Can Work Folders be used for user home drives?
Looking to setup server based home drives for user data and wondering if Work Folders would work for that.
View ArticleCan I force a new replication partner to seed from a local DFS partner
I administer an organization with 7 offices, 6 of which run W2008 and the 7th, the HO runs 2003R2. Between all of the offices there are several fully meshed replication groups setup to replicate...
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SMB Locking in 2008
I'm having an issue with an app who's files are hosted on a 2008R2 fileserver. The app is running slow at times. I wiresharked and saw lock requests from clients. What kind of locks are these and can...
View ArticleNew Error : Optimize-Volumes -SlabConsolidate gives "ObjectNotFound" error...
I have a server that's been running this command regularly for a long time and working successfully. Optimize-Volume d -SlabConsolidate -VerboseThe last day or so the command nows gives the results...
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DFS Replication takes forever
I've tried to get replication up and running for a few weeks now but I'm starting to loose my patience. I have two WDS-servers with rought 1TB of data that I want replicated from the main office to...
View Article2012 R2 Clustering with SMB
Since I have found that I need a cluster without Hyper-V for file sharing services, how do I create virtual switched to connect to VLANs without Hyper-V?
View ArticleHow to delete Folders and Files older than 10 day ?
If I use this below command, I am able to delete only the files and files in sub-folders older than 10 day, forfiles /p "D:\Testing\Sample" /s /d -10 /c "cmd /c del /s /q @file" Please help... Thanks
View ArticleDisk space issues in Windows Server 2012 R2
Hello,I'm running a VM with Windows Server 2012 R2 as a file server.After the system was running fine for several months, the winsxs folder started to grow (specially winsxs\pendingdeletes and...
View ArticleWork Folder errors
I have Work Folders set up on a Server 2012 R2 machine which is fully updated. The client having trouble is running Windows 8.1 and I am seeing the following errors:Upload Failed: Access is Denied...
View ArticleMoved to Server 2012 getting Access Database Corruption
We moved our company file shares to a new Windows 2012 server and are now having issues with Access databases becoming corrupted when accessed by multiple clients at the same time. Does anyone have...
View ArticleDFS Replication
Hi Dear friends ,We want to deploy a scenario with server 2012 . We have İstanbul Office in Turkey and we will set an another Office in Londra in next time.We want to sync all folders from İstanbul...
View ArticleDeleting offline folder cache
Hello All,I need expert advice on the following; We need to delete the offline folder cache on the windows 7 clients for over a 100+ users in our environment.Let me describe the scenario -- All the...
View ArticleSMB Direct multichannel and asymmetric number of rNIC between SOFS and...
Hello, I'm planning to deploy a SOFS with clustered storage space to store VM workloads.Hyper-V Cluster nodes will access the SOFS nodes using 2x 10Gbps rNICI would like to configure my SOFS nodes with...
View ArticleFiltered ports vulnarble?
Hello, i am pentesting anserver and i waswondering if the Filtered ports are still vuln?I've run an NMAP of the server and i got around 4 filtered ports135/tcp filtered msrpc 139/tcp filtered...
View ArticleShow Files on the Explorer as the truncated file size
How can i make windows reflect the truncated file size of a file rather than the original file size
View ArticleHow to transfer file shares from one server to other
Dear All,In our office we have one DC cum file server and OS is Windows 2003 and we have new with OS server 2008 r2 Domain controller. So we need to transfer the files and folders with sharing and...
View Articlereplacing a failed disk in storage space ! unable to remove a retired disk
Hi Folks Not really asking for much !! we are using windows 2012 R2 storage space ; one disk failed and marked as retired. today we received replacement disk ; added that to storage pool - fine....
View ArticleBacking up iSCSI Initiator settings
Simple question, but I have been searching for an hour without anything definitive. Is it possible to backup the configuration settings of iSCSI initiator so that I can import then into a system?The...
View ArticleVery poor Random IO performance of 24 HDD Mirror-2 CSV on Win2012 R2
We already have a 2 separate Win2012 Mirror-2 Storage Clusters (in production) and had noted that performance was very poor.We were looking to upgrade to Win2012R2 and storage tiering, we wanted to...
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...
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