How often to defrag when using an image-based backup application
I have a couple of servers that are reaching around 30% fragmentation but they are being backed up by ShadowProtect and taking incremental backups every hour. I know that best practices according to...
View Articleftp custom membership provider dll is never invoked
Hi! I've implemented custom membership provider dll for ftp. It was working perfectly fine on windows server 2012R2 but it's never invoked on Windows Server 2008. I've run out of ideas why. I'm afraid...
View ArticleDeduplication error: there was a problem retrieving data deduplication schedule
Hi,After changing dedup schedule once we are receiving this error and not able to change it any more. there was a problem retrieving data deduplication schedule
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 slow read speed on network drive
I recently upgraded my server to server 2012 r2 from windows 7 and have been experiencing an issue that I can't seem to solve. I have a shared network drive on the server that I use to copy files...
View ArticleDFS-r Seeming to Select Incorrect Primary Member
Hello,So I'm having a strange issue here. I'm trying to set up a replication group between two sites (Denver and LA) with little success. I've tried setting up a test replication group between these...
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 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 ArticleWindows 2000 Server issue corrupting excel documents
We have a new problem with a old server and excel documents, If you open a excel document on the server and try and save it, it says that the document is already in use and only lets you save it as a...
View ArticleVolumes disappeared from DFS replication
Hi all,Recently I set up DFS replication on Windows 2012 Std Server. Few days ago I tried to connect the 3rd server to this replication and found out that all volumes except C:\ drive are disappeared...
View ArticleDFS 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 ArticleNon-Admin users can't change DFS server
Hi,When I logon to our Windows Server 2008 R2 AD domain via a XP workstation with my domain and workstation admin rights, I can manually change the target DFS server on my mapped drives. When I logon...
View ArticleRoaming profiles on Linux shares
Hi,Help me please to understand rights assignment to non-Windows shares in Windows domain.Let me explain the situation.1. We want to deploy Roaming profiles with Folder redirection.2. We bought two...
View ArticleDFS - Cannot Create Namespace - RPC Server Is Unavailable windows 2008R2
Hi guys, I am back again with another questionI am trying to create a domain based namespace, enabled Windows 2008 mode and get the following error...\\Miracle-Adventure.com\dfs. The namespace cannot...
View ArticleDeleting offline folder cache
Hello All,I need expert advice on the following; We need to delete the offline folder cache on the windows 7 clients for over a 100+ users in our environment.Let me describe the scenario -- All the...
View ArticleConnecting to Virtual Disk Service
Hello Community,I have a problem with my Virtual Disk Service. If i start Diskmanagment you can only see:Connecting to virtual Disk Service" To use diskpart is also not possible :(No errorlogs to...
View ArticleNamespaces in DFS are not in redundancy system
Hello,here is my scenario. I have 3 servers all connected to a namespace in a DFS environment.Folder1 is replicated on each of these servers.My shortcut is pointing to the namespace share.If I shutdown...
View ArticleFiles and/or folders not showing when drive accessed via UNC path (or mapped...
We have some users who are mobile and domain authentication across site-to-site VPN is not always successful. For this reason, I give UNC paths to for a shortcut or "Network Location" and otherwise...
View ArticleExcludedBinaryPaths not working in 2008 R2 SP1?
Our system state backup using wbadmin currently includes all volumes. One volume contains mostly data but a few applications are installed on it as well. The applications are non-critical for our BMR...
View ArticleNetwork Shared files occasionally say they are locked by another program
Hello,On a Server 2012 Essentials with Windows 7 clients, files on network shares occasionally report that they are locked by another program.This usually happens when a user closes a file and tries to...
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