NTFS permission removed when deleting a subfolder
Hello everyone,I do have a very strange issue with my file server. Let me first describe the infrastructure.OS: Windows Server 2016 Roles: File and Storage Services Type: Member of a 2016 DomainOn the...
View ArticleDFS-R Backlog Appears Stuck
I inherited 2 DFS-R hosts connected via a WAN. We'll call them Michigan and California. We have several replication groups, one of which is massive, in the realm of 1.4million files and 1.6 Terabytes...
View ArticleUnable to acess dfs path for a user
Hi,I have setup homedrive for each user and I have two users. This is only happen on one PC for this useruser 1 which can access the dfs path and direct path to server shareuser 2 which can't access...
View ArticleWhat is the "Correct" way to access a DFS file share?
I am setting up DFS Namespaces and replication for the first time, and I have everything setup. However, there seems to be more than 1 way I can access the network shares. Before I configure my Group...
View ArticleSMBClient Errors: 30611 followed by multiple 30906
Hello, I have researched online but could not find anything relevant. A hyper-v managed windows server 2016 instance is crashing and throws multiple events of:"The IO operation at logical block address...
View ArticleStorage Spaces (S2D) - Pool / Volume detailed specification and how the data...
Hi,Noticed that there seems to be a lack of tools that fully support data recovery from Storage Spaces (and S2D). There seems to be only one tool out there that may work. Most seem to support a pool...
View ArticleCan't access server's files via SMB but the server can access others.
Hi, I got a weird issue today:I have 3 servers: A B C, A and B are on the same network, C is on a different one.A and B can reach each other files via SMB. However, A and B are not reachable by C (via...
View ArticleStorage spaces direct volume degraded
Hi,I've setup 4 node S2D and i have issues with volume/virtualdiskrepair storage job is suspended with exception error code: 50001. volume operational/health state altering between degraded/warning to...
View ArticleWindows Search Committing Unusually High Number of Writes
We’ve noticed on our Terminal Server that the Windows Search service is periodically writing large amounts of data (sustained 600,000-1,000,000 B/sec). This was first noticed when our ShadowProtect...
View ArticleHyper-V over SMB3 problem
Hello. I have a problem with my Hyper-V cluster. It is simply a failover cluster with Hyper-V role consisting of two nodes. It uses SOFS share for VM storage. SOFS is run by second storage failover...
View ArticleServer unresponsive preventing RDP login
Hello,we encountered a very strange behaviour of some members of Windows Failover Cluster.Server: Windows 2008 R2 SP1All of a sudden we could not login to two nodes via rdp. Further investagtion showed...
View ArticleHow to change the default location of Work Folders when using group policy
Hi, I deployed Work folders in Windows 2012 R2, push the Work folder URL by Group policy and do not want any user interacts, but the Work folder will go to %userprofile%\Work Folders , I would like...
View ArticleStorage Replica - high log volume read activity
We have some volumes with Storage Replica running between them. When writing data to the source volume it looks like the read activity from the source log is ~3 times larger than the actual data...
View ArticleIs it possible to sync two volumes in S2D?
Hi all,I have a situation where a S2D Volume was created with double de size it needs. In order to reduce costs the manager wants to reduce replace the 2 disks of 4 TB for 2 disks of 2 TB, and reduce...
View ArticleHow would we get Shadowcopy to send notification of status - e.g. successful...
Hi,How would we get Shadowcopy to send notification of status - e.g. successful shadowcopy - with some stats. Either email or event log alerts would do. Any alerts or reports?thanks,
View ArticleWindows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Tier ReFS
Tier optimization task of ReFS volume is not working in Windows Server 2016.> Get-Volume g |Optimize-Volume -TierOptimize Optimize-Volume : The volume optimization operation requested is not...
View ArticleFile Explorer does not open - Windows Server 2012
Good morning people,I have had an issue the last few weeks which is driving me insane, I have tried many suggested fixes without avail as of yet, and just wondered if someone else would have something...
View ArticleAuditing on file server
HiI want to do auditing on file server win 2008 r2. I want to find logs for file/folder creation,deletion,create share,delete share...etc.Please suggest how to achieve this.thanks
View ArticleTest-SRTopology failing with file used by another process
Hello,I'm trying to test Storage Replica. I have two servers in separate datacenters and separate domains.Both machines are Windows 2016 Datacenter Core, build 1709. I'm logged as domain admin and this...
View ArticleDFS is not working anymore.
DFS was configured and working fine on Server 2008 STD, but now it's no longer replicating. Here are some of the errors I am seeing:...
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