DFS stopped working, again...
Hi all,Nothing, to my knowledge, has changed since we fixed the last problem. No passwords, computer names or IP's have been changed. I've tried restarting the machine and the DNS services, flushed the...
View ArticleShared Folders Session Super Slow, even Freezing, Server 2012R2
Hello, I am using a "Windows Server 2012R2" and I am using it as a scale out file server. When I navigate into the "Computer management / System Tools / Shared Folders / Sessions" the listings are...
View ArticleRecycleBin is empty yet drive still shows storage in use
On a Windows 2008 R2 EE server, I have a G drive, and it had an Exchange 2010 database on it. I removed the DB from Exchange, and I proceeded to remove the DB and other files from the G drive.I...
View ArticleDFS ACL Inheritance issue
We have an interesting problem for the forums. We have implemented Distributed File Services for managing our shares.SecurityGroupA has similar ACL assignments to FolderA and FolderB.SecurityGroupB...
View ArticleCannot pickup Disks\Luns in Device Manager
Hi,We've recently re-installed to Windows Server 2008 R2, and wanted to assign Storage to our server.HBA we're using is a Qlogic which came with SANSurfer, however upon assigning the luns. The luns are...
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Work folders not working
Hi everyone. I am trying to configure work folders on W2012 R2.I completed server configuration (as described in all procedures) and I have no error in server logs.Port 443 is in use by "windows sync...
View ArticleNetwork drives have significant delay if not accessed for > 1 hour
I’m moving our file server from Netware to Windows Server 2012. I’ve setup a test share. While Netware never gave us any delays in accessing the drive, our test group immediately started complaining...
View ArticleServer 2012: Converting Basic To Dynamic Disk With Deduplication Activated
Hello everybody,we would like to convert our basic disk, which has two primary partitions, to a dynamic disk for management reasons. The secondary partition has deduplication turned on. Are there any...
View ArticleCan't access shared folders on win 2012 R2 with Android phone
Hello, this is my first post here so I don't know if I choose the right category......But anyway, my problem is like thisI‘ve got a win 2012 r2 server(192.168.1.10), installed with essential...
View Articlegetting dfsdiag warnings, need help
When I issue the following command: Dfsdiag /testdfsintegrity /dfsroot:\\domain.com\users /recurse /full I get warnings like: Checking the registry of the namespace servers... Success: Registry...
View ArticleHow to migrate File server to NAS device?
All right so here's the scenario.An external forest level trust is setup between two forests A & B as recently as we acquired the company B.Users from forest B were already migrated to domain A.Now...
View ArticleSome folder is empty when enabled access-based enumeration + Deduplication
Hi Everyone, Background: Recently we migrated the file server to win2012 r2. We have enabled dedupication and enabled access-based enumeration. The data stored in D drive vm, so we just connected the...
View Articlemore then 26 partition drives
sir.we are using server 2003 SP2 and we are already using 26 drives (Partition ) but now we want create more drives (Partition ) in the same server . Please tell me what is best for us. we are...
View ArticleHow to reduce virtual memory
Hi,I am using server 2008 R2 enterprise edition on IBM System X 3650 M4 server. There are 6 Ncomputing L300 thin clients connected to server. we have installed 3 SAS hard disks of 300 GB. RAID 5...
View ArticleThere was a problem finding your work folders server
Hi All,am try to sync work folders in my lab env. where i have 1 DC windows server 2012r2 std (along with work folder role installed) and 2 windows 8.1 enterprise edition client (1 with domain joined...
View ArticleAdding file server resource manager on a running file server
Hi, ive recently taken over the responsibility for our fileservers. The server is running server 2008r2 and is set up with discquota limiting users to 1GB. All fine so far. However, this server is used...
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 ArticleServer 2012 R2 Migration FRS to DFS
Are any of the migration documents still valid for server 2012?
View Articleexpanding disks
I have a RAID 5 array on a Perc 6/i with 2 1.8TB volumes, I want to extend/expand Disk 0 onto Disk 1 so that I end up with one 3.6TB disk. how do I do this?Stacey P. Shoemaker
View ArticleIssue with Deduplicated files and Mac OSX 10.9.2
Running a Windows 2012 R2 DFS with Deduplication enabled on the storage drives. Both Macs and PCs regularly interact with the system with no issues.However with Apple's rollout of 10.9.2 SMB2 'fix'...
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