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Script recipe: How to increase the maximum number of quotas in the FSRM Quota Report (W2K3 R2)

One of the customer requests we had on Windows Server 2003 R2 was the ability to increase the maximum number of quotas in the FSRM Quota report. The current limit is 1000 quotas maximum. How do I set this limit to 20,000 for example? Here is how - assuming Read More...
Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 3:45 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

Statcounter: Bing leapfrogs Yahoo again

You might remember Statcounter.com as the site that came in the news a   few weeks ago when Bing overtook Yahoo, due to the sudden interest immediately after launch. Back then, as many predicted, it didn’t last long, as people quickly switched back Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:00 AM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

Bing Community - an undiscovered site

Check it out: http://www.bing.com/community/ Nice layout & content organization. Much better organized when comparing it with the typical forums/community sites that you see on Microsoft sites or MSDN (or other non-Microsoft ones) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:29 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

FCI – how to use classification (video)

Just found a new video demonstrating the new classification feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. Enjoy! Special thanks to dawho1 who posted the video. Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:23 PM by AdiOltean | 24 Comments

What does Bing stands for?

In my personal opinion, BING = B ing I s N ot G oogle (to continue the tradition of recursive acronyms ) And it’s true. Bing attempts to be a decision engine, not just another search engine. It is interesting that Google itself has an “I’m feeling Lucky” Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:21 AM by AdiOltean | 18 Comments
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Script of the week: how to expire files with Classification

It is an eye opening experience to sit at our FCI booth and see customer after customer telling us their biggest problem with managing file servers today: lots of old data sitting on their file servers. When I tell them how that our classification feature Read More...
Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 11:06 AM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

The buzz around Classification is going up!

More and more posts appear on File Classification - it's hard to keep track of them. Here is a few sample (if I missed anyone, sorry - it s not intentional) Coded Style has a post on titled Getting Personal with Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:16 PM by AdiOltean | 30 Comments
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Classification – under the hood (part 1)

As promised, I will add more technical information about File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) in a series of technical posts devoted to FCI architecture and internals. We started the classification project with an ambitious vision: to provide a simple Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:58 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

File Classification Infrastructure – launched today!

Today it is an exciting day for all of us – we just announced our new classification platform at TechEd! It is a culmination of many months of team work, mostly in secret until now (which also explains also the silence on this blog). For an overview of Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 1:11 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Tom’s Hardware: SSD comparison table (take 2)

Tom’s Hardware does it again! http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/256gb-samsung-ssd,2265-8.html What is notable is (again) the relative power consumption between various SSDs – ranging from 0.5W (for Intel X25-E/M) to a whopping 4.6 W (for Soliddata). Read More...
Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 4:08 PM by AdiOltean | 21 Comments

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 | 29 Comments

Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?

I love this - if you have kids, and if you are a geek, you'll understand. http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/microserveces08/1000446145 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:58 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments
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Puzzle: create a Pentagon with rule and compass <EOM>

The title sums it all.   P.S. And, as a Christmas bonus, here is a nice chess puzzle. In the above diagram you must add the two missing kings in such a way that White, who is on the move, can deliver immediate mate, i.e. mate in one move. [source: Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 11:37 PM by AdiOltean | 9 Comments
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Flash-based harddisks - the new laptop feature to look for

A review in ComputerWorld features the new Samsung's 64 GB Flash drive: Samsung rates the drive with a read speed of 100MB/sec and write speed of 80 MB/sec, compared to 59MB/sec and 60MB/sec (respectively) for a traditional 2.5" hard drive. We ran Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 11:33 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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Puzzle solution: Xen voting algorithm

I think that the problem stated in one of my earlier posts is one of the most fascinating puzzles I came across recently. Many people that got confronted with it said bluntly that the problem simply has no solution, otherwise it would contradict common Read More...
Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 1:19 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments
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