147. Configure Data Deduplication Windows servers also has a pretty nice little feature known as data deduplication now data deduplication, the idea there is that in a lot of cases on a on a volume, we have lots of data that, you know, remember you break data down into binary and you have lots of data that’s just duplicated, lots of files, a duplicate, lots of chunks of data. They get duplicated inside files. And so what data do duplication is going to […]
146. Configure and manage Storage Replica So the next feature I want to explain in Windows Server is a concept called storage replica, stored replicas and eight feature that allows us to have replication between our different servers so, I can have a whole entire volume on, let’s say, NYC DC one, and I can have that replicated over to NYC Server one by utilizing this thing called stored for up those two approaches to this one is known as synchronous replication, which […]
144. Configure disks and volumes It’s now time to discuss the concept of working with disk in volumes, file systems and all that fun stuff on our server now to begin with, the first thing I want to do, though, is I’m going to add additional virtual disk to my server so that I can actually play around with this. All right. So here I am in Hyper-V and I’m going to right click on my N.Y.C. server one. I’m going to go […]
143. Implement and configure Distributed File System (DFS) So here I am in front of my NYC DC one, and I’m going to install distributed file system to do that, I’m going to open up server manager. I’m going to go to manage ad roles and features. Click Next, Next, next and expand out file and storage services. Go to file and I scuzzy services and I will see that I’ve got distributed file system namespaces right here. I’m going to add that […]
141. Configure BranchCache I’d like to now help you in understanding the concept of a feature called Branch Caching Now branch caching has been around since Windows seven came out and is supported by Windows seven and higher. And on the server side, you have to have at least a Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher. OK, so Windows seven or higher and Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher. Those are the combinations of Windows machines that support this, and the goal of […]
139. Configure file screens OK, so, I want to take a look now at the file server resource manager and get into a feature called file screens. Now this a nice little feature that we get on our file servers that allows us to control whether or not a user can store certain types of files inside of a folder. So let’s take a look at that now. Here we are on N.Y.C. Server one, and we’re just going to open up server […]
137. Configure Windows Server file share access It’s now time to talk about the concept of dealing with file shares when it comes to a Windows server now. This a feature that’s been around for decades now. In fact, it’s really one of the very first things anybody ever wanted to do when they had a server, which was share files, right? Have a central place where folders and files can be stored and then have a way to share those out with […]
131. Create Azure File Sync service So Azure has a really neat feature that we can utilize in conjunction with our on-premise network as well as the cloud, and it’s called the Azure File Sync Service. Now Azure File Sync will allow us to install a file sync agent software on our devices that are on-premise, and we can actually have files synchronized in the Azure if we need to. So, I want to show you how to do this. It’s a neat, […]
