Redirected Profiles and Offline Files Alternative
We've been using redirected files for our documents and desktop folders. The built-in offline files feature of Windows 7 is not the most reliable. People have to remember to manually sync their files...
View ArticleWindows 2012 DFS stopped working for one machine after reboot
I have 2 Windows 2012 servers that replicate a folder two-way sync using DFS. They have done so happily for a few years now. Recently, both servers suffered a power failure. After getting back online,...
View ArticleWindows Storage Server 2012 R2 - Poorer than expected iSCSI throughput
Running some performance tests on a Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 box.I have a Storage Pool with 2 x 256 GB SSDs and a volume in that pool set up for mirroring.Accessing locally I can drive about...
View ArticleUtility to migrate user directories from Server 2003 to Server 2012 R2
Are there any utilities that help streamline migrating users from a Server 2003 server to a Server 2012 R2 server? We currently map a drive for their home directory, then group policy uses that path...
View ArticleDeDuplication - fsdm limiting to 2 cores
Hello, I was looking for something helpful to Limit the used core on a dedup fileserver but i couldn't find anything. I have more dedup volumes on Servers than core and it would be nice to Limit the...
View ArticleRunning Server 2012 R2 DFS services in a Server 2008 R2 Domain
I've read a couple of interoperability articles regarding DFS and Server 2012 R2 / Server 2008 R2 but am having a difficult time finding some details.I am specifically trying to determine any...
View ArticleCan you export quotas from a Server 2003 server and import them into Server...
Is there a way to backup the quotas set on users from an old Server 2003 machine's drive, then import them into a Server 2012 drive somehow?
View ArticleDFS - insane amount of backlog files (how are all of these being changed?)
2008R2 serversWe have about 35 users that are creating an insane amount of DFS backlog files. We've been steadily bumping up the staging area to 8, 10, then 20GB but it doesn't help. We've seen...
View Articleallowable size sectors
hi!System: win2012r2Disks: 2 SSD 480GWhen i try mirroring my system partition, system say that "all the diskscontainingthe area forthis volume must have the sameallowable sizesectors".What i mast do?
View ArticleWhy "Deny Delete" permission is not work?
Dear Support,I'm meeting an issue now.when I created a shared folder, i want to grant the permission to specified users/groups which can make them create/delete/modify its child files/folders, but do...
View ArticleFailover cluster server
We have a 2 node cluster both on 2012, they were both working fine until a restart where one of servers started becoming unresponsive, when connected remotely or directly on the server you could use...
View ArticleFile Server Failover Cluster without shared disks
i have two servers that i wish to cluster as my Hyper V hosts and also two file servers each with 10 4TB SATA disks, all i have read about implementing high availability at the storage level involves...
View ArticleMigrating to WorkFolders
Hii configured workfolders in our env and that works just fine.How do I migrate existing user files into their workfolders.Would Robocopy work?
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Concurrent File Transfer Issue
I have a scenario and unfortunately, any search i have attempted come up with a bunch of nonsense about slow transfer speeds, period.Here is my scenario, when any file is transferred over SMB it works...
View ArticleAccess Denied for 1 User, but Not Another
I just don't understand what could possibly be causing this issue.I have two users, one for myself and another for the on-site administrator of a server. This server's purpose is to hold a large amount...
View ArticleDFS Replication
I have two DFS servers and one folder(FolderA) is replicated two way.DFS-SRV1 & DFS-SRV2 (Folder1 is replicated two ways)Now I need a folder called "Folder2" and that need to created in DFS-SRV2....
View ArticleI want to use icacls to deny a user's 'delete' permission on some folder
when I use icacls D:\test /deny user:D the user can not access the folder, and the user do not have any permissions. I want to only deny the "delete" permission on this folder. what should I do ?
View ArticleAbout DFSR performance & efficiency
Hello everyone. Maybe some guru's know how DFS-R works ;). I'm very interested in DFS replication for a very large number of small files, whick appear every day. (let's say +10000-100000 files <...
View ArticleDFS - The replication group cannot be created - insufficient permissions -...
Hi,I am trying to setup DFS replication on tow servers. I am local admin on the servers but NOT domain account. Is it possible to create Replication group anyway? or should i contact the Domain...
View ArticleDeduplication - Server 2012 R2 - disk relocation
Hello all!I have question for you, that is bothering me and my colleague.Tbh, I didn't read the documentation for Deduplication feature in 2012 R2 version of the Server OS, but my colleague did, and...
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