Network Share and DFS replication failure
One of our servers running Windows 2K8 R2 suddenly lost it's ability to replicate over DFS, allow users to connect to it's shares, or connect to external network shares that are known to work.Other...
View ArticleDelay in Share access locally on windows 2008 r2
HI All,Have been facing with an issue in which shares hosted on one of my server sometimes take a long time to open in explorer even if tried by IP/hostname/Fqdn..sometimes the lag is for more than...
View ArticleFree disk space requirement Work Folders (6 GB??)
Hi, I'm using Work Folders to sync my data between all my different client (multiple desktops, a laptop and my Surface).According to the documentation I need 6GB of free disk space on a client using...
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event viewer genrates too much events for 4663 id.
Hi There,I have configure files and folder auditing on server2008r2. I have define the auditing for create files / write data, create folder / append data, Delete Sub folders and files.from this i am...
View ArticleDelete all "desktop.ini" files and all empty "_vti_cnf" directories on every...
Hi,I looking to do two thinks below:1) forfiles command in a batch job to delete all desktop.ini files on all PC on my network. (for simplicity, lets just say I only have two PC on my 8 PC...
View Articlethere is not enough space available on the disk (s)to complete this operation
When I try to expand the disk on my windows 2008 server I get this error: there is not enough space available on the disk (s)to complete this operation any suggestion are greatly appreciated Thanks AL
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Hyper-V 2012 Teaming with 4 Network Adapters
Hi,I have Win 2012 Hyper-V installed and connected to the 2 switches as attached diagram.The 2 switches are cisco and portfast is enable to all ports.Is the diagram a good method or I have done...
View Articleusers unable to save on their shared homefolders
Hi I've got users who are having the ff error when saving to their shared home folders "You don't have permission to save on this location contact the administrator to obtain permission" they have been...
View ArticleStorage Spaces mirror with 2 physical disk. Trying to replace disks. FAILED...
Hello,Have Windows 2012 R2 server with storage spaces. Trying to replace two disks in storage spaces pool, but only one disk at a time.There is two physical disks in storage spaces pool (PhysicalDisk1...
View ArticleFile server resource manager. Block file types based on size
I have a site where our users appear to be saving some pretty huge TV quality video files (usually .MOV, and usually over 900MB in size) to our file storage server. The concern I have is that such...
View ArticleRecover offline files from the local cache
hopefully this is the forum for this issue as i couldn't find a clear fit as to where to place it.I have a Windows XP client where the user, being ignorant of such things, was working offline for quite...
View ArticleDFSUTIL State="2"
Hi,Is there any where that states what the state field means when running dfsutil /root?I'm getting a problem on client machines where I right click on a drive mapped to a dfs root and click on the DFS...
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Windows 2008 R2 System Volume Information too large
Hello,My System Volume Information folder on my Win 2008 R2 is over 300GB, total partition size is 3.7 TB. I'm using this partition to store third party backup software files. maybe a 100 files, that...
View ArticleSMB/CIFS share of encrypted windows directory
I have a windows 8.1 pro stand alone computer. It has one directory that is encrypted. This computer shares that directory and others with a linux computer. Just after the windows 8.1 computer reboots,...
View ArticleWMI replicated folder state
wmic /namespace:\\root\microsoftdfs path DfsrReplicatedFolderInfo get replicatedFolderName, StateIf I run that command on a 2008 R2 server the command runs correctly. If I run that command on a 2012 R2...
View ArticleTrying to Unoptimize a Dedup Volume - Progress stays at 0%
For various reasons, I'm trying to rehydrate my dedup volumes on a recently deployed File Server 2012 R2. There's 5 volumes with dedup turned on - savings ranging from 28% to 49%, and the sizes range...
View ArticleStorage Server 2012 best practices? Newbie to larger storage systems.
I have many years managing and planning smaller Windows server environments, however, my non-profit has recently purchased two StoreEasy 1630 servers and we would like to set them up using best...
View ArticleSharing a folder for a organizational unit
Dear allI am using windows server 2012 R2 and i have a DC and the DC i create an organizationals groups and i want to share one folder to specific organizational group.i try by cliking in the folder in...
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Get-StorageEnclosure Command concerns
We recently purchase 4 INTEL® JBOD2224S2DP units and 2 Dell Poweredge 520 units with 2 LSI cards (SAS9201-16e) in each server with the intention of using the JBOD units with Windows Storage...
View ArticleFolder Creation Issue Windows 7 on 2012 File Server
We have recently made a Server 2012 R2 file server running on VMware. The disk used to belong to a Server 2008 server, but we have reconnected it to a domain joined 2012 R2 server and shared out the...
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