Server 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...
View ArticleRemove-PhysicalDisk : A perameter cannot be found that matches perameter name...
I have a faulty harddrive on my Windows server 2012 R2 storage pool. So the it is retired, as it should be. The virtual disks that are not in a three way mirror are detached. As the storage space on...
View ArticleFile name too long cannot copy (cont'd)
5/22/2014This is an addendum to locked forum File name too long cannot copy. Just want to share what worked for me.On a file server running Windows Server 2008 R2, I ran into this issue for only two...
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 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 ArticleFull share+ntfs permissions but access denied!!
Hi All I have a shared folder that I need domain users to have access to I have blocked inheritance and given full read and NTFS permissions for the domain users group. I have checked the effective...
View ArticleNFS Sharing Tab is not found..NFS sharing provisioning fails with...
Hi All, Operating System: Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1H/w: VMware virtual machine vmx 09Installed: File server role with "Services for network file system"Server for NFS and Client for NFS...
View ArticleMigrating 2003 Clusters for 2008 R2 (DFS and SAN considerations)
Hi, I have several 2003 fail over file clusters, as well as 2003 R2 clusters which I want to move to 2008 R2 fail over clusters for file services.I have around 5TBs of data, the 2003 file data is all...
View ArticleCorrectly pause DFS replication
IS there a correct way to pause replication in DFS? We need to turn off main server for a couple of days and work on replica server. Will DFSR work correctly after turning on main server?
View ArticleStorage Spaces - Removing drive with "Lost Connection"
I have a storage space in server 2012 R2 (migrated from Win8) that is in an unhealthy state. It's a parity space on a pool that has two dedicated journal drives. The journal drives are no longer in our...
View ArticleRemove a physical disk from a storage pool | School project
hello,I have a school project to connect a SAN with Windows server 2012R2 thru ISCSI, a client of school wants to have a solution on using 12x3TB disks in a SAN for his online backup. And because an...
View ArticleDFS files Avaliable offline
HiI have 2 server running win server 2008 64bit, and i configured DFS.I Know dfs is to give users access adn continue working with their files if one of boths server crash or is down.What i need to...
View ArticleWierd Volume Shadow Copy Service errors
Hi,We have a problem, please help.OS: Windows 2008 R2 64-bit with Hyper-Vvssadmin list writersshows:Error: A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error.Check the Application...
View ArticleNumeric Folders in "Home" folder
I have redirected folders that sit under a shared folder called "home". The question I have is why are random folders being created with numeric values, for example; "99811968" ?By the way this only...
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 ArticleView Password hash in Active Directory
Hi allI am the administrator and i want to view the password hashes of the users in Active Directory. Please tell me how i can view the password hashes of the users. Where are the password hashes of...
View ArticleSysvol not replicating GPO's to DC's
Hey everyone. Having an odd issue that just happened out of the blue and I'm not sure why. Suddenly my two domain controllers have stopped syncing GPO's to one another is sysvol. In event viewer I...
View ArticleServer for NFS
Hi,I need to install the role: Server for NFS on my Exchange 2013 server. (The netbackup software needs it in order to backup and restore single mailbox.)The Operating System is Windows 2012.I...
View ArticleSpecial Permissions for AD User Group on Share Subfolders
Using Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1 Given \\Share\, with subfolders 1, 2, 3, I would like to allow an AD User Group Modify permission for subfolders and files to 1, 2, 3 yet preclude Delete of same host...
View ArticleDFS Permissions inherited from "Parent Object"
Hi guys.I have a standalone DFS server that is pointed to by a domain-based DFS server. This is done to allow different parts of the organization to manage their own DFS structures while combining...
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