I have windows 7 and I also have Windows Virtual PC with a Windows XP virtual machine installed on my system.

I would like to setup a folder on my windows 7 operating system and have my XP virtual machine see that folder.

How can I do this?

I enabled hidden system files, and they appeared. Seems like DFS marks them with this attribute to prevent accidental deletion? I did run the following commandattrib -r -h -s [path to the folder] to no avail.

I have 2 servers replicating to each other. With all of the data residing on Server1, which replicates to Server2. Server1 is Server 2008; Server2 is Server 2008 R2.

Thanks in advance!

I have two clustered nodes accessing a shared Intel JBOD.  In the JBOD I have 4 SSD's (200GB Each) and 8 HDD's (300GB Each).  I created two virtual disks (CSV1, Mirror, Fixed provisioning, 1.25 TB).  I also have a small Quorum Virtual disk (CSV1, Mirror, Fixed, 6GB).  Everything works perfect and the cluster passed the validation.  All hardware is on the supported list including the drives.  If I physically remove a drive the storage pool will show as degraded and both virtual disks will show as incomplete (as expected).  Everything continues to function normally.  My problem is that an automatic parallel rebuild never takes place.  I have 381GB of free space on the pool which is larger than any of the physical drives.  I set the RetireMissingPhysicalDisks flag to Always which I understand should set the missing drive to retired and cause a rebuild of the space.  If I slide the drive back in everything goes back to healthy.  If there anything else that needs to be set to get the space to rebuild on its own? 

ObjectId                          : {1}\\Snowball\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storag
                                    e/Providers_v2\SPACES_StoragePool.ObjectId=
                                    "{a63c5689-b1ef-41f7-b772-f001c4b2c1a3}:SP:
                                    {4095f566-b8d9-11e3-8130-a0369f3308c2}"
PassThroughClass                  :
PassThroughIds                    :
PassThroughNamespace              :
PassThroughServer                 :
UniqueId                          : {4095f566-b8d9-11e3-8130-a0369f3308c2}
AllocatedSize                     : 2782065065984
ClearOnDeallocate                 : False
EnclosureAwareDefault             : False
FriendlyName                      : StoragePool1
HealthStatus                      : Warning
IsClustered                       : True
IsPowerProtected                  : False
IsPrimordial                      : False
IsReadOnly                        : False
LogicalSectorSize                 : 4096
Name                              :
OperationalStatus                 : Degraded
OtherOperationalStatusDescription :
OtherUsageDescription             :
PhysicalSectorSize                : 4096
ProvisioningTypeDefault           : Fixed
ReadOnlyReason                    : None
RepairPolicy                      : Parallel
ResiliencySettingNameDefault      : Mirror
RetireMissingPhysicalDisks        : Always
Size                              : 3191160700928
SupportedProvisioningTypes        : Fixed
SupportsDeduplication             : False
ThinProvisioningAlertThresholds   : {70}
Usage                             : Other
Version                           : Windows Server 2012 R2
WriteCacheSizeDefault             : Auto
WriteCacheSizeMax                 : 107374182400
WriteCacheSizeMin                 : 0
PSComputerName                    :
FileSystem                        : Unknown

I was experimenting with Windows Server 2012 R2 ability to use a SSD drive in a storage pool for write-back cache.

The storage pool consists of one 1.5TB disk and one 120 GB SSD drive. After a server reboot the pool shows an error status with a caution symbol on the SSD drive.

In the health screen of the properties on the SSD drive it shows Health status: Warning and Operational status: Split.

The status of the 1.5tb disk shows Health status: Healthy and Operational Status: OK.

I can't find any reference to a Operational status: Split.

Does anyone know what the "split" status indicates and how or if it can be corrected?

PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-physicaldisk

FriendlyName        CanPool             OperationalStatus   HealthStatus        Usage                              Size
------------        -------             -----------------   ------------        -----                              ----
PhysicalDisk2       False               Split               Warning             Auto-Select                      111 GB
PhysicalDisk0       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     1.36 TB
PhysicalDisk3       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     1.82 TB
PhysicalDisk1       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     2.73 TB
PhysicalDisk4       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     2.73 TB
PhysicalDisk5       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     1.41 TB

PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-storagepool

FriendlyName            OperationalStatus       HealthStatus            IsPrimordial            IsReadOnly
------------            -----------------       ------------            ------------            ----------
Pool-1                  Degraded                Warning                 False                   False
Primordial              OK                      Healthy                 True                    False


PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-storagepool pool-1

FriendlyName            OperationalStatus       HealthStatus            IsPrimordial            IsReadOnly
------------            -----------------       ------------            ------------            ----------
Pool-1                  Degraded                Warning                 False                   False


PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-storagepool pool-1 |get-physicaldisk

FriendlyName        CanPool             OperationalStatus   HealthStatus        Usage                              Size
------------        -------             -----------------   ------------        -----                              ----
PhysicalDisk2       False               Split               Warning             Auto-Select                      111 GB
PhysicalDisk0       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     1.36 TB

Thanks

LauraJ

We are planning to move our file server from a Server 2008 cluster (running on an outdated SAN) to a Server 2008 R2 cluster attached to a new SAN.

The FSMT looks like the best way to accomplish this, but I have a few questions.

1. The docs don't mention 2008 R2 in any functional descriptions, but the requirements on the download link at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10268 mention 2008 R2. Does this version of the tool work with 2008 R2? If so, are there any restrictions or features that are unavailable?

2. The existing file servers are old and tend to get slowed down periodically by a combination of heavy use, security software, and automated vulnerability scans. The docs do mention graceful rollback, but is there any mechanism for retrying copies due to slow/dropped connections?

3. We cannot have a single point of failure, so DFS will have to be clustered. Can the DFS root server run on the same cluster as the source or target file servers? Target would be preferable since we intend to decommission the source cluster. (We are in a restricted environment where adding machines takes a great deal of time.)

Hey Guys,

Just playing with Dynamic Access and have a question in regards to claim types and choosing suggested values.

When you choose a suggested a value for a resource it populates the classifications section of the resource.

How do I, or when would I use suggested Values for claim types?

For example: I want to set the company field in AD between 2 options. I can populate the suggested values but they are not selectable in AD? 

Hi people,

I have a Public shared folder, of which I would like to limit users the ability to save or create folder at the root of the P (drive). Windows 2012 Standard 64bit.

E.g.

N:\ (root) - Users permission to view

N:\Folder A\ - Users permission to view, create, modify and delete

N:\Folder B\ - Users permission to view, create, modify and delete

N:\Folder C\ - Users permission to view, create, modify and delete

.

.

.

etc.

Is this possible?

Thank you,

Paul

I'm running windows 2008 r2. I have some drives that were mapped by Active Directory GPO. The drives now state Disconnected network drive. When I click on one drive it states the location is not available. The other drive opens the location although both state Disconnected. If I right-click and select disconnect it states This network connection does not exist. I have removed the reg entries from Map Network Drive MRU and MountPoints2. Under MountPoint2 there are a lot of {-2d4.....} entries. I did not remove them only the ones that specifically stated the drives in question. I also tried the net use delete. When I type net use the only drive that shows is the new mapped drive with a different drive letter which I have no problem with.

Is there something I'm missing?

Here is a DFS-R Health Check utility i wrote, so i though i would post a quick note about it.

http://networkadminkb.com/Utilities/Descriptions/DFS-R%20Health%20Check.aspx

If you have a large DFS-R implementation to support, you know trying to find a free utility that can quickly generate a single health report on many servers at once is nearly impossible.  (i couldn't find a single free utility).  Microsoft has their Health Reporting tool that can be ran from the command line and GUI, but it will only report on one replication group at a time.  If you have 100s of these, that's 100s of reports to generate and review.

So i decided to write a quick utility that can monitor all of our 50+ DFS-R servers/100s of replication groups and create a single report.  I can check that report daily and take action to get more information if something is abnormal, otherwise i can ignore it.  I also wrote it so it will discover new replication groups/servers automatically, so there is not much to configure.  As long as you give it the the central hub in a DFS-R replication topology, it will discover all partners from that hub.  If you have mulitple hubs, specify all of the hubs in a single text file.

The first time i ran it, it mmediately told me about 3 problems i didn't know i had, because i hadn't checked on those replication groups in months.  Luckily, they were just minor errors, but being proactive is what this utiltiy is to be used for.  If it reports a problem, you still need to review the issue, and come up with a solution on your own...its a free utility after all.

Its simple and easy to use.  Give it a try.  Comments are welcome.

Hi all,

I'm getting a really strange error when running the following sample code in powershell to add a replicated folder to an already existing replication group.

Both servers are virtual and running Server 2012 r2.

$GroupName = "FILES_SA"
$FolderName = "DEPT_Share"
$PrimaryComputer = "PrimaryServer.ad.domain.com"
$SecondaryComputer = "SecondaryServer.ad.domain.com"
$ContentPath = "M:\DEPT\SHARE"

New-DfsReplicatedFolder -GroupName $GroupName -FolderName $FolderName
Set-DfsrMembership -GroupName $GroupName -FolderName $FolderName -ComputerName $PrimaryComputer -ContentPath $ContentPath -PrimaryMember $true -Force
Set-DfsrMembership -GroupName $GroupName -FolderName $FolderName -ComputerName $SecondaryComputer -ContentPath $ContentPath -PrimaryMember $false -Force

When it gets to the last command I get the following error:

Set-DfsrMembership : Could not edit the DFSR membership with domain: ; replication group: "FILES_SA"; replicated folder: "DEPT_Share"; computer: 
SecondaryServer.ad.domain.com; GUID: None specified. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
At C:\Users\username-admin\Desktop\Untitled2.ps1:9 char:1+ Set-DfsrMembership -GroupName $GroupName -FolderName $FolderName -ComputerName $ ...+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (DFSR membership...None specified.:String) [Set-DfsrMembership], DfsrException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Set-DfsrMembership.OMException,Microsoft.DistributedFileSystemReplication.Commands.SetDfsrMembershipCommand

I have tried to run this command using dfsradmin and get the same error.  Additionally using the GUI for this last stop results in the same error.

The only work-around I have found is to remove the replicated folder from the replication group and manually re-add it with the GUI (Specifying all the same paths.)

From what searching I've done everything says that the path has an illegal character in it, which it very clearly doesn't.  I've also tried with other folder paths with the same result.

Any ideas?

i'm having problems with the email setup in FSRM. in exchange 2013, i've added the computers to an email account called FSRM@mydomain.com and i can see them in the "send as".

in the default from email address i have my fsrm@mydomain.com and have setup my smtp.mydomain.com and yet it still errors

Log says authentication error even though i have checked that FSRM can authenticate

Hello

We are running DFS namespace on Windows 2008 R2 based servers. We have a requirement to do a replication of 800 Gb data between two regions as the data is required to be accessed from both the locations.  Instead of doing DFS replication of  such huge data, can we copy the data on a USB Harddisk, copy it at the remote location and do the DFS replication  - so that only the data that were changed during the transition will get copied over, instead of the whole. Is that workable?

Thanks in advance.

Regards

RKD

Hi Folks,

Having the following error when trying to create my first replication group in our domain.

Update folder security. Error - FS-02 (Subjects): Security cannot be set on the replicated folder. The administrative shared folder does not exist.

We have two server 2012 R2 VM's.  One has been in production for a while, the other is brand new.  Each one has dfs replication installed.  The disks administrative shares are accessible from each server to the other via \\fs-02\f$ and \\fs-03\f$

Permissions appear to be identical on each share on each server.  

Any sugestions on where to focus my efforts?

Hi All,

Looking for some general advice or documentation on recommend approaches to file storage.  If you were in our position how would you approach adding more rubustness into our setup?

We currently run a single 2012 R2 VM with around 6TB of user files and data.  We deduplicate the volume and use quota's.

We need a solution that provides better redundancy that a single VM.  If that VM goes offline how do we maintain user access to the files.

We use DFS to publish file shares to users and machines.

Solutions I have researched with potential draw backs:

1. Create a guest VM cluster and use a Continuosly Available File Share (not SOFS)
    - This would leave us without support for de-duplication. (we get around 50% savings atm and space is tight)
2. Create a second VM and add it as secondary DFS folder targets, configure replication between the two servers
    -  Is this the prefered enterprise approach to share avialability?  How will hosting user shares (documents etc...) cope in a replication environment.

Note: we have run a physical clustered file server in the past with great results except for the ~5 mins downtime when failover occurs.

Any thoughts on where I should be focusing my efforts?

Thanks

Nice to see my original posts are still up.  I was hoping that in the ensuing time someone had found a solution.  At least I can now see many other posting the same problems.  :)  Thought I was losing it for a while.

We have 100% proven that the problem (in our case) is from the ISP blocking port 445 (possibly others but 445 for SURE) with the reasoning that it prevents the spread of some Internet "worms".  It also just happens to prevent people who work from home from being able to map to their network drives at work.

What I was hoping was that eventually someone would comer up with a solution for this short of having to load a server using a different OS from Windows.  The SMB protocol is the one needing port 445 as far as I can tell.  Not all ISP block port 445 and the laptops that use those ISP's  have no problem.  Unless they travel.  Then it is "hit or miss" as to whether the ISP for the Hotel they stay at blocks it.

I have run multiple tests to prove that this was in FACT the problem.  Even the particular ISP in question which is a very large national ISP company freely admits they do this supposedly to prevent the spread of an unnamed Internet Worm.  It also happens to prevent Business use of their Internet by Home Subscribers at they cannot map to their Business Servers which also need port 445 to map.

I have used WebDAV successfully to get around this but at a huge loss of speed and performance.  Cloud services all do essentially the same thing and all have pretty much the same loss of speed.

If anyone has come across a method of allowing a drive mapping to be rerouted to any other port, that is the only hope I have short of changing to an alternate OS for the Office Server and even then I cant be sure until I try if it would help.  I read somewhere about the possibility of routing through a proxy but again, the problem would still be that the requests for mapping are expected on port 445 on the server and they will not get through even to the proxy since the originating ISP is the one blocking the port from the User's system. 

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated  I have posted this question now for several years with no one yet providing a working solution.  Hope burns Eternal though :)

Hello

We have setup a Server 2012 R2 Server with a storage space consisting of a Hard Drive and an SSD. We have setup storage tiering (When you open the Virtual Disk it says that Storage tiers are enabled and that there is capacity under SSD).

When we run the powershell command "Get-FileStorageTier" no files are listed. If we manually pin a file to the SSD  storage tier and run get-filestoragetier it then shows the file we pinned.

Should files that are automatically tiered show up when running get-filestoragetier? Is there any way to interrogate what files are currently on what tier?

I'm basically very new to this & even think I'm posting this under the wrong section.. So lately with school I did that one thing called peer to peer networking, it looks quite interesting..

My laptop HDD died & I will be buying a SSD, but I'm someone that needs space.. I have a working computer (Windows vista) that I don't really use & it has 900GB free space. Is there a chance I use it as some sort of private cloud, like the dropbox system but so I can only access it through my home? Will it be a peer to peer network, or are there better options for me?

Please if any forum moderator sees this, could you move my topic to the right section? Thanks in advance.