Second hard drive says write-protected
I've got a new 2008 enterprise terminal server. I've installed all my apps to the 2nd hard drive. Now for no reason, I can't write to the drive and my apps can't either as they all crash as soon as...
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Every time I type in "detail disk" diskpart stops working. I can never get past that command. please help.
View ArticleData deduplication works vice versa
Hello. I have enabled data deduplication on one of my SSD's volumes and then run Start-DedupJob cmdlet with optimizastion parameter on this volume. After dedup completed i check Get-Dedupstatus and get...
View ArticleMissing VSS System Writer and CAPI2 error in Event Log
Hello, I'm having problems with making full system backup of Windows 2008 R2 x64. It looks like this is related to missing VSS System Writer. When I'm running command "vssadmin list writers" there is...
View ArticleFolder Redirection - Secure Root/Parent Folder
Hello, I want to redirect Users folders to a Fileserver, and also prevent them from browsing the root folder share. \\Domain\Share$\HR\UserName According to MS, users only needs (List Folder/Read Data,...
View ArticleFile Server Resource Manager MMC Error
HiIf I go to File Server Resource Manager and Select Configure Options. I get a Warning window stating MMC Has detected an error and will unload it. Plus the following error...
View ArticleWork Folders for Windows 7
Hi,Would anyone know when Work Folders client support will be available for Windows 7? It was meant to be made available shortly after general availability of Server 2012 R2...
View ArticleWindows 2003 Network Shares Innaccessable
HiWe have a Windows 2003 R2 server housing half of our user profiles and some network shares. Today, the network shares became inaccessible, causing crashes for our users. Our other server remained...
View ArticleFile size doesn't update
On my Win 2008 SP2 Enterprise x64 system I have a ftp application I'm running. It is downloading a file. When I look at the file in Windows Explorer or with the DOS dir command the file size + last...
View ArticleStrange DFS-R error
Windows 2008 R2The DFS Replication service failed to replicate the replicated folder at local path f:\FolderName because the local path is not the fully qualified path name of an existing, accessible...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 File Server Stops Responding to SMB Connections
Hi There,Massive shot in the dark here but I am struggling with a pretty major issue atm. We have a production file server that is hosted on the following:Dell MD 3220i -> iSCSI -> Server 2008...
View ArticleShare Location and NTFS permissions help
Hi Everyone, Currently in my organization we have a file share that is totally unrestricted. Critical files are stored here with no security whatsoever. Obviously users have turned this into a...
View ArticleAccessing Win 2008 Enterprise from workgrup with user accounts
Hello people: I have the following tree in a Windows Server 2008 (no domain controller) in lan with 6 workstation,c:foldersharedfolder managemenetfolder 1folder 2folder processfolder 3folder 4I have...
View ArticleRestoring storage spaces after migrating from another computer
Repro Steps:1. Set up 2012 Server, create a few storage pools (I think they were all mirrored).2. Original server starts having "issues"3. After attempting to resolve issues on the original hardware, I...
View ArticleOffice 2010 & 2007 - Excel and Access File Locking Out On the Network With...
This is also posted in the Office 2010 - IT Pro General Discussions, but was suggested to repost here, since a definitive answer was not found.Hi,An issue that's happening is that Excel and Access...
View ArticleUpgrading a 3-node Hyper-V clusters storage for £10k and getting the most...
Hi all, looking for some discussion and advice on a few questions I have regarding storage for our next cluster upgrade cycle.Our current system for a bit of background:3x Clustered Hyper-V Servers...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 - iSCSI Server lost multiple devices after patching.
Today 12/16/13 I ran a windows update on a lab Windows Server 2012 R2. which is being used for iSCSI. After rebooting I lost 6 of the 10 devices established. All of these devices are provisioned off a...
View ArticleFile Cluster Windows Server 2012 R2
Hi all,I want to create a file cluster for my RDS 2012 R2 test enivorement. First i want to create a file cluster, but i run into some problems. This is my network configuration:192.168.18.2: DC / RDS...
View ArticleWin2012 or win2012R2 storage spaces with SAN storage support
HiI need to create fairly large disks +100TB for video media distribution. But on our SAN storage we only can create 16Tb lun/volumes. <o:p></o:p>So we like to use win2012 storage spaces...
View ArticleVolumes disappeared from DFS replication
Hi all,Recently I set up DFS replication on Windows 2012 Std Server. Few days ago I tried to connect the 3rd server to this replication and found out that all volumes except C:\ drive are disappeared...
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