Storage Tier - "There are no groups of available disks"
So I've just physically inserted 4 brand new disks into a Dell server. I can see them as ready in Dell OpenManage, but when I got to create a storage pool its not picking up my primordial disks.Do I...
View ArticleFileServer share permission managing
Hello!We have server based on Windows Server 2012. It has FileServer role installed. We have shared folder, where are many other folders. Users see only those folders, that are available for them,...
View Article2012 R2 Storage Spaces - Split a mirrored virtual disk and keep data
HiI have a storage pool containing 2x physical disks. I have created a mirrored virtual disk on top of those physical disks, occupying all the space.I would like to split this pool/mirror back into 2...
View ArticleLarge number of open file handles on fileserver (Server 2012R2) after user's...
Hi,we do have an rds farm with roaming profiles (not profile disks) consisting of 6 terminal servers ("srvts001" to "srv006" 2012 R2), 2 domain controllers ("srvdc01", "srvdc02" 2012 R2), 1...
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Can't figure out permissions ACL
This is a brand new 2012R2 AD environment and I have a test user that is only a member of domain users. The folder structure I will use for an example is \\server\data-share\accounting. Domain users...
View ArticleSpecial Permissions on Subfolders and Files
So, we're a bit stumped on something. We have a fileserver on 2012R2 and a 2008 AD. We have users who map to a home network drive. We set the users up the same way every time. Sharing is Everyone -...
View ArticleDFS - Restart replication after folder offline for 90 days
We had a replication group between 2 servers offline for more than 60 days. These are the steps I've taken to bring it back online:1. Made a backup of data on both file servers2. Marked server 1 as...
View ArticleFiles NOT opening as Read Only
We have a network share. It uses Distributed File System (DFS). When a user opens a file, it does not get marked as "open" and another user can open file normally instead of getting the Read Only...
View ArticleHow to find list of shares being accessed by a user
Hi,Below PowerShell command shows number of users currently accessing a share. Similarly, on Windows Server, is there a way to find list of shares being accessed by a given user. PS C:\>...
View ArticleThere has been a sharing violation. The Source or destination file may be in...
We recently moved a large group of files from a Windows 2003 server to a Windows 2008 server. These files are accessed by many users constantly throughout the day, so they are almost always considered...
View ArticleDFSR namespace and replication not linked after accidental namespace deletion
AllA colleague of mine accidentally deleted a DFSR namespace on our W2K3 r2 domain yesterday when meaning to delete a target(!), we've followed KB969382 to restore the DFS configuration blob back into...
View ArticleFile server/storage controlling for image sequences
Hi,Our company is an audiovisual company mainly doing editing and visual effects. We have a windows 2012 server and its configured to do mainly data hosting for 10 workstations and a hp serverblade...
View Articledfs root empty
hi,we have dfs root or namespace hosted on 22 server but it is showing empty in one region that is sydney region.I ran the diagnostics check with dfsdiag but couldn't find error.It is intermittent...
View ArticleChanging from Servername to Namespace
I am looking at setting up DFS in our domain and hope to use an existing File server which hosts Homefolders as a DFS server.I have set up 2 test File servers called Testserver1 and Testserver2. Both...
View ArticleStorage Spaces - Virtual Disk Degraded but all Physical Disks OK.
I have a thin provisioned virtual disk comprising of three physical disks that is showing as degraded:PS C:\> Get-VirtualDisk "Data" | fl FriendlyName,*Status FriendlyName : Data OperationalStatus :...
View Articleset ownership to domain group and quota limits
How does quota management that is set on a volume track files owned by a group? We would like to set ownership for a folder to domain group "File Administrators" but keep getting "out of disk space"....
View ArticleFile Server 2003 to File Server 2012R2 File Server Migration Strategies
Hello,Hello, (Was looking for a migration forum so please move if this is not in the correct place)We have a large 2003 file server that we need to migrate to Server 2012R2We'd like to avoid having to...
View Articlenet share with permissions
Hi having some problem setting up a net share, I would like to setup a net share and set the permissions at the same timeThis is what i run in a powershell windowsPS D:\dfsshares> net share...
View ArticleInternet Information Services (IIS) FTP 7.5 550 Keyset does not exist
So I performed a replication of IIS from an old server to a new server (IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.5 being the current new server). I've copied over all of the sites and virtual directories. I can FTP and DIR...
View ArticleRobocopy Help Combining Two Directory Trees
Thanks in advance. I have a mess on my handI have two folder trees - a Backup Folder tree \\backupservername\share and "live" \\activeservername\sharethey have the same structure. I need to merge the...
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