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RSS file hard diskAbout Microsoft Office Document Imaging
White Paper With Microsoft Office Document Imaging, one can scan paper documents and convert them to digital images that the user can save in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) or Microsoft Document Imaging Format (MDI) to the computer's hard disk, network... [16 Apr 2008]
Organize Your Computer Files in Five Steps
White Paper Even so, a computer's hard disk drive can get just as cluttered as one's desktop. Fortunately, the following steps will help the user file the documents more logically and find them more easily. What happened to the paperless office? [16 Apr 2008]
Save a File
White Paper When the user saves a file, he or she can save it to a folder on the hard disk drive, a network location, disk, DVD, CD, the desktop, flash drive, or another storage location. The user should save the file frequently while he or she is working on... [11 Apr 2008]
Deploying and Supporting Enterprise Search: Using SharePoint Server 2007 to Help Employees Locate Information and People at Microsoft
White Paper Fast searching builds off the Indexing Service of Office 2003 to create database catalogs of the Office files that are available on a computer's hard disk, in projects, and in SharePoint Web folders. Microsoft built the Indexing Service feature... [28 Mar 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Using Melio Cluster File System With Virtual Server 2005 R2 to Enable Virtual Machine Migration and Availability (Level 300)
White Paper Using Sanbolic software and SAN storage, all Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) files and XML configuration files for Virtual Server 2005 R2 instances can reside on shared block storage and be available to multiple physical host servers. [14 Jan 2008]
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server: Memory Dump File Concepts and Processes
White Paper The debugger writes the contents of virtual memory to a file on the hard disk. A memory dump file is a copy of the contents of the virtual memory for a particular process. A debugger can create a memory dump file. [25 Jul 2007]
Single Instance Storage in Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2: A Solution for Managing Duplicate Files
White Paper This feature helps organizations reduce storage needs for file servers by identifying duplicate files within hard disk volumes and providing an efficient mechanism for consolidating them. This white paper describes the basic architecture of the... [04 May 2007]
Encrypted Watermarks and Linux Laptop Security
White Paper The most common way to implement full-disk encryption (as opposed to encrypted file systems) in the GNU/Linux operating system is using the encrypted loop device, known as CryptoLoop. The authors demonstrate clear weaknesses in the current CBC... [04 Apr 2007]
TechNet Webcast: Working With the VHD File Format in Virtual Server 2005 (Level 300)
White Paper Microsoft has set the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) file format as the standard for running and managing virtual machines using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. The VHD file format provides for a range of disk types, including dynamically expanding, linked... [31 Mar 2007]
Move an Outlook Data File From One Computer to Another
White Paper If a person recently bought a new computer, or perhaps he decided to do some major cleaning and reinstall all of the software on a new or reformatted hard disk, he will need to reinstall Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. [18 Feb 2007]
Fragmentation
White Paper The computer files are stored on a disk, and it is similar to a file cabinet. The disk is broken up into sectors and clusters which are then controlled through the Master File Table (MFT). File fragmentation causes problems with accessing data... [22 Jan 2007]
Why Disk-Based Backup Is Better Than Tape-Based Backup
White Paper When it comes time to reclaim a lost file, folder, or even perform a complete disaster recovery, disk-based Backup for Workgroups will give the user super-fast and stress-free file restoration. Backup for Workgroups is a true disk-based backup... [22 Jan 2007]
Count on It: Automatic Defragmentation Boosts Reliability and Stability
White Paper Disk fragmentation occurs when a file cannot be written in one contiguous space. Having all program and data files stored in contiguous form on the hard drive is key to keeping systems stable and performing at peak efficiency. [22 Jan 2007]
Disk Defragmentation - Background
White Paper A file of that size or smaller needs just one cluster. But a file that is 4,097 bytes in size requires two clusters (leaving most of the second one empty). A 50MB file uses more than 12,200 clusters. In an ideal world, all of a file's clusters... [22 Jan 2007]
Using iSCSI Volumes for Boot Services in a Blade Server Environment
White Paper With limited local hard disk capacity (and frequently no storage ports), most blade servers must employ file services on the network. One of the major challenges in a blade server environment is storage. [28 Nov 2006]
