How to copy local users windows server 2008 r2
Hello everyone, Due to a hosting issue, I need to copy local users and groups from one server 2008 R2 to another in a different hosting company. Please note that those servers are not part of a forest...
View ArticleDFSR: Is it ok to empty the PreExisting folders after initial sync is...
We have pre-seeded hundreds of GB of data on our hub server, and several GB of data ended up in the 'PreExisting' folder for each replicated folder. Initial sync is complete for all of them and I...
View ArticleDFS on clustered servers?
Hello all,I hope you all can help, here's the scanario:I'm trying to install DFS between two clusters for namespace's sake. I have n1 and n2 clustered for Cluster1, which will host user data - n3 and...
View ArticleWMI Not found
Hi All,I have Windows 2003 Ent Server SP2, yesterday my server was shut down abnormally due to Power shutdown, after that i found my system state backup was not happen so i tried force backup but...
View Articlefile corruption after backup using temporary VSS snapshot
I see the following pattern, which does lead to file corruption.Server Win2008R2SP1 Clients Win7Sp1SMBv2 enabledServer running on VMware Vshpere 5.1 ESXi host, Disks are VMFS volumes on local hardware...
View ArticleQuestion about Article ID 2550581 and Affected Platforms
Hi,I have an issue on a customer related to the problem described on Article ID: 2550581 and the platform affected isOS Name: Microsoft© Windows© Storage Server 2008 StandardOS Version:...
View ArticleDFS-N Namespace Creation Setup Permissions
What is the best practice to setup a new Namespace that I only want specific groups ou's access too? I'm having trouble getting this too work when setting up the namespace and there is the selection...
View Articlestarting with a temporary profile & ad with .bak extension in RegEdit
Hi thereThere are dozen & dozen articles about my issue, but no one helped me to fix it!. The problem is that, when user profiles logs on to the server, they logs on temporary profile. Thus, all...
View ArticleConfigure a Windows Media Services scenario
I've been fiddling with a development install of Windows Media Services on Server 2008 R2 Standard, and I'm trying to configure it for a specific scenario. And I could use some advice/links:We are a...
View ArticleSystem Writer is not found in the backup
Hello,I have a new and updated Windows 2012 Standard OEM version on DELL Server. When trying to run a Bare Metal update I am receiving the error "System Writer is not found in the backup". I have...
View ArticleDfs could not create reparse point for directory
Hello,Setup: Windows 2008R2 DC, DNS, DHCP, Fileserver.Full updated.After a reboot I get this error:Dfs could not create reparse point for directory Folder Redirection$ under directory...
View ArticleAccess Denied when renaming 1 character of files in My Documents (DFS based)
We have a strange behavior while renaming only 1 character of files in My Documents; we receive Access Denied. It only happen when renaming it through My Documents which is pointing to a DFS share....
View ArticleWidows Search not working with Data Deduplication?
Hi,I noticed that many files were missing when searching for them on my Server 2012 Fileserver.After some troubleshooting I noticed that the ones missing, had a Size on Disk of 4KB and the "SparseFile"...
View ArticleThis volume cannot be removed from the backup because it is a critical volume...
I'm wondering if there is a way to unselect a critical volume from the windows server backup. Some registry to change or trick to bypass this definition? In my case, it would be acceptable to lose the...
View ArticleDe-Duplication on 3TB of data behaving weird
Hi All,So have been playing with the lovely new Storage Spaces and De-duplication features in Server 2012 and have come across some strange behaviour. The test volume in question contains just over...
View ArticleWindows Storage Server Disk Management
We use a Dell NX3000 series NAS for corporate file sharing. It contains two boot drives in a RAID 10 config (160 GB each) and four 1 TB drives in a RAID 5 config. The available space for file sharing...
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Can anyone help me?Creating the shadow copies in the file server cluster...
I construct a failover cluster(file server,AP module) for sharing files by WSS 2012,and I want to use the shadow copies to backup my data,but when making a shadow copies on the volume which is added...
View ArticleStorage Space Thin provisioning & De-Duplication Results in Useless Trim and...
Hi all,So I've been playing around with the new storage spaces, de-duplication & thin provisioning features in Server 2012. So far I have to say the results have been confusing, frustrating and...
View ArticleStorage Spaces: The configuration of the pack is offline
I'm running Server 2012 Essentials, and have a storage pool with 4 2TB drives. Unfortunately, I had two of the drives fail on me at the same time. If I run Get-PhysicalDisk in Powershell, I get...
View ArticleExhausting change notification handles (SMB requests on winxp)
I run an app, Matlab, on winxp 32 sp3, that internally uses change notification requests on a fair amount of directories and a good amount of those directories are remote (lan) on a win7 64 bit...
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