Sometimes copying and pasting from Windows Explorer just isn't good enough.  It's fine for every-day file handling, but if you have to migrate all the files on a drive, but can't use a program like Ghost to carbon copy the volume, Windows Explorer just won't do.  If you are copying all night and one file has a problem, Windows Explorer will just pop up a dialog and stop copying, leaving you unsure exactly what is done and what isn't.  I had just this issue as I was migrating a server RAID drive from the a MBR formatted drive set to a GUID formatted drive set to get past the 2TB size limit on MBR.  But people everywhere will have exactly the same challenges as they copy a... [Read more...]

  Recently, we created a help forum at DMC to share information between all of our engineers. Our goal was to create a standard place for people to ask questions and leverage our company’s collective experience and knowledge. It was also desirable that this information be stored in a reviewable manner so that questions only have to be answered once. Microsoft SharePoint provided a perfect portal on which to create a forum like this. All we had to do was create a Discussion list configured the way we wanted and it was good to go. The only part that I had trouble with was I wasn’t a big fan of receiving emails anytime there was a question and then having to go to the... [Read more...]