How can Windows files and folder owners just vanish, and how to restore all...
See, we have a file server running windows 2003 at our company, and suddenly most of the files and subfolders permissions are gone, lost even the owner, making it unaccessible even for the...
View ArticleDFS - insane amount of backlog files (how are all of these being changed?)
2008R2 serversWe have about 35 users that are creating an insane amount of DFS backlog files. We've been steadily bumping up the staging area to 8, 10, then 20GB but it doesn't help. We've seen...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2, running restore-dfsrpreservedfiles, getting path,...
Trying to recover some deleted files that are located in the DFSRPrivate folder as Conflicted files due to an erroneous change made on the primary server in the replication group. I am getting the...
View ArticleStorage Tiering in Server 2012 R2 Core Hyperv
Hello everyone,Recently I installed the free version of server core 2012 R2 with Hyperv. The following hardware Raid has been configured: Raid 1 with 2 drivers for the physical Hyperv Host installation...
View ArticleDeleting Windows quandry. a.k.a. Cry for help!
Hi, I have a 540 g external hard drve with a partition. On one part I have Win7 the other Win8.1. I do not need either as I have the same setup on my laptop system. But the external is full of media...
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Automated scrubbing and bit rot repair on a mirrored storage space using ReFS
I use several ReFS volumes , either on one-way or two-way mirrored storage spaces under Windows Server 2012R2.The description of the automated 'scrubbing' on TechNet seems a bit unclear to me....
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...
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 ArticleApple and WS2012R2 extrelmly slow file listing
Hi all, I have big problem with Apple and Windows server 2012R2. I migrated data from Synology to Windows Server and if i map drive : smb://fileserver/DATA_FOLDER, everything is OK, but if i open...
View ArticleHow do you empty a re-directed recycle bin on a network share
I have folder re-direction enabled via Group Policy which unfortunatly re-directs the recycle bins too. I can see the size of them on the network share but unable to delete or even view inside them....
View ArticleWindows server 2012 r2 and remote search
I've read the document for Windows Search Service and see that it is not an option for our Terminal server environment with dfs share.Is there any good suggestion on what we can do to increase the...
View ArticleCreating FTP container to allow file uploads
All,Currently I have a public FTP site which allows our customers to download/upload files to it.I would like to take this a step further and create a way where I could send them a link to the page,...
View ArticleFolders permissions are changing. Cannot find the cause.
I am running multiple Windows server 2008 R2. And the clients are running either Windows XP SP3 or Windows 7 SP1.I have a folder to hold all of the users home folders. D:\Users\Staff In this folder are...
View Articleiscsi initiator target not reconnecting on reboot
Windows server 2008 Standard on a VM (vsphere 4.1) - We are using the iscsi initiator to target storage on another bare metal Linux server. Although the reconnect fails on a reboot, we can manually...
View ArticleData deduplication scrubbing job stuck on 30% for 6 days
Hi everyoneI have a LUN which has been stuck on "scrubbing" for around 6 days. It won't progress any further. I've run a scan disk and it doesn't report any errors. The second LUN on the box is running...
View ArticleDFS between 2 SQL Failover clusters a seperate sites
I have 2 clusters running without issues. 1 is located in a branch office and 1 is located in our datacenter. These clusters are providing a HA SQL 2008 R2 services. At the branch site we have a...
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 ArticleSource path name too long windows server 2008
Source path name too long windows server 2008 while copy/move/delete from server
View ArticleSMB Access On Public Interface
Hello All!I currently am running a file server in my home on Windows 2012 R2. I've been experimenting with a lot of different things (I'm a student) and I have it set up as a DNS, DHCP, Firewall for my...
View ArticleRemovable disk issue encountered after iSCSI target rebooted
My setup12 TB Buffalo NAS (Array 1 - Raid 5 - 6 iSCSI volumes) connected to WIndows Server 2008 R2 via iSCSI InitatorQuestion:1. After rebooting the NAS without disconnecting iSCSI volumes from the...
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