Who can help me to rescue my storage spaces?
After the installation of ws2012, I want to move my whole storage to the storage pool with deduplication-enabled.Because I do not have a lot of drives, I planned to do this process by moving files from...
View ArticleDFS-Namespace Functionality
Hi, I have setup a domain-based DFS Namespace on Windows Server 2012 with 2 folder targets that point to shares on 2 NetApp Filers located in separate offices. When accessing the namespace, should I be...
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Unable to rename new folders created within a specific folder
We have a windows 2008 R2 server. on the F drive, there is a specific folder that is shared out. when we create new folders within this folder, whether it be from a remote pc or on the server itself,...
View ArticleMigration of shares
Ive got a 2008 file server (physical box running storage server 2008) and i want to migrate the shares across to a couple of new physical Server 2012 boxes which are set up in a cluster using 2012's...
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DFSdiag warning about ACL inconsistency - bug in permission 'label' between...
2008 R2 domain simple DFS setup between 2 DCs\file servers (2008R2 and 2012R2).When I run dfsdiag /testdfsintegrity /dfsroot:\\[dfs namespace]/recurse /full, I get 'ACL of the shares are inconsistent,'...
View ArticleFilename reverts to older name all by itself
We have a Windows 2008 R2 server, being used as a file server only.To my knowledge, it is properly patched, etc., as a virtual server, via our Server support group. We have a drive mapping to an area...
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WMI Bug with Scale out file server
Think I've uncovered a WMI bug with Scale out file server. The issue manifests itself in the fact that SOFS utilizes a DNS name pointing to multiple nodes. The problem is that certain calls seem to...
View ArticleShared Folder Becomes Unshared
Running Windows 7 Pro (x64) and also have an external drive plugged into it. In this external drive we have a folder that we share out to the employees at that location. Every so often after the...
View ArticleNFS : NTFS Rights added : Everyone and domain users
Hi,I got a Windows 2012 R2 with Server for NFS role installed. My user mapping is very simple because I have only one user who has to access my NFS Share from his iSeries. My NFS Share is defined with...
View ArticleDFS Issues on a paticular volume on a individual server
We have 4 servers, we wanted to setup DFS between our two file shares and ran into problems, in order to troubleshoot this i ended up making sure DFS was working on the other servers, it does, DFS...
View ArticleFull permission but unable to create file on network share
Hi all,We have a file server running Server 2003 R2 which has multiple shares configured.On one of the shares, there is one user who cannot create files on a share, even though they have full control...
View ArticleStorageSpaces - how to resize virtual disk
Hi All,is there any way how to resize virtual disk within Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012? I have 4TB (Thin provisioned) virtual disk which contains only 400GB of data and I would like to shrink...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 File Server best practice and design considerations
Hi All,Can anyone here share some best practice for building Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server for 1000+ users ?initially the home drive H:\ will be 2 TB NTFS and the file share S:\ drive will be 4 TB...
View ArticleDFS Namespace Folder creation error: File Already Exists
I am moving from a traditional File Server with Mapped Drives to DFS on a Windows Server 2012 R2. I created 2 namespaces with Folders below the Namespaces. I did move a folder from old server to the...
View ArticleRicoh Aficio MP C2051 Scan to Folder - Windows Server 2012 Error:...
I have recently upgraded a clients servers to Windows Server 2012 & since doing so have lost the ability to scan to folder.Both servers are domain controllers and previously on a 2008 domain...
View ArticleIf I decommission as server in DFS will it delete the files on the other...
Hello Everyone,So this question may have been answered before, but I am not 100% sure. I am getting ready to decommission a Windows 2003 server box. The question is, when I go to decommission the...
View ArticleAccess Based Enumeration causing slow downs on File Server
I am looking for ideas here.We have a 2012 r2 file server that has a share with Access Based Enumeration turned on. This has been going on forever, what happens is if around 6 or more people try to...
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"Next" button grayed out in Extend Volume Wizard
Greetings,I'm kind of stumped, I've never seen this before. I've seen where the "Extend Volume" option is grayed out, but never have I seen where you can get into the Wizard, but not continue.Here is...
View ArticleOccasional groups of iSsciPrt Errors on Server 2008 R2 - CIFS vols on...
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 serving 4 volumes via iSCSI and a Netgear ReadyNAS 3200. One user reported getting an error trying to save to the network. Looks like the below happened at the same...
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...
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