Raid Configuration question
I have a dell 2950 server and i have configured raid 5 on it. It has 6 hdd attached to the server( plugged in) I have configured 1 hdd as hot spare. when i boot the server i can see the msg 1 virtual...
View Articleimplementing DFS between windows server 2008 R2 and windows server 2012 R2
Hi, We have a file server running on windows server 2008 R2. Now we are planning to implement DFS and move all data on the file server to a new windows server 2012 R2.i thought of doing this by adding...
View ArticleDFS root browsable in \\domain\ other DFS roots require FQDN i.e....
Using "contoso" as a substitute for the real name.....I managed to set up a DFS root of the form \\contoso\users that is showing up like any share would in windows explorer when I browse\\contoso\ and...
View ArticleError removing physical disk marked as Retired
I have Server 2012 with one storage pool and one virtual disk. The virtual disk uses layout parity and thin provisioning. It contained 4 physical disks. One of the physical disks failed. It was pulled...
View ArticleDFSR Database Clone Error 0x00002336
Hi. On my second downstream server (where I want the clone imported), I get this error message:Import-DfsrClone : Could not import the database clone. Error code: 0x00002336 At line:1 char:1+...
View ArticleScript for mapping drive
Hi,I have newly implemented the file server in our organization. Created individual folder for each users with 2GB quota to copy their data. I have created the folder in the name of users domain login...
View ArticleMultiple friendly names in storage tiering
Hello everyone,I recently managed to setup the following: 1 raid1 with 2 ssd drives for the hypervisor 1 raid1 with 2 ssd drives for storage tiering 1 raid5 with 4 hdd drives for storage tieringI...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 - Share and storage manager - automatically delete sessions?
Hi All,We have a problem on one of our servers in which users are unable to access network drives when they log on. It comes with with an error message along the lines of you are unable to connect as...
View ArticleMigrate files using robocopy which are not three years old
Hi All,We will soon migrate our Windows Server 2008 R2 File server to Windows Server 2012 R2, no DFS involved and we are migrating three file servers to a single file server, I believe there is no tool...
View ArticleWindows XP client is unstable connects and access data/documentation on file...
Dear ITs Pro,At the moment, i'm encounter the issue that Windows XP clients is unstable connects and access data/documentation on file server 2003 while windows 7 clients still connect normally. So...
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 Random Namespace disappering
We have been fighting now for over a week where DFS namespaces will disapper from our domain controllers. Basically if you go to \\domain.int\share it will only show the users folder on there. This...
View ArticleRicoh Aficio MP C2051 Scan to Folder - Windows Server 2012 Error:...
I have recently upgraded a clients servers to Windows Server 2012 & since doing so have lost the ability to scan to folder.Both servers are domain controllers and previously on a 2008 domain...
View ArticleUsers losing the ability to access mapped drives or browse to file shares
I have Server 2008 with Service Pack 2....32bit. I have about 75 - 100 users that connect to it for file access and print. For some reason during random parts of the day users will lose the ability...
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Disks not avialable and cannot add new disks to existing pools
I have a few disks that are RAW and I want to add them to existing pools. However, only 1 disk shows up as a Primordial disk and the others do not. I cannot add these drives to a new volume and when...
View ArticleVirtual Disk Failure - Lost Physical Disk (Which is actually virtual)
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 I use for one of our large file server. It was built on a VMware VSAN with 3 x 1.75 TB disks pooled together to make a larger 5.25 TB drive for the shares. I couldn't...
View Articlewindows search services not avail in w2008 R2 DC server with file services
I could not find neither windows search service nor indexing services on the server, never mind config indexingI verified file services via server mgr-file services-share and storage mgmt, as well as...
View Article"Windows Explorer stopped working" error while copying data on DFS shared drive
Hi,All users are getting "Windows Explorer stopped working" errro message while copying or deleting any data from DFS share. The issue is only for Windows-7 systems and working fine if accessing from...
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Windows server 2012 Optimize drives empty
I am trying to select the drives I want to schedule for weekly optimization but the drives aren't showing up. Select all doesn't work either.I have to manual run it.
View ArticleSeagate external hard disk RAW file system error
Have you ever got a RAW file system problem with your Seagate external hard disk? In fact, a couple days ago, I encountered this problem and always was asked to format before accessing anything inside....
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