Storage and Fault Tolerance in Windows Server 2012 R2
I have a basic storage and fault tolerance question. I am new to the issues so I beg your patience. My understanding is that there is Volume level fault tolerance handled by the Disk Management...
View ArticleRobocopy /XD only applied to top level
Hi,I have one file server (OldServer) with all my user home folders and I need to spilt these onto 4 seperate file serversMy plan is to put home folders begining withA to D on server1E to H on server2I...
View ArticleISCSI connection - authorization failure
I've got an Equallogic SAN box. All works fine, loads of volumes, 3 host servers access volumes etc etc.I'm trying to get a new server to connect to a target. Another server can connect to it fine...
View ArticleDomain based DFS namespace fails when one DFS server goes offline
We have three Win2k8 R2 DFS servers in 2 sites. When I shutdown the oldest DFS server (that I'm trying to decommission) the names space goes offline and can't be accessed. It is running at Win2000 DFS...
View ArticleBetween two windows 2012 r2 servers - the specified network name is no longer...
Hi - we recently upgraded one of our 2008 r2 servers to 2012 r2. This was an actual upgrade, not a format and rebuild. Ever since the upgrade, the server that was upgraded is not able to access shares...
View ArticleEvent ID 502 Access is Denied
I have 2 users who had there work laptops stolen. I gave them replacement laptops and set joined them to the domain using Windows Connector software(http://server-name/connect/). They have Windows 7...
View ArticleHow can you find out who has accessed files and folders in Windows server...
if the permissions and GPO's were not set up at all.I am trying to find out WHO, WHAT,WHERE, and WHEN files and folders were accessed for a client that had a previous company set up Server 2012...
View ArticleIdentifying the process or user that has a lock on a folder or file
In Windows Server 2008, it was easy to identify the user that had a lock on a folder or file. As a last resort, you could always log off that user to release a lock.In Windows Server 2012 R2, as far as...
View ArticleDoes Microsoft support disks which have been converted from MBR to GPT with...
Before opening a ticket with Microsoft to get the official response, does Microsoft support disks which have been converted from MBR to GPT with third-party tools?We have various disks on Windows...
View ArticleWhat will be the next action plan if a customer reports that a server is down?
during that time what are steps admin can perform to solve this issueAbp
View Articlestorage spaces write back cache without tiering
We will be setting up a 12-drive space with 10k 600GB sas drives. How many columns should I use for a 12 drive mirror, 8?I'd like to add in a couple of SSDs and create a write back cache, as well as...
View ArticleInstall sql server 2005 enterprise edition on windows server 2012 r2
as it is possible to install SQL server 2005 enterprise edition on windows server 2012 R2Abp
View ArticleBackup getting failed
Hi When tried to take backup on the Windows server 2008 R2 it is getting failed even thought Vssadmin writers are stable on the server.And we are able to take syatem state backup for the server but we...
View ArticleServer for NFS (W2012R2) hangs during startup
I have Server for NFS installed on Windows Server 2012 R2. After rebooting due to update installations today, the service is hanging in start pending. The effect is reproducible after every reboot and...
View ArticleOffline Files and DFS-R (Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2)
Hey,We are planning to migrate from full roaming profiles to folder redirection instead.I am testing this at the moment and one thing that's happening is we're getting Sync Errors on the clients. The...
View ArticleServer 2008R2 File tranfer speed very slow
I have a server 2008R2 with 32Gigs of Ram and 2 Quad core processors. When I copy a large file (200gigs) from one directory and paste to another local on the machine the transfer speed is about...
View Articlefqdn in published dfs-r share
Hello,we just recently migrated our namespaces to DNS based redirects. We have one namespace where our replicated shares are published and this shows some interesting behavior. We have only removed and...
View ArticleDFSR staging folder drive size and best practices
We have virtual Windows Server 2012 R2 file server that is replicating to another virtual Windows Server 2012 R2 file server in a branch office. The SAN for the cluster has two disk pools - a...
View ArticleSystem.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageFileStream error
Hi,We use OpenXml to prepare Excel speadsheets from a web service we coded ourselves. As of two days ago our production server gives errors in the Microsoft internals for file handling if the...
View ArticleCan an RODC be a DFS Namespace server?
Can an RODC be a DFS Namespace server? Is there any compatibility issues or is this supported?
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