Enabling continuous availability
I setup a new file server cluster with 2012 and ran the migration wizard to move everything from my 2008 R2 cluster to this new 2012.Everything seems to be working fine except I cannot enable...
View ArticleUnable to install Management point on SCCM 2007 R3 secondary server
HelloI am trying to install MP on secondary server from primary. however I am experiencing strange problem. when I create MP from primary, wizard shows completed successfully but nothing happens on...
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Share and Storage Manager - how to get information from "Open files"
I'm facing difficult problem regarding renaming of AD user remote profile and home folders directories.Example: Login:BALITZMA HF:\alien.net\users\home\BALITZMA PF:\alien.net\users\profile\BALITZMA I...
View ArticleRoaming Profile/Redirected folders issue with DFS...
We currently host our Remote Desktop user profiles and redirected desktops and mydocs on DFS shares. The DFS Namespace is hosted one several servers and the targets are on two servers. The first...
View Article2008R2: Problem deleting folders previously marked as read-only in a DFS
I have a folder at a drive that was previously read-only in a DFS. The drive went full so I would like to move data to another disk. Now I've stopped the DFS and I've deleted the server as a member in...
View ArticleCan someone explain the numbers I'm seeing here, related to server 2012 Dedup?
On a 2012 Standard server, I have deduplication turned on for a data volume. Several directories are set up as exclusions in dedup settings, so there are only 2 directories which should be getting...
View ArticleRobocopy - Move Files/Folders and retain time/date
I am helping a department creaning their data - they have around 2TB. I have made a copy of all the data (Zero length files) to a folder - this way i can do some test runs of the scripts. The next...
View ArticleHow to Remove DFS completely
Hi allI am looking to remove distributed file system from my environment completely. I see other articles about removing namespaces, root etc.I am not happy with it and want to remove this...
View ArticleDFSR and nightly resyncs
We have an odd issue which has recently started. We have 4 offices connected using DFSR replicating 1,300,000 files. We recently replaced 2 older servers with 2012 standard boxes with two other 2003r2...
View ArticleCan't view DFSR Health Reports in IE 10 or IE11
As a part of monitoring our DFSR infrastructure, I generate health reports on a weekly basis and have them emailed to me. The DFSR reports require IE in order to be viewed. On top of that, they...
View Articlehw to audit in windows server 2008 R2
hi i have ADS in windows server 2008R2. have file server installed.now i have a share for my HR group (full control).someone deleted some files from that folder and i want to apply audit policy now.so...
View ArticleOpen Ldap as an NFS User Mapping Store for NFS for Server 2012
Has anyone been able to get server 2012 to use OpenLdap as a naming store for NFS?Everything says you should be able to use an RFC2307 standard ldap store but I just can't seem to make it work.AD works...
View ArticleDFS not replicating from one server
I have three 2008 R2 servers which are setup with DFS. Let's say server A, B, and C. I am running into an issue where server A is not replicating to server B & C but servers B & C are able to...
View ArticleWindows 2008 & Windows 2003 SBS - DFS - Mapped drives hang randomly
I have two servers that are DC's one is a Windows 2003 SBS SP2 and the second is a Windows 2008 Server.They use DFS with FRS.We've have a mix of windows Vista and Windows 7 machines on our network 32...
View ArticleUnable to access Parity Volume on Storage spaces
I have raised a case with Microsoft support, but posting here to hopefully get a faster response (case raised almost a week ago!)I have a Windows Server 2012 file server, 4 USB3 disks, 4TB each, brand...
View Article2008R2 - File Server Resource Manager Quotas - Can't reset peak usage
I just implemented Quotas using File Server Resource Manager in Server 2008R2 for user folders. I auto applied the quota to all subfolders of a folder. I have a user who was over their limit, but has...
View ArticleSecurity Permissions question
Parent Folder-Child Folder 01-Child Folder 02-Child Folder 03If a user in a Domain Local AD group that has access to CF01 and CF03, I want them to be able to navigate to Parent Folder and only see CF01...
View ArticleSMB over VPN not working
I have a web server (one NIC only with two public IP's directly connected to the internet). The server is running win. server 2008 standard. I have installed RRAS server and configured static IP pool...
View ArticleCluster Failover not working - Cluster Disk Showing unknown and unreadable in...
Hi Experts, I have Windows 2003 R2 S2 Microsoft Cluster , we are facing Cluster Failover issue to one of our Server .Server Problem start with Blue dump error , I have Started Server With Last...
View ArticleFilserver migration
Hi I am are going to change file server, and the plan is following and I wonder if someone can see any potential problems with this plan, I cannot test it before the actually migration.I have a new...
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