FSRM - Shares & Templates
I have a large number of user home directories which have quotas setup (FSRM).I would like to move some of the directories to another volume, I understand that boththe share and permissions will change...
View ArticleDFSDiag: Unable to retrieve static site association information from the...
We have a DFS namespace that users cannot list the contents of, if they end up using a specific one, of our three DFS Domain Controllers, the other two allow users to list the contents of...
View ArticleBSOD due to access violation in dfsc
Our new (not yet production) file server (W2k12) crashed last night due to an access violation in dfsc.sys. Afaik it happened the first time, but I am not totally sure. I also was unable to find out...
View ArticleHow to identify if a disk is a local or SAN disk.
How do you find out if the disk displayed in My Computer is local or a SAN, NAS or DAS disk.I am working on a script to poplulate our CMDB, I am able to get the disk size, free space etc, but I am not...
View ArticleDFS Replication
Hi,Thanks in advance for any help provided. I've now spent a good chunk of the weekend trying to setup up DFS on 3 Server 2012 file servers. I have went through the setup a lot thinking i have...
View ArticleETA for Workfolders on IPAD and Windows 7?
HiI can't seem to find any information regarding release dates for Workfolder support/APP for Windows 7 and IPAD.Anyone?Thanks in AdvanceFrank RasmussenInvodan IT APS
View ArticleDFSR Read-Only - Problems with Disaster Recovery?
Hi guys,I have (2) 2008 R2 file servers. One is production and one is for DR. First, I have to make sure that the DR server never writes back to production in any situation. The means that if the...
View ArticleExtended RAID Disk Not Showing Extra Capacity in Storage Pool Physical Disks
Hi,I added a RAID 5 Disk (3 * 4TB = 7.28TB usable) from a Dell Poweredge R720 server to my storage pool named "Backups".The Physical disk was nearly full so I extended the RAID disk using Dell Server...
View ArticleNeed to transfer a lot of data over a slow link for DFS, can this be done...
We had DFS-R setup and ended up having a problem that caused it to stop replicating, this is now resolved and replication is working again but there's just over 130GB of data that needs to be sent from...
View ArticleDFS Servers not running in HA mode
I have a DFS server set up as our main namespace. We then replicate from our remote offices to the main office. The main server is a PDC (yeah, I know). For some reason when the main server is not...
View ArticleDFS shares not showing up with \\domain.local, but \\domain.local\share works
I set up a new DFS namespace that shows up as \\domain.local\apps. The files are all located on the C: drive under C:\DFSRoots\apps. I can go to \\domain.local\apps and see all the files, but if I go...
View ArticleRemove One shared replication folder from DFS
I have 2 servers that replicate 6 folders. I want to remove just one of the folders that are in DFS and leave the others replicating and sharing the common name. The folders are user folder/files...
View Articlestorrept report not running on Windows 2003
I am trying to run this FSRM report:storrept reports generate /Report:FilesByFileGroup /nowait /scope:"%SHARE%|%HOME%" /format:"dhtml" /mailto:%eMail% /filegroup:"XXXX Audio Files|XXXX Video Files|XXX...
View ArticleAccess based enumeration not working in DFS
HelloI have DFS server running on server 2008 R2Created namespace server \\server\users and then namespace created under that called test2.enabled access-based enumeration for the namespace server...
View Article[Forum FAQ] Troubleshooting Network File Copy Slowness
1. Introduction The Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol is a network file sharing protocol, and as implemented in Microsoft Windows is known as Microsoft SMB Protocol. The set of message packets that...
View ArticleScheduled Tasks Not working
Hi All,I have an scheduled tasks on windows server 2008 standard, Which were working fine from couple of years.Now we are facing the issue of skipping the tasks without any error in history tab." Next...
View ArticleWhat are basic and dynamic disks?
Basic disks and dynamic disks are two types of hard disk configurations in Windows. Most personal computers are configured as basic disks, which are the simplest to manage. Dynamic disks can make use...
View ArticleNIC Teaming theory questions
Hello!Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming (LBFO) Deployment and Management (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30160) says:"3.4 Interactions between Configurations and Load...
View ArticlePin a folder in SSD Tier?
Can pinning happen at the folder level? Instead of just pinning one file at a time to an SSD tier, would I be able to pin a folder so that any file inside of the folder would inherit the pinning to...
View ArticleMonitor SSD cache utilization
Hello, I would like to know how I can monitor (or at least view with powerhsell) the usage of ssd cache in my storage space.I've created a storage space with 1.7TB of SAS (array controller raid 5) and...
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