Win2008 R2 Backup Failure: Volume Shadow copy operation failed for backup...
Failed to get exclusive lock on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) system partition. [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Backup [ Guid] {1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D} EventID 517...
View ArticleBest way to add additional NTFS permission to a folder and all files and...
Our users have the default recommended permissions for their Redirected Documents folders that do not include any access permissions for the Administrators group.Very frequently administrators have a...
View ArticleNFSv3 mount failed from z/OS NFS cleint to Windows server 2003/2008 NFS...
I was not able to NFsv3 mount from z/OS NFS client to windows server 2003/2008 NFS server with enabled "allow unmapped user unix access (by UID/GID)", but this is working with Windows server 2012....
View ArticleThere was a problem finding your work folders server
Hi All,am try to sync work folders in my lab env. where i have 1 DC windows server 2012r2 std (along with work folder role installed) and 2 windows 8.1 enterprise edition client (1 with domain joined...
View ArticleNetwork Share Error
I have a network share \\server\deploymentshareRecently we started getting this error: refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer or on a network. Check to...
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 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 ArticleDFS - accidently granted permission on wrong folder
Hello,I just had to give a couple of new users a home drive in my AD.Unfortunately, I forgot the variable and therefore I granted them all access to \\dfsnamespace\homeI killed my mmc as it didn't...
View ArticleNIC Teaming theory questions
Hello!Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming (LBFO) Deployment and Management (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30160) says:"3.4 Interactions between Configurations and Load...
View ArticleFolder redirection woes
Client is Windows 7, SP 1, Server is 20008 R2 AD. Folder redirection (desktop, docs, app data) to \\server\share was working fine. Implemented dfs and set a test OU to change folder redirection to...
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Can I design a SOFS-cluster using non-clsutered storage?
Hi.I've been trying to figure out if I can build a SOFS-cluster with 4 nodes and 4 JBOD cabinets per node for a total of 16 cabinets, like this:I haven't seen this design though so I'm not sure if it's...
View ArticleSupport Terminal Services infrastructure windows server 2003 windows server 2012
in my infra-structure with two story windows Server 2003 with Terminal Services function, but upgrade plans I want to implement as much as windows server 2012 domain controller to the other functions...
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DFS files never Show up at destination
Hi I have a server RJC-VAN01 which should be replicating 6 folders to RJC-TOR01. The files haven't shown up on RJC-TOR01. From generating a health report it shows that the status of the replicated...
View ArticleIncorrect NFS Permissions Shown to NFS Clients
I've got an odd issue with how the user/group ownership is being presented to my NFS clients from a Win2k8R2 server.For some (seemingly random) files, the group or user or both is showing up as...
View ArticleFILE level encryption, client integration solutions
I have recently started investigating encrypted file system and it does NOT seem like it will do what I need it to do. Please let me know if you know differently or know of a product that does what I...
View ArticleEncryption Virus
One of my users got the "howtodecrypt" virus and some of the files shared to that computer from my file server got encrypted. Everything I have read about this says that the only thing I can do to...
View ArticlePin a folder in SSD Tier?
Can pinning happen at the folder level? Instead of just pinning one file at a time to an SSD tier, would I be able to pin a folder so that any file inside of the folder would inherit the pinning to...
View ArticleDFS Replication - Not eligible
Hello,We currently have a Windows 2003 DC, a Windows 2003 R2 File server with DFS and just installed a new Windows 2012 Server.In the process of trying to add the Windows 2012 Server to DFS for...
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Optimize drives "Empty"
On my Windows Server 2012 I go to Optimize Drives and I select Change Settings as it SHOULD be Defragmenting Weekly as it states. I found that when I clicked on Choose Drives the Select all was...
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