Windows Server 2012 Highly Compressed: How to Optimize Performance and Security

SMB 3.0 was introduced in Windows Server 2012 and further enhanced in Windows Server 2012 R2 (SMB 3.02) and Windows Server 2016 (SMB 3.1.1). This version introduced technologies that may significantly improve performance and availability of the file server. For more info, see SMB in Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 2012 and What's new in SMB 3.1.1.

Prior to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, the number of credits granted to the client varied dynamically between Smb2CreditsMin and Smb2CreditsMax based on an algorithm that attempted to determine the optimal number of credits to grant based on network latency and credit usage. In Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, the SMB server was changed to unconditionally grant credits upon request up to the configured maximum number of credits. As part of this change, the credit throttling mechanism, which reduces the size of each connection's credit window when the server is under memory pressure, was removed. The kernel's low memory event that triggered throttling is only signaled when the server is so low on memory (

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Printing is still a crucial factor in many business processes. However, due to the elimination of the print server cluster function since Windows Server 2012, printing is missing an important safeguard. ThinPrint closes this gap with its easy-to-implement solution for high-availability printing, which combines server clustering with dynamic resource distribution.

A particular advantage of ThinPrint technology is its broad hardware support. Almost 80% of the thin clients on the market already support ThinPrint. Well-known print server and printer manufacturers have also integrated the ThinPrint client software into their hardware. This allows printers to be addressed as network printers without any additional administration workload and thus allows direct processing of highly compressed ThinPrint print data.

Working with highly compressed columnar indexes is certainly a great start when taking on those BI workloads. But SQL Server 2012 adds another element to the mix to improve performance even more: batch mode processing. Analytical BI queries must often scan extremely large sets of data and perform numerous complex operations, even to produce a small result set. Batch mode processing can operate on many rows at a time-a batch-rather than one row at a time, as is typical with row-mode processing, the type used for most online transactional processing (OLTP) operations.

3) Portability: A volume that is under deduplication control is an atomic unit. You can back up the volume and restore it to another server. You can rip it out of one Windows 2012 server and move it to another. Everything that is required to access your data is located on the drive. All of the deduplication settings are maintained on the volume and will be picked up by the deduplication filter when the volume is mounted. The only thing that is not retained on the volume are the schedule settings that are part of the task-scheduler engine. If you move the volume to a server that is not running the Data Deduplication feature, you will only be able to access the files that have not been deduplicated.

Good news, this same client connector install procedure still works exactly as shown above, even after the recent release of Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 Update: April 2014, KB2919355. This is a good sign! I also didn't notice any client connector updates after upgrading then rebooting my R2 Essentials server. So this is what I'd call smooth sailing, and some measure of confidence that my minor "hack" outlined above has no issues, and "sticks" even after applying a significant update bundle. Yay!

Does anyone know an easy way to compress (without moving) files like PDF and jpeg/png/etc. on Windows Server 2012? Currently one of my clients' file servers is slowly clogging up, and I see a lot of (work-related) PDF files and pictures (mostly between 1 and 3 MB each).

Windows Server has had file compression capability built into the OS for a long time. To enable it, go to the server console and launch File Explorer. Navigate to the folder that contains the content that should be compressed, right-click on the folder, and select the "Advanced" button on the "General" tab. This will pop open the "Advanced Attributes" property sheet for that folder. Enable the check box labeled "Compress contents to save disk space". Windows will now compress all items within that folder hierarchy.

If it's the former, with files that are already in a compressed format, the answer is to buy more storage and depending on how your architecture is setup, integrate it into your existing file server. Is this file server a physical server or virtual? What kind of RAID? If it's a physical server and all available drive bays are in use, I would recommend looking at a NAS solution. There are several that are quite affordable.

Deduplication is great and highly recommend it especially if you already have Server 2012/R2 or other dedupe licensing. However, it doesn't work as wonderfully for PDFs as other files. For the PDFs, we use Nuance PowerPDF since the reduce file size function can select multiple PDFs at once. This is especially helpful if you have bloated PDFs. Acrobat has this functionality as well, but I'm not sure if it can reduce multiple PDFs at once.In one of our PDF repositories we had used old versions of Paperport to scan hundreds of thousands of pages of paper documents for archiving. It was about 130GB or so. We reduced it to less than 30 GB by reducing the size. Obviously, your mileage will vary greatly, depending on how "clean" your PDFs are.

PDF Generator for Windows 11 allows you to create PDF files by printing to this PDF Generator printer. PDF Generator is a worldwide PDF creator that generates high-quality, highly-compressed PDF files without missing characters, strange characters, or junk characters. The software supports such languages as Arabic, Albanian, Armenian, Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Kazakh, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Polskie, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukraine, Wymysorys, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Even a mixed-language document maintains its original look and feel after it is converted to PDF file. The built-in Nice PDF Compressor, our reknowned PDF compression engine, helps reduce the size of the generated PDF file so you get your PDF document of smaller size as compared with other PDF creation software.

SQL Server 2012 introduced an unified BI Semantic Model (BISM) which is based on some of the existing as well as some new technologies. This model is intended to serve as one model for all end user experiences for reporting, analytics, scorecards, dashboards, etc. In this tip, I will talk in detail about the new BISM, how it differs from the earlier Unified Dimensional Model (UDM) and how BISM lays down a foundation for future. if (screen.width > 749) googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('ad-slot-leader'); ); SolutionSQL Server 2005 and 2008 had the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM) for creating OLAP and data mining solutions. SQL Server 2008 R2 introduced the VertiPaq engine for storing data in a highly compressed format in memory at runtime. This technology improved the performance of analysis significantly faster in Excel with PowerPivot. Further, PowerPivot could be deployed to SharePoint for collaboration and to convert personal Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to team/organization BI. SQL Server 2012, has introduced an unified Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM) which is based on some of the existing as well as some new technologies. This model is intended to act as one model for all end user experiences for reporting, analytics, scorecards, dashboards, etc. whether it is personal BI, team BI or organizational BI.

Now with SQL Server 2012, an installation of Analysis Services can be done either in multi-dimensional, tabular or PowerPivot for SharePoint mode. As discussed above each of these deployment modes uses a different engine (Analysis Services engine for multi-dimensional whereas VertiPaq engine for tabular or PowerPivot for SharePoint) and works differently by using different storage structure and memory architecture. Each Analysis deployment mode supports different set of data sources, development/management tools, query language, etc.Check out this table outlining all of the details.FeatureMultidimensional ModelingTabular ModelingPowerPivot for SharePointData SourcesRelational databasesRelational databases, Analysis Services cubes, Reporting Services reports, Azure DataMarket datasets, data feed, Excel files and text filesRelational databases, Analysis Services cubes, Reporting Services reports, Azure DataMarket datasets, data feedExcel files and text fileDevelopment ToolSQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)PowerPivot for ExcelManagement ToolSQL Server ManagementStudio (SSMS)SQL Server ManagementStudio (SSMS)SharePoint CentralAdministrationPowerPivot Configuration ToolApplication Programming InterfaceAMO, AMOMD.NET and PowerShellAMO, AMOMD.NET and PowerShellNo supportReporting and Analysis ToolReport Builder, Report Designer, Excel PivotTableand PerformancePointdashboardReport Builder, Report DesignerExcel PivotTable, PerformancePoint dashboard and Power ViewReport Builder, Report Designer, Excel PivotTable, PerformancePoint dashboard and Power ViewQuery and Expression LanguageDAX - Data Analysis ExpressionMDX - Multi Dimensional ExpressionDMX - Data Mining ExpressionMDX for calculations andOLAP queriesDMX for data-miningqueriesDAX for calculations andqueriesMDX for queriesDAX for calculations and queriesMDX for queriesWrite-back SupportYesNoNoSecurityRole-based permissions in SSAS and cell-level securityRole-based permissions in SSAS and row-level securityFile-level security using SharePoint permissionsData Compression Ratio 3+ times10+ times10+ timesDuring the installation of Analysis Services, on the Setup Role page of the SQL Server Setup, you need to select the SQL Server Feature Installation option for Multi-dimensional and Data Mining or Tabular mode, or PowerPivot For SharePoint option. Once you are done with the installation of Analysis Services, you cannot change the deployment mode of an existing Analysis Services instance (from multi-dimensional to tabular or vice-versa). Though multiple instances of Analysis Services can co-exist on the same server, each running a different deployment mode. 2ff7e9595c