Excel 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 ArticleDNS settings with multiple DCs
We have multiple domain controllers with DNS and DHCP. They are in the same subnet. What is Microsoft's recommended approach to setting the name resolution on the network card?DC1 is 10.0.0.10...
View ArticleMove DFS to New Server with same name but upgrade from Windows 2008 to...
I have a server that I am replacing with new hardware and upgrading it from 2008 to Windows Server 2012 R2. It was the Root of my Domain stored DFS Namespace. I am using a hub/spoke configuration. I...
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 ArticleWindows 2008 Alignment of Drivers less than 4GB
Guys, why does Windows 2008/2008R2 align drives that are less than 4Gb to 65536 and all drives larger than 4GB to the 1MB boundary (1048576)? It's not uncommon on virtual machines to present small...
View ArticleDFS preseed with cloned HyperV VM
Hi All,Just a quick question in regards to starting up DFS replication. We need to setup a secondary file server at a remote site with DFS replication. As this site is on quite a slow link is it...
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 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 ArticleDeleted Files , By Netwok Sharing Driver
Hi! Everyone ,I use Windows server data center edition as a domain server ,i share a drive like ( D:\Share File ) for domain users , he work there and i permitted Delete and new create any file and...
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Windows client unable to calculate the map drive size (storage size 920 TB)
Guys, In my environment I am using NAS storage box which is having 920 TB space.If I mapped the share as Z: drive on Windows 7 or Windows 2008 client and if I open the property, it is not showing “Free...
View ArticleDFSR error on reparsing point DFSRPrivate
I've got a problem with replicating DFS. We've recreated a replica for two folders.Today i get an error The DFS Replication service encountered an unsupported reparse point in a replicated folder. This...
View ArticleAuditing
Hi allI am using Netgear Ready NAS 314 in my office and I file are stored in NAS. I want to configure file auditing. Is it possible to configure auditing in nas.
View Articlesubnet config and switch layout for windows 2012 ISCSI server
I would like to ask about subnet design and switch layout in regards to using a Windows 2012 ISCSI solution. When you guys design subnets for ISCSI configurations do you use one subnet or multiple...
View Articlereplacing a failed disk in storage space ! unable to remove a retired disk
Hi Folks Not really asking for much !! we are using windows 2012 R2 storage space ; one disk failed and marked as retired. today we received replacement disk ; added that to storage pool - fine....
View ArticleMapping to subdirectory
We just migrated from Netware to Windows. We created a NEW Windows 2008R2 server and moved the data over. We created all of the security by hand. All of our drive maps are working except one type....
View ArticleFSRM quota not showing correct usage
The quota management of FSRM doesn't show the correct quota details for drive C:It's used just to monitor the diskspace so no quotas have been enabled.Quota details shows limit 50 GB and and Available...
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2012 R2 Data Deduplication - Unoptimize single directory - part 2
This is a continuation of a similar post from Shaun TPG. I am attempting to un-dedup files that I recently added to my "excluded" parameters in my Dedup job settings (.pst's). I excluded both "pst"...
View ArticleFile Server slow to respond
I had an issue with my file server locking up or being slow to load for users. I had to reboot that server, but obviously that's something I would like to avoid for the future. We had an issue where I...
View Article2012 Servers in a cluster - created SMB and NFS shares with same name, both...
Hello,I am testing out 2012 Server Standard 64 bit. I have (2) servers running 2012, created cluster, adding role of file share, created SMB share using Add a file share in cluster, then SMB Share-...
View ArticleH Drive Files / Traveling Users / DFS Issue
Hello. We are looking for a new/better solution to setup profiles and H drives within our environment. We have over 120 sites (most are only 3-5 person locations) and is all within 1 domain. Every site...
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