Hi Everyone
My company has some confidential documents it would like to make available to a select group of people. However, they do not want these users to be able to copy and paste, or move these Word documents off the file server.
Is there a way that I can encrypt these documents so that once they are moved off the server they become useless and wont open?
Thanks in advance for any advice…
I have recently upgraded a clients servers to Windows Server 2012 & since doing so have lost the ability to scan to folder.
Both servers are domain controllers and previously on a 2008 domain controller I would have had to make the following change to allow scan to folder:
Administrative Tools
Server Manager
Features
Group Policy Manager
Forest: ...
Default Domain Policy
Computer configuration
Policies
Windows Settings
Security Settings
Local Policies
Security Options
Microsoft Network Server: Digitally Sign Communications (Always)
- Define This Policy
- Disabled
However I have applied this to the Windows 2012 server but am still unable to scan, possibly due to added layers of security in server 2012. The error on the scanner is Authentication with the destination has failed check settings.
I have also tried the following at the server:
Policies -> Security Policies
Change Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level to: Send LM & NTLM - Use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated.
Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) clients and uncheck the require 128 bit.
Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) servers and uncheck the require 128 bit
I have created a user account on the server for the ricoh and set this in the settiings of the Ricoh and verified everything is correct.
Are there any other things I have missed?
In Windows Server 2012 and the upcoming Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces, a virtual disk with tiered storage contains a write-back cache. There is a threshold that is configured in Storage Spaces which determines whether a particular write operation will go to the write-back cache or not. This threshold is very small and makes it so that the majority of writes do not land on the write-back cache.
As an example, let's assume that the write-back cache can achieve 500MB/s while the slower tier operates at only 75MB/s. After creating the virtual disk and creating a freshly formatted volume, it is immediately noticeable that a copy operation of a 386MB file takes longer than one second to finish on the Storage Spaces Virtual Disk. One would hope that the file would be copied in under a second assuming that the write-back cache would consume the operation, but it doesn't. Instead the storage tier detects that the write size exceeds the pre-defined threshold for writing to the write-back cache and forwards the write to the slowest tier which then takes around 5 seconds to complete. I find it disappointing that the write-back cache will not accelerate this file copy operation.
Background information can be found here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn387076(v=ws.11).aspx#bkmk_wbc
My goal is to accelerate more write operations, not just those very small in size. Here is a list of some other software providers that have accomplished this:
If Microsoft had a way to simply allow write-deferred caching, or to modify the threshold for what is to be written to the write-back cache Storage Spaces speeds could be improved by 20-fold (according to the benchmarks provided by these 3rd party vendors).
Two questions:
1) What is the default threshold (in Kilobytes) for Storage Spaces to choose to perform writes to the write-back cache?
2) What command can be issued in PowerShell to modify the threshold so that I can instruct Storage Spaces to perform larger writes to the write-back cache?
I have configured the DFS replication of 2012 R 2 server and 2008 R2. I am getting the error in diagnostic report.
1. DFS Replication unable to replicate files for replicated folder CAR01 due to insufficent disk space.
( There is enough space available on the both servers and i applied the staging quota more than data size)
2. This member is waiting for initial replication for replicated folder DUN02.
(I have initiated the replication on the both the servers, But still not replication the data to the member server)
Could you please advise on this.
We're deploying our Outlook signatures via GPO. We have a new signature we would like to deploy, but a lot of users don't see the new signatures. It appears that the files are on the right location
but the permission are wrong. The users don't have permission to even read the files. The signatures are on a redirected location. If I go into the properties and check the permissions of the files I can tell that the owner is the RDS server where the user
was logged onto the first time after the deployment was set. The rest of the permissions of the destination file are:
System: Full control %servername%: Full control Domain Admins: Full control Domain Computers: Full Control
All these permissions are inherited. The owner of the file is the %servername%
Than how we configured the file copy
For every file we create an entry in 'User Configuration->Preferences-->Windows Settings-->Files'.
Then the source file is on a shared location with these permissions:
System: Full control User group: Read Domain Admins: Full Control Domain Computers: Read Local server administrators: Full control
The parent folder ‘Signatures’ permissions of the user in the redirected location:
%username%: Full control – this folder only CREATOR OWNER: Full control – subfolder and files only System: Full control – This folder, subfolders and files
We’ve setup our redirected folder structure by these guidelines:
https://technet.microsoft.com/nl-nl/library/cc736916%28v=ws.10%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
I can correct the problem by reset all permissions to subfolder, but this is a per user settings which is very time consuming. I would like to resolve this problem by the root. Any thought our comments on our deployment?
Hi,
Over the last fortnight some of my network users have been unable to access and work on their files whilst they are offline. Windows either presents the files as greyed out with a red cross of not present them at all.
To resolve this, I'm asking my users to turn off their wifi through flight mode and re connect to the network. At which point the files become available again. This is the same case with my remote users when they disconnect and connect through the VPN we ave deployed.
No configuration changes have been made to I'm a little unsure as to how this issue has started to creep into my network.
I am currently controlling this folder redirection though group policy and active directory.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.
Adam.
Hi Team,
I have 4 file servers running on windows 2003/2008/2012. There are lacs of file on it. I want to know if there is a command available to pull the report contain all the folder and file with last accessed time stamp.
Regards,
Hi,
I apologise if I am in the wrong place - I have no idea what I am doing! When it comes to technology I am lost.
I bought a Seagate 2TB Hard drive last week. It has been working fine up until today. I have had trouble with disk space on my laptop & I am worried that in trying to free up extra space on the laptop, I have ruined my hard drive.
I can see that the hard drive shows up as "expansion" in my devices. If I go to Disk Management I can see it under disk drives. When I go to try and change the disk name, I can see my c: & then x2 others that do not have names. When I try to click on these I don't have the option to change the name. I cannot see my external hard drive here.
I have tried uninstalling from the drive & re-starting and I have tried uninstalling the USB Mass Storage Device. Neither of these has worked.
Somehow, I have managed to get more space on my laptop (don't ask me how) but this is why I am worried that it may have been at the expense of my hard drive.
Thanks in advance if anyone is able to help with this. Any help would be very appreciated!
Kind regards,
Scatlin
Have an existing replication group (working well). I add a new 2012r2 member server "server2" to the replication group and disabled Remote differenetial compression on the connection as this is on a LAN (1gb).
During initial sync some data moves at high speed as expected, but eventually (about 10 minutes after a reboot) the cpu usage for DFSRS.exe jumps to 100% and all disk IO related to dfsrs.exe stops, including writing to its debug log file: c:\windows\debug\dfsr01000.log
All replication activity ceases on the machine, and it is generally unusable as the CPU is spiked to 100% by DFSRS.exe.
When this happens the replication partner (server1) reports it has lost connection to the replication partner (server2). Indicating, from an external system, that DFSR has stopped functioning.
Stopping the service results in a timeout and subsequently a "dirty shutdown" of the DFSR database. It does recovery successfully if the service is restarted or machine rebooted, but this process repeats itself and the replication never completes.
Any insight to what could be going on would be appreciated.
-Ben
Hi
As title, after shutdown Server 2008 (r2) a couple of hours and restart it, some software service can't start and terminated unexpectedly.
I have tried to started these service manually, but it still terminated unexpectedly. Then when I re-launch the software, it show below error:
"Error connecting client to Hub Windows service on port 38631: Failed to retrieve RMIServer stub: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: jmxmi"
I have check in the Windows Event log, find out the service error:
"The service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 11 time(s)." Event ID 7034
I am also have tried to reinstall the software, but the problem still happen. So I don't think this is the Software problem.
What can I do for it? Please help me. Thanks!!!!!
Hi,
I have created a Mirror Space in Windows 10, and created a VHDX which was attached to a Server 2012 R2 VM and formatted as ReFS inside the VM.... however, running the command Get-FileIntegrity for both the storage space volume, and inside the VHDX in the guest VM, both show that file integrity is not enabled.
Firstly it seems that by default the integrity check is disabled, why would this be?
secondly, what are the effects of enabling it, I am trying to find an official technet blog that talks about this but I can't seem to find one.
finally, if i wanted to apply file integrity to the storage space volume, would it be a case of simply typing Set-FileIntegrity j:\ and this would set it on the root of the volume and all files underneath it??
many thanks
Steve
Hi All,
I have two DFS Servers one in HQ and one in DR. i got 5 sites with DC's. I want all users are connect to one share folder ( Project) in DR Server.
I have set following but still some users ( Only 2-3) are connecting to read only mode in HQ server?
1. Under \\domai.local\dfs\project -Folder Target set the referral order
HQ: Last among all Target
DR: First among all target
2. Namespace Target properties - No changes
3. Under Replication
HQ: Read only
DR: Read/write
make DR as primary member
Do i have to set Namespace Target referrals?
As
Hello,
In a Failover Cluster (running on Windows Server 2012 R2), i have multiple "Roles" running as "DFS Namespace Server"
The Roles are Up and Running. In these Roles you can add a resource via right click, "Add Resource", "Dfs Namespace". It will ask you to select the client access point, the Storage, the DFS-Namespace Name that you want to associate with
this role, done.
No problem with the GUI wizard, however i want to do that (creating a DFS Namespace in a clustered DFS Namespace Server Role) with Powershell - and can't find a suitable Documentation for it.
Is it possible to combine multiple dfsr clones into a single database? The scenario:
Server A (source):
Volume D:
-Folder A
-Folder B
Volume E:
-Folder C
Volume F:
-Folder G:
-Folder H:
Server B (destination)
-Volume D:
Folder A/B/C/D/F/G/H
On server B the DFSR database is corrupted and will be removed. Is it possible to export multiple clones on the source server and import them one by one, i.e. combining them into a large database? I'm not sure what's "recorded" in the database.
Or is it only possible to export a DFSR from a single volume, preferred the one with the largest folder and import it on the destination server. Once imported let DFSR rebuild the rest of the database.
Hello Guys
Exist a free tools o porwershell script for extract report of access to File Server, File Delete, Modified, Create, Folder with more Access.
I need run a report of my file server.
Thanks
SAN
Hello,
I am almost done with our DFS migration from Server 2003 SP2 to server 2012 R2. I recently ran into a roadblock where we have an old application pointing directly to a shared folder on the old file server (i.e. \\oldserver\SharedFolder), we attempted to change the path on the application to the DFS Namespace instead of the shared path, but the application is still holding on to some of the attachments located on the old share.
I am looking for a way to redirect the shared path from \\oldserver\SharedFolder to \\newserver\SharedFolder and turn off the old server. The application would still go to the \\oldserver path but would be accessing files in the \\newserver path. This would allow me to retire the Windows 2003 server.
Thank you in advance
I'm trying to create a new share on a Windows 2012 R2 failover cluster but no matter what I try (Add File Share in Failover Cluster Manager, new share in fsmgmt.msc managing the cluster NetBIOS name and FQDN) I always receive the error "The resources must be online on the same node for this operation".
The setup:
Two Windows 2012 R2 nodes making a failover cluster, using a Dell PowerVault MD3220 shared storage. The File Server role a has dedicated LUN which appears as the S drive on both nodes (though it is only ever online on the active node). The share I'm trying to create is to a folder that exists on the S drive.
The File Server role has the following resources, according to Failover Cluster Manager. All are shown as online.
The weird thing is, the File Server role is already running several shares that were created when the cluster was first built - all on the same S drive. All of the shares are members of a domain DFS (not sure if that's relevant)
The structure on disk is
S:
| - DfsShares
| - Folder1
| - Folder2
| - and so on...
Folder1 is already shared in the cluster, but Folder2 is causing the error (actually, to be accurate, there are 10 folders already shared and two are causing the error)
Any ideas what resources it thinks aren't online - or where to look for more information?
Hi - hope someone can help with this...
I have round 200 staff, each with a home drive. These drives are split across two servers. I've created a DFS Namespace to show all the home drives in one spot. It looks like: \\FileServerA\StaffPersonalDrives\StaffDrives. Below this level are the actual user folders which are names the same as the username. The share is on StaffPersonalDrives.
I want to give each user a workfolder (so laptop users can sync off-site), so I go through the wizard - all well and good; everything works. EXCEPT that the workfolder is at the share level (\\FileServerA\StaffPersonalDrives) when it should be at the level below (\\FileServerA\StaffPersonalDrives\StaffDrives). I can't create a share where I need it do be which is at the "StaffDrives" level, and I can't put in a local path in workfolders, as it won't accept "\\" at the start of the path.
Has someone found this before? There must be an answer....!
Thanks,
Jimmy.
In the past, with Wintarget on WS03 and with the Windows iSCSI Target 3.3 on WS08R2 I have been able to create RAMDISK based virtual iSCSI disks using the the RAMDISK:<size in MB> notation in the the file/disk path section. That doesn't seem to work with the WS12 R2.
I have installed the iSCSI target role and am able to create a iSCSI VHD/x, but am unable to create one based on RAM. How do I do this?
And this setup is purely for Performance testing, so please don't be horrified by the fact that I want to create RAM based iSCSI disks. :)