Higher levels of availability have become all the rage. The days of service-level agreements (SLAs) with explicit definitions of RPO (recovery-point objectives) and RTO (recovery-time objectives) may ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

As locking down information becomes a more critical priority for IT organizations, securing individual files or shares is completely dependent on effectively setting up security groups. Because ...

One of the more underrated tools in Windows Server is the File Server Resource Manager. Among this tool's many capabilities is the ability to create file screens that can help you to control the ...

Microsoft delivered a completely new way of looking at our disks and storage in Windows Server 2012, with the biggest change in how storage is laid out and provisioned. Here's how to create and manage ...

After fourteen years of waiting, Microsoft is introducing boot support for the Resilient File System (ReFS) in Windows Server ...

Last week, Microsoft released the latest version of its server operating system, Windows Server 2012, along with a number of related versions and variants. But one member of the new Windows Server ...

Microsoft has officially introduced boot support for the Resilient File System (ReFS) in the latest Windows Server Insider Preview builds.

From UEFI to full-disk encryption to improvements in IIS, Windows Server 2012's security features alone provide reason enough to upgrade With the shift to the new Metro user interface, a lot of people ...

FileTables, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012, is a unique table that reflects metadata of files in a specified folder. FileTables is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012. It's a ...