Access denied trying to capture MPIO config
I am using 3PAR storage with MS DSM/MPIO and I cannot capture configuration on any of my servers (WS2K8 and WS2K8 R2), I get access denied. A pop up with "Failed to pobe MPIO storage configuration,...
View ArticleDetermine Shares on servers..
Hi,our customer would know, where on windows servers ( Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 & Server 2012 R2 ) are shares and who has permission on it .. it´s possible to determine it ? via...
View ArticleDFS replication Cause missing huge amount of files on server 2012, how to...
I have two files servers with the name File-1 and File-bak in one domain. I installed DFS Replication role on both servers and created a replication group for collection. File-1 is the source server,...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 Folder Redirection on Windows 8.1 Not Working
I am running Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controllers on 2008 R2 Functional Level. Only our IT Dept is running Windows 8.1, everyone else on 7 Enterprise SP1 edition.I cannot get Folder Redirection to work...
View ArticleDFS replication is OK, but it is changing the times on files
I have two 2008R2 servers that use DFS to replicate data over a wireless link (150MB/s).They seem to replicate really well, except that some of the files seem to have different times, that are off...
View ArticleFolder not visible
I have a windows 2008 r2 server that I am using as a file server. It has every user's home directory on it. I have one folder that I can not see. If I try to copy over the folder, I get the folder...
View ArticleiSCSI target server role on only one node of a cluster - can't add targets
I have a Windows 2012 eight node cluster. One of the nodes has 20TB of direct-attached storage (not my idea). All the rest have only local system drives and use a dedicated shared storage array (a...
View ArticleDetermining Best Permissions for Windows Server Files
Hello, Currently our server has no permissions, and everyone can access all files. I want to set the files so that only three employees can see them. I saw a pre-made group called "Everyone" and...
View ArticleShared Folder Access Issue
We have multiple sites in Active Directory and multiple AD controllers in each site. We have two file servers, one in each site. We are having access issues with one user who is using computers in...
View ArticleExcluding a Folder From DFS Replication
I would like to exclude a folder from DFS Replication. The folder's name contains spaces. Can I type the folder name with the spaces in the Subfolder filter box? Thanks.
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...
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Storage Pool - Can't remove disk and Virtual Disk is in degraded.
I've tried everything to fix this but I can't seem to find a way. The disks are included below. The problem is Physicaldisk0 is failing and it will not remove from the Storage Pool. If I unplug the...
View ArticleRecover corrupted .bkf file by SysTools BKF Repair.
Hi All,My .bkf file corrupted due to power failure, and now i bought SysTools BKF Repair to retrieve the data from .bkf files. Theare are a few catalogs, say Catalog 1 and Catalog 2, in the corrupted...
View ArticleServer 2012 - Dedup Disk Maintenance
Hi,When looking at the three maintenance tasks (schedtasks) that are employed to maintain the dedup volumes, is there an order by which they should run? For example, should garbage collection always...
View ArticleHow to move a virtual disk's physical allocation within a Storage Pool
I have a pool of 3x500GB where one the physical drives is having intermittent issues. Currently, there is only one parity Virtual Disk of 300GB Fixed across 3 columns. I want to replace the bad drive...
View ArticleDedup showing 0% savings
Hi Everyone,I enabled dedup on a backup drives used for SQL server backups and left it a couple of days. When I check the folder properties it has the following proeprties:Size: 418GBSize on Disk :...
View ArticleHow do I tell if we have DFS on our network
Hi, I have inherited a network and have heard rumors that we have DFS installed somewhere on it. I am having difficulty finding any server where this is installed. Does anyone know of a good and quick...
View ArticleAD Sites / DFS issues
We've set up AD Sites and DFS in our 2003/2008 mixed environment and the results seem incredibly sporadic. SiteA has two subnets: 192.168.1.0/24 172.22.0.0/22 SiteB has one subnet: 172.23.0.0/22 The...
View ArticleIndexing Services 2003 Compatibility Question
Hello,Is Indexing Services 2003 compatible with Windows Server 2012 R2? (We have a legacy application that uses it still.)If so, how do you configure Indexing Services 2003 in Windows Server 2012?Also...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2, running restore-dfsrpreservedfiles, getting path,...
Trying to recover some deleted files that are located in the DFSRPrivate folder as Conflicted files due to an erroneous change made on the primary server in the replication group. I am getting the...
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