About DFSR performance & efficiency
Hello everyone. Maybe some guru's know how DFS-R works ;). I'm very interested in DFS replication for a very large number of small files, whick appear every day. (let's say +10000-100000 files <...
View ArticleCorrupt Previous Versions
We are running Server 2012 R2 and have a 4 TB drive connected to two 10 GB ethernet with multipath to an IBM V3700. In Windows we have enabled deduplication and previous versions. We have also added...
View ArticleUSB Drive Read Only
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bit on an Intel HP Pavilion dv6. I have a PNY 16 GB USB drive that is now useless because it has somehow become "read only". Did this happen with bitlocker?...
View ArticleError/warning message "you don't have permission to modify files in this...
Hi,We have a windows server 2008 running, and we access it via remote desktop. And there's this certain folder that all users access, and where we save important files. So, since this is where...
View ArticleReenabling Previous Versions after being disabled for an extended period
Have a server that was in-place upgraded from 2008 r2 to 2012 r2. Went a few months before I realized that during the update Previous Versions settings did not come across. Looks like the old shadow...
View ArticleDFS root browsable in \\domain\ other DFS roots require FQDN i.e....
Using "contoso" as a substitute for the real name.....I managed to set up a DFS root of the form \\contoso\users that is showing up like any share would in windows explorer when I browse\\contoso\ and...
View ArticleFile server data migration from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008r2
Hi, I am just in the middle of planning a file server migration from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2.The files that need to come over to our new 2008 file server are our Users data from their home...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 - Share and storage manager - automatically delete sessions?
Hi All,We have a problem on one of our servers in which users are unable to access network drives when they log on. It comes with with an error message along the lines of you are unable to connect as...
View Articlehow to get a report the Disk Space through a command
Dear sirs,How do i get a report C & D drive free space in bulk servers (2008r2).Is there any command to export it to any txt or csv format.thank you.Karan
View ArticleReplace files across directories
A client was hit with a Crypto virus recently. To resolve the issue, I have restored their backup to a directory on a server. After days of replacing a corrupt with a 'clean' file, the client expects...
View ArticleWork Folder System Tray executable error
We're currently looking to deploy Work folders across our organization now that a Windows 7 client is available, however we receive a .Net application error when installing the Work Folders client on a...
View ArticleRoaming Profiles and Home Directory Questions
I wanted to ask some advice before making changes to AD for roaming profiles, folder redirection and the home folder. We run Server 2008 with Windows 7 computers. The XP workstations will be gone by...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 Fileserver - Files open sometimes slow
We have problems - file open sometimes slow. Fileserver isWindows 2012 R2 (all updates) and Window 7 clients. The Fileservers are virtual and running von VMWare vShpere 5.1. (paravirtual, vmxnet3...
View ArticleDFS Restore command fails: Access Denied
I have 2 DFS Servers with Replication on the 2 of themFile01 and File02 with File01 as the primaryI performed a robocopy that deleted some user profiles so I tried to restore the files but I am getting...
View ArticleHow to setup both a separate [public] Anonymous Login share (without login...
Hey All, Any help in resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated. Environment Details:Windows Server 2012 R2 (Non-domain)Two shares:\\server2012\anon_share\\server2012\private_shareIntended...
View ArticleWeird DFS issue Windows 8.1 clients
One of my users noticed something peculiar when working on text or document from a DFS share.The user will save changes and leave the doc open. Preliminary tests show that around 10min+ is when user...
View ArticleMoving file and folders to mountpoint
Hello Forum, I need some help around a small project that I am involved with. For the sake of simplicity, I will use only one server as an example - this will give me conceptual understanding on how to...
View Article2003 to 2008 R2 file cluster migration - shares fail to migrate due to...
Hello,I need to migrate my 2003 cluster to 2008 R2, but am having difficulty doing so. I have a 2003 2 node disk and node majority cluster which has 3 groups (2 individual file shares) and a separate...
View ArticleVery Slow DFS Replication after permission changes on all the files (60TB of...
3 days back I have changed root permission (all files, around 60 TB, most of the files are around 10 mb each).Since then the DFS replication is very slow, and is running at around 150 KB/s...
View ArticleRecover corrupted .bkf file by SysTools BKF Repair.
Hi All,My .bkf file corrupted due to power failure, and now i bought SysTools BKF Repair to retrieve the data from .bkf files. Theare are a few catalogs, say Catalog 1 and Catalog 2, in the corrupted...
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