March 2007 - Posts
A newsgroup customer recently asked us how to synchronize his Offline Files with a server after the server had been renamed. Offline Files in Windows Vista provides scripting support to enable users to write custom scripts to perform such tasks. To illustrate
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Several customers have asked us about this recently. In Windows XP, you had the option of automatically synchronizing before logging off. Though this did ensure that your offline cache was up-to-date before you logged off, users often complained about
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After our previous blog post on .ost files and Complete PC Backup , a customer contacted us about how he loses column settings, sort order, and synchronization filters if he manually deletes the .ost file. I asked Alon Brown, a Development Lead for Outlook,
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We’ve seen numerous questions lately regarding the use of Offline Files against a NAS device. Customers report that Windows XP clients work fine against a particular NAS device but Windows Vista clients do not. The reason for this difference is that Offline
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If you have custom replication schedules configured that will be in place on Sunday, March 11 at 2AM when DST kicks in, consider the following scenario: DFS Replication is configured to block replication on Sundays except at 2AM Local Time. File object
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We’ve seen a number of customers ask why their incremental backups are almost as large as their full backup. This can be surprising on a lightly used system where you don’t change or add a lot of files between backups. Seeing files backed up that you
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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
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