Storage Spaces: SSD tier size incorrect when using EnclosureAware option in a...
Hi folks,We're about to deploy Storage Spaces in our test environment, but we encountered an issue while configuring Enclosure Awareness on Storage Pools.When we create a Storage Pool (over 3 JBOD's)...
View Articledisk defrag
I'm showing a system defrag that will not defrag and the number keeps climbing. hard disk c and d are fine. how do I get rid of this
View ArticleStand-alone DFS Share - Folder targets - wrong credentials
Hi allI am currently setting up a stand-alone DFS root with some Folder targets on different servers.All server are Windows 2012 R2 with all available patches.I use the stand-alone DFS because many...
View ArticleStorage Spaces mirror with 2 physical disk. Trying to replace disks. FAILED...
Hello,Have Windows 2012 R2 server with storage spaces. Trying to replace two disks in storage spaces pool, but only one disk at a time.There is two physical disks in storage spaces pool (PhysicalDisk1...
View ArticlePermission
hi,I have windows server 2012 and it acts as a file server. I would like to know how can I give access to users to do the following: read, open subfolders, open files and edit files,save the files....
View ArticleDeploy ODBC to clients remotely
In Server 2008 R2 is there any way to remotely deploy pre-configured ODBC to client machines?Unsure if it's something via GP or scripting and can't find much online about this.Has anyone done it before...
View ArticlePartition Table Lost
One Server is connected to MSA SAN, after restarting server, some volumes are missing, when we go to Disk Management, some drives are okay, and some are showing unallocated. It seem partition table...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 DFS, System Error 53
Background Info- AD is functional level 2008 R2- Web server is running Windows 2012 + IIS (W1 > W5)- File Server is running Windows 2012 R2 and DFS (FS1, FS2)Now when i setup my dfs file share, it...
View ArticleDFSR issues - Backlog reset
Hi,I have some fileservers with a huge amount of data. Both servers are Win2K8 R2. Topoligy is fullmesh. All works fine and pretty fast.On 2 servers I get a backlog for files that do not (longer) exist...
View ArticleSlow retrieval and saving of files on Server 2012 R2 Fileserver
HI;I recently moved a client from sharing files on a Windows 2003 Server OS installed on a desktop machine to a HP Xeon Quad Core Server with 16GB RAM. I used Hyper V in GUI mode and setup a DC...
View ArticleCan't find the all disks in storage pool
HelloI have Windows server 2012 R2 installed in KVM. I would like to create storage pool on 2 virtual disks. I use whole new two virtio type disk. I could see that there's two attached disks.virtio...
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Access Based Enumeration Enabled but not hiding folders
I'd like to use Access Based Enumeration to hide folders that users do not have access to, however from testing I am unable to get it working on my Windows Server 2012 R2 server. I have created a SMB...
View ArticleExcel and PDF Files disappearing in a DFS Replicated folder
Hi everyone,We are currently facing an issue in our environment and we can't figure out why this is happening. We have two scenarios under which files are disappearing in one of the DFS Replicated...
View ArticleMigrate File server from Domain A to Domain B
Need help on tools.I have 2 Domains (A.com and b.Com)Both have trust enabledA.com -- File server is in windows 2003 SP2 OS ( we have only one server)B.com -- New server installed with windows 2008...
View ArticleFSRM
HiI have a 2012 DC and shares are located in NAS Storage. I want to configure FSRM Storage report management. I tried to configure but, I can't set the network path in FSRM. Is it possible to set the...
View ArticleDFS files Avaliable offline
HiI have 2 server running win server 2008 64bit, and i configured DFS.I Know dfs is to give users access adn continue working with their files if one of boths server crash or is down.What i need to...
View ArticleMapping to subdirectory
We just migrated from Netware to Windows. We created a NEW Windows 2008R2 server and moved the data over. We created all of the security by hand. All of our drive maps are working except one type....
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 - SOFS - Intel JBOD = Unhealthy
Hi I have issues with my Intel JBOD’s JBOD2224S2DP in SOFS solution.When I run Get-StorageEnclosure is says HealthStatus = UnhealthyThe output looks like thisPassThroughClass...
View ArticleRemove-DfsnRootTarget - The requested object could not be found
Hi,I just discovered that both target paths in a DFS root target is referenced by NetBIOS name, not FQDN (the names is generalized):Get-DfsnRootTarget -Path \\Contoso.local\AccountingSoftware|...
View ArticleDFS preseed with cloned HyperV VM
Hi All,Just a quick question in regards to starting up DFS replication. We need to setup a secondary file server at a remote site with DFS replication. As this site is on quite a slow link is it...
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