Repair 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 ArticleDFSR Backlog Stuck on Non-Existent Folders
I have two 2008r2 servers setup in a full-mesh multipurpose replication group. (01 and 02). 01 was the source server. The initial sync just finished last night and there are 2 folders that do not...
View ArticleBackup tape device on windows server2008
Dear Expert,As we know that windows server2008 does not support on tape device backup, can anyone know there is any free software can be used on this case?Many thanks.
View ArticleUnable to copy / move data from one folder to another
Hey Tech gurus , I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 datacenter , with 3 partition of NTFS file format ,I come across this error when I move / copy data from one partition to another " An unexpected...
View ArticleDFS random error when Secondary DC off
Hi to all!Need you help to resolve some issues with DFS. My structure is 3 domain controller.1)Primary 2008 R22) Secondary 2003 R23) 2008 R2on Primary have DFS enabled and physically files allocated...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 r2 File service and Storage File opened by "another user"
When I was using Windows server 2003 it show files opened by "user's name" but after changing to windows server 2008 r2 it only shows File opened by "another user" this is a hug problem in our...
View ArticleDFSR Preseeding Question
I have two servers 01 and 02. 01 already has a share \\01\Art. To preseed I ran the robocopy command from 02:robocopy "\\01\Art" "E:\Art" /e /b /copyall /r:6 w:5 MT:64 /xd DfsrPrivate /tee...
View ArticleDFS Shares Prepended by DFS SID and No Longer Accessible
Hello,Environment: We use two dfs servers which replicate all namespaces and dfs folders between each other. There are two namespaces: Data and Users. First server (DC12) has referrals enabled the...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Tiering and Virtual Disks
Take the following scenario:A Storage Spaces volume is set up to store about a dozen or so .VHDX virtual disks used by running Hyper-V VMs. This volume is set up with some sort of redundancy. Each...
View ArticleDFSR Setup Problem
I have 3 domains, each one at a different location. Each domain has a two way trust relationship between them, but share the same Schema. Each domain has a DC (Server 2003 native function level) and...
View ArticleWork Folders Issue
We started testing Work Folders for our corporate network. What our IT director is seeking is a seamless synchronization of user redirected folders - similar to offline file sync.It seems he is...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Upgrade Mystery
So I have a custom built server running Server 2012 Essentials. It has a storage spaces pool with a bunch of drives in parity config. I decided to upgrade to 2012 Essentials R2. I did the research and...
View Articlethere is not enough space available on the disk (s)to complete this operation
When I try to expand the disk on my windows 2008 server I get this error: there is not enough space available on the disk (s)to complete this operation any suggestion are greatly appreciated Thanks AL
View ArticleFSRM Quotas - Directory Rename on Win2K12/Win2K12R2
On Win2K12 & Win2K12Rs [but not Win2K8R2], renaming a directory can result in the File Server Resource Manager no longer being able to display or manage quotas on sub-directories under the...
View Articleabnormal MPIO delay and explorer delay toleration.
Hi, We have a win2008r2 server with MPIO installed. The host has two iSCSI path to a dual-controller SAN storage. We are trying to test the LUN trespass latency by doing a explorer copy operation....
View ArticleHow to correctly rename a redirected home drive
Hello. I'm aware of the fact that when users' home directories are redirected to a network share, the folders are renamed to 'Documents' for when a client has logged on with a Windows 7 machine.My...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 backup schedule wizard not showing volumes
Hi folks,We have a Dell PowerEdge R620 server running Windows server 2008SP2 and are running into issues when attempting to configure a Windows Backup schedule either by running the Backup Schedule...
View ArticleLost User Permissions
HiWe're using a Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller to control the domain within the company. However one user has lost permission to access their files within the user folder. I've added them as...
View ArticleDFS-N referral cache shows junk files
Hi guys, I would really love some help troubleshooting the following:We have a namespace e.g. \\Domain.lan\org that has multiple referrals. It is mapped via GPO to an F: drive, so users click on F: and...
View Article[DFSR] Two volumes replication
We have a branch office server which one data volume of 1TB max (Raid5-set, 4 disks). capacity in size. On this volume data resides of two companies. We use DFSR to replicate the data to the file...
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