Microsoft Official Course

Module 9

Optimizing File Services

Module Overview

Overview of FSRM
Using FSRM to Manage Quotas, File Screens, and
Storage Reports
Implementing Classification and File Management
Tasks
Overview of DFS
Configuring DFS Namespaces
Configuring and Troubleshooting DFS Replication
Lesson 1: Overview of FSRM

Understanding Capacity Management Challenges

What Is FSRM?
Understanding Capacity Management Challenges

Capacity management challenges include:

Determining existing storage use
Establishing and enforcing storage use with policies
Anticipating future requirements

Address capacity management challenges by:

Analyzing how storage is used
Defining storage resource management policies
Implementing policies to manage storage growth
Implementing a system for reporting and monitoring
What Is FSRM?

FSRM enables the following functionality:

Storage quota management
File screening management
Storage reports management
Classification management
File management tasks
Lesson 2: Using FSRM to Manage Quotas, File
Screens, and Storage Reports
What Is Quota Management?
What Are Quota Templates?
Monitoring Quota Usage
What Is File Screening Management?
What Are File Groups?
What Are a File Screen Templates and File Screen
Exceptions?
What Are Storage Reports?
What Is a Report Task?
What Is Quota Management?

Use quota management to limit disk space usage

and provide notifications when thresholds are
reached

Quota notifications can do any of the following:

Send email notifications
Log an event in Event Viewer
Run a command or script
Generate storage reports
What Are Quota Templates?

A quota template defines:

A space limit
The type of quota (hard or soft)
A set of notifications to be generated when the quota
limit is approached

FSRM provides a set of default quota templates in

the Quota Templates node
Monitoring Quota Usage

In File Server Resource Manager you can monitor quota

usage by:
Viewing quota information in the FSRM console
Generating a quota usage report
Creating soft quotas
Using the Get-FSRMQuota Windows PowerShell cmdlet
What Is File Screening Management?

File screen management provides a method for

controlling the types of files that can be saved on
file servers

File screen management consists of:

Creating file screens
Defining file screen templates
Creating file screen exceptions
Creating file groups
What Are File Groups?

File groups are used to define a namespace for a

file screen, file screen exception, or storage report

A file group consists of a set of file name patterns

that are grouped into:
Files to include
Files to exclude
What Are a File Screen Templates and File
Screen Exceptions?

File screen templates:

Provide a definition for newly created file screens
Enable control over file screens created from templates

File screen exceptions enable you to override file

screens for a specific location or file group
What Are Storage Reports?

Storage reports provide information about file

usage on a file server

Types of storage reports include:

Duplicate Files
File Screening Audit
Files by File Group, Owner, or Property
Folders by Property
Large Files
Least- and most- recently accessed files
Quota Usage
What Is a Report Task?

You can schedule reports by creating a Report Task,

which specifies:
The volumes and folders to report on
Which reports to generate
Which parameters to use
How often to generate the reports
Which file formats to save the reports in
Lesson 3: Implementing Classification and File
Management Tasks

What Is File Classification?

What Are Classification Rules?
Demonstration: Configuring File Classification
What Are File Management Tasks?
What Is File Classification?

Classification management allows you to use an automated

mechanism to create and assign classification properties to
files

Classification Rule

Payroll.rpt

IsConfidential
 What Are Classification Rules?

The file classification infrastructure scans files

automatically, and then classifies them according to
the contents of a file

When planning for file classification implementation,

do the following:
Identify classifications
Determine classification method
Determine schedule
Perform review
What Are File Management Tasks?

File Management Tasks enable administrators to

perform operations on files based on assigned
Classification Properties

File Management Tasks can:

Move files to other locations
Archive expired files
Delete unwanted files
Rename files
Lab A: Configuring Quotas and File Screening
Using File Server Resource Manager

Exercise 1: Configuring File Server Resource

Manager Quotas
Exercise 2: Configuring File Screening and Storage
Reports

Logon Information
Virtual machines: 20411D-LON-DC1, 20411D-LON-SVR1
User name: Adatum\Administrator
Password: Pa$$w0rd

Estimated Time: 30 minutes

Lab Scenario

A. Datum Corporation is a global engineering and

manufacturing company with a head office based
in London, England. An IT office and data center in
London support the London location and other
locations. A. Datum has recently deployed a
Windows Server 2012 server and client
infrastructure.

Each network client within the Adatum domain is

provided with a server-based home folder that is
used for storing personal documents or files that
are works-in-progress. It has come to your
Lab Scenario

attention that home folders are becoming quite

large, and may contain file types such as MP3 files
that are not approved under corporate policy. You
decide to implement FSRM quotas and file
screening to help address this issue.
Lesson 4: Overview of DFS

What Is DFS?
What Is a DFS Namespace?
What Is DFS Replication?
How DFS Namespace and DFS Replication Works
What Is Data Deduplication?
DFS Scenarios
What Is DFS?

DFS incorporates technologies that provide fault-

tolerant access to geographically dispersed files

DFS technologies include:

DFS namespace
DFS Replication
What Is a DFS Namespace?

A DFS namespace can be configured as either a:

Domain-based namespace
Namespace is stored in AD DS
Increased redundancy for namespace hosting

Standalone namespace
Namespace is stored on the local server
Only redundant if stored on a failover cluster
What Is DFS Replication?

Characteristics of DFS Replication include:

Uses RDC
Uses a staging folder to stage a file before sending or
receiving it
Detects changes on the volume by monitoring the USN
journal
Uses a vector version exchange protocol
Recovers from failure
 How DFS Namespace and DFS Replication Works
User in New York Server in New York

2
1
\\Contoso.com\Marketing

DFS
1 \\NYC-SRV-01\ProjectDocs Replication
Folder
Targets
\\LON-SRV-01\ProjectDocs

2 Namespace

User in London Server in London

1. User types: \\contoso.com\marketing

Client computers contact a namespace server, and receive a referral
2. Client computers cache the referral, and then contact the first
server in the referral
What Is Data Deduplication?

Data deduplication optimizes volume storage by

redirecting redenundant data to a single storage
point

Data deduplication provides:

Capacity optimization
Scale and performance
Reliability data integrity
Bandwidth efficiency
Simple optimization management
DFS Scenarios

Scenario Example
Branch Office Hub Site

Sharing files across

branch offices

Branch Office Hub Site

Data collection

Branch Office 1
Hub Office

Data distribution
Branch Office 2
Lesson 5: Configuring DFS Namespaces

Deploying Namespaces to Publish Content

Permissions Required to Create and Manage a
Namespace
Optimizing a Namespace
Deploying Namespaces to Publish Content

To configure a namespace for publishing content:

1. Create a namespace
2. Create a folder in the namespace
3. Add folder targets
4. Set the ordering method for targets in referrals

Optional tasks:
Set target priority to override referral ordering
Enable client failback
Replicate folder contents using DFS Replication
Delegate namespace administration
Permissions Required to Create and Manage a
Namespace

Task Default group

Create a domain-based
Domain Admins
namespace
Add a namespace server to
Domain Admins
a domain-based namespace
Manage a domain-based Local Administrators on
namespace each namespace server
Create a standalone Local Administrators group
namespace on the namespace server
Manage a standalone Local Administrators group
namespace on the namespace server
Create a replication group
or enable DFS replication on Domain Admins
a folder
Optimizing a Namespace

Methods for optimizing a namespace include:

Renaming or moving a folder
Disabling referrals to a folder
Specifying referral cache duration
Configuring namespace polling
Lesson 6: Configuring and Troubleshooting DFS
Replication

New Features For Windows Server 2012 R2

Replication Groups and Replicated Folders
Initial Replication Process
Troubleshooting DFS
New Features For Windows Server 2012 R2

New or updated functionality in Windows

Server 2012 R2:
Windows PowerShell module for DFS
Database cloning for initial synchronization
Database corruption recovery
Cross-file RDC disable
File staging tuning
Preserved file restoration
Unexpected shutdown database recovery improvements
Membership disabling improvements
Replication Groups and Replicated Folders

Replication Group:
A set of servers that participate in replicating one or
more replicated folders
Replicated Folder
A folder that is kept replicated on each server
Replication Group
Connection
Projects\Spec.doc
Member

Proposals\Budget.xls

Projects Projects
Replicated
Folders
Proposals Proposals
Initial Replication Process

The initial replication process consists of:

1. Replication of DFS Replication settings
2. Primary member starts replication
3. Files are moved to DfsrPrivate\PreExisting
4. Files are compared and replicated
5. Primary member designation is removed

New Windows PowerShell cmdlets allow the replication

database to be cloned and seeded on new DFS members
to reduce the impact of initial synchronization on the
network.
File staging tuning allows you to control what minimum
size of files will be staged before replication to optimize
replication
Troubleshooting DFS

Tool Used to

Report replication statistics

Health Report and general health of the
topology
Generate a test file to verify
Propagation Test
replication
Report on the propagation
Propagation Report test and provide replication
statistics
Report on the current status
Verify Topology of the members of the
topology
Monitor replication state of
Dfsrdiag.exe
the DFS Replication service
Lab B: Implementing Distributed File System

Exercise 1: Installing the DFS Role Service

Exercise 2: Configuring a DFS Namespace
Exercise 3: Configuring DFS Replication

Logon Information
Virtual machines: 20411D-LON-DC1, 20411D-LON-SVR1,
20411D-LON-SVR4
User name: Adatum\Administrator
Password: Pa$$w0rd

Estimated Time: 45 minutes

Lab Scenario

A. Datum Corporation has deployed a new branch

office. This office has a single server. To support
the requirements of a branch staff, you must
configure DFS. To avoid performing backups
remotely, a departmental file share in the branch
office will be replicated back to the head office for
centralized backup, and branch data files will be
replicated to the branch server to provide quicker
access.
Module Review and Takeaways

Review Question(s)
Best Practice
Common Issues and Troubleshooting Tips