Map network drive (folder) / Group exclusion
Hello - Our school has a shared drive (folder?) on our 2008 server. This is for teachers and staff. We have a group named teachers and staff. We also have a group named students that have their own...
View ArticleIs there a pdf or list or something that shows the programs that open or...
.h.dat.dmp.crmlog.clb.cmf.toc.clr.dir.sdb.pfetc.....What does someone do when they have no idea how to open these files? Is there a comprehensive file type list? A pdf? Some sort of reference? and...
View ArticleDFS permissions problem. All files open up Read Only
Dear Microsoft fanatics,I have the most annoying issue at a customers setup. The customer has 3 servers. 2 of them are working with server 2008 R2 and the 3th one (an VPS) is installed with server 2012...
View ArticleCleanly Remove Storage Tier from Virtual Disk
I have got a tiered Virtual Disk composed of 1 HDD and 1 SSD (just a lab setup). Is there a way to cleanly remove the SSD tier from the virtual disk - I'm guessing marking the tier as readonly then...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 DFS unable to create namespace
Hello, I am trying to create a DFS namespace in a Windows 2012 domain. The forest functionality is Windows 2012 and all the servers are Windows 2012. When I try to create the Namespace from the...
View Articlediskless boot using iscsi
I have a test lab setup with a server running 2008 r2 with the iscsi target 3.3 software installed. I have a second computer with a intel nic that supports iscsi. I created a target on the 2008 r2 box...
View ArticleDelegate access for Bitlocker recovery on an OU only?
Can someone give me the steps to delegate access to an AD group for Bitlocker recovery passwords on an OU only? I have read the articles that have the vb script and talk about using...
View Articlemklink 'Unable to find required directory'
I have a task of accessing directory D1 located on remote machine M1 from machineM2.For this, I created a symbolic link for D1 on M2 using the command:mklink /d C:\D1 \\M1\e$\D1Now, from machine M2, if...
View ArticleServer 2012R2 hangs when attaching a ReFS Parity Storage Pool
It appears that I have inadvertently damaged my Storage Space when upgrading from Server 2012 to Server 2012R2 (or maybe it is just a coincidence) and I am looking for help in repairing/recovering my...
View ArticleThe SMB client failed to resume a handle on a file share with continuous...
Hi.We have a 2-node WS2012 cluster that has a file server role with couple shares configured.We're however constantly getting spammed by the following errors in the eventlog:1) event 1002, source:...
View ArticleLanmanserver fails to start on 2008 R2 Standard
I somehow accidently deleted SRVSVC.DLL and couldn't recover it so I just copied from another server running same OS and pasted it. I receive Error 2 and states cannot find the file specified but I do...
View ArticleSetting Permissions for Administrative Shares - From Windows Server 2008 R2...
Hi,I have a corporate Inventory application installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 and I need to deploy some Agents to Windows 7 Desktops.This app requires having access to C$ and Admin$ in the Desktops,...
View ArticleRAID setup on C drive
Hello, I'm trying to make a mirror for my c drive on which my Windows server 2008 is installed and running. When I try to convert it into a dynamic disk, it shows some warning that the operating...
View Articlecmdlets for a usable storage space
I have available 8 x 2TB HDDs and 4 x 400GB SSD's which I want to create a Tiered Storage based Storage Spaces volume with. I want to use 10GB of space for the Quorum volume later. I'm missing...
View ArticleStrange Defrag error 0x80070057
Hello everyone,I am observing a strange issue with defrag on Windows Server 2012 R2. There is a hardware RAID volume using deduplication in VDI mode and containing some virtual machines. Deduplication...
View ArticleMac and windows clients losing connection to Server 2012 Namespace
I am running Windows 2012 Standard edition on two HP Servers. Both are fully patched O/S's and all HP system updates are installed. Each is running a 10 Gbit NIC to a Cisco 2960 Switch fully updated....
View ArticleCREATE PARTITION ERROR
Hi, I try to create new partition on SSD for Windows OS because I deleted Local Disk Vol. (I am using Windows 7 PE) ----------DISKPART>SELECT DISK 0DISKPART>CREAT PARTITION PRIMARYVirtual Disk...
View ArticleDFSN Folder general error
Hello, I am trying to use the New-DFSNFolder cmdlet as part of a script. When it runs the command though, I am getting the following:New-DFSNFolder : A general error occurred that is not covered by...
View Articlemmc crash in dfs
great job on server 2012I am being fastidiousmmc crashed setting up dfs
View Articlewhy does it keep asking me to overwrite the files over and over
So i copy and paste a dirit says they dir already exists overwrite?yes!!!!!then it looks like it is copying the files then it asks againdo you want to overwrite 4324 file?YES I ALREADY SAID...
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