The Network Windows Based File Server

Happy New Year to everybody out there, all of us should have a fresh start and renewed optimism on all the things that we do. That is for God, family, country, work, for others and for us.  As we reflect on the things that did on the year that was 2011, may do our best to improve on them so that it may benefit more people this New Year 2012. It must go beyond the monetize value of the most things that we have.

Personally for me and this blog, I would really like to grow more and produce articles that could really help other in the realm of computer and technology. Especially with new gadgets coming these year, a lot of none technical people are going to use them. This people would need information about the apps that comes with these new gadgets. Articles that contain helpful information about these things would be in demand. 

Okay enough about that, again to everybody on this planet may you have Safe, healthy and Prosperous New Year.

If your company wants a far more efficient file serving experience, a windows storage server might be the smart way to look. The product family gives advanced storage options to small business and big companies alike. It also includes technologies like file reduplication, block I/O storage, and i SCSI software targets for unified files.

A network file server is a computer attached to a network that has the primary purpose of providing a location for shared disk access, i.e. shared storage of computer files that can be accessed by the workstations that are attached to the computer network. The term server highlights the role of the machine in the client–server scheme, where the clients are the workstations using the storage. A file server is not intended to perform computational tasks, and does not run programs on behalf of its clients. It is designed primarily to enable the storage and retrieval of data while the computation is carried out by the workstations.

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Windows storage server also delivers simplified management and deployment of dual node storage clusters and individual appliances. There are also additional software components and specialized hardware offered by partners of Microsoft in order to create appliances, making it much more versatile. With that in mind, it’s not hard to understand why it’s such a reliable, scalable, and value effective answer for businesses looking for more effective ways to access data.

Companies that are currently faced with challenges about how data in files are moved, accessed, and managed are advised to consider windows storage server. It provides probably the most economical and reliable solutions to those issues. Files and servers are usually distributed widely across entire organizations. However, with storage server’s file services your company can access the files they need when they need them.

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By utilizing windows storage server in this way, your company should be able to increase the efficiency of their storage management requirements. No matter what the location or the platform is, either, as data will be much easier to handle and more quickly accessible.

Are you aware that you can use windows storage server to keep data that isn’t wanted taken care of? Additionally, it includes management tools that have been greatly improved in order to look after and protect data you want in. The various tools in server services may also aid in reducing administrative overhead and centralize management while at the same time providing crucial info on file infrastructures.

By having these insights into your file infrastructures which are spread out across location or platform or both, you’ll be able to produce on the compliance and availability requirements of file services. These benefits, along with the distributed access to your file services that the storage server provides allow it to be worth the investment.

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Organizations are able to maintain operations according to their abilities to have their productivity at profitable levels. Handling the growth through economical strategies is critical to increased business volume and expansion. The file services of windows storage server can help your company to grow its departmental information technology services while supporting an ever growing user base.

Other benefits you’ll see from windows storage server include convenient and centralized management for all file services and distributed use of those servers. When it comes to centralized management, you’ll be able to block data and allow the data you want to be cared for properly. Distributed access enables you to manage data no matter what the location or platform.

Computer 101: File format converter for Microsoft Office 2003.

By these days most of use is using MS Office 2007 version in our workplace but in our home we might still be using the old reliable MS Office 2003 version. Now if we create a document in MS Office 2003 in our home and later when we got into our workplace we open the document in MS Office 2007 there should be now problem at all. But if save it using the MS Office 2007 template or formatting styles then when we got home we try to open it again using the old MS Office 2003, we would assume that it will be open again in no time. But when we double click the document to open it in the MS Office 2003 version it would not open anymore. The reason for this is that the document styles and formatting information between these two Office suites is completely different. Since the MS Office 2007 version has more feature that the older Ms Office 2003.

How do we solve this kind of problem? How can one open a document created in MS Office 2007 when using a MS Office 2003 version? Well there two solution for this problem. The first is get a new MS Office 2007 version and upgrade the old MS Office 2003, which would cost more. Or use the second solution of installing a File format converter on your old MS Office 2003, to help it easily open document created in the MS Office 2007. I think every body would choose the second option since it not cost any penny to do and it is very to install it on your computer. But first we must download the Fileformatconveretre.exe from the internet so that we can have it installed in our computer. The file format converter add-on is very easy to locate in the internet and is very easy to download. The file size of the utility is just 37 MB. To download a copy of the converter just go to the Microsoft website or in the internet type the name of the utility in your search engine and it will display link on how to find and download the utility.

Once we have downloaded it, we can now begin to install it on our computer. Just double click the icon to begin the installation process. Read and follow the instruction for the installation. After successfully installing the utility, we can now test whether the file format converter works. Look for a document created in the MS Office 2007. What to look for a document created and save in MS Office 2007 version? Well first the icon for the Ms Office 2007 version is different from the old version. Also the document extension is slightly different from the old, whereas the old document extension for MS Word 2003 is filename.doc while the new extension for the MS Office 2007 is filename.docx yup there is an X added at the last part of the file-name extension. So look for that file type and double click to launch it in Ms Office 2003. We can verify that the file format converter utility is working if a dialog box will appear saying file format converting and then the document has been able to open successfully in the MS Office 2003 version.

I mean we can read the file content correctly instead of different characters being displayed on the content of the document to which we cannot seems to understand. By installing the utility on the old Ms Office 2003, we gave it the capability to open document created in the MS Office 207 version.

Computer 101: Self File Back-Up

On my post we blog about how important it is to save your file as often as possible, especially when you are working on it. Now i'll blog about how you can create a back-up for all your files and documents.You may ask, But i do not have the technical knowledge or know-how to do this stuff. Well this is understandable, because using something deeper on your computer is very scary and unsafe for a regular user. Also the first step is the hardest part of it. If you make that first step on this task then the rest of the next journey will become easier for you to do. Now to get you started, first of all having a back-up files is very very important, because if somethings happens to your original files, then you the resources to fall back. Also the back-up files must be regularly updated, so it pays to back-up as often as possible.

First things first we need to to some checklist on what your going to need to do your back-up files. A list of the things that you need to and have is displayed below.

1. Organize you files and documents. Like MS word files located on one folder, spreadsheet files                    on the next folder, Picture or image on the next and other stuff on the same categories should be group together. Then place them under one main folder and put a name on it like MY FILES.
2. After organizing your files you need to check the available medium you going to use to back-up you files like CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R or DVD-RW or even better a large size USB Flash drive which small enough to keep safe on under lock and key on you volt or safety cabinet.
3. The method which you are going to do the back-up task. There are several method to this stuff. The most common way is to copy and paste the folder from your computer to your back-up drive or location. Another is used a third party software to back-up your files or just use the windows tools for backup. Its already there in your computer and its free, very simple to use, you can also practice using on a test files before you do it on your precious files and documents.
4. And the last after creating your back-up make sure to verify that you have indeed created a sets of back-up off all your files.

Wow that a lot of technical stuff to do and to understands,. How on earth em i going to do all this stuff. Wait hold it. I'll try to guide you one-by-one on all this stuff. We will not tackle all of them at the same time. Remember my goal for this blog is to make the technical stuff easier for the ordinary folks out there to help them understand even if they do not have the technical background to start with. We just started on this and i will explain it all step by step and provide pictures to make it really simple and easy to on my next post.