Use UNC to access file server getting error message "logon failure: the...
We have existing Celerra NAS shares, and are migrating the data to a windows 2012 cluster file server. right now data has been migrated, but before we cutover to the new file server, we did a test by...
View ArticleWhere can I find a deep dive whitepaper on Windows 2012 R2 DFS?
Anyone know where to find a deep dive white paper on Windows 2012 R2 DFS? I currently work for a hedge fund firm and looking into an alternative to DFS. We're currently using Windows 2008 R2 DFS and in...
View ArticleMoving File Server
Good Evening,I need to upgrade one of our file servers as it is running Server 2003. However I understand that as the current server is on 32 bit I can't just upgrade it to Server 2012 or Server 2012...
View ArticleWin2008 R2 Backup Failure: Volume Shadow copy operation failed for backup...
Failed to get exclusive lock on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) system partition. [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Backup [ Guid] {1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D} EventID 517...
View ArticleCan I migrate physical hard disks in storage space from Windows 2012 R2 to...
Hi, We have a Windows 2012 R2 server. It's running storage space with 10 hard disk in Parity mode. We would like to move the hard disks from Windows 2012 R2 server to Windows 2012, so that we can...
View ArticleDeDupe and logical Questions
Can Some one explain me i ran dedupe and it shows 100 completed and that time it saved 21 GB after three days it saved 1 TB on same data how it is possible ?
View ArticleThe File Replication Service cannot replicate d:\sysvol\domain
i am getting a error in my evetn viewer that says...The File Replication Service cannot replicate d:\sysvol\domain because the pathname of the customer designated staging directory:...
View Articleissues with rights on a specific file
Hi,Given this details: a folder called \\netshare\Temp where a user doesn't have any rights, I put a file called test.txt and give full rights on this file, I instructed the user to access it by...
View ArticleUSB Drive Read Only
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bit on an Intel HP Pavilion dv6. I have a PNY 16 GB USB drive that is now useless because it has somehow become "read only". Did this happen with bitlocker?...
View ArticleWhat should I do before resizing partition?
What should I do before resizing partition?
View ArticleDFS explicit permissions on folder are reverting to objectSid - Server 2008...
I've recently been dealing with permissions that keep changing to an objectSid. This is only reported in DFS GUI as I'm able to run the cmd "dfsutil property acl \\dfsroot\share" on the server and it...
View ArticleFolder Sharing and Security workgroup
Hi,I do have a shared folder in my system with Windows 2003 server installed.All the systems are distributed across two workgroup in the same network.The problem is I am only able to delete files or...
View ArticleSOFS JBOD resiliency
HiCan anyone explain JBOD awareness/resiliency in server 2012R2 SOFS with mirror spaces? Why there is requirement for 3 JBODs if lets say we are using mirror spaces? How data is then distributed across...
View ArticleDFS Replication Health Report Failure
Hi All,I have set up DFS Replication between two Dell 2950's running Windows 2008. Replication is completing correctly, but when I generate a DFSR Health Report I get the following error: Due to the...
View ArticleStoring Desktop hard drives in storage array
I am wondering if anyone has setup their networks where you have a large storage array that the users desktops boot from, using iscsi, AoE, or similar. If so would I set that up with windows server...
View ArticleI cannot remove the read only attribute from a file on Windows Server 2003
I have an application that downloads an update file to a temporary folder in the All Users profile. Although this works on many customers machines in this case every time the file is downloaded it ends...
View ArticleDFS New Setup migrating from 2003 R2 file server to 2012 Server STD
We currently have a 2003 R2 flat file server with multiple layers of nested network shares with over 2.5TB of data. We want to migrate to DFS on 2012 Server standard version with deduplication enabled....
View ArticleHow to merge two or three disks in a single drive without OS installation .
Hey Guys..i have a windows 2003 server with C drive which is around 132 GB.I also have Disk 1 disk 2 and disk 3 which has unallocated space of 136 GB Each.I want to merge into a single drive - D.So...
View Articlemirrored volumes pathing problems
mirrored volumes pathing problems I am running Windows 2008 Server Datacenter.I created some mirrored volumes with disk administrator.These disk are in a fibre channel fabric.All paths go down...
View ArticleDFSR - Preseeding to USB - Appropriate Robocopy job
Hi Everyone,I'm in the process of preparing a DR solution, and will be setting up DFSR of several Volumes on a Windows 2008 R2 File Cluster to a 2008 R2 Single File Server.For this, I was going to copy...
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