Jose Barreto's Blog
A blog by Jose Barreto, a member of the OneDrive team at Microsoft.
New five-part blog series on DFS Replication
Ned Pyle, a Senior Escalation Support Engineer with the Directory Services team at Microsoft, has...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 09/07/2010
Using the multiple NICs of your File Server running Windows Server 2008 (and 2008 R2)
IMPORTANT NOTE: This blog post was created before the release of Windows Server 2012, which...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 09/03/2010
SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2010 is just a few weeks away
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is hosting the 7th Storage Developer Conference...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 09/01/2010
Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2
I am often asked about File Server performance. The usual conversation evolves into a discussion on...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 08/27/2010
The difference between a 2TB SATA drive and the storage provided by your IT department
Every once in a while the question comes up. How come my IT department is charging me tens of...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 07/31/2010
Multiple names for one computer - Consolidate your SMB file servers without breaking UNC paths
Overview This blog post covers a few different ways to consolidate multiple SMB file servers and...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 06/04/2010
Where to find DFSUTIL.EXE for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2
DFSUTIL.EXE is a command line tool to manage Windows Server DFS Namespaces. In Windows Server 2003...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 05/02/2010
How to rename a Windows Server running DFS Namespaces (DFS-N)
A user asked me recently if there is a prescribed way to rename an existing DFS-N server. More...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 05/01/2010
Microsoft Office Web Applications and https://docs.com
I just got an e-mail informing me that I could now upload and create documents in http:/docs.com, so...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 04/29/2010
Best Practices Analyzer for Windows Server 2008 R2 File Services available for download
Quick blog post to let you know that information about the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) for Windows...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 04/28/2010
Experimenting with Windows Azure and understanding its runtime environment better
Overview I recently learned how to develop, test and deploy a Windows Azure application. This post...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 04/28/2010
Examining cmdlet parameters in PowerShell V2
One of the interesting things about PowerShell is how easy it is to discover its cmdlets and...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 04/09/2010
PowerShell v2: Get-Date vs [System.DateTime]::Now - What's the difference?
I was trying to figure out why people use the more complicated [System.DateTime]::Now instead of the...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 04/08/2010
Using PowerShell V2 to gather info on free space on the volumes of your remote file server
Overview In a previous blog post, I have examined some of PowerShell’s control structures and...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 04/08/2010
Experimenting with PowerShell V2 scripting, variables and control structures
Last week I was testing Visual Studio 2010 to write a C# application to export all my blog posts to...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 04/04/2010
Comparing RPC, WMI and WinRM for remote server management with PowerShell V2
- OverviewIn a recent blog post, I was looking at PowerShell V2 remoting in Windows Server 2008 R2....
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 04/02/2010
Why Hyper-V VHD Files Are So Large – And How To Efficiently Copy Them
Interesting blog post covering a tool to copy VHD files.The tool was created by a Microsoft...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 03/31/2010
Experimenting with PowerShell V2 Remoting
As I continue to experiment with PowerShell v2 in Windows Server 2008 R2, I will share some of what...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 03/31/2010
How DFS Replication (DFS-R) secures its communication
During a recent internal conference, someone asked me about how DFS-R (DFS Replication) in Windows...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 03/26/2010
Experimenting with Visual Studio 2010 and backing up the entries on my blog
I spent some time today experimenting with the Visual Studio 2010. As I learned a long time ago, the...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 03/21/2010
Windows Storage Server 2008 and iSCSI Software Target 3.2 documentation on TechNet
I was glad to see that tje TechNet public site was recently updated to include detailed...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 03/13/2010
Unique Document URLs in MOSS 2007 and the new Document ID feature in SharePoint 2010
A few years ago, I was working with a Microsoft customer to deploy a Microsoft Office SharePoint...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 03/08/2010
Random thoughts and links on Storage
If there was ever a post true to the part of the tagline of my blog that mentions random thoughts,...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 02/26/2010
Presentations from Storage Developer Conference 2009 (SDC 2009) are now available for download
The presentations from SNIA's SDC 2009 are now publicly available for download. This SNIA event...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 12/30/2009
Windows Server DFS Namespaces (DFS-N) Reference
I get a number of questions regarding reference information for DFS Namespaces (also known as...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 12/30/2009
Configuring Failover Clusters with Windows Storage Server 2008
The Windows Storage Server Team just released a new 30-page white paper on "Configuring Failover...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 12/18/2009
Automatically uploading files from File Server to SharePoint using the File Classification Infrastructure (FCI)
Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced a new File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) and the team has...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 12/14/2009
Six Uses for the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target
Scott M. Johnson, a Program Manager in the Windows Storage Server team, has just published a new...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 12/11/2009
Download for Powershell v2 for Windows 7? No need... It's already there!
A while back, Microsoft announced the release of PowerShell v2 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003,...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 11/25/2009
SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation November CTP available for MSDN/TechNet Subscribers
Great news following a very busy week for SQL Server with the PASS Community Summit: The new SQL...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 11/09/2009
Mistakes when configuring your Hyper-V environment
I came across some interesting tips on things to consider in a virtualized environment by Greg...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 11/05/2009
Scary SQL Server stuff: tombstones, phantoms, blobs, ghosts and zombies
This post mixes the spirit of Halloween and the passion for SQL Server :-) Have you noticed how...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 10/31/2009
Implementing an End-User Data Centralization Solution with Folder Redirection and Offline Files
There's a new 77-page white paper covering the use of Folder Redirection and Offline Files in a very...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 10/23/2009
SharePoint 2010 beta in November. Details and documentation right now!
Jeff Teper (Corporate Vice President, SharePoint Server) and Steve Ballmer (CEO) shared SharePoint...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 10/19/2009
File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 available for download
Version 1.0 of the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) was announced yesterday during a presentation by...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 09/16/2009
TI-55-II calculator, the first device I ever programmed
I recently bought a used TI-55-II on eBay. This is an old (early 80’s) Texas Instruments calculator,...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 08/29/2009
Windows Server DFS-Namespaces Performance and Scalability
The DFS-N test team has completed some extensive Performance and Scalability testing and we wanted...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 08/22/2009
Experimenting with PowerShell Cmdlets, Snap-ins and Modules
As I continue to experiment with PowerShell v2 in Windows Server 2008 R2, I will share some of what...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 08/10/2009
The good old days of CP/M 2.2 on a TRS-80 with an 8-bit Z80 CPU
I was reading the news on the release of Windows 7 and stopped to think of the early days of my IT...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 08/08/2009
Strings, Arrays and Functions in PowerShell v2 (and some sample code that speaks for itself :-)
I spent some more time experimenting with PowerShell v2 and here goes my second post about it. This...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 08/02/2009
Experimenting with PowerShell v2
Powershell is a command line interface for Windows that offers a very powerful and flexible model.It...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 07/25/2009
Changes in Roles, Role Services and Features from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2
Introduction This blog post covers the changes in the list of Roles, Role Services and Features from...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 07/18/2009
Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 09) provides a snapshot of what Microsoft is up to (keynotes available for review)
Earlier this week Microsoft hosted the 2009 edition of the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2009)...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 07/17/2009
Five ways to check your DFS-Namespaces (DFS-N) configuration with the DFSDIAG.EXE tool
Introduction The Distributed File System Namespaces (DFS-N) service is a role service of the File...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 07/15/2009
Micro-blogging on Twitter: a few thoughts and tips
As I posted a few days ago, I’m now micro-blogging on twitter as well as regular-blogging...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 07/12/2009
Proud to be a Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Earlier this year (or last fiscal year :-), I participated in a grueling three-week training and...
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 07/11/2009
File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) Release Candidate available for download
The File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) is a capacity planning software for CIFS/SMB/SMB2 file servers....
Author: JoseBarreto Date: 07/08/2009