Traverse ONLY
I got an unusual request for folder permissions. A user needs to get in about 4 sub-folders deep, but not be able to open any files that exist within that path. I thought I could just give "Traverse...
View ArticleDFS - Is there an automated way to flip the target in a failover situation
We use DFS and DFS-R. Server 2008 R2. We have our files split between 2 file servers, roughly 4 TB on each one. They replicate to one partner each at our DR site.To avoid the problems caused by a...
View ArticleCannot add new volume to Win2012R2 OS drive
I have two SAS raid-0 arrays on my workstation/test server. I usually keep data on array2 and OSs on array1.Array1 has 3 OS installations since I am testing a few things using win8, hyperv2012 and...
View ArticleHow to create a Domain level DFS Namespace that is visible only to a specific...
We’ve had our own domain in the past years running a domain based DFS namespace. We and several other companies were merged with another organization, and all domains were consolidated into one. Now we...
View ArticleCannot connect to Windows 2008 Server R2 using UNC
Hello, I am trying to connect to my Windows 2008 R2 server using UNC and it gives me an error message saying please check the name of the machine and below " the network path was not found. I...
View ArticleDeduplication combined with differencing disks for better or not ?
We have a test hyper-V for various VMs. It is naturally easier for us to start from Parent disk which is sys prepped and move on. On the other hand, deduplication(2012 R2) claims to be most...
View ArticleHow do you register an iSCSI Target with an iSNS server (Windows 2012 R2)
I can't find any doumentation for setting up iSNS registration for a iSCSI target in Windows 2012 R2.I did find some documentation that is for 2012 non...
View ArticleSecurity warning on task bar links
Just started after I moved my folder redirection from a server share to dfs. Running Windows 7 SP1, server is 2008 R2. If I change the GPO to point to \\server\share I don't get the warning....
View ArticleCan't access shared folders on win 2012 R2 with Android phone
Hello, this is my first post here so I don't know if I choose the right category......But anyway, my problem is like thisI‘ve got a win 2012 r2 server(192.168.1.10), installed with essential...
View ArticleSetting up Folder Redirection
I setup a test environment to try out folder redirection. It seems to work well however I have a few questions.1. Can this be setup on a DFSR namespace so that if users travel between remote offices...
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FSRM usage different to Windows Explorer usage
We have a user who has a mapped home drive with a 2Gb FSRM quota.The user reached 99% of the quota which was correctly shown in the FSRM console. They deleted 1.4Gb of data from this mapped drive,...
View ArticleReduce size of LUN that has already been expanded in Diskpart
Hi GuysAs the title suggests i'm looking for help reducing the size of a LUN that has already been expanded.Recently I was asked to extend a drive on a server. The drive in question was on top of a...
View ArticleAccess based enumeration not working in DFS
HelloI have DFS server running on server 2008 R2Created namespace server \\server\users and then namespace created under that called test2.enabled access-based enumeration for the namespace server...
View ArticleLooking for advice on setting up drives for VMs on Hyper-V
Hardware - Xeon E3 server, 16GB ram, 256Gb SSD, and 7 3-4 TB drives Hyper-V core 2012 R2 installed on the SSD - did not take much spaceGoal: To setup 2 VMs, one Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2...
View ArticleDFs replication
HelloWe 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...
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 ArticleFile Sharing and Security Settings
Some changes were made in the sharing and security of our network folders and I am unable to restore them to allow the sharing and security settings that were originally in place.A drive was set up on...
View ArticleDFS ACL Inheritance issue
We have an interesting problem for the forums. We have implemented Distributed File Services for managing our shares.SecurityGroupA has similar ACL assignments to FolderA and FolderB.SecurityGroupB...
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