Managing Open files
Hi,I am just wondering what the codes/numbers mean on the 'lock' column when using 'managing open files' on Windows Server. When someone has a files open it can have 0,1,2 or 3 and I have looked else...
View ArticleCan VSS snapshot recover from ransomware Attack ?
Hi everyone,Well, I want to know if enabling VSS snapshot on the Disks drives can handle ransomware attack, I mean if I have multiple Healthy VSS snapshots and my data is infected by ransomware, could...
View ArticleLock down use of files outside Active Directory
Hi,I don't remember the feature in Windows Server that locks down the use of files, created in a AD Domain, outside the domain.Example:A file is created (.docx, .xlsx etc.) in a AD enviroment and it...
View ArticleDFS Event ID 6404: Invalid local path
Hello, I am having an issue with Replication. I've run a report and it returned this ID number. After looking at other posts/forums I have tried deleting and restoring the DFSR database and restarting...
View ArticleHow to identify if a disk is a local or SAN disk.
How do you find out if the disk displayed in My Computer is local or a SAN, NAS or DAS disk.I am working on a script to poplulate our CMDB, I am able to get the disk size, free space etc, but I am not...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 File Server Folder access fails for few Windows 7 Machine
Hi Recently we migrated our file server from Win 2008 R2 to Win 2012 R2. We have few users using Windows 7 machines.Of this in few Win 7 machines users are not able to connect to their shares . The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Search in folder shows results located in "Temporary Burn Folder" (SBS2011)
I came across this issue searching for a folder that a user had misplaced/deleted.When I search from the server (SBS2011) inside a particular folder, the search results show the folder paths for the...
View ArticleDFS Cache
i set DFS Cache at the root to 600 seconds and the link folder to 600 and tested shutting down one of the servers which is a root and link server and i notice it takes about 2 minutes until it...
View ArticleStorage Replica Partnership Failover Options...Failed to provision partition...
Hi all, has anyone come across a method for re-establishing a new storage replica server-server partnership following the loss of the primary / source computer? I can failover to the secondary...
View ArticleFolder Redirection in DFS Namespace
I'm having hard time figuring this out. I deployed a DFS Replication environment. Also I want to deploy folder redirection using gpo. I want user's Desktop, Documents and Downloads redirected to the...
View Articleactivation error win server 2012r
have installed win server 12r. I have volume license keys but when i activate i get the error cant use this key for this product
View ArticleServer 2019 Storage Spaces - a lot of confusion
Hi there!I'm trying to use storage spaces, partly to learn about how that works, partly for actual use. But I ran into some problems, maybe it's my missing understanding of it.So I have seven 2TB...
View ArticleRunning Get-SRGroup from 2016 to remotely monitor a 2019 replica server seems...
I have two 2019 servers with groups/partnerships replicating successfully on them.I want to monitor their ReplicationStatusfrom a 2016 server so I installed the Storage Replica module through Server...
View ArticleSetting up Work Folders for the first time
Hi all, I manage a site where one of the users needs access to a couple of folders on the server from his iPhone. He has a couple of word and excel documents that he accesses. He only needs access...
View ArticleDFS Replication between two sites.
Dear all,Recently I migrated my 2008 DFS servers to new 2016 DFS servers. Now I have one DFS server ( DFS01 - 2016 ) in site A which is assigned as primary server and also I have secondary DFS server...
View ArticleLarge number of open file handles on fileserver (Server 2012R2) after user's...
Hi,we do have an rds farm with roaming profiles (not profile disks) consisting of 6 terminal servers ("srvts001" to "srv006" 2012 R2), 2 domain controllers ("srvdc01", "srvdc02" 2012 R2), 1...
View ArticleHow to disable the option "You don't currently have permission to access this...
I Build new folder as Administrator, the Users access is "Deny" ( all sectors ) When I'm trying to reach this folder from other user (Normal User) , I get this massageThen the user can try use other...
View ArticleWin 2012 R2 shared folder not accessible on win 10 clients
Hi All,Error Code: 0x80070035 The network path was not foundError2: file and print sharing resource is online but isn't responding to connection attempts -Required ports are open\able to telnet -issue...
View ArticleDFS Event ID 6404: Invalid local path
Hello, I am having an issue with Replication. I've run a report and it returned this ID number. After looking at other posts/forums I have tried deleting and restoring the DFSR database and restarting...
View ArticleCannot Create DFS Namespace with error "Specified Server cannot perform...
We are trying to configure new file server mirrors with DFS + DFSR on them and our existing file servers in our three environments. Sandbox-Dev-Live. All are under the same domain. I was able to...
View Article