Re: Windows File Server Best Practices help

I'm preaching to the choir here (this forum) obviously. But MBA's tend to
believe in "book-sense", while the rest of us go with "common sense". I need
something in the form of an official document to back me up on this. A
guideline, whitepaper, best practices outline, something, anything. A
newsgroup thread won't convince this guy. I've searched NIST, NSA, DHS,
about a dozen university web sites, Microsoft, IBM, and so on. Nothing.
That really surprises me. I'm trying about 10 different search phrases with
no luck so far. I have a gut feeling there's got to be something out there
on this.

"Anthony" wrote:

Your manager sounds like he likes to learn from his mistakes. So he likes to
make plenty of them.
Anthony

"Jabez Gan [MVP]" <mingteikg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Maybe asking him to visit this thread?

It is stupid to have files shares and OS on the same volume. What if the
OS fails? If you do a format of the OS partition, it means the shared
files will be gone! OK fine, you have backups. But backup doesn't
necessary have all the latest version of files.

It's a common knowledge for IT pros to have the System OS on one partition
while having the data on another hard disk. Administrator can easily
backup important files. This can save cost and time FYI.

There's tons of other reasons why we should have the data on a different
partition/hard disk, maybe I'll let others to jump into this topic.

Let me know if you need more information.

--
Jabez Gan [MVP]
Microsoft MVP: Windows Server
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"DS" <DS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It seems that everyone I talk to, email, etc agrees that when it comes to
building a file server, it is accepted "best practice" to keep the
operating
system and the shared data (folders/files) on separate volumes or even
physical drives. However, I've been searching the net for documentation
of
some sort to back that up. The reason is that I have a classic
MBA-turned-IT-manager guy arguing that we should just install the O/S and
file shares all on the C: drive and that having separate volumes is a
waste
of time and effort. I know this is silly, but I can't seem to find
anything
"official" to prove him wrong. Can anyone point me to something that
might
help back this up?




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