DFS Issues on a paticular volume on a individual server
We have 4 servers, we wanted to setup DFS between our two file shares and ran into problems, in order to troubleshoot this i ended up making sure DFS was working on the other servers, it does, DFS...
View ArticleExtending C drive on virtual server
Hello forum, Please can someone advise if extending C drive in this scenario will require reboot?Server = Windows 2008 R2Pagefile = system managedPlatform = VMwareI will be extending the drive on C...
View ArticleIs a 'reboot' needed after register modification in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1?
HiWe are trying to modify following parameters, Is a reboot needed to take the modicifation effect...
View ArticleRicoh Aficio MP C2051 Scan to Folder - Windows Server 2012 Error:...
I have recently upgraded a clients servers to Windows Server 2012 & since doing so have lost the ability to scan to folder.Both servers are domain controllers and previously on a 2008 domain...
View ArticleSBS 2011 VSS writers load slowly causing the backups to timeout
Hey,All the VSS writers are listed stable with no errors. Windows server backup works fine, it is just a 3rd party cloud backup that is failing and that company seems to think there is nothing they can...
View ArticleNetwork file scanning tool
Hi Team, we have a requirement to scan whole computers in our network for malicious software. is there any tool which i can use to scan computers remotely for particular software or files?im willing to...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 File Server Stops Responding to SMB Connections
Hi There,Massive shot in the dark here but I am struggling with a pretty major issue atm. We have a production file server that is hosted on the following:Dell MD 3220i -> iSCSI -> Server 2008...
View ArticleWin2012 R2 Intel i350-T2 RSS enabled but SMB3 RSS false
I am trying to figure out why RSS is not enabled for SMB3 on a Windows 2012 R2 server with Intel i350-T2 nic cards using Intel drivers 12.11.97.0. Ethernet 4 is connected to a 1GB switch, the card is...
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Unable to rename new folders created within a specific folder
We have a windows 2008 R2 server. on the F drive, there is a specific folder that is shared out. when we create new folders within this folder, whether it be from a remote pc or on the server itself,...
View ArticleIs it safe to delete CiFiles folder on Windows storage Server 2008
Hi Team, .ci file growing in "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Projects\SystemIndex\Indexer\CiFiles" location. Is it safe to delete the...
View ArticleHow to Map DFS folders to users?
Hello All,I am looking into how to implement DFS on a Windows 2012 R2 server and very new to this. Currently we use just a basic File Server on 2008 R2 and have GPO Drive Mapping to control access...
View ArticleFilename reverts to older name all by itself
We have a Windows 2008 R2 server, being used as a file server only.To my knowledge, it is properly patched, etc., as a virtual server, via our Server support group. We have a drive mapping to an area...
View ArticleShare Access Expiration
Can share, server administrator access, or NTFS permissions that are granted to a computer or resource be time based so that access is denied after a defined date or removed using any server or product...
View ArticleUpdated FSRM Quotas not reflecting on Client's computer
Dear all,we have a FSRM services in place and currently i would like to increase the quota usage of a particular user from 500mb to 10GB, however once i have made the changes on the FSRM . It is not...
View Articletar gzip backup command on windows
Dear alli would like to backup from 2 drives using command line on windows.i heard about gzip and tardoest anyone could help me to show how it works?Example1.bat tar -cv --file=backup.tar d:/data*...
View ArticleBad wan link
heywe have a branch office behind a really bad wan linkthe connection could be offline for more than a hourso i placed a domain controller on that site and made it a dfs replicawhen the connection is...
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 ArticleSearch running in background, can I set time to run?
OS: Windows Server 2012 R2 DatacenterOver the weekend I installed Windows Search Service.This morning SearchProtocolHost.exe is running in background during a heavy user usage period. Is there a way to...
View ArticleError generating report job with the task name 'FSRM_Report_Task
Since this morning we have been having a problem with FSRM on Windows Server 2008 R2, it is no longer running storage reports (both scheduled and on-demand).We get the following in the event logs: Log...
View ArticleDiskpart Disk Free Column
Hello, I'm writing to ask a question about Free column shown as output of list disks inside diskpart command.I get this output:Disk###, Status, Size, Free Disk 44 Reserved 125 GB 0 B Disk...
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