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• System state restore recommendations

  This post is intended to clarify Microsoft's support position on system state backups and restores and comes in response to a recent question from a partner. We recommend the following best practices for implementing system state restores: ·... Posted Nov 17 2008, 09:17 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS), Windows Server 2008

• Deep Dive into Windows Server 2008 File Services – Recording

  For those who missed Drew McDaniel’s Live webcast “Deep Dive into Windows Server 2008 File Services”, you now can now view the recording: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032381104&role=attend&pw=3B160CB1 Enjoy... Posted Jul 25 2008, 04:25 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Storage, DFS Replication, DFS Namespaces, Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS), Windows Server 2008, Storage Management, File Services

• IT Manager Webcast: Deep Dive into Windows Server 2008 File Services (Level 300)

  IT Manager Webcast: Deep Dive into Windows Server 2008 File Services (Level 300) Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:30 AM Pacific Time The Windows Server 2008 operating system contains many changes to core file services components that dramatically increase availability... Posted Jul 15 2008, 10:51 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Storage, DFS Replication, DFS Namespaces, Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS), Windows Server 2008, Storage Management, File Services

• Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) documentation updates - June 2008

  1. In "Overview of Actual File Restoration" ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384575.aspx ), the table of requester actions has been updated to remove the call to SetBackupSucceeded and add a call to GetWriterComponents . 2. In "Using... Posted Jun 23 2008, 03:57 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Vista, Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS), Windows Server 2008

• May Windows Server 2008 Knowledge Base Articles

  Hello, Below you have a list of KB articles for Windows Server 2008 released or updated this May. 949429 05/27/2008 The virtual IP address of a Windows Server 2008 NLB cluster is bound to the NetBIOS host name of a particular server or of multiple servers... Posted Jun 17 2008, 04:53 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS), Windows Server 2008, Failover Clustering, SMB, Server clusters, LUN, Network Load Balancing (NLB)

• What is the difference between VSS Full Backup and VSS Copy Backup in Windows Server 2008?

  We sometimes get people asking about the difference between VSS Full Backup and VSS Copy Backup in Windows Server 2008. Basically, for certain applications (such as Exchange), VSS Copy Backup preserves logs and VSS Full Backup truncate logs. Yes, we know... Posted May 20 2008, 10:45 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Backup, Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS), Windows Server Backup

• Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) writer updates in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1

  For Server 2008 the VSS team invested a great deal in hardware shadow copy scenarios which you can read about here . Additionally significant work went into enhancing the APIs for writers and widening their adoption by other applications and components... Posted Mar 03 2008, 12:16 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Backup, System Restore, Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS)

• Automated System Recovery (ASR) in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1

  Automated System Recovery or ASR as it is more commonly known is the Windows API set to capture the configuration of disks and volumes on a system and restore them in bare metal recovery scenarios. During such recoveries, backup applications (requesters... Posted Feb 11 2008, 12:50 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS), Automated System Recovery (ASR)

• Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) documentation updates

  This is a summary of recent revisions to the VSS documentation on MSDN. 1. IVssBackupComponents::AddNewTarget has an error in the remarks section fixed. 2. The “ Usage Conventions ” topic has expanded information about binary compatibility for VSS applications... Posted Feb 07 2008, 11:45 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS)

• What’s new in Windows Server 2008 – VSS hardware shadow copy scenarios

  This is the second in a series of posts on what’s new in VSS in Windows Server 2008. In this article I’ll cover some of the new scenarios with hardware shadow copies and also requirements from storage arrays. This is a primarily an overview and you can... Posted Jan 29 2008, 01:22 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS)

• What's new in the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) with Windows Server 2008 - part 1

  This is the first of a multi part series on what's new in the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) with Windows Server 2008 · Diskshadow Windows Server 2008 has a new requester that ships on all SKUs. VSS requesters are used to create and manage shadow copies... Posted Jan 24 2008, 01:23 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS)

• Why do restore points in Windows Vista use so much disk space?

  A reader asked us why restore points are so large in Windows Vista compared to Windows XP. He notes “The average XP restore point was around 50 MB. On Vista, restores points vary between 1 GB - 3 GB.” Why the big difference? Eduardo Laureano, the Program... Posted Mar 03 2007, 12:46 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: System Restore, Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS)