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Office 2016 Network Shortcuts Save Issue

This is a quick post to help sysadmins facing save issues with Microsoft Office 2016 – specifically the action of saving to the Documents folder and being redirected to Network Shortcuts instead. This issue may be present in Office 2013 too but it’s not what I have deployed in my environment so cannot say for sure if the same symptoms occur on 2013.

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Windows Server 2012 – File System Resiliency or Data Deduplication?

Windows 8 and Server 2012 come with a new file system (along side NTFS) called ReFS – Resilient File System.

I am in the process of setting up a Server 2012 as a file server for my organisation and came across a bit of a dilemma. Out of the two great features (both of which, by the way, would be awesome on a file server!) offered by Server 2012, I had to choose one.