x on Windows and NetApp Published Wed, Sep 22 2010 19:22 | Thomas K.H. Bittner: NetApp has prepared an interesting performance test with new SMBv2.x available with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. The NetApp OnTap operating system has already been updated to support SMBv2. Find here the result figures about performance increase...

Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, Disaster Recovery, Backup, ISA Server, Hosting, Managed Services, Office, OCS, Data Protection Manager, Migration, Active Directory, Forefront, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Navision, Business Intelligence, CRM, Windows Client, DFS, BizTalk, Opalis

Win7 and Windows Server 2008 and R2 SMBv2 and v2.1 and Riverbed Published Mon, Sep 6 2010 16:12 | Thomas K.H. Bittner: Who designs distributed network infrastructures with high bandwidth connected sites and accelerates traffic with Riverbed appliances will loose many nice communication features comming with WinVista or Win7 and Windows Server Systems 2008 and 2008R2....

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Active Directory, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, Windows Client, DFS, Security

FRS to DFSR Migration Tool Published Thu, May 27 2010 20:29 | Thomas K.H. Bittner: Ned Pyle and Mike Stephens created a new tool related to their TechNet Whitepaper about FRS Migration to DFSR. FRS2DFSR is a utility that assists Windows admins in moving from the legacy File Replication Service (FRS) to the newer Distributed File System...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Tools, Migration, Active Directory, File Services

Some new Best Practices Analyzer released Published Mon, May 3 2010 14:00 | Thomas K.H. Bittner: Update for Best Practices Analyzer for Active Directory Rights Management Services for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB981391) You can use Active Directory Rights Management Services Best Practices Analyzer to scan a server that is running the AD...

Filed under: General, Storage, Windows Server, System Center, WSUS, Tools, Active Directory, Network Services, File Services