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A simple way to access Shadow Copies in Vista

In the past, I presented various ways to browse these mysterious device objects called "shadow copies". Shadow copies are static images in time (snapshots) of your volume contents, at some point in the past. These shadow copies are volumes on Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:37 AM by AdiOltean | 28 Comments

[RO] Seminar - Storage si programare distribuita

Florin Lazar , Todi Pruteanu si cu mine am demarat in cursul acestei saptamani un seminar tehnic pe teme de storage in Vista si programare distribuita in WCF. Mai multe detalii aici: http://reg.studentclub.ro . Pana acum seminariile din Bucuresti si Cluj Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:57 AM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments

Windows Home Server - links

A friend of mine didn't know about Windows Home Server - so I sent him these links: - Main site: http://stopdigitalamnesia.com - Interview with Charlie Kindel http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=270965 - Download: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0&siteid=38 Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:43 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Demo: New virtualization technologies in Windows Server (Longhorn)

A nice demo that shows you several things: - Windows Server virtualization (a separate partition running a striped-down version of Windows to manage all other virtual machines) - Running an 8-proc virtual machine - 64-bit and 32-bit machines running concurrently Read More...
Posted Friday, March 02, 2007 12:32 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

The next generation of storage management is here!

Storage management is complex, we all know it. For many people, even the simplest opeartions in a SAN look like black magic. It's no wonder why - if you want to, say, create a brand new 5 TB file share using your brand new your SAN box: you need to create Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 07, 2006 12:45 AM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments

Gartner redesigns Windows Vista

There is an article in Techworld.com mentioning a curious research report from Gartner implying a redesign of the Windows Vista code base, around virtualization. Huh? To quote from the article: Instead, the research firm predicts, Microsoft will be forced Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 1:55 PM by AdiOltean | 5 Comments

WS-Management? Already here in Vista!

WS-Management is a new web services-based management protocol. It's SOAP-based of course, and it is compatible with the rest of the specifications in the WS-* Web Service stack, like WS-Transfer, WS-Enumeration, WS-Addressing. WS-Management is enabled Read More...
Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 10:19 PM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments

Time Machine: Vista Previous Versions are now making their way into Mac OS X Leopard...

Mac OS X Leopard incorporates now a previous versions feature called Time Machine - similar with something that we added in Windows Server 2003 a while back, and recently in Windows Vista as well. If you just read the text at http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html Read More...
Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 1:25 PM by AdiOltean | 9 Comments

The Previous Versions feature in Vista - an ArsTechnica review

ArsTechnica noticed our new Previous Versions feature in Vista. Give it a click: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060730-7383.html Read More...
Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 12:30 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments
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Why Flash memory is good for your computer

Simply put, flash memory will enable a revolution in improving computer performance in daily utilization scenarios. Your computer will boot up faster. It will launch applications significantly faster. (Hey, it will shutdown faster as well.) The problem Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:17 AM by AdiOltean | 6 Comments

Passwords: Bad "best practices"

So, you think that your password is secure? Let's see: does it contain a mixture of uppercase/lowercase letters, punctuation marks and digits? Yes? Well, even in this case, your password might be still completely insecure. Read ahead why... To understand Read More...
Posted Monday, April 24, 2006 11:17 PM by AdiOltean | 11 Comments

How to run Defrag on a scheduled basis

On Windows XP, it's simple. Just run this command and you are done: schtasks /create /TN defrag /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /SC weekly /TR "defrag %systemdrive%" Read More...
Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 12:18 AM by AdiOltean | 5 Comments

Boot from iSCSI? It's coming.

Wonder of wonders. One of the interesting features of SANs in general, and iSCSI in particular, is the ability to boot directly from the exposed logical units (i.e. disks in SAN terminology). You don't need local storage. Why would that be useful? It's Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 11:46 PM by AdiOltean | 5 Comments
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Ahh, backups... the eternal conversation subject

Finally! The wait is over. Brett Shirley started to blog. As I expected, Brett started with a highly technical, but very interesting story . You might not believe it, but many customers are very optimistic, and they never perform backups of their critical Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 05, 2006 4:49 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

What is the quickest way to get the file system type on a volume?

A colleague of mine says that whenever he wants to see what file system is on some volume, he types CHKDSK, then <ENTER>, then ^C. You get something like this: C:\Users\aoltean>chkdsk The type of the file system is NTFS. C:\Users\aoltean> Read More...
Posted Monday, February 13, 2006 7:02 PM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments
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