DFs (Windows 2000 Server Mode)
I am running windows 2008 R2 DCs but DFS is still on windows 2000 Server mode.Can I add a windows 2008 Server as a DFS server?
View Article2012 R2 Data Deduplication - Unoptimize single directory
I initially data deduped an entire volume and then later added two directories to the exclude list (because of some incompatibility between deduplication and indexing. I need to be able to index these...
View ArticleCollapse the directory tree in xcopy
Forgive the elementary question on xcopy. It's been rather a long time since I played with it. Last century, in fact.How do I select a particular file type (*.pst) from the entire folder tree of the...
View ArticleNas drive does not recalculating space after deleting files on Nas Drive??
Greetings to Respected expert,Actually we have configure Window server 20082 Storage server.We have NAS drive configured which have 300GB quota limit. The actual data in the folder is 185 GB but it...
View ArticleDFSR Error that the server does not have Adequate free space. But it does.
Hi, I have a 3 memeber DFS replication group on Windows 2008 R2 servers. On one of members replication stopped and the Health diagnostics report states that there is not enough disk space on the drive...
View ArticleMonitoring for DFS
Hello, I need to monitor my DFS namespace, as by default I am creating one home folder for a user and creating two folder targets for them and configure replication between them. This is done by a...
View ArticleFile server resource manager - Storage Reports.
Hi,I have configured Windows feature "File Server Resource Manager" on file server Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP1), reports are properly getting generated for the scheduled Large & duplicate files.But...
View ArticleWin2008R2 DFS Replication Keeps Re-Adding Files to the ConflictAndDeleted...
Has anyone seen this happen before? I manually delete over 36k files from the ConflictAndDeleted folder on a couple read-only members (WMIC command) and they end up showing up again when the DFSR...
View ArticleUNC Path error : "The specified server is no longer available" when running...
Hi AllBrowsed through the similar issues as suggested, but none match my scenario exactly :I am facing a strange problem which is difficult to explain, but I'll try.I have a Windows 2003 SP2 server in...
View ArticleHome folder will not map on 1 server
I have a bit of a strange issue, and I am hoping that someone has experienced this in the past. I have built a brand new Citrix environment using three total Windows Server 2008 R2 Std servers, and...
View ArticleStrange Defrag error 0x80070057
Hello everyone,I am observing a strange issue with defrag on Windows Server 2012 R2. There is a hardware RAID volume using deduplication in VDI mode and containing some virtual machines. Deduplication...
View ArticleMap Drive from Windows 7 to Server 2003
Hello,We are having some issues trying to access Windows Server 2003 drives from Windows 7 machines. The Windows 7 machines are part of a 2008 AD domain. The Server 2003 boxes aren't on the domain....
View ArticleWhat is the best way to automatically copy files to another server?
We just replaced an old server (2008 R2) with a new unit running 2012 Std. Our backup software (Backup Exec 2012) is not compatible with 2012 (go figure), so we had to keep the old server running. As...
View ArticleHow to find the latest Microsoft binaries available on Microsoft site.
Hello All,I need some assistance to know how we can get the latest binaries available on Microsoft site. As its every time consuming process to match the updated binaries and again look for the updated...
View ArticleWin 7 Client cannot access Win 2012 encrypted share even if...
I enable either Global-level or Share-level encryption on Win 2012 and try to access the encrypted share from a Non-SMB3 client (Win 7). As we know, "RejectUnencryptedAccess"by default is TRUE in Win...
View ArticleDFS root replication
Hi All. i have the following setup: 1 root server (domain controller)2 x DFS targets on separate file servers replicating between each other. Now unknown to me it looks like the targets also replicates...
View ArticleSpanned volume and NTFS file system limite
Hello Guys, I am planning to setup a file server.As i have a idea below,can it work? Create three Luns each is 10TB for the server using GPT partion style.Then I will use the three luns to create a...
View ArticleStorage Spaces - Supported on RAID 0 Configuration? No JBOD Mode
We have standardized on te LSI MegaRAID cards for our rack servers and they currently don't support running in JBOD Mode. This means if I want to run Storage Spaces on these servers (24x1TB SAS...
View ArticleiSCSI target weirdness
Hello!If I hadn't experienced the issue I'm going to talk about I would have hardly believed it may ever happen...I'm starting setting up a test cluster (all hosts = WinServer 2012 R2): Host3 = iSCSI...
View Articleauthor file,folder permissions
HiI am using windows 2008 as my file server. I want to setup the below mentioned folder, file permission. can any will share the possibility is much much appreciated. created a group and given access...
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