Storage 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 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 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 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 ArticlePermission and ownership in Server 2003 and 2008 file server
I have an issue but I am not sure if these are the designs of the file server permissions. I have one user who has the modify rights to modify/read and create folders in a share folder. In the share...
View ArticleFile permission
Hi all, can anyone tell me what is the best apporach to set up file permission in the file server that users can't delete or replace any files in a folder but they can only open the files, edit on it...
View Article"Access limited by Share" - Unable to access files via security group membership
Greetings, I have a weird permissions issue that shouldn't exist. I have a share named "Departments". This share has Domain Admins:FC and Authenticated Users:RW. The folder being shared is also...
View ArticleRemoving disk from a volume storage space 2012 r2
Hi, I've got a issue, here's my situation, i'm using storage space on a windows server 2012 R2 for my backups. Fisrt I had 14 3tb disk in mirror so there was 19tb usable for date. Now I needed more...
View ArticleThere is no disk in drive or the file system is not supported; C:\Windows of...
One of two of my WS'03r2x64 Domain Controllers (DC0) has 23.7 gigabyte of free disk space but that isn't enough for Directory Services to load (0xC000007F) and I am prompted to run DSRM which won't...
View ArticleMigrating DFS from 2000 mode to 2008 mode
Ok, so I've gone through the steps listed in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753875.aspx to upgrade a test DFS namespace (before upgrading our actual namespace) to 2008 mode. Almost...
View Articlewhat service hosts MPIO?
Hi, I installed MPIO on a Win200R2 server, but I cannot find the related process or service. Please let know which process name or service name it should be? thanks!Ah_Chao|| MCSE,VCP,EMCSAe
View ArticleFor some a share is available to \\hostname\share and not \\IPAddress\share...
Hi all. Happy Friday.I have a file server (Server 2008r) that for some IS accessible by \\ipaddress and for others is not, they get told 'There are currently no logon servers available to service the...
View ArticleWindows Server 2003 Domain Controller out of Disk Space Catalog.wci
Hello,We have a DC Windows Server 2003 that is running out of disk space all of a sudden.1) We checked that inside the "System Volume Information" it has a catalog.wci with couple gigs in it. Is this...
View ArticleDFSR Replicated Folder Best Practice
I have been looking for something that documents a DFSR best practice around the number of replicated folders per replication group. Specifically, I found a reference in the forum post here to a best...
View ArticleRecovering from Old Shadow Copy Cache System Files
Hello,We have a client who had data corruption on a large scale (virus) and did not have an active backup. Shadow Copy was enabled, but failed when attempting to restore using built-in Shadow Copy...
View ArticleHow to Map DFS folders to users?
Hello All,I am looking into how to implement DFS on a Windows 2012 R2 server and very new to this. Currently we use just a basic File Server on 2008 R2 and have GPO Drive Mapping to control access...
View ArticleCannot edit files, even though I have full control over them
On Windows Server 2008 R2, we have an application installed that has some plain text configuration files. My team needs to be able to edit these files regularly.All my team have dedicated admin...
View ArticleRobocopy Version XP010 - Excluding Multiple Directories using /XD
I'm attempting to use Robocopy to routinely copy data between 2 servers. In the file structure being copied there are several folders + their associated sub-folders e.g DfsrPrivate and...
View ArticleIs domain namespace DFS is supported by linux server?
Is domain namespace DFS is supported by linux server?
View ArticleHow to automatically make the clients see their shared folder without mapping?
I have created shared folders to the each user in Active Directory, and I have to map each user to that folder. I wonder how can I do to let the client see that folder without any mapping.I really...
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