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    New white paper providing guidance for sizing NTFS volumes
    Jose Barreto - MSFT

    Microsoft released a new white paper, available here, discussing best practices and guidance for sizing NTFS volumes and some details on CHKDSK execution times on Windows Server 2008 R2. When planning Windows Server deployments, we are often asked questions such as “How large can I make my volumes?” or “How long will it take to repair a volume?”. This white paper helps answer these questions.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services - Read Only announcements

Hyper-V announcements

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    Managing Server 2012 Hyper-V Remotely
    BrianEh MVP

    This has been a popular question lately, here are the details:

    Remote Server Admin Tools: 

    (please note that there is a client and server combination here.  AFAIK there is not (yet) a tool release to manage Server 2012 from Win 7 clients)

    Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28972

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2202.remote-server-administration-tools-rsat-for-windows-vista-windows-7-windows-8-windows-server-2008-windows-server-2008-r2-and-windows-server-2012-dsforum2wiki.aspx

    Manage Hyper-V Server 2012 Remotely:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj647785.aspx

    (there are domain member and non-domain member instructions in there)

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    How to ask a question efficiently in TechNet forum
    BrianEh MVP

    Thank you for posting in TechNet forum. The online problem solving can be relatively time consuming because it may demand several messages back and force to fully understand the symptom and background, especially at the very beginning. Here are a few suggestions that help you get the best answer to your question as quickly as possible.

     

    When You Ask

    1. Selecting a good title which summarizes the specific problem you have. It will be the one of the main driving forces for others to want to actually read your item. Choosing a badly-formatted title will drive people away, thinking that since the title is so badly written, so must be the information and the question within the thread.

    2. Provide all the necessary information in your initial post. The following information would be very helpful:

    - Symptom description: Detailed description of the problem. If you receive any error messages, please let us know the exact error WORD BY WORD.

    - Environment: The system environment, such as your OS/application version, your network topology, and your domain environment, etc.

    - Any recent relevant configuration change(s): If the issue started to occur after installing any application/updates or changing the configuration, please let us know.

    - Any additional information. Tell what you have done prior to asking your question. This will help us understand that you've done so far.

    3. Write in a clear language. Avoiding spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Don't type IN ALL CAPS, which in most cases is read as shouting and considered rude.

    4. Keep with the same thread. Do not refer to a post you made last year, and above all, Please come back. There are hundreds and thousands of posts where we have seen people given great and wonderfully long answers yet no reply from the original poster.

    5. Be courteous to reply, even if it's to say. "I've given up" or thanks that worked. (This helps the whole community when you do this, and makes the people who donate time, warm and fuzzies.)

     

    When answered

    Give Positive Feedback. Once you've received a correct answer to your question, either from a Microsoft employee, an MVP, or the community in general, pleases replies that the issue or question has been answered. And if possible mark the solution as answered: This step is important, since it lets other people benefit from your posts.

    The content of this post was borrowed from: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/33d4bcfd-9a20-437c-8a5a-26d0deb01131/how-to-ask-a-question-efficiently-in-technet-forum?forum=winservergen

Streaming Media Services announcements

Building Clouds announcements

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    Welcome to the Building Clouds Blog Forum!
    hwitz Microsoft employee

    This forum was created to help tackle your questions about any of the technologies, deliverables, demonstrations, etc. from our blog.  We hope you’ll leverage these forums to “Ask the Experts”!

    About the Forum:

    • Each major project (MAT, PDT, Orchestrator, SMA, etc.) will have its own “Discussion”, but feel free to ask questions where and as you see fit. 
    • Also, all of our Building Clouds blog authors are forum moderators, so you will have direct access to the people creating the content you have been reading. 
    • Timeliness – Our goal is to respond to your questions and comments as quickly as possible, but depending on our workload, commitments, and forum activity, please allow up to a week for responses. 

    Again, we hope you find this forum useful and relevant to the issues, concerns and questions that are foremost on your minds.  Let's get started!

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V - Read Only announcements

Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Technologies - Read Only announcements

High Availability (Clustering) announcements

Windows Server 2012 Essentials announcements

Windows Server 2008 R2 General - Read Only announcements

Backup – Windows and Windows Server announcements

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    Vista Backup and Recovery - common causes and solution
    Christine Fok
    We've created a solution table on our blog for some issues we've seen while troubleshooting Vista backup\recovery (including System Restore) issues with some customers. We encourage you to visit the blog and see if it addresses your issue.

    http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2008/03/12/common-causes-and-solutions-to-backup-system-restore-and-complete-pc-backup-problems-updated.aspx

    Regards,
    Christine
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    Welcome to Windows and Windows Server Backup Forums!
    Malu Menezes

    Windows Backup forums provide you an opportunity to join a community of Windows customers where you can share knowledge on windows backup, get questions answered, and learn from others with backup needs similar to yours. Start by posting Windows Backup related questions and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.

     

    This forum supports Backup questions for Windows and Windows Server.

     

    Also, visit our blog for fresh information on Microsoft Storage and Windows Backup:

    http://blogs.technet.com/filecab

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    Old Threads
    Sushil.Baid [MSFT]
    Folks - Some of the old threads has been marked as general discussion based on inactivity on them for a longer duration. If the issue is not resolved, please start a new thread.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Management - Read Only announcements

Setup Deployment announcements

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    Known Issue: After applying KB 953230 WDS stops working
    Jez Sadler - MS
    On  7/8/2008, a security patch was released for DNS by Microsoft and other DNS server vendors. The Microsoft patch was tracked as KB953230 - the documentation on it is here.

    As part of the patch, DNS now reserves 2500 UDP ports - including the ports from 64000 to 65000 that WDS uses by default. Because of this, if DNS and WDS are running on the same server, WDS cannot access those ports and so is unable to perform TFTP (required for PXE boot) or Multicast.

    To work around this, open the WDS MMC, select your server, and go to Server Properties from the right-click menu or the Action menu. Then on the Network Settings page, set a different range of UDP ports. The best range to choose will depend on what else you are running on your server - you want to pick ports that other server roles and applications are not using. The dynamically allocated ports start from 49152, so your Start port should be at least that.

Windows Server 2008 R2 High Availability - Read Only announcements

Windows Multipoint Server announcements

Windows Server 2008 R2 Networking - Read Only announcements

Network Access Protection announcements

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