Hi,
I have set up folder quota's, and on one folder I have set it to 100GB. This Quota shows as 99% used, but the actual folder in Explorer shows only as 28GB used. What am I missing, or set up wrong, or is there a fix that needs to be applied? (I don't think my maths is that bad as I am pretty sure 28 is not 99% of 100.)
Can anyone help or point me in the right direction.
Thanks!
Ben
We currently have a number of web farms with their content and shared configuration files located on a standalone file server.
I am looking to utilise the clustered file server role in Windows 2012 to provide improved uptime and load balancing for the configuration and content shares.
Please could someone provide clarification as to whether SOFS is supported for this scenario?
There appears to be some conflicting advice in the documentation and across the internet.
Hello - sorry if this is the wrong forum, but since it deals with printers shared over SMB, I thought it might fit in the "file services" section.
We have 500 users using \\print2008 to print right now, so I can't just stand up the new machine, \\print2016 and immediately change our DNS server to have a CNAME pointing print2008 to the new print2016 machine until I'm sure everything works.
So I thought that perhaps I could use the hosts file on my office workstation to do a simple alias.
I stick:
<ip address> print2008
<ip address>print2008.fqdn
into the hosts file and just hope it will work.
However, sadly, none of my printers previously mapped to print2008 are working on my workstation post reboot. Whenever I try to print, I get a GUI-based "access is denied error" and in Event Viewer, I get the following:
The Kerberos client received a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error from the server print2016$. The target name used was host/print2008. This indicates that the target server failed to decrypt the ticket provided by the client. This can occur when the target server principal name (SPN) is registered on an account other than the account the target service is using. Ensure that the target SPN is only registered on the account used by the server. This error can also happen if the target service account password is different than what is configured on the Kerberos Key Distribution Center for that target service. Ensure that the service on the server and the KDC are both configured to use the same password.
So, I'm guessing that for security's sake, print2016 is refusing to handle my requests because my workstation is offering them to print2008. I followed what instructions I was able to from here, like turning off StrictNameChecks and turning on DNSonWire. I also added the BackConnectionHostNames entry. Basically everything that didn't give me an error message, but I couldn't do the dreaded SPN record for kerberos authentication.... because of course, I get the "duplicate SPN found, aborting operation!" error.
Of course there's a duplicate SPN; print2008 is being used by 500 users!
If I was 100% sure that everything was working great on print2016 I'd go ahead and just make the changes in DNS, like adding the CNAME record that the link in the previous paragraph describes, but I can't riskanything happening to print2008 when it's in active use.
Can anyone recommend a good way to set up my testing environment so I can basically fool my workstation into being okay with sending "bad" kerberos tickets to print2016, and have print2016 be okay with accepting them?
Thanks.
Hi,
Is there a better way to migrate File Server from 2008 R2 to Server 2016 and keeping NTFS and shares permission and the structure same?
I am not sure if the robocopy would do what I need?
ROBOCOPY "\\2008\E$" "\\Server2016\E$" /MIR /SEC /LOG:C:\logfile
Has anyone migrated from Server 2008 to Server 2016?
Thanks,
Hi,
I have windows 2008 r2 server. I have about 50 folders share from this server. I need the report of shared folders which show folders name, size, path ,owner (NTFS permission). I need immediate help to generate report.
Thanks.
On this page - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/nested-resiliency - a scenario is detailed where a 2-node S2D cluster loses one entire node plus a disk on the second node. This results in 3 out of 8 of the clusters disks remaining online. The S2D quorum documentation - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/understand-quorum - still indicates that to maintain storage pool quorum a cluster must have 50% + 1 disks available (with the pool resource owner counting as a disk vote). This is definitely the case in Server 2016... was this changed in Server 2019 and not documented? How does Storage Pool Quorum work in S2D on Server 2019 that it allows this nested resiliency failure scenario?
Thank you.
I have a camera server recording multitude of security camera feeds to a local drive. It has been running Windows 2016 with no issues but the 8TB drive started to get to about 75% full, so I figured I would test Windows 2019 with ReFS and deduplication.
Had to move the data to temporary drive, upgraded the OS to Windows Server 2019 Datacentre release version (Version 10.0.17763.134) and formatted the drive with ReFS (REFS Version: 3.4) and turned on deduplication. Moved the main data folder back to it and started the deduplication job. The initial job ran for about 2 days and got very minimal saved space:
PS C:\Windows\system32> get-dedupstatus
FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume
--------- ---------- -------------- ------------- ------
2.38 TB 75.73 GB 4271 4329 E:
I noticed there was another folder that I had not moved, so I moved that one to the drive also. The optimization ran over that and the result was strange:
PS C:\Windows\system32> get-dedupstatus
FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume
--------- ---------- -------------- ------------- ------
2.15 TB 0 B 4565 4555
E:
So the optimized files number was larger than inPolicyFiles but the optimization kept running and getting worse. So after another 2 days I was out of space:
PS C:\Windows\system32> get-dedupstatus
FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume
--------- ---------- -------------- ------------- ------
9.98 GB 0 B 5739 4555
E:
The number of inPolicy Files did not change, and the number of files on the drive did not change as I had not yet started the camera software, just number of OptimizedFiles kept growing. Not sure how it got over 1200 files more to be optimized than there were files on the drive. So I stopped the deduplication of the volume but the space did not free up again, so I started another job:
Start-DedupJob -Volume "E:" -Type Unoptimization
And this appears to have started to free up space now. After 12 hours I had already got back over 2 TB:
So my question is, if this is a bug in the ReFS deduplication? Or is this some other issue? Shouldn't the optimization just leave the file alone if it cannot gain anything from optimizing and where do those extra number of optimized files come from when they do not exist on the drive?
On Windows Server 2012 R2 (and reproduced on 2016), we see significantly faster performance from our SANs (both Compellent and SolidFire) when accessing files through a drive letter. For example:
Versus:
Why would assigning a drive letter make file performance that much faster? We'd actually prefer NOT to have to use a drive letter, but we can't argue against the performance gains.
Does S2D require IPv4/IPv6 bindings and IP addresses set on its NICs? Or can it work solely at L2 ?
I need to fix a permission issue but i cant figure out how it was done.
looking at a restore of the folder under ntfs the permissions for one user is special permissions. THIS FOLDER ONLY.
then if i go under change permission this user has full rights grayed out, so that inherited. BUT the parent folder does not have her listed. I don't know what she is inheriting from.
she is part of a group at the parent folder. the share permission are authenticated users read/change.
She can open the share and see the docs but unable to open or save to the share. So the group isn't giving her modify but the group has everything but full
We have a new customer. The customer already get support from another vendor's data center. In that data center around 150+ TB data divided in 4 file servers. Around 2000+ users getting the shared drives through a logon script . Around 2000+ logon scripts are in place. In the four servers, one server data only accessed through DFS referral all the other server data has been accessed by UNC path.
As part of migration approach, we plan to copy the data with ACL to our data center server by server, using Robo copy commands. We plan to create a alias of each old file server with our new file server and shut down the old server. By this approach, we assume that we can avoid user impact and avoid modify the existing logon script and existing share access through UNC and DFS referral immediately.
I would like to know what are the challenges in doing this approach and any hidden risk behind this approach.
Hello. I'm trying to create multi-resilient volume in WS2019 (standalone server).
The process I use is like this:
1) create the pool
New-StoragePool -FriendlyName TieredPool -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName"Windows Storage*" -PhysicalDisks (Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $true)
2) create the storage tier templates
$tier_mirror
= New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName TieredPool -FriendlyName Mirror -MediaType SSD -ResiliencySettingName Mirror -NumberOfColumns 2 -Interleave 256kB -PhysicalDiskRedundancy 1
$tier_parity = New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName
TieredPool -FriendlyName Parity -MediaType HDD -ResiliencySettingName Parity -NumberOfColumns 3 -Interleave 256kB -PhysicalDiskRedundancy 1
3) create the multi-res. volume
New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName TieredPool -FriendlyName TieredDisk -StorageTiers @($tier_mirror,$tier_parity) -StorageTierSizes 1600GB, 22000GB -ProvisioningType Fixed
The issue is that the volume is created, but doesn't honor the template tiers' resiliency settings, so in effect both 'concrete' tiers are created asMIRROR, instead of Mirror+Parity:
PS C:\Users\admin> Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName tiereddisk | Get-StorageTierFor what it's worth, I get the same results when using New-Volume. Actually in WS2019 Preview version, New-Volume would produce this problem, but using New-VirtualDisk would set the resiliency settings correctly.
Is this a bug in the final release of WS2019?
Hello Guys,
I would like a help. I got a problem today with my Windows Server 2008 R2.
We have a second hard drive called File Server and inside of that we have all of the folders that we need to share with people from our organization.
Since yesterday afternoon few people are not able to see their folders on the file server.
If they try to go from the menu in the left side of Windows Explorer they can see the folder, if they open the way File server in M:\ they cannot see the same folder over there.
I have tried to go to that way M:\ logged with my user (that has administrator permissions) directly in my Windows server (that we created the file server) and I am not able to see few folders too.
It is really crazy, the folders are there but it is not showing even if I tried to check from my Windows Server.
Already checked if the folders were hidden but I did not find anything.
Did a reset and all updates but also the folders are not showing.
Can anyone help us?
Best Regards,
Deivid Araujo
We
Hi,
I've been searching for month now and couldn't find anything about this problem, so decided to ask here.
We successfully deployed Work Folders and it works well except one user - his files are synchronizing, but he can't see sync state in WorkFolders directory in explorer. Explorer should show green icon when file is synchronized or red icon when it's not, but
right now it doesn't show anything.
I tried re-deploying Work Folders for his account, but it didn't work. I couldn't find anything suspicious in eventviewer.
Maybe he needs some permission to view sync state?
I'm stuck :(
Dear All experts.
We have problem with some of client machines on our network.
Problems seems the same.
Some machines,while they are working, they face issue their machine to connect to network.
When i pointed to network icon on their machine, it said "ABC2(Unauthenticated)
This always not allow them to connect to network by server name.
But when i brow to network on their machine by IP, it allow them to access network.
Could you tell me what happens with this? this is because of Server or Client machines itself?
Best regards,
P.S: Our Windows server is 2008 R2
VeasnaYim
Hi,
I have a single-node Windows server 2016 with a dual parity storage space, on which a bitlockered ReFS volume resides with enabled file integrity. This ReFS volume hosted/contained a ~17TB vhdx file with archive data since its setup half a year ago. This file
has now suddenly been removed by ReFS! More precisely, I see the following two events in system log:
I have the following questions:
Thanks.
Hi,
I have windows 2008 r2 server. I have about 50 folders share from this server. I need the report of shared folders which show folders name, size, path ,owner (NTFS permission). I need immediate help to generate report.
Thanks.