We are debating defining all of our existing dept targets to our existing nas\\oldname\data\dept. We want to be able to change them during the cutting over to the new nas (\\newname\data\dept) via a script. This would allow us to fix our login script
ahead of time in our gpo's and handle the changes on the dfs side. I have tried powershell using set-dfsnFolderTarget -path\\doman.net\Data\Test - TargetPath "\\newname.domain.net\data\test" (tried adding -state Online too). I get the requested object could not be
found. I tried dfsutil but don't have the syntax right for that either. I have looked at a bunch of links of the web, but I'm still struggling. I don't want to define 50+ targets on the night we move things over
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Changing target folder after it has already been defined
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Nested DFS
I've recently started looking at our DFS configuration and have come across what I believe to be Nested DFS.
A number of DFS Namespaces have been setup with folders setup in 'Primary' DFS Namespaces that point at these 'secondary' Namespaces.
Example (the DFS Namespaces are hosted on the same Namespace servers)
dfs1 - folder1 (points at dfs2\fld)
- folder2 (points at dfs3\fld)
The only advantage I can see in doing it this way would be if Delegation was used to give Admins the ability to modify dfs2/dfs3 independent of dfs1. Are there other benefits?
Thanks
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Work folders 0x80c80003
Hi,
I'm trying to get Work folders running in a small domain, however I'm stuck.
I'm getting error 0x80c80003 on the client (Windows 10 Pro). No files have been created in the Work folders folder.
Please advise on how to debug this problem. I haven't even found a way to turn on detailed logging on the server.
Best
Barnabás Králik
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dfs error cannot be added. The specified path is invalid
Ok before someone points this out, yes there are other kb entries that i've found but none of them fit my exact issue enough.
We are moving some of our normal shares to DFS namespaces. I have already successfully moved several. The issue i'm having is where we have 'stacked' shares. i.e. \\main\folder1\folder2. I can create the namespace for folder1 but when i try to make the namespace for folder 2 i get the error. folder1 was shared as \\server\folder1 and folder 2 is shared as \\server\folder2. we also have DFS replication going on. I get the same error if i use 2008 R2 or 2012 R2. Both are datacenter. I've already checked the ad entries, using adsiedit, and folder2 does not show. I've also deleted the folder2 share and have removed and recreated the folder. Both manually and as part of the DFS namespace process. I haven't tried mounting /folder1/folder2 to a drive letter but this option really isn't available to me due to internal logistical issues. besides i'm not sure it would work. So where do i need to check and what can i do to get this to map the way i need it to?
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Storage Backup Solutions and the error, "there is not enough space available on the disk (s)to complete this operation"
OK folks, I have reached the point where I need experts! Reading various threads on this forum, I realize you all know your stuff so I am looking for help.
Below are the Drives I have on my server.
Disk0 is the main drive the server operates from hosting the OS and the software applications.
Disk1-8 is an external SATA storage with 8 removable 1TB scsi HDD (its was given to us) Disk 1 is one of the 8 that was simple formatted. The other seven had the partitions deleted.
Disk 9 is an external 1TB HDD
My need is setting up the 8Bay Storage.
The options mirroring, extending, RAID are under Server Manager: Disk Management but I continually get the"there is not enough space available on the disk (s)to complete this operation" error regardless of what option I choose. It happens after the question to make the disk dynamic.
There are several questions but let me start with two:
First, I need a simple, low maintenance solution to use huge overkill of a storage system to create redundancy to our data. This would be user data and database backups.
Secondly, you knew this was coming, what are the steps to make this simple solution happen!
Thanks
GDAD7
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 465 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 931 GB 0 B *
Disk 2 Online 931 GB 931 GB *
Disk 3 Online 931 GB 931 GB *
Disk 4 Online 931 GB 931 GB *
Disk 5 Online 931 GB 931 GB *
Disk 6 Online 931 GB 931 GB *
Disk 7 Online 931 GB 931 GB *
Disk 8 Online 931 GB 931 GB *
Disk 9 Online 931 GB 0 B
DISKPART>
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DFSR Connection Stucked. Receiving member: Not available
Hi All,
the replication has been syncing for 24 hours already, with only less than a Gig left and only 7 files remaining. what I did is I deleted the replication group to stop it. and copy manually the remaining 7 files. after that, I recreated the replication group. however, the old connection GUID was stucked.. any Idea how to get rid of this? it been on the replicationstatus for another 24 hours already and not dissapearing even if i already deleted the replication group.
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Active outbound connection: 1
Connection GUID: 22728330-1AC8-480D-8950-6F39D896B1C5
Receiving member: Not available
Number of updates: 7
Updates served:
[1] Update name: Company Name-Nishi-2012-08-06-11-17-55-178.zip
[2] Update name: Company Name-Nishi-2012-08-06-11-17-55-178.zip
[3] Update name: HY-BB-RVT [02].rvt
[4] Update name: Company Name-Nishi-2012-06-07-14-15-32-653.zip
[5] Update name: 000000 Record of events Diamant Hotel Company Name.docx
[6] Update name: B-3-H Facade Specification_ Rev 4_.pdf
[7] Update name: HY-BB-RVT [02].rvt
Total number of outbound updates being served: 7
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Thanks in advance.
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DFS-R Read Only Member With Older Windows
I believe the ability to mark a DFS-R member as read-only was introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2. If I have a replication group that has a Server 2008 or Server 2003 member, is it OK / supported to mark the 2008 R2 or 2012 R2 member as read only?
On the surface, it seems like this would be OK. However, when I tried it and looked in the Dfsr log file on the older member, I saw that it was trying to connect to the read only member for downloading and failing with an error. This makes me wonder if read-only should only be used when all the members in the replication group (that are connected) are running Server 2008 R2 or newer.
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DFSR Members not replicating, DFSRs.exe using 99% CPU
I have 3 DFSR members (1 primary, 1 backup and 1 remote site). The backup and remote site members have apparently stopped replicating. On the backup member, the DFSRs.exe process is constantly running at >99%, and its generating about 80MB of log files a minute. Scrolling through some of them, seems the majority of the log entries are of this type:
20160608 10:12:40.400 4172 JRWP 763 JournalWrapTask::MarkTopDown LDB Updating ID Record
Also noticed when I run a DFSR Health Report, on the backup member it doesn't list the disk volume where the replicated data resides:
I'm able to browse through the contents of the replicated data on the D: volume, so I know it's there.
In the logs for the remote site member, I see the same "JournalWrapTask::MarkTopDown LDB Updating ID Record" entries, and I also see a lot of:
Meet::CheckInSync -> WAIT Related record is under journal wrap recovery.
Do these log entries mean anything to anyone? Any ideas how I can troubleshoot further?
Thanks,
Shaun
Shaun
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transfer rate drop over smb multichannel
hi everyone,
on the client side i got windows 10 enterprise, on the server side i got windows server 2012 r2 data center virtual machine inside ESXI 6
i connected 3 ports directly end to end and gave each port static ip on different subnet
192.168.10.1,192.168.10.2
192.168.11.1,192.168.11.2
192.168.12.1,192.168.12.2
on the server side i made smb share to some folder and mounted over the client.
when i transfer a file(even a large one) the transfer begins in around 300MB/s and drop to 30MB/s and lot of ups n downs
the multi channel working fine, i see same activity on both ends spread between the 3 nics and Get-SmbMultichannelConnection return good values.
any ideas what is the source of the problem?
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Drive requiements for parity storage spaces?
Simple question for Storage Spaces in Windows 10:
I can see here that parity storage spaces requires three drives. But is there a requirement, that the drives are identical? more or less identical? of same size?
Thanks.
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Virtual disk
Sorryifthis is abeginnersquestion,but I have aproblemwhen choosing a
solutionconcerning thefile share design.
The point isthatI need to create afileserver storing user files,and sincewe already haverunningHyper-Vfail over cluster,it'll
do it on it.I opted for aclusteredfileserver,ie.two virtualmachineswithfile servicesrollin the cluster.
The problem withthe designis that I don'tknow themethodsof protectionvhdxdrive fromcorruption,ie, how can I ensure that we never lost our files?I thoughtmaybeI giveuse ofFreeNAS, orthe like on
two virtualmachinesin themirror where .vhdx wouold be stored?Ortorely onbackup of
.vhdxfiles?MaybeDFSR on two vm'sinstead offilecluster?
Please for someadviceandI'd like tohearhowyou havethese thingsresolvedinproduction.
P.S. My apologiesifthe question issomewhatincomprehensible,Englishis notmymother language :-)
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DFS folder permission reset
Hello,
We have been experiencing for the last 2 weeks a problem with our folder within the DFS-Namespace. Permissions on "Folder" not target, are being reset and only administrators have permissions.
Namespace server having the issue is a DC Running on Windows Server 2012 R2.
Other namespace server are running Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 R2 and not having issues, they are also DC themselves.
Thank you,
Marc-Andre
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Using smart card to map a network drive.
I have not been able to find an answer to this. I have two domains (A and B). A and B have a trust. We are trying to map a drive from A to a file share in B. We need to use smart card to map the drive, but would like to map it with the credentials in domain B. Every time I try to use the "net use v: \\server\share /smartcard" it uses the credentials in domain A.
I don't want to add the user in domain A to the resource in domain B. There are accounts in each domain that is using the same UPN from the SAN on the smart card. Is there any way to do this?
To take it a step further, if we broke the trust, would I be able to access the resource from A to B using my smart card?
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Assigning Permissions of a folder/sub-folders and files and inherit recursively
I'm trying to assign permissions to a folder that contains multiple sub-folders and files using icacls.
My syntax for assigning a group to a folder:
icacls Z:\TestFolder /grant:r Management_SG:(OI)(CI)F /C
This seems to work. But, when I dig in to a 3rd or 4th sub-directories, I noticed that "Management_SG" does not have permissions to a folder(s) and/or to a file(s)
When I use:
icacls Z:\TestFolder\TestSubFolder /q /c /t /reset
Again, it seems to inherit the permissions from "Z:\TestFolder". But, when I dig in to multiple sub-directories, some of the folders or files does not inherit the permissions. Is there a way to assign permissions and force it to inherit recursively?
I do notice that when I try to assign folder permissions, from Windows Explorer, in the advance properties tab, I would get an error "Error Applying Security. An error occurred while applying security information to: "folder path" Access is denied".
Why would i get that when I have local administrative rights. I've even tried running the Windows Explorer in Admin mode.
Can you please assist.
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File Sharing Permission
Hello Team,
* We have Created 200 Exam users in the below 10 groups.
* All the Exam users have Domain Users (By default Group) which means they will be having access on the Shared Folders on the network.
* We already have created Exam OU for the Exam Users created and having all the users in that specific OU (200Users).
* These group and member of this group (Exam Users) are used by the different Branches for conducting Online Objective Test.
My Infrastructure :
Windows Server 2008 R2 : Domain Controller (6 DC's)
4 DC's : Mumbai
2 DC's : BLR
1 File Server : 2008 R2 :
1 shared folder is on Application Server.
1 Shared Folder is on File Server.
** I have created OU Name User and moved all the Exam Users to that OU
** All the Exam users are member of the Security Group name (Exam User Group)
My Requirement is :
** I don't want the (Exam Users ) to access the shared folders on the network.As they are member of the Domain Users on the network.
** I want them to access to specific URL for Exam Purpose
Pramod Jadhav 9867715203
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Storage spaces drive replacement
I am trying to replace a drive in a dual parity virtual disk. The drive has not officially failed, but is throwing bad block errors so i'm trying to be proactive. I have manually retired the disk using powershell, per this article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn782852(v=ws.11).aspx#BKMK_ReplaceFailedDisks
I'm not sure exactly what to do though now, and I want to be careful. Even though I have retired the disk, the virtual disk still shows as healthy, and there is no indication that the virtual disk is now in a degraded state. If the virtual disk cannot heal itself from other space in the pool, and I've retired one of the physical disks, shouldn't the array be degraded? Most of the walk throughs I see online about replacing disks talk about physically removing the "bad" disk after you have added the new one and placed it in the pool for the virtual disk to use. I am not in that situation, all of my drive bays are actively in use.
Is the next step just to physically replace the drive and add the new drive to the pool? I feel like I'm not understanding something with what is happening here and how this will work, so any information on what is going on and what I need to do, would be awesome. Thank you!
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DFS replication problems
I have a network with three sites - I will call them Site A, Site B, and Site C. Each site has a Windows 2012R2 domain controller. They are using DFS to replicate data. It has been in operation since last summer and has been working well. They recently had a DFSR DB corruption that caused DFS replication to stop working. I ended up starting from scratch - removed all replication groups and deleted D:\system volume information\dfsr folder on all three servers. I then used the process in https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2013/08/21/dfs-replication-initial-sync-in-windows-server-2012-r2-attack-of-the-clones/ to create the replication group on Site A (the main office), preseed the data to Site B and Site C, export the DFSR DB from Site A to Site B and Site C, and then add Site B and Site C to the replication group. Replication is now working both ways between Site A and Site B and replication from Site C to Site A works but data will not replicate from Site A to Site C. If I check the backlog for Site A to Site C replication the first file listed is 'File name: VersionVectorTombstone'. Same goes for Site B to Site C replication. Inbound replication for Site C doesn't work. I had the same problem for Site A to Site B but a reboot of the server at Site B seems to have fixed it. I tried rebooting the server at Site C and it seemed to help for short time but then A to C replication stopped again and 'File name: VersionVectorTombstone' appeared at the top of the backlog list. The server at Site C is MUCH slower than the other two servers and the DFSR Service is still taking 50% of CPU time. I am wondering if it still working on catching up and this issue will eventually clear. Or... is there something I can do to get inbound replication to Site C working.
AD replication is working in all directions.
As you might imagine I have Googled this to the Nth degree and so far I have not found anything that helps me.
Anybody have any thoughts?
Thanks,
Dan Harris
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Problem with DFS entry
We have a Windows domain using Windows 2008 and 2008r2 domain controllers. We have a few Windows 2003 servers running as file servers. This issue is regarding a problem one of our Win 7 workstations is having when they click on a pointer (folder)
under the DFS.
Issue: I have a Win 7 workstation that is having trouble with one of our DFS pointers. We have a DFS setup and it has many different pointers that reference different file shares on servers throughout the network. We also have servers with
shares that we access across WAN connections. When the user of the system in question clicks on the DFS drive they are able to see all the shares and access them without issue except for one share. It is on a server across a WAN connection.
The user can see one folder on the share but not the others. The user has permissions to see everything. I have looked at the workstation IP properties using ipconfig /all and everything looks good including DNS servers. I had the user reboot
and log in again but the problem still persists. No one else is having this problem that I am aware of. I have personally checked at least 3 other systems.
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Storage pool is not reliable
I'm running 2012 R2.
I have 1 storage pool with an external drive enclosure with 5 4TB drives as JBOD connected with an eSATA cable to a controller card provided with the enclosure and 3 internal 4TB drives. There is one parity virtual drive in the pool with ReFS format.
I have a large number of large media files that are served to my home media setup.
The thing has never really been all that reliable, but recently it has become unusable. The drive goes offline when reading or writing large files and very slow when navigating folders and deleting files. When deleting or moving folders, progress just stops and many times just fails.
The drives are reported as healthy
any thoughts?
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DFS or Hyper V replica which one is better
Dear All,
We have 2 file server running on windows server 2008 one in primary site and the other in DR site currently DFS and robo copy is being used to replicate the date between both the sites.
We are planning to migrate the windows server 2008 to windows server 2012 R2 and run the server in virtual environment with Hyper V, based on this i have couple of questions
1) i heard of hyper V replica through which i can replicate the entire VM to other site,by doing this can i stop using DFS and robo copy is this the best alternative to DFS and robo copy.
2) in case if the primary site is down can i start the VM in DR and just change the IP on DNS server and user can start accessing file server from DR server?
3) is there any option available in hyper V replica to monitor the replication?
Regards
JAck
TechGUy,System Administrator.
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