Robocopy not copying ACLs
Take following directory:D:\Directory\Sub\D: has explicit permissions and are passed to sub directories.D:\Directory\ has inherited and explicit permissions.D:\Directory\Sub\ only has inherited...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 RSS on Nic Teams
Hello,I'm building an SMB3 SAN for Hyper-V machines (just like everyone else on the planet), and i have a question regarding RSS. I'm trying to implement a "converged" network, so that everything is...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 unable to access local DFS Namespaces \\localserver\share
Our primary DFS server is unable to access DFS shares on itself. \\localserver\share. All clients (Windows 7) and all other servers can access the namespaces on\\localserver\share and the affected...
View ArticleFile access
Dear Forum,I have a root folder - shared permissions read, sub folders shared permissions read - NTFS fulla folder called Management should be only access by management.i disabled inheritance - full...
View ArticleProblem with Multipath IO
Hello I've configured my SCOM service on windows server 2008 r2 sp1, and it's database is placed on 2 disks on SAN storage (HP p9000). since MPIO is configured, sometimes SCOM was stop working. I...
View ArticleDFS namespace change to other than domain name
Our customer has internal domain called companyX.local. DFS has been deployed on W2K12 R2 fileserver. The DCs are 2008 R2. Shares have been created for domain DFS namespace which are accessed by...
View ArticleWork folders - certificates with .local domain
Hello,We'd like to deploy Work folders in our domain.local environment. Technet states that the certificate name should be the public URL workfolders.domainname and that for every file server a SAN...
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 ArticleShare folder + Allow user to see only the folder he has access to
Hi,I have a shared folder called Backup, under this folder there's folders for each user in my organization which can only be accessed by the username associated with it.When an user access the share...
View ArticleFileservice (smb) unresponsive - other service (TCP) available - smbclient...
Problem: Connections to fileshares(smb) on windows 2012 r2 server are suddenly not possible. This server is also a AD DS server and also GPO`s can`t be retrieved by other clients (example w2008 r2 RDS...
View ArticleThe IO operation at logical block address # for Disk # was retried
Hello everyone,A warning appears in the system log: === Log Name: System Source: disk Date: 2/20/2013 1:00:28 PM Event ID: 153 Task Category: None Level: Warning...
View ArticleDFS redesign ideas?
Hi,Basically I am looking for a few ideas on how to redesign our file servers.We have multiple physical file servers and a few virtual servers and what is replicated and what is not is quite confusing....
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Access control entry flags
Hi! Have the ACE flags changed from earlier Windows Server versions to Server 2012 R2?I'm a bit confused, checking a Server 2012 fileserver we have, that was just upgraded from 2003 I think.I was...
View ArticleRepair Degraded Storage Spaces Virtual Disk - All physical disks show healthy
I've seen this mentioned a few times but no definitive answers. I have a Storage Pool with 8 physical disks. Each physical disk shows as healthy and auto select. I have thick provisioned Virtual Disk...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Tiering Service running forever, killing user performance
I just installed a new Storage Server 2012 R2 OEM box, with a single mirrored storage space using 4x Samsung 840 Pro SSDs and 12x 3TB Toshiba 7200RPM HDDs. I used the wizard to configure this as a...
View ArticleDeleting Old Windows Backups
I am running a Windows Server 2008 machine with Windows Backup Service installed. I do a full (not incremental) backup every night. I realized that when the drive is full it deletes recent backups, and...
View ArticlePowerShell Script to Enable Auditing on a Share Folder
DearsI have more than 100 share folders in my company, I have enabled auditing to monitor users when they delete any files in share folders in Continue add users, because it will take time, my question...
View ArticleUnable to track disk usage on Server 2008 standard 32bit domain controller
Hi One of the drives on a domain controller has a disk space issue. Last Thursday a domain controller on our network could not be accessed either remotely or locally - I could log on with the domain...
View ArticleVSS Issues - Filename too Long
Hi,We've recent had some server files issues and we had to retrieve different snapshots of our share folders via VSS. We've ran into a slight issue of character limit and are not able to restore these...
View ArticleRemoving files with long names.
Hello:I've managed a few windows file servers over the past few years ranging from (server 200 to 2012 R2). Some of the groups in the organization that I work for have a fairly complicated...
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