Dynamic Memory and Data Deduplication
Hi,I'm currently testing W2K12 Deduplication feature on some servers, and I was wondering if I could enable "Dynamic Memory" on the VM in Hyper-V? Because the job only uses percentage of memory for the...
View ArticleMake Backup From Data on the File Server
OS: Server 2008 R2Hi There,I have 4 Tb data on my file server (SAN) and right now shadow copy is active on the servers so I have 30 days backup.I would like to make a backup of them every weekend to...
View Articledfsrdiag.exe backlog showing one nameless file?
When have a dfsr hub and spoke setup for a replicated folder.The permissions were set on the spoke folders so no end users could modify the contents.To my surprise, when running a health report on the...
View ArticleDFS Namespaces
Hello,I have a question and wanted to know what kind of problems I may run into if I have some servers running Server 2008 R2 and some Servers running Server 2012, both running DFSR. Will there be any...
View Article"The IO operation at logical block affress xxxxxxx for Diskx was retired" and...
Hello,I am running Windows Server 2012 Standard on a HP Proliant DL380 Gen8 with internal Storage on a Smart Array p420i Controller.This server has been in production since Nov 2011 as a Hyper-V Host....
View ArticleFatal Error by using File Server Migration Tool
Hello,we would like to migrate a single Windows 2003 R2 SP 2 (32bit) File Server to another FileServer-Cluster running Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise SP 1 with the MS FileServer Migration Tool.We created 2...
View ArticleSTG_E_LOCKVIOLATION from StgOpenStorage when reading a network file from...
We have found that if processes on multiple machines attempt to open a networked structured storage file forreading they will occasionally report ‘A lock violation has occurred’ (STG_E_LOCKVIOLATION)....
View ArticleSystem Writer is not found in the backup
Hello,I have a new and updated Windows 2012 Standard OEM version on DELL Server. When trying to run a Bare Metal update I am receiving the error "System Writer is not found in the backup". I have...
View ArticleDFS migration - Srv2008SP2 to Srv2012
Hello,we have a working DFS namespace with two replicating file servers (Srv2008SP2, 32 Bit).Can we add 2 Windows Server 2012 as members for replicating the volumes and afterwards dismiss the old...
View ArticleNFS Share on 2008R2 not working
Hi there,We have an NFS share on a windows 2003 box which works fine. We have built a new Windows 2008R2 and want to move the shares into this server. The permissions look identical but for some reason...
View ArticleMake Backup From Data on the File Server while Files Are Open
OS: Server 2008 R2Hi There,I have 4 Tb data on my file server (SAN) and right now shadow copy is active on the servers so I have 30 days backup.I would like to make a backup of them every weekend to...
View ArticleNetwork error: Windows cannot access the specified folder(\\server\folder$)
HiIN W2k8R2 server i created one shared folder & accessed. Recently i'm facing problem in accessing that folderPls find the snapshot below
View ArticleHow to copy local users windows server 2008 r2
Hello everyone, Due to a hosting issue, I need to copy local users and groups from one server 2008 R2 to another in a different hosting company. Please note that those servers are not part of a forest...
View ArticleDFSR: Is it ok to empty the PreExisting folders after initial sync is...
We have pre-seeded hundreds of GB of data on our hub server, and several GB of data ended up in the 'PreExisting' folder for each replicated folder. Initial sync is complete for all of them and I...
View ArticleDFS on clustered servers?
Hello all,I hope you all can help, here's the scanario:I'm trying to install DFS between two clusters for namespace's sake. I have n1 and n2 clustered for Cluster1, which will host user data - n3 and...
View ArticleWMI Not found
Hi All,I have Windows 2003 Ent Server SP2, yesterday my server was shut down abnormally due to Power shutdown, after that i found my system state backup was not happen so i tried force backup but...
View Articlefile corruption after backup using temporary VSS snapshot
I see the following pattern, which does lead to file corruption.Server Win2008R2SP1 Clients Win7Sp1SMBv2 enabledServer running on VMware Vshpere 5.1 ESXi host, Disks are VMFS volumes on local hardware...
View ArticleQuestion about Article ID 2550581 and Affected Platforms
Hi,I have an issue on a customer related to the problem described on Article ID: 2550581 and the platform affected isOS Name: Microsoft© Windows© Storage Server 2008 StandardOS Version:...
View ArticleDFS-N Namespace Creation Setup Permissions
What is the best practice to setup a new Namespace that I only want specific groups ou's access too? I'm having trouble getting this too work when setting up the namespace and there is the selection...
View Articlestarting with a temporary profile & ad with .bak extension in RegEdit
Hi thereThere are dozen & dozen articles about my issue, but no one helped me to fix it!. The problem is that, when user profiles logs on to the server, they logs on temporary profile. Thus, all...
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