Strange Defrag error 0x80070057
Hello everyone,I am observing a strange issue with defrag on Windows Server 2012 R2. There is a hardware RAID volume using deduplication in VDI mode and containing some virtual machines. Deduplication...
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iSCSI drives regularly disconnect
Hello allI have the following lab setup:1 WS2012R2 DC4 WS2012R2 (Core) nodes (20GB OS disk) with each 4x 50GB storage.2 WS2012R2 (GUI) fileservers (60GB OS disk) with no additional local storage.The...
View ArticleEvent ID 55 - Corrupt File System - In Server 2012 too?
I'm wondering if anyone had experience with Event ID 55's in Server 2003 or 2008 and, if you found that in going to Server 2012 you no longer got those?
View ArticleNetwork Share Error
I have a network share \\server\deploymentshareRecently we started getting this error: refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer or on a network. Check to...
View ArticleDeduplication combined with differencing disks for better or not ?
We have a test hyper-V for various VMs. It is naturally easier for us to start from Parent disk which is sys prepped and move on. On the other hand, deduplication(2012 R2) claims to be most...
View ArticleDFS issues - High availability and File replication issues.
I've been having some issues with our DFS setups with both file replication with Roaming Profiles and with Folder Redirection. Also it appears that though I have 2 servers setup for replication (DC1...
View ArticleWindows XP and Server 2012 R2
I have a new 2012 R2 Domain Controller and Exchange 2013 server running on Server 2012 R2. I have a few Windows XP clients that for some reason as of Monday cannot browse or access the file shares on...
View ArticleWindows 2003 Web Sharing Share On list blank
As the title states, when trying to create a share from the Web Sharing tab on a folder, the Internet Information Services Share On: drop down box is blank. IIS is running, there are sites running...
View ArticleNTFS permissions report
Hi, I am from Spain, excuse my bad EnglishI have a file server with 85 share folders. this folders contain very subfoldersI want to generate a NTFS permissions report for all folders and subfolders...
View ArticleNics for a Hyper-V cluster
Hello!http://alexappleton.net/post/44748523400/step-by-step-configuration-of-2-node-hyper-v-cluster-inEach server has a total of 8 NIC’s and they will be used for the following:1 – Dedicated for...
View ArticleOracle 10g RAC running on Windows 2003 64bit SP2 , problem with Shared NTFS...
We have a 3 pairs Oracle 10g RAC running on Window 2003 64bit SP2 and we have assigned a SAN NTFS LUN as the G:\drive to each pair of nodes. My issue is I can see and use the g:\drive lun for...
View ArticleDFS-R Top level NTFS Permissions
Hi,As part of my setup, I'm trying to implement a new DFS-R share between 2x Windows 2003 R2 and 1x 2008 R2 serversI've been experimenting with the DFS-R, and I've found that if I try to change the...
View ArticleExternal Hard Drives (and some flash drives) Not Recognized by Server2003
I recently purchased a new computer (Dell T100 server) and old Server2003 disk (OEM disk on eBay). Installed Server2003 and added File Server role only. My data is located on a Western Digital Passport...
View ArticleWin 7 Client cannot access Win 2012 encrypted share even if...
I enable either Global-level or Share-level encryption on Win 2012 and try to access the encrypted share from a Non-SMB3 client (Win 7). As we know, "RejectUnencryptedAccess"by default is TRUE in Win...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 wouldn't response SMB Negotiate Protocol Request
HelloI've got an windows 2012 r2 as a file server, it worked fine with windows client but not with lunix-based clientI first discovered this problem on an Android...
View ArticlePhantom retired disk also listed as available - with same friendly name
I recently had to mark a good disk as "Retired" in an attempt to get it ejected from a Storage Pool so that I could repair some Storage Pool issues on my server. The strange thing is that now this disk...
View ArticleDFS and ntfs permissions
On my 2008r2 server (server2) I have the following shares:DFS Namespace share - Data, Local Path - C:\DFSRoots\DataSMB Shared Folder - Data$, Local Path - D:\DataFor the DFS Namespace...
View ArticleOffline Files & DFS Loopback Targets
Hi,Problem:Is a DFS target that evaluates to a local folder not a candidate for an offline files partnership, even if specified to be one via group policy?Scenario:There is a DFS namespace setup...
View ArticleStorport.sys BSOD on Windows Server 2012 R2
I recently purchased a Server that houses 45 4TB drives to use as my backup to disk solution. I installed Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard so that I could take advantage of Microsoft's Storage Spaces. I...
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