DFSR Conflict and deleted
HI ALLhope you can helpI have a client where we have set up DFS replication groups to replicate from 6 site servers to one master server which is then backed up.Everything has been working fine for the...
View ArticleRestrict access to subfolders
Hello there,we have the following Situation:Share called DATA 80 subfolders, inherit rights enabled ABE active and working (users don not see Folders where not rights) Now we want to add a Group on a...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 share file data is different if you access via DNS or Netbios
Hi, we have a 2008 r2 file server with various folders and files on it. We find that if we access say a spreadsheet called test.xls on\\FileServer\documents it is different to if you access it...
View ArticleMissing administrative share on Windows 2003 File Server
I have noticed that one of the hard drive on the Windows 2003 file server has missing administrative share. I can connect to C$, E$, F$ but not G$ hard drive from my workstation. I have no idea why it...
View ArticleMissing Admin Shares and how to get them back
I lost the admin shared permissions on one of my local drives. G$ is no longer shared as a "hidden drive".How can I restore or get the admin share G$ back along with the correct permissions?
View ArticleAssigning folder permissions with icacls on 2008R2 - access denied on one...
I work in a school environment working with Server 2008r2 and have a script that creates new student users. Everything about this script works except assigning file permissions.I have a group at each...
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 ArticleTrack Open files and Sessions for a specific CAP on a File Server Failover...
Hi all,I have set a File Server on a W2K8R2 Failover Cluster at a customer. They don't use DFS and because of the legacy structure and previous FS migration history I had to ensure the transparency of...
View ArticleFile Server Resource Manager
Hello,I have an issue in FSRM, that is that i cant view quota managed folders. when i click it displays "An unexpected error has occured. Check with application evemt log"As checked the App log, it...
View ArticleBlue screen with error in rdpwd.sys in windows server 2003
Hi, i have HP server prolint DL380 G5 runing windows server 2003 SP2 suddenly the server gives me a blue screen with error 0x0000008E and every time i switch it on it gives me the blue screen and and...
View ArticleExpanding a basic GPT disk
Hi All,I have an existing 2.2TB basic disk, formatted with NTFS, partitioned with GPT. This is physically an HP array connected via fibre. The server is Windows 2003 SP2. It is not the system...
View ArticleAlways Available Offline for network share not sticking
One of our clients migrated from XP to Win7 and I helped them to create a default user profile and it worked fine. But there is one setting which is not working.We made network share Always Available...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 - Restore Previous Versions - Restored File Filled...
ISSUE:The Restore Previous versions feature on my file server stopped working some time in the recent past. If I look at the Previous Version for a file or folder the items are listed and they show a...
View ArticleFile Server 2012 deduplicatin - How to backup files???
Hello Team,I have migrate my old file server to a new 2012 with deduplication enable. I use robocopy to take backup of my files. My issue is that when robocopy access each file to check if it has...
View ArticleServer 2012 Storage Virtualization, Clustering and Hyper-V
I have a growing network with 2 Hyper-V virtual hosts containing about 10 virtual servers. I also have 5 other physical servers in this mix. In moving to Server 2012 and reading about storage...
View ArticleiSCSI Initiator
Question regarding iSCSI sessions and MPIO (for HyperV cluster)Each host has 2 x iSCSI NICs for redundancy.SAN has 2 x available iSCSI ports.We have 3 hosts.1. Is it ok to map all 6 host iSCSI NICs to...
View ArticleKb/2620656 is Not applicable on W2K8 R2 STD
Hi allI tried to install patch Kb/2620656 on a windows server 2008 R2 STD and i received error: "The update is not applicable on your computer"I don't understand, what's wrong? can you please...
View ArticleHow do I restricting NTFS share access on computer based.
Till now I aware that, we can allow share folder access on user based.Is it possible to allow through computer based access?Even I tried to adding computer account in security permission and given full...
View ArticleDFS will not replicate - Event ID 2112 and 2104
We are trying to get DFS replication working on a 4 server web farm. This was apparently working fine until someone restored a snapshot. I found the following article which mentions contacting...
View ArticleReturning Ownership to Domain Users
Good Afternoon,I'm running a domain with Windows Server 2008. We also created a second server, to serve as a fileserver and to handle a few large files. The file server has the role activated and...
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