Files getting corrupted on server
Hi,We have a problem where many files on a server appear to have become corrupted. I can see the timestamp has updated on the folder they are in at 9.12 this morning but there is no obvious update on...
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...
View ArticleDuplicate iSCSI Session Identifiers on multiple servers
Hello,I'm having an issue setting up a failover cluster in Windows Server 2012 R2 with iSCSI storage and I suspect the cause is having servers with duplicate session identifiers.I am using the inbuilt...
View ArticleMove DFS Management
I have DFS Management installed on a 2012 domain controller which I would like to retire. Is there a easy way to migrate this to a new domain controller of the same 2012 OS with no downtime? There is...
View ArticleDFS is not working anymore.
DFS was configured and working fine on Server 2008 STD, but now it's no longer replicating. Here are some of the errors I am seeing:...
View ArticleDFS do not replicate all content - error 5004 and 5014
hi,i found few topics on the same subject but non gives a solution. i established a totally simple DFS replications - HUB for backup and one folder with user data on remote location. location is...
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 ArticleVHD detaching and 137 & 14 errors
I have a Hyper-V server running 2012. It has 4 VMs all running 2012. The host has a removable cartridge drive which contains a VHD for each VM which is attached within each VM as a drive used by...
View ArticleStorage Spaces not working as expected
I've created a test environment using Server 2012 R2 to test and evaluate Storage Spaces. So far I'm not getting the result that I was expecting, so I'm wondering if someone can shed some light on it...
View ArticleFolders incorrectly showing as shared in the folder properties tabs
Hi guys,I have a very strange issue here.We have a server (2008 R2 Standard) with a shared folder on it. When I look at the GUI properties of any subfolder on this share, the status is shared. If I...
View ArticleMounted volumes error log
Hi! Is there somewhere in the Windows Event log I can find errors related to mounted volumes that somehow suddenly have been unmounted? Had an incident this weekend, and the customers want to know why...
View ArticleDFS Client problems
Dear,Since a while users are complaining about not being able to access DFS Shares. When I run dfsutil /spcflush on the client, problem is solved. However sometimes users need to run this command line...
View ArticleTwin Servers
I have two identical servers.Can I have both configured and running accessing the same data so that if one fails or is shut down for mtce, the other will continue operating and the customers will not...
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 Articlestorage spaces jbod enclosure mirroring
Are three enclosures needed in order to have two-way mirroring of jbod enclosures?If I have two jbods and two failover nodes both serving up data. I want to make the jbods mirrors of each other so...
View ArticleNTBackup & Task Scheduler - Error 01xf
Hi everyone,I'm trying to create an NTBackup solution which would back up my hard disks weekly, combined with Scheduler to make it automated for my Windows Server 2003 system.The first time I tried it,...
View ArticleDFS Replication Event 4004 -> The volume manager is shutdown
Hi all, yesterday I tried to setup a DFS replication between two Namespaceservers with an iSCSI disk each. On both disk are several folders. Each of the folders should be synchronized via DFSR. But...
View ArticleReplicating an Unchanged Copy of a File with DFSR
We have an application which backs up its self every hour by copying its data files to a backup folder on a local drive. Every hour it creates a new sub folder with a time stamp in its name and under...
View ArticleServer 2012 and 2012 R2 do not allow access to all 7 optical SAS drives?
The following problem occurs with Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2, Datacenter or Standard. I have an external SAS enclosure with seven optical drives and one hot-swap SAS/SATA bay that...
View Articlecmdlets for a usable storage space
I have available 8 x 2TB HDDs and 4 x 400GB SSD's which I want to create a Tiered Storage based Storage Spaces volume with. I want to use 10GB of space for the Quorum volume later. I'm missing...
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