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After 14 years, Windows Server finally gets ReFS boot support

Pradeep Viswanathan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:18:01 +0000

Microsoft has officially introduced boot support for the Resilient File System (ReFS) in the latest Windows Server Insider Preview builds. Read more...

Microsoft improves File System in Windows 11 24H2 but sadly it's not for everyone

Sayan Sen — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 08:06:01 +0000

Alongside a paid study showing a ridiculous Windows 11 performance advantage, Microsoft has also published a real example of improvement in 24H2's file system. Read more...

Besides new Sandbox, Microsoft wants to raise Windows 11 FAT32 limit to 2TB soon

Sayan Sen — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 14:00:01 +0000

Microsoft released the latest Windows 11 Insider build earlier today on the Canary channel. The new build has several new features and improvements including FAT32 and other File System improvements. Read more...

Bootable Windows on ReFS still not ready for prime time due to lack of wider compatibility

Sayan Sen — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:14:02 +0000

Microsoft began adding ReFS Windows bootability support early last year. While some progress was gradually being made over the course of the year, the needle hasn't moved much since around August. Read more...

In-place Windows 11 upgrades on ReFS may no longer fail as Microsoft quietly works on it

Sayan Sen — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 14:32:01 +0000

Microsoft, at the beginning of the year, introduced bootable ReFS to the Windows 11 Canary Insider channel. After some more progress, the company has now started enabling in-place upgrades too. Read more...

Microsoft silently updates Windows 11 ReFS file system version in latest Canary build

Sayan Sen — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:22:01 +0000

Microsoft has quietly updated the ReFS file system to version 3.10 in Windows 11 on the latest Canary build 25324. Alongside that, there is also a new ReFS-based Developer Volume option now. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Canary Channel, dumb AI, and Outlook authenticator

Usama Jawad — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 19:00:01 +0000

Join us in the latest edition of Microsoft Weekly where we recap important news updates from the Microsoft-verse including a new Canary Channel, AI shenanigans, and updates to Microsoft services. Read more...

Microsoft quietly working on ReFS "Dev Drive" VHD volumes in Windows 11

Sayan Sen — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 17:40:01 +0000

Microsoft is adding even more support for ReFS-based features inside Windows 11. The latest leak in Dev channel suggests that the company is working on new "Dev Drive" VHD developer volumes. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Declining revenues, new Windows 11 issues, and Edge updates

Usama Jawad — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 21:58:01 +0000

Our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly unpacks news about Microsoft's declining revenues in consumer categories, some Windows 11 updates, bugs, and fixes, and a bunch of app enhancements. Read more...

It may be time to move on from NTFS as Microsoft is quietly enabling Windows 11 ReFS support

Sayan Sen — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 07:52:01 +0000

Microsoft is beginning to add support for Resilient File System on Windows 11. Introduced back in 2011-12, the support for the next-gen file system has so far been limited to Windows Server only. Read more...

OOB updates for several Windows versions released, fixes VPN connection issues and more

Sayan Sen — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:02:02 +0000

Out-of-band updates for several Windows versions including Windows 11, have been released which are meant to fix problems related to VPN connections, Domain Controllers, Hyper-V, and more. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Windows Server headaches, new builds, and retail enhancements

Usama Jawad — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 18:16:01 +0000

This was quite an interesting week in the world of Microsoft thanks to lots of new Windows builds which brought along multiple improvements and fixes... as well as some headaches for Server admins. Read more...

Latest Patch Tuesday update is causing major problems for Windows Server admins

Usama Jawad — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:54:27 +0000

Although software updates are supposed to fix problems, it appears that the latest Patch Tuesday release is causing major headaches for Windows Server admins due to DC boot loops and Hyper-V issues. Read more...

Microsoft is removing support for ReFS in the Windows 10 Pro Fall Creators Update

Rich Woods — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:30:01 +0000

With the release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update later this year, Microsoft will be removing the ability to create ReFS volumes, to promote the new Windows 10 Pro for Workstations SKU. Read more...

Microsoft's latest OneDrive update broke non-NTFS support on purpose

Rich Woods — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:50:01 +0000

After users began complaining that the latest OneDrive update doesn't work on non-NTFS file systems, Microsoft issued a statement today that said that this was indeed done deliberately. Read more...

The latest OneDrive update for Windows only supports NTFS

Rich Woods — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:16:01 +0000

The latest update for Microsoft's OneDrive sync client for Windows doesn't support any file systems other than NTFS. It's unclear if this is permanent, or if it will be fixed at a later date. Read more...

Windows 8's file system, ReFS, detailed in new blog post

John Callaham — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:55:24 +0000

Microsoft has offered up more information about how the new file system designed for Windows 8, known as ReFS, will be handled in a new post on the official Windows 8 blog site. Read more...

Windows 8 file system gets upgraded, named ReFS

Mike Brown — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:45:21 +0000

The Protogon file system discovered in earlier builds of Windows 8 has been pulled. In its place is ReFS, a rejigging of the earlier Protogon system that can be accessed from the disk format utility. Read more...