Storage Spaces Recovery after Partition Table failure?
Hello everyone.Following problem occured: I have at home a Storage Spaces setup with 4 Harddrives, 2x 2TB WD and 2x 3TB Drives. Yesterday I started copying an archive from one virtual harddrive to...
View ArticleRecovering a storage space.
Help please,I am running Windows Server 2012 Essentials as a Hyper-v guest under Windows 8. I created a Storage Space within the guest on two 1tb disks attached to the VM. After re-booting the host...
View ArticleNo rights with "effective permissions" but still read/write possibility
Hello,i am having a Server 2008R2 environment with 1 file-server.On this server there is a share with NTFS permissions.When checking the advanced options and "effective permissions" for a specific...
View ArticleHelp with Batch File?
I'm new to the batch file world, and I need help creating a file to do the following:I need to move 3 separate files from the mapped B: drive to the mapped K: drive. My issue is that the file names...
View Article[2008R2sp1] Slow performance on Failover Cluster fileshare
We have several HP DL360G6 machines of which some are management servers, some are Hyper-V 2012 cluster, and some are Exchange / File / SQL cluster. The File cluster role is normally running on one...
View ArticleCan't directly download PDF files on Windows Server 2013
On our Windows Server 2003, we are unable to directly download PDF files. Instead we have to use a download.php file. I think it has to do with setting the automatic headers for PDF support but I have...
View ArticleWindows 2008r2 cluster and NetApp OnTapp 8.0.5
I thought I'd post it here as it is somewhat undocumented bug (I susspect) with NetApp and affects only clustered servers:Analysis of the outage after NetApp upgrade to OnTap version...
View Articlewindows server 2003 client logon problem
we are having windows server 2003. from client system (having win 8, win 7) some times can not log in. From client using remote desktop connection can access server 2003, Client can use sql server...
View ArticleMissing administrative share on Windows 2003 File Server
I have noticed that one of the hard drive on the Windows 2003 file server has missing administrative share. I can connect to C$, E$, F$ but not G$ hard drive from my workstation. I have no idea why it...
View ArticleMissing Admin Shares and how to get them back
I lost the admin shared permissions on one of my local drives. G$ is no longer shared as a "hidden drive".How can I restore or get the admin share G$ back along with the correct permissions?
View ArticleAssigning folder permissions with icacls on 2008R2 - access denied on one...
I work in a school environment working with Server 2008r2 and have a script that creates new student users. Everything about this script works except assigning file permissions.I have a group at each...
View ArticleCan iSCSI use SATA drives in a Hyper-V Fail-Over Clustera?
I am new to storage so this may be a stupid question? Can iSCSI use SATA drives in a Windows 2012 Hyper-V failover cluster? Must they be SAS or Fibre Channel? Will this setup pass the configuration...
View ArticleTrack Open files and Sessions for a specific CAP on a File Server Failover...
Hi all,I have set a File Server on a W2K8R2 Failover Cluster at a customer. They don't use DFS and because of the legacy structure and previous FS migration history I had to ensure the transparency of...
View ArticleFile Server Resource Manager
Hello,I have an issue in FSRM, that is that i cant view quota managed folders. when i click it displays "An unexpected error has occured. Check with application evemt log"As checked the App log, it...
View ArticleBlue screen with error in rdpwd.sys in windows server 2003
Hi, i have HP server prolint DL380 G5 runing windows server 2003 SP2 suddenly the server gives me a blue screen with error 0x0000008E and every time i switch it on it gives me the blue screen and and...
View ArticleExpanding a basic GPT disk
Hi All,I have an existing 2.2TB basic disk, formatted with NTFS, partitioned with GPT. This is physically an HP array connected via fibre. The server is Windows 2003 SP2. It is not the system...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 - Restore Previous Versions - Restored File Filled...
ISSUE:The Restore Previous versions feature on my file server stopped working some time in the recent past. If I look at the Previous Version for a file or folder the items are listed and they show a...
View ArticleFile Server 2012 deduplicatin - How to backup files???
Hello Team,I have migrate my old file server to a new 2012 with deduplication enable. I use robocopy to take backup of my files. My issue is that when robocopy access each file to check if it has...
View ArticleServer 2012 Storage Virtualization, Clustering and Hyper-V
I have a growing network with 2 Hyper-V virtual hosts containing about 10 virtual servers. I also have 5 other physical servers in this mix. In moving to Server 2012 and reading about storage...
View ArticleiSCSI Initiator
Question regarding iSCSI sessions and MPIO (for HyperV cluster)Each host has 2 x iSCSI NICs for redundancy.SAN has 2 x available iSCSI ports.We have 3 hosts.1. Is it ok to map all 6 host iSCSI NICs to...
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