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Issue with offline availability of roaming profiles in Server 2012
I've recently stood up a Windows 2012 R2 server. I set up folder redirection using the guidelineshere and roaming profiles using Group Policy. All is well except for the fact that if the client is...
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Hi I have a weird issue that I am trying to resolve. Following is the situation:We have 2 Sites (Site A and site B) connected via VPN using Sonicwall firewalls.Site A 192.168.1.1Site B 192.168.2.1Both...
View ArticleDFS Profile folder redirection
Hi, I would appreciate if you could help me out in my issue, I am sure it is not a big one but I cannot get to the point. I am facing this issue as I newly joined my organization and the previous...
View ArticleChange FSRM Quotas Path (powershell?)
Hello everyone. I have a Windows 2012 R2 File Server with configured quotas on volume D. Planning to move some data to volume E. How can i edit FSRM quotas using script to change path from...
View ArticleVSS on DFS Server
We have two Physical Windows 2012 R2 Storage Edition configured as DFS.Server B is read only and nobody can access it, all the clients conntect to server A.On both server we have activated VSSWe have 6...
View ArticleDFS loosing Owner of files on only Office documents
Windows 2008 - I took over as admin at a company and they have a shared company folder on the C: drive that was not going through DFS and the permissions for share and security was full for everyone....
View ArticleUnable to repair degraded Virtual disks in Storage Spaces 2012R2
Hi all,I have an anoying problem that I cannot seems to find a solution for.I have a 2 node Failover Cluster with CSV-volumes consisting of 2 HP DL360 servers with 2 LSI 9300-16e HBAs each, connected...
View ArticleDFS Replication issues - DFSR JET database is not shut down cleanly and Auto...
Hi All,I had a dfs folder configured for replication between server 2012 R2 nodes but later broke the replication group. Some files had replicated before breaking the group.When I tried to create...
View ArticleHard drives not being recognized on Server 2012 R2
Hi,I added 2 hard drives to my server but they are not being recognized by the operating system. They show in the bios but no where in the OS do they show. They used to be external hard drives but I...
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Windows Search on TS/Citrix
Hi,I have a random issue with file browsing performance from Citrix servers (2008 R2) to DFS-R file shares. Sometimes it's lags a bit and is slower than usual to respond. We managed to chase this down...
View Articlewindows shared folder asks for permanently delete
Hi,Any file from windows shared folder asks for permanently delete and after that it is not recoverable... Please help, how to enable recycle bin service??
View ArticleWindows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard ROK (2CPU/2VMs) – Multi Lang
Hi We have DC & ADC with OS windows server 2008 R2.we are planning to BUY IBM Storage for file server and it comes with OS windows storage server 2012 R2 Std ROK (2CPU/2VMs)-Multi Lang.Can we join...
View ArticleInstall Registry Fix using GPO in Win 2003 domain
Is there a way to push a registry fix (.reg file) that adds IE proxy and exceptions using GPO.wea re using Win 2003 Domain controllers and Windows 7 clients
View ArticleBest options for migrating Samba shares to DFS
My team is in the process of setting up a new domain for our organization. We want to slowly migrate users from non-AD accounts and workstations to AD (2012). One of the pieces we are having trouble...
View ArticlePermissions on Subfolders
HiI have a shared folder that is a share to all Domain Users with loads of subfolders, there is however (for now) one subfolder that needs to have different permissions so that it cannot be accessed by...
View ArticleApplying NTFS permissions on a file server
Hi all, I have a file server with a file share that contains many folders. If I try change NTFS permissions on one of the folders, over the network from my workstation using my Admin account, I get the...
View ArticleBest tool to clean up Microsoft Update folder that i can use one Microsoft...
Basically i have to clean up disk drive space on different server O/S including Microsoft 2003/2008 and 2012and the company does not want to run disk clean up on any of the servers to clean up disk...
View ArticleLong delay booting when HDD is failing 2012 server
I write to document the behavior of Windows 2012 R2 in the face of an HDD on the cusp of or having absolutely failed. Because the OS (Windows 2012 R2) was behaving strangely and because certain...
View ArticleStorage Spaces, Columns and different Disk sizes
Let's assume the szenario of a 8-disk Storage Pool:6x 4 TB HDD 2x 1 TB HDDNow, a virtual Disk is created that uses a Mirrored-Layout and 4 Columns. What will happen, once the written amount of data...
View Article(question) File Server Migration ability ?
Hi, All I started to migrate my 2003 File server to a new 2012 File server I used the recommended scenario (RoboCopy) but because the current server is in another vLAN so it's very slowMy friend told...
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