Hello everyone!
I am renaming the windows 2012 server which has AD,IIS7 and MS SQL server 2012. There are several shared folders which user access over the network. How can I change the UNC path //oldserver/user1 to //newserver/user1 over a script .I dont want to delete the folder and create anew one as there are close to 1000 shared folders. Please help me through this ?
We have a large ReFS partition on a Server 2012 R2 machine that we came close to running out of space on. It sits on an LSI Raid-6 volume (which we have several dozen in production, never have issues with them). We decided to increase the size and extend the volume.
We expanded the Raid volume, and after it completed the additional space showed up in Administrative Tools\Computer Management\Disk Management. We extended the volume, and the space expanded successfully. And this is where it gets weird.... When we go to Windows Explorer the new total space / free space values do not show up. Nor do they show up in DiskPart.
We need to properly extend this volume, and with approximately 27 TB of data on the volume it's not feasible to move it somewhere else. What can we do to have the new space configuration show up properly? Please see below for an image of
what I'm seeing. Thanks! Rick
Hello,
I am trying to add a new hdd to a existing storagepool, with has 5 hdd. I am getting the following error
Add-PhysicalDisk : One or more physical disks are not supported by this operation.
Extended information:
One or more physical disks encountered an error during addition to the storage pool.
Physical Disks:
{18c4b219-b782-202a-26a3-9973b34d9f1b}: The request is not supported.
Activity ID: {89d903a2-b35a-440c-ac95-8c40554e289c}
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-PhysicalDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName "Pool01" -PhysicalDisks (Ge ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (StorageWMI:ROOT/Microsoft/..._StorageCmdlets) [Add-PhysicalDisk], CimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 51000,Add-PhysicalDisk
I want to known how I can find more about the causes of the error.
Thanks
Nick
I've been working with Diskspd and VMfleet for a while now trying different workloads in environments with reasonable success but I've not been able to configure a stress test with Diskspd to use the -X parameter. Has anyone had success setting up the XML
file for configuring workloads of different types to run simultaneously? I could use a configuration example if anyone has one that they've got to work.
T.J.
Hi all,
We got 3 windows server provide files service, two 2008 and one 2008 R2, in workgroup. Most user using Windows 10/7.
Just handling a inquiry from users that they cannot move / delete folders immediately on 2008 R2 with reason "thumbs.db being accessed by Windows Explorer". I understand thumbs.db should be created by client side, and its Windows Explorer lock the thumbs.db.
I check out for a while, it can be avoid by "Always show icons, never thumbnails." to disable thumbnails. However, it is not a option to fit us, as thumbnails quite useful in routine tasks, which handling a lot graphic files.
After further check out, users only report this thumbs.db issue when using shared folder on 2008 R2, but not 2008s. I look into 2008 servers, thumbs.db files also created by user.
I wonder if there are difference between 2008 and 2008R2 shared folder when handling thumbs.db? or any configuration can be deal with this issue?
Thanks
I am currently doing a performance test on our server for classifying office files. We are trying to use FSRM for the job but so far, we are not very impressed and infact disappointed.
We setup 2 systems for this purpose and created 2 lac sample files (1 MB appx each) summing up to 200 GB data.
Windows 2012 R2 i3 3.30 GHz (2 core 4 logical processor) with 16 GB RAM. We have applied upto 7 Regular Expressions. It's taking us 24 hours to do the job.
The same task took us 11.5 hours on a Windows 2012 R2 Standard i7 3.40 GHz system with 32 GB RAM (4 core 8 logical processor)
At this rate, to classify a realistic 1 TB data, it will take 57 to 60 hours or 120 hours on the slower system. Optimistically, it's taking 4.6 seconds to classify 1MB file or 0.216 MB/sec
I have seen an article which mentioned FSRM speeds.
'Approxiamately 40 files are classified per second when the content classifier is used to classify office 2007 documents that are under 1 MB'.
The article also said that it depends on the number of regexs run against the data.
This will take forever to classify our office files if we are to depend on FSRM.
Has anyone tried it on your systesms? What are the speeds you got? Is it this slow? Is there anyway to improve our performance? Does FSRM classification depend on RAM, number of cores, number of files or it's content?
Hi,
I have some servers running 2012 R2 with active Work Folders feature. They will be replaced by 2016 machines. Is there some howto regarding the migration of Work Folders feature?
The sync shares are created with file access only for the users itself. Work folders URL is distributed by GPO to the clients and setup is enforced. Clients are Windows 10 1709 and 1803.
Before Windows 10 1803 the clients had all the data and changing the sync share was easy. Clients were just resynchronizing their files to the new, empty share. Now with the new features, most files stay on the sync share server and only a few files are offline available.
So how do I handle this?
Thanks, Ingo
We have Redirected Folders configured on DFS shares with Primary Computers assigned to each user. Many of these users use RDP sessions into other servers to do some of their work and for some reason offline files are synchronizing on those servers as well as their assigned primary computers. Any idea what could cause this?
Hi All
I am trying to figure out a way to deal with shortcuts pointed to a smb share when migrating to a namespace. My org has run shared folders on a netapp for a long time, we are finally migrating to DFS with a namespace. Everything has gone pretty well with one exception. We still have some shortcuts that run printer mapping scripts on startup. Every computer has one :/ all 400. In the past I would have just used a dns alias for the old file server to the new file server and change the old servers name. This would give me two benefits, if anyone mapped to the old server they would still work and any scripts and whatnot pointed there would still work. I cant do that with a namespace due to the additional directory layer i.e. \\server\share vs \\domain name\namespace\share. Any ideas on how to update that shortcut on 400 PCs? Or redirect requests to the old servername to the new namespace?
Hi there,
Is it possible to do a direct migration between a Windows 2000 DFS environment in one domain (Domain A), which presently holds ALL DFS configuration and also hosts the NAS-connected data, to a Windows 2012 R2 environment (Domain B) on a different domain, with a two way trust established.
Are there are schema differences, DFS version setup or other gotcha which needs special consideration?
Additionally, at present users from Domain B can access the Win2000 DFS namespace via the trust and a set of security groups replicated via Quest Migrator between Domain A to Domain B. If after the DFS migration Domain A is decommissioned and the shares with the data brought into Domain B, what access permissions issue could potentially be encountered?
This is a new environment for me and still picking up how it's all configured, but would appreciate any thoughts on the above in the meantime.
Regards,
Martin
Hi All,
I've setup a Storage Replica partnership that is working successfully and in Synchronous mode. However I am unsure how to set the destination drive as a failover.
The use case is that we would like the replication drive to failover to the destination drive in case the Replication host fails. Is there a way to do this?
Also when trying to access the replicted destination drive it shows as not accessible "The device is not ready", is this normal?
Thank you
Hi,
I am looking to setup syncing and replication of two drive on two instances of Windows Server 2016 Data center edition hosted on two seperate Amazon EC2's.
I would like to have one drive sync and replicate to another drive on a different EC2 instance as a failover. The second instance would take over in case the first instance fails. I am not sure if Storage Replica can do this.
Thanks for the suggestions
I'm trying to create a new share on a Windows 2012 R2 failover cluster but no matter what I try (Add File Share in Failover Cluster Manager, new share in fsmgmt.msc managing the cluster NetBIOS name and FQDN) I always receive the error "The resources must be online on the same node for this operation".
The setup:
Two Windows 2012 R2 nodes making a failover cluster, using a Dell PowerVault MD3220 shared storage. The File Server role a has dedicated LUN which appears as the S drive on both nodes (though it is only ever online on the active node). The share I'm trying to create is to a folder that exists on the S drive.
The File Server role has the following resources, according to Failover Cluster Manager. All are shown as online.
The weird thing is, the File Server role is already running several shares that were created when the cluster was first built - all on the same S drive. All of the shares are members of a domain DFS (not sure if that's relevant)
The structure on disk is
S:
| - DfsShares
| - Folder1
| - Folder2
| - and so on...
Folder1 is already shared in the cluster, but Folder2 is causing the error (actually, to be accurate, there are 10 folders already shared and two are causing the error)
Any ideas what resources it thinks aren't online - or where to look for more information?
Hi! since the 4th of january I've seen NTFS errors 57 and 137 in the event log of one of our servers.
Saying:
57 - The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur
137 - The default transaction resource manager on volume \\?\Volume{da4147bc-b6e1-11e5-aea0-005056af0080} encountered a non-retryable error and could not start. The data contains the error code.
I've seen other have the issue here in the forums, and I found an article saying this can be ignored.
But does anyone know why they suddenly can appear? Everything was fine until the fourth at 6 PM
The volumes mentioned in the 137 warning, cannot be found on the server.
Why is a volume mentioned that is not on the server? How is the value created for a volume that is not there?
Is there no solution to this?
Freddy
Hi there,
I work with backup & recovery systems on a daily basis & am always seeing disk failures - it comes with the turf, high data turn over means more wear & tear... Now Server 2012 I'm a big fan on & I thought "Why not give Storage Spaces a chance"... At present I'm facing a critical flaw... notifications of disk failures... I can't see any easy out-of-the-box solution in place.
Is there something I'm missing? All I want is email notifications in the event of a disk failure & also some visible notification when I log into the server to say "Hey... dead hard drive, fix your $"
I don't want to have to rely on the Hot Spares & the manual checks to catch something as critical as disk failures.
Kind Regards,
Si
Hi,
When deploying Windows Server 2016 work folders how can we deploy client settings via group policies if the domain controller is Windows Server 2003 R2. It has settings only for Offline Folders.
Regards,
Kanishka,
Ckanishka
Hallo,
Can anyone tell me how the CSC cache is loaded ? What happens when it is full ? Is there a Round Robin strategy for populating the cache (this is, in case of full cache, the oldest files are dropped and replaced by newer) ?
Is it a good strategy to purge the cache at log-off time ?
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