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DFSR deleted 500 GB Data.
Dear All,I am facing one issue with one of my customer. They have 3 servers as FILE Servers.One server they have in HeadOffice Site and another Server in DR Site. Before few days we found that one...
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Hi everyone,Ā I came to an issue whereby two of my WS2012 servers of 2 different sites were not able to access each other admin share, both sites are connected through VPN via WAN link. However the...
View ArticleSearch index limits in Windows Server 2012?
In Windows Server 2008 it was recommended to not index more than one million files. Ā We found that to be a reliable recommendation because we had stability problems when we tried to do more. Ā Has that...
View ArticleFile server migration - Windows 2003 >> Windows 2012 -- Tool?
Hi We have to migrate our file server from a Windows 2003 to Windows 2012 server.Before I have used both Robocopy and File migration tool but now I'm looking for a new tool. Is there any? Can not...
View ArticleConsistent Hard Drive Diagnostic Software
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HiWe recently migrated file server from a Windows 2003 to Windows 2012. We used Secure Copy from Dell (Quest) and it worked pretty well.But, we had some problem with special and advanced rights. It...
View ArticleInaccessible files - What is the "APL" file atributes? Why the error: The...
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View ArticleEvent ID 43, Source iScsiPrt
Greetings,My first post here.I am wracking my brain trying to understand the following issue and could use some help.I have a several Dell M600 Blade with MS2k8R2(x64) SP1 installed.Ā On one of the...
View ArticleFile Server Permissions
We'll be moving to AD soon, and are testing various things currently. Ā Before I go testing this I figured the answer would be pretty easy. Ā We are currently building a file server for testing. Ā In the...
View ArticleError removing physical disk marked as Retired
I have Server 2012 with one storage pool and one virtual disk. The virtual disk uses layout parity and thin provisioning. It contained 4 physical disks. One of the physical disks failed. It was pulled...
View ArticleMirroring a local volume to a iSCSI volume (software RAID 1)
Is it possible to mirror a local (non-system, data-only) Volume to a iSCSI Volume with Server 2008 R1? To add the mirror itself shouldn't be the problem. But after restarting the server, the iSCSI...
View ArticleCan't access a shared folder on Server 2008 R2 Standard
I have been trying to access a shared folder on C drive of a customers server for a week. All was working well until operating system was corrupted and had to reload OS. Now I have reloaded a second...
View ArticleWhere does Windows Server 2008 store archived event logs?
I'm attempting to use the "Archive the log when full; do not overwrite events" option for an Event Log that fills up quickly. Before I tried that option, I had saved the log manually, and discovered...
View ArticleFSRM on Windows Server 2012 MMC crash
HII think I found a bug. On a fresh windows 2012 Server with installed updates and installed FileServer Resource Manager, the MMC crash after click on "Configure...
View ArticleUnable to delete DFS Replication group
I have a site with a failed server and the DFS needs rebuilding. There are 2 replication groups along with the name spaces.I can remove name spaces without issues. However I am unable to remove any...
View ArticleWhy domain user work as domain adminstrator?
In my company domain have one user account work as domain administrator. When i make check for this user, i see this member in just one groupDomain User. I try to make share for any folder and gave...
View ArticleFile Server Resource Manager - Unable to email
Hi,I have a 2012 cluster. On this FSRM is running.When I goto test the email funtionality I get the eventID 12306Error: IFsrmEmailExternal::SendMail, 0x8004531c, The SMTP server requires a secure...
View ArticleMS security patch and smb fileshares
HiĀ I have a strange situation, last night I ordered our IT department to patch our server 2003 standard sever with MS security patches, but I got some strange problems. This morning I detected that 2...
View ArticleShadow Copy Problem in Windows Server 2008 R2
I receive an error from my file server :-VssAdmin: Unable to create a shadow copy: The shadow copy provider timed out while holding writes to the volume being shadow copied. This is probably due to...
View ArticleProblems with MAC clients working with Large Files on Server 2003
My OSX users are having all kinds of issues loading files on our 2003 server. Sometimes when they load the beach ball will just spin and spin, or the document (normally some large adobe file) will load...
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