Forum FAQ: How to turn off Automount feature for disk.
QuestionWhen AutoMount is turned on, and a new hard disk is detected, AutoMount automatically tries to assign a drive letter and mount the disk. However, you may want to turn off Automount feature in...
View ArticleExcel and PDF Files disappearing in a DFS Replicated folder
Hi everyone,We are currently facing an issue in our environment and we can't figure out why this is happening. We have two scenarios under which files are disappearing in one of the DFS Replicated...
View ArticleStorage Spaces: SSD tier size incorrect when using EnclosureAware option in a...
Hi folks,We're about to deploy Storage Spaces in our test environment, but we encountered an issue while configuring Enclosure Awareness on Storage Pools.When we create a Storage Pool (over 3 JBOD's)...
View ArticleSlow retrieval and saving of files on Server 2012 R2 Fileserver
HI;I recently moved a client from sharing files on a Windows 2003 Server OS installed on a desktop machine to a HP Xeon Quad Core Server with 16GB RAM. I used Hyper V in GUI mode and setup a DC...
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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 ArticleCould it work? DFS-N, DFS-R, Folder redirection, multiple sites
Hi all, I would like to know if this setup will work or not.We have 6 sites in AD, 5 offices and 1 datacentre. They are all connected via an MPLS 50 and 100 Mbps WAN links in a hub and spoke network...
View ArticleFile systems available on Windows Server 2012 R2?
What are the supported file systems in Windows Server 2012 R2? I mean the complete list. I know you can create, read and write on Fat32, NTFS and ReFS. What about non-Microsoft file systems, like EXT4...
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...
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Error attempting to enable ABE (Access Based Enumeration)
Hello,While attempting to enable ABE, I am getting an inconspicuous error:The error is not clearly defined and there are no event logging corresponding to this issue. So I am bit perplexed to...
View ArticleDFSR issues - Backlog reset
Hi,I have some fileservers with a huge amount of data. Both servers are Win2K8 R2. Topoligy is fullmesh. All works fine and pretty fast.On 2 servers I get a backlog for files that do not (longer) exist...
View ArticleOptions for creating a corporate mapped drive across multiple sites
Hi all,I need some help, not long ago i asked my manager if we could revisit our current file server set up and replace with a new and more efficient setup. The proposal was agreed as we also had to do...
View ArticleDPM 2012 Fails to backup files from a deduplicated volume error 208 and 30115
Hi,We have in place here a DPM server, running 2012 SP1 on a Server 2012 box. Physical.Connected to it is an iSCSI set of disks and an HP LTO4 tape drive, that we use for B2D then tape, all of these...
View ArticleSharing folders using Active Federation Service
Currently I have Domain A and B. Domain A contains shared resources, folders, files and home folders. Domain B users will access the resources in Domain A. Trusts had been accomplished. To share a...
View ArticleDFSR Replication issues receiving servers stuck on “awaiting initial...
Hello, I have a DFSR replication group setup and several of the members but not all are stuck on “awaiting initial replication” and have been for months. On investigation it seems that the receiving...
View ArticleCan't find the all disks in storage pool
HelloI have Windows server 2012 R2 installed in KVM. I would like to create storage pool on 2 virtual disks. I use whole new two virtio type disk. I could see that there's two attached disks.virtio...
View ArticleEmail notification
hi, i have fsrm on a windows server 2012. i would like to configure email notification so that i can receive emails from the fsrm. i use Office 365 as our email server. however, i noticed that fsrm...
View Articlec;\$Extend\$RmMetadata\Txflog\$Tops file too large
I have a file on my windows Server 2008 R2 in my OS partition, which has grown to 2.3 GB I am dealing with disk space issues because of that (and a few other large files that I can delete). Does anyone...
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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Server 2012 iSCSI initiator connects but there is no volume in Server Manager
I have a NAS box with 2008 storage server and Starwind iSCSI and I have a target on that box, no authentication. Target size is 8.1Tb. I can connect to it with the iSCSI initiator on my Server 2012 box...
View ArticleDFS issue
Hello, In my network, I have Windows Server 2012 R2 deployed to all my servers. On two of my servers I installed DFS Namespaces and DFS Replication server roles. I have a DFS Root created and have...
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