RAID5 splitted in 2 broken volumes
Hello all,I have a weird problem with a software RAID5 (4 x 1TB SATA) on a Server 2008 R2 Server. AFAIK, the drives are all ok. I'm not managing this box so I'm not a 100% sure what happened (I know...
View ArticleWindows 2008 connected via UNC Session to a isilon
Hello,following "Problem".Isilon is a NAS System which provied NAS Space via SMB or NFS. In our solution the Windows Server 2008 connect the Fileshare via UNC Path witch works good.The Isilon also...
View ArticleRecover purged data on windows server 2012 file system with active deduplication
Hello,I have a very difficult situation, i was using robocopy command to move data between two virtual disk in a windows 2012 file server, but i miss used the command and it purged most of the...
View ArticleDisk1 from SAN always mounted offline even after San Policy is set to Online All
Hello,I am Running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise edition. I am seeing this behavior that first disk from SAN i.e. disk1 on windows is always getting mounted as offline irrespective of SAN...
View ArticleFiles Stuck in DFS Replication Backlog
We have two Windows Server 2012 servers with several different replication groups configured to replicate different folder structures between them. One of these replication groups seems to have a...
View ArticleFile Server Capacity Planning
Hi All,i was assign to replace or upgrade a file server that will be used by 300 users, 24/7, very important documents.Current server specs:Windows 2008 Sp1 Dual Core2 GB RAM2 Disks Raid 0i have few...
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 ArticleNFS : NTFS Rights added : Everyone and domain users
Hi,I got a Windows 2012 R2 with Server for NFS role installed. My user mapping is very simple because I have only one user who has to access my NFS Share from his iSeries. My NFS Share is defined with...
View ArticlePersistent Windows 2008 Mirror Errors : Reactivate required every time I log...
Greetings,I have a software-mirrored volume on a Win2k8r2 server. The status every time I log in says ERRORS. After right clicking the drive and clicking Reactivate, the ERRORS goes away, but only to...
View ArticleCan I add a 2012 R2 server to a 2008 SP1 DFS?
I have a DFS system on a Server 2008Stnd SP1. I am adding a new VM Server 2012 R2 server at my data center. I want to add my 2012 server to the DFS and remove the 2008 server after it syncs. I will add...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 RSS on Nic Teams
Hello,I'm building an SMB3 SAN for Hyper-V machines (just like everyone else on the planet), and i have a question regarding RSS. I'm trying to implement a "converged" network, so that everything is...
View ArticleBest solution for data availability for end users --- reverse redirected...
Roaming profiles and redirected folders do not seem to work for our environment. They often become troublesome and cause much help desk time and resources.Is there a way to have a roaming profile and...
View ArticleRemoving files with long names.
Hello:I've managed a few windows file servers over the past few years ranging from (server 200 to 2012 R2). Some of the groups in the organization that I work for have a fairly complicated...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Tiering Service running forever, killing user performance
I just installed a new Storage Server 2012 R2 OEM box, with a single mirrored storage space using 4x Samsung 840 Pro SSDs and 12x 3TB Toshiba 7200RPM HDDs. I used the wizard to configure this as a...
View ArticleIntermittent Slow Response time on DFS 2012 and AD 2008 R2 SP1
Hi, We recently migrated our AD infra from 2003 to 2008 R2 SP1. In the same line we also migrated our file server (10 days ago) from 2003 to 2012. We implement DFS namespace (Domain based) on the File...
View ArticleIssue overwriting or saving .PDF files on server. File currently in use, but...
Hello all, and thank you for taking the time to possibly assist me.. Since my first day of hire at said company, Primary Domain controller was a Dell Power Edge 5200 server running Windows Server 2008...
View Articlewindows server 2012 standard - slow performance in file sharing
I recently installed two windows server 2012, one is for DC, one is for File Sharing; it works fine in the beginning.Lately, it comes a problem, every once a while it is very slow when opening a file...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 DFS File Deletion Auditing
Hi,I am Using one Windows 2008 R2 DFS Server in my IT infrastructure , I am looking to generate Audit Logs for Deletions of Folder or Files, I prefer to make changes on Server instead GPO to achieve...
View ArticleFSRM Define file types that don't count towards Quota
I'd like the user's home folders to have a 5GB quota, but i don't want their .pst files to count towards that 5GB quota. I haven't found a definitive answer as to whether or not this is possible....
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...
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