Can't shrink a volume with lot's of empty space
HiI have D: drive that is 200G and about half of it is empty space. I shrinked it to this size from 300G size but cannot shrink it anymore. It has something to do with some unmovable files. I have...
View ArticleRecovering deleted partitions in Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core
I was expanding one of my drive (Drive A) partitions to use space available on another drive (Drive B) and then I wanted to delete the extension so I clicked on the second drive (Drive B) and deleted...
View ArticleWS2012 Server for NFS issues
I've been using a NFS share on my WS2012 box to server up media to my Plex server and Boxee box. When it works, it generally works well, but I've found that any time the server is rebooted, the NFS...
View ArticleRobocopy not copying ACLs
Take following directory:D:\Directory\Sub\D: has explicit permissions and are passed to sub directories.D:\Directory\ has inherited and explicit permissions.D:\Directory\Sub\ only has inherited...
View ArticleDeduplication and DFSR
Hi,I have a couple of storage areas which use DFSR to provide resilience between two file servers. I would like to increase the available space by using deduplication in Windows 2012 R2. I have a...
View ArticleSearch by date, exclude by folder name
We have a client that was recently affected by the CryptoLocker malware. We are restoring folder by folder rather than a blanket restore since some files that were not affected may be overwritten by...
View ArticleTier Storage with SAS drives
Is it possible to have hot storage on HDD? I have a HP disk storage shelf with 25 900GB 6G SAS 10K rpm in a raid 10 configuration. This provides about 10TB of file storage data for users home directory...
View ArticleShare Folder Access Problem
Hi,We are facing the issue with NAS storage access. We have a NAS storage which have got some shared folders. Users access the folders from their PC's. We are facing the issue that when we try to...
View ArticleCannot extend virtual disk
HelloI had a storage pool with 3 HDD, the column size is 3.I have added to more disk to the storage pool.I have 1 Parity vdisk using all the space. How to i extend this vdisk to use all the space of...
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Local drive displays space incorrectly on server 2012?
I have a machine running server 2012 Standard. I have it set up with 2 partitions:Drive C: (50 GB)Drive E: (50 GB)Drive E: is the one in question. When I view the properties for this drive it tells me...
View ArticleUnable to encrypt files in shared folders on Windows 2008 R2 server
I setup folder redirection to a Windows 2008 R2 server. The folders are redirected properly, and the users have appropriate share and security permissions to the folders. However, they receive the...
View ArticleWindows Server 2003 log files for crashes and shutdowns
Hi All,I have a 2003 32 bit server and it had a shutdown yesterday. First thing I noticed is that teamviewer connection is not opening ( and it was 10 minutes before ), and then when I connected...
View ArticleWidows Search not working with Data Deduplication?
Hi,I noticed that many files were missing when searching for them on my Server 2012 Fileserver.After some troubleshooting I noticed that the ones missing, had a Size on Disk of 4KB and the "SparseFile"...
View ArticleDFS Replication group Creation
I am domain user for a Domain and a member of adminitrator group of 2 DFS Server, I am not able to create DFS replication group getting error " The replication group cannot be created, there are...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 Server cannot UNC to IP Address OR Hostname but it can ping
I have a server that is running Server 2008 R2 that is causing me a lot of problems. I can UNC to the server from another server fine. But I cannot UNC from the problematic server to other servers. I...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 unable to access local DFS Namespaces \\localserver\share
Our primary DFS server is unable to access DFS shares on itself. \\localserver\share. All clients (Windows 7) and all other servers can access the namespaces on\\localserver\share and the affected...
View ArticleIOmeter doesn't see Storage Spaces vdisks
I've created vdisks (Storage Spaces- one simple and one parity) in Server 2012R2 and they show up in Server Manager, but IOmeter (2006.07.27) doesn't show them- only the physical disks show up....
View ArticleWhat is the affect of restarting the DFS Namespace Service? (Will users be...
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View ArticleSFTP in Windows 2008 R2
Is SFTP included in Windows 2008 R2? (without using 3rd party applications). Not the FTPS either. My web searches so far didn't give positive answer.Thanks in advance for your inputs
View ArticleChanging Boot Partition via Windows
Hello, I am have a back-up server running Windows Server 2008 R2. This server has 8 partitions, 7 that are exactly the same than the others servers and one that will look for the servers and if one of...
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