Windows 2012 R2 DC in Windows 2003 domain, users cannot access any shares
I had a 2008 DC die in a domain that it is functioning at 2003. We were in the process of starting to roll out new hardware for all 9 sites, starting with the head office which is where we have 2 x...
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Slow opening of files from shared folder on Windows Server 2012
Hello,We have recently upgraded our file server solution from a Windows XP install with shared folders. To Windows Server 2012. However, we have been seeing a noticeable difference in network speeds...
View ArticleEvery user can read any file while ACL mass change in progress
Hi!We're having some strange things happening here. Maybe someone can help us what exactly is/was going on here.1. We have to add an additional user in the NTFS ACL list for all file shares in our...
View Articlethe action cannot be completed because the file is open on another program
I experience a weird issue.I have Windows 2008 server. Created 2 shares on the server. Every day starting between 2 and 7 PM i cannot save or rename files and folders at the root of the share. I have...
View ArticleStoring Desktop hard drives in storage array
I am wondering if anyone has setup their networks where you have a large storage array that the users desktops boot from, using iscsi, AoE, or similar. If so would I set that up with windows server...
View ArticleError removing physical disk marked as Retired
I have Server 2012 with one storage pool and one virtual disk. The virtual disk uses layout parity and thin provisioning. It contained 4 physical disks. One of the physical disks failed. It was pulled...
View ArticleWin2008 R2 Backup Failure: Volume Shadow copy operation failed for backup...
Failed to get exclusive lock on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) system partition. [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Backup [ Guid] {1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D} EventID 517...
View ArticleDrop box folder
We have an FTP server we want to give outside business partners access too to drop files.They will drop files on our FTP server in our DMZ to a shared folder location.I want them to be able to drop a...
View ArticleAuto resize JPG resolution rules on shared folder
I have users that copy hi res photos to a network share. Is there a way to have the files (as they get dropped into the share folder) auto resize to a set percentage. And the original (hi res jpgs)...
View ArticleVolume size and Capacity size Don't match
Hello,I have a fileshare running Windows 2008 R2 that has a Dynamic Disk that is 1670.78 GB formatted NTFS. The problem is if I look at the properties of the volume it says that the capacity is 987...
View ArticleQuestion about NTFS Permissions (Read Permissions)
Hello All,I hope somebody can help me. I am wondering about the ACL Atribute "Read Permissions"Lets say I created a shre named "Share1" were "User1" has read Access. I created a Folder named "Folder1"...
View ArticleDFSR Errors and Initial Sync slows down Network
HelloI have a Windows 2012 Server (primary member-site A) where i created one Replication Group which replicates one folder with the amount of 104 GB of Data over WAN to another Windows 2012 Server...
View ArticleFile Server Cluster for User profiles - How do I do it?
Hello Everyone, I hope you can help me with this (I'm using windows server 2012r2 VMs on Hyper-V and a iSCSI SAN)I need to setup failover for a file server which will be storing all user profiles...
View ArticleThe DFS Namespaces service failed to initialize the shared folder
Hello All,The two DFS File services configured. Replication group created. few days ago file replication was working well but from last two day file replication working. I run force replication using...
View ArticleDFS ABE on Existing File Server
I have a couple questions about DFS.We currently have a file server that we need to setup Access Based Enumeration on to hide folders the user does not have access to. The server is 2008 R2 in a...
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user’s data replication from one file server to remote another file
Dear All,We want solution for server by windows system, what can I do it? Anybody help me. Right now we want to implement storage solution for DC and DR sites. Not full DR solution. Only DR site for...
View ArticleIssue installing server 2012 R2
Just performed a clean install of R2 to replace server 2012.Needed to re install server as ran into an error that appeared unrecoverable - video_driver_init_failed - stopped me over and over again no...
View ArticleWindows services
Hello,Does anyone know what's max number of services can be deployed in Windows Server 2003 service pack 1 ?Thanks for your feedback.
View ArticleMoving File Server
Good Evening,I need to upgrade one of our file servers as it is running Server 2003. However I understand that as the current server is on 32 bit I can't just upgrade it to Server 2012 or Server 2012...
View ArticleCan I recover data from CD's, CDR's and DVD's?
Can I use Power Data Recovery to recover data from CD's, CDR's and DVD's?
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