File disappears soon after its creation
Hi Friends,i have one shared folder which i recently created & given the required permission to users on it.its works fine for me & users as well & they used to store there files in it.but...
View ArticleCannot write to DFS Share at Branch Site
Hi All,I have a problem that is really making me pull my hair out.We have a 2012 Essentials server at our head office and a 2008R2 server at our branch office connected via a secure tunnel. Both are...
View ArticleDFSR Error that the server does not have Adequate free space. But it does.
Hi, I have a 3 memeber DFS replication group on Windows 2008 R2 servers. On one of members replication stopped and the Health diagnostics report states that there is not enough disk space on the drive...
View ArticleDFSR failed to contact domain controller
Im having an odd problem with DFSR group we created to replicate web content between two of our web servers.In event viewer we have this event 1202 for DFSR."The DFS Replication service failed to...
View Article2012R2 Storage Spaces - Enclosure redundancy
Hi,We are currently testing redundancy with Storage Space and have ran into a big problem..Here is a description of our setup (I'll try to be as precise as possible):Two HP DL360 Gen8 servers with 2x10...
View ArticleWindows server 2012 UAC Folder problem
Hi.There was anoying feature (some call it bug) when Windows 2008 R2 UAC blocks folder acces if You are member of local Administrators group and NTFS ACL is allowing only Adminitrators and other users...
View ArticleTiered Storage with SSD, 15k and 7.2k drives all together?
Just wondering how tiered storage in Server 2012 R2 would handle a mix of 15k and 7.2k HDDs with SSDs in regards to performance. Ideally, I'd love there to be a way to essentially have three tiers, but...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Join domain
I received a Windows 2012 Standard server from a vendor that was partially configured. When I fired it up, I set the IP, mask, gateway, etc. I can ping from the console of the server and see my DC,...
View ArticleWhat happens if you exclude a folder from DFS replication? How would users...
We have an "apps" folder that we want to replicate across 4 sites. This way if the user logs in, the login script will map a Z: drive to \\domain.com\dfs\applications.However our Marketing department...
View ArticleFile locked by system
Hi,We are running a few server 2008 r2 64bit standard servers as file shares. Recently we have been having a number of users coming to us with locked files. When we look at the file it is not showing...
View ArticleVolume Shadow Copy Service Terminates Unexpectedly when using Backup Exec and...
Hello We have a virtual server, running Windows Server 2003 R2, that refuses to get its system state and shadow copy components backed up.This is due to the Volume Shadow Copy service terminating...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 - Access Conditions
Domain functional level: 2008 R2 File Server: Server 2012 R2 Trying from a Win7 and Win8 client. Both are in the "Arizona Computers" security group. I shutdown the 2008 DC and have a 2012 R2 DC online...
View ArticleDFS replication 2008R2
Hi,I've got a server replicating from a site over a 1mbps line.The source server hasn't been replicating for 2 weeks due to large video files. after removing the files, I can see from dfsrdiag.exe...
View ArticleEXTERNAL HARD DISK WRITE PROTECT
I have EXTERNAL HARD DISK "WD ELEMENT SE 500 GB"the disk is write protect, its not showing in my computer, only showing disk managmentunallocated when i try to format showing disk write protectplease...
View ArticleQuestion about adding an Extra Node to SOFS cluster
Hi, I have a fully functioning SOFS cluster, with two nodes, it uses SAN FC storage, Not SAS JBODS. its running about 100VM's in production at the moment.Both my nodes currently sit on one blade...
View ArticleWindows 2012 storage server and tier with external SSD disks
HiMy query is in case I have one SAN storage with SSD and FC disks connected to Windows 2012 storage server, will Windows be able to manage Tier between two types of disks if the volumes are properly...
View ArticleDFS-R Folder replication with Autodesk Autocad & Inventor Files
We have to replicate a share that contains Autocad and Inventor files on different servers. We have some problem using DFS-R. This is the scenario:-Three servers on different location. -VPN between...
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iSCSI target weirdness
Hello!If I hadn't experienced the issue I'm going to talk about I would have hardly believed it may ever happen...I'm starting setting up a test cluster (all hosts = WinServer 2012 R2): Host3 = iSCSI...
View ArticleDedupe question
Does dedupe work on a virtual file server's data drive that is a vhd file within a cluster shared volume?
View ArticleiSCSI virtual disks left behind by vss provider?
Hello all,I have a Windows Server 2012 Failover cluster running a number of virtual machines. Storage for the cluster is provided by a Windows Storage Server 2012 instance and mapped to the nodes via...
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