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Ned Pyle on Jul 27 2021 11:57 AM

Understanding what the File Server "role" in Windows Server does.

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Ned Pyle on Jun 24 2021 12:03 PM

You can now evaluate SMB over QUIC in Windows Server 2022 and Windows Insider!

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Ned Pyle on Jun 24 2021 10:59 AM

SMB compression is here! Watch a demo of Windows Server 2022 smooshing files on-the-fly like a champ.

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Ned Pyle on May 20 2021 11:56 AM

Storage Migration Service now supports NetApp sources for migration to Windows Server

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Ned Pyle on Apr 13 2021 10:41 AM

Explore Azure cloud storage solutions for all your enterprise workloads with a special free digital event on April 29, 2...

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Ned Pyle on Mar 11 2021 02:36 PM

Microsoft Plugfest 33 registration is here! Developers, partners, ISVs: register by March 23rd

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Ned Pyle on Nov 11 2020 01:29 PM

"Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component" workaround coming

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Ned Pyle on Oct 20 2020 11:52 AM

New SMS features and fixes for the October cumulative optional update

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Ned Pyle on Sep 16 2020 10:12 AM

NFS 4.1 is now available as an Azure Files service.

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Ned Pyle on Jun 29 2020 10:07 AM

Defending SMB clients from interception attacks.

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Ned Pyle on Jun 17 2020 10:55 AM

Increase your security by controlling SMB traffic's ingress, egress, and lateral movement

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Ned Pyle on Mar 02 2020 11:17 AM

Learn about SMB3 over QUIC - instead of TCP or RDMA - for hybrid and mobile computing.

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JamesKehr on Feb 26 2020 09:22 AM

An update on some expected SMB1 behaviors in modern Windows even after you uninstalled SMB1, and why you should still no...

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JamesKehr on Feb 21 2020 09:58 AM

Null sessions are bad, and Windows doesn't like them. Learn more about this aspect of SMB security and why you probably ...

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Ned Pyle on Dec 03 2019 02:27 PM

Brief survey for SMB= ("CIFS") customers using NetApp FAS devices for file services.

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Ned Pyle on Nov 18 2019 03:19 PM

SMS error "Couldn't transfer storage on any of the endpoints. 0x9044" fixed in KB4520062.

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Ned Pyle on Sep 20 2019 04:37 PM

How to control SMB write-through and data consistency in Windows 10 and Windows Server.

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Ned Pyle on Sep 17 2019 04:14 PM

Understanding SMB2+ dialects and controlling them in later versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server

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Ned Pyle on Sep 12 2019 06:53 PM

New version of Get-SMSLogs published for Storage Replica Troubleshooting

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Ned Pyle on Aug 23 2019 11:34 AM

Windows Server 2019 Storage Migration Service updated to support migrating failover clusters, Samba on Linux , local use...

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Ned Pyle on Jul 19 2019 03:01 PM

New SMS WAC extension 1.57.0 released!

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Arpita Duppala on Jun 20 2019 12:34 PM

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Ned Pyle on Jun 14 2019 04:07 PM

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Arpita Duppala on Apr 10 2019 07:53 AM

First published on TECHNET on Mar 07, 2019 This post was authored by @Arpita Duppala, PM on the High Availability and St...

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FileCAB-Team on Apr 10 2019 07:53 AM

First published on TECHNET on Jan 07, 2019 Reserving disk space to keep Windows 10 up to dateWindows Insiders: To enable...

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Ned Pyle on Apr 10 2019 07:53 AM

First published on TECHNET on Dec 13, 2018 Heya folks, Ned here again.

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Ned Pyle on Apr 10 2019 07:52 AM

First published on TECHNET on Nov 07, 2018 Heya folks, Ned here again.

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Cosmos Darwin on Apr 10 2019 07:52 AM

First published on TECHNET on Oct 30, 2018 Written by Cosmos Darwin, Senior PM on the Core OS team at Microsoft.

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Garrett Watumull on Apr 10 2019 07:51 AM

First published on TECHNET on Oct 03, 2018 This post was authored by Garrett Watumull, PM on the Windows Server team at ...

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Cosmos Darwin on Apr 10 2019 07:50 AM

First published on TECHNET on Oct 02, 2018 This post was written by Cosmos Darwin, Sr PM on the Core OS team at Microsof...

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in Windows 10 and reserved storage on Aug 01 2021 10:48 PM

JUST HAVING THROUGH THE Power on using Broadband , LAN AND wi-fi.

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in What the heck is the File Server "role" in Windows Server??? on Jul 28 2021 05:13 AM

Thank you for the precision @Ned Pyle, that's definitively FSRM!

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in What the heck is the File Server "role" in Windows Server??? on Jul 27 2021 04:39 PM

@PhoenixTK2080 FSRM definitely does a bunch of that stuff, is a separate feature (File Server Resource Manager), maybe that's what you're remembering?

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in What the heck is the File Server "role" in Windows Server??? on Jul 27 2021 04:17 PM

Hi @Ned Pyle,If I recall, the File server role will also install the advanced features regarding reports, shares management, etc. I know that we used to produce many shceduled reports for our servers data analytics (stotage by share, capacity management, etc.).Well, I'll need to take another look at...

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in Windows Server Backup automatic disk usage management on Jul 26 2021 02:20 AM

About "Backup Version Management" (deleting other kinds of backup).What for "Get the shadow copy Id"? I obtain some idents in the form "03/17/2021-23:00"Where are those "consecutive shadow copies"? I suppose in "xx:\system volume information\". And there is no file (of course) with a name of the for...

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