Re-enter your network credentials on a Windows 8 Client
Windows 8 is telling me that I need to re-enter my network credentials on a Windows 8 client of a Windows Server 2012 essentials server. I always get the same message, "File History error The device...
View ArticleDFS Replication Problem - Replication craps out every 4 hours...
I've got a DFS namespace hosted by several servers. svr1 is running server 2012 and all other servers svr2, svr3 and svr4 are all running server 2008 R2.All 4 servers are part of a replication group,...
View ArticleCan iSCSI use SATA drives in a Hyper-V Fail-Over Clustera?
I am new to storage so this may be a stupid question? Can iSCSI use SATA drives in a Windows 2012 Hyper-V failover cluster? Must they be SAS or Fibre Channel? Will this setup pass the configuration...
View ArticleDFSN log files
Hi,I am running Windows 2008 R2 within my environments. I am trying to find where DFSN (Namespace) puts the log files. Can someone tell me where?Thank you.---Pat
View ArticleFSRM - object not found
I started noticing the below errors in the cloud log:Id = 4761, Date = Wed Aug 21 2013 11:18:29 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time), Level = 1, Server Name = servername, Message = Unable to get FSRM quota...
View ArticleHowto do a mirror spaces rebuild: parallelized recovery
Hi there,i got a 4 drive SS with one virtual disk (2 way mirrored, 2Tb thin prov) on Server 2012R2 Datacenter Preview. The drives are 2x3Tb and 2x500Gb.I would like to know how to start the new...
View ArticleStorage Spaces on dynamic disks. Is it possible?
1) I have created three basic 40 GB disks inside my test VM server - I can see the disk appear in "Storage Pools" area.2) I convert the disks to dynamic ones - the disks immediately disappear from the...
View ArticleDelta re-sync once a missing dynamic disk is availabe again?
Is there anyone who knows what does exactly the re-ctivation of a dynamic mirrored disk do?I'm interested in knowing if on the missing disk that is brought online once again and it visible the Os...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Recovery after Partition Table failure?
Hello everyone.Following problem occured: I have at home a Storage Spaces setup with 4 Harddrives, 2x 2TB WD and 2x 3TB Drives. Yesterday I started copying an archive from one virtual harddrive to...
View ArticleRecovering a storage space.
Help please,I am running Windows Server 2012 Essentials as a Hyper-v guest under Windows 8. I created a Storage Space within the guest on two 1tb disks attached to the VM. After re-booting the host...
View ArticleNo rights with "effective permissions" but still read/write possibility
Hello,i am having a Server 2008R2 environment with 1 file-server.On this server there is a share with NTFS permissions.When checking the advanced options and "effective permissions" for a specific...
View ArticleHelp with Batch File?
I'm new to the batch file world, and I need help creating a file to do the following:I need to move 3 separate files from the mapped B: drive to the mapped K: drive. My issue is that the file names...
View ArticleIscsi virtual disk wizard shows no servers (and no volumes)
Hi, in windows 2012 DataCenter, I installed the Iscsi target role and went on to set an iscsi disk.but when launching "new Iscsi virtual disk" wizard (Server Manager\File and Storage Services\iSCSI...
View ArticleSome new files moved to PreExisting folder, but initial sync completed months...
My DFSR diagnostic report showed a 11003 warning. I found a few files in the PreExisting folder with a last modified date of yesterday. The thing is initial replication finished months ago so I don't...
View Article[2008R2sp1] Slow performance on Failover Cluster fileshare
We have several HP DL360G6 machines of which some are management servers, some are Hyper-V 2012 cluster, and some are Exchange / File / SQL cluster. The File cluster role is normally running on one...
View ArticleCan't directly download PDF files on Windows Server 2013
On our Windows Server 2003, we are unable to directly download PDF files. Instead we have to use a download.php file. I think it has to do with setting the automatic headers for PDF support but I have...
View ArticleWindows 2008r2 cluster and NetApp OnTapp 8.0.5
I thought I'd post it here as it is somewhat undocumented bug (I susspect) with NetApp and affects only clustered servers:Analysis of the outage after NetApp upgrade to OnTap version...
View Articlewindows server 2003 client logon problem
we are having windows server 2003. from client system (having win 8, win 7) some times can not log in. From client using remote desktop connection can access server 2003, Client can use sql server...
View ArticleDo I have to format this unformatted external hard drive now?
Hello, everyone! It seems that many people have the same problem: I have a WD external hard drive that has been used to save all my school files. However, I dropped it yesterday. Now, every time I try...
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