Not Using Index on File Server When Accessing User Files Directly on Server
It appears to me that on a server with an indexed network share (Desktop Experience and Search Indexing roles/features installed), if you access the share directly on the server using its drive path,...
View ArticleVirtual Disk on Storage Space never completes mount
I have a StorageSpace on Server 2012R2 which will never complete mounting a virtual drive. By never I mean leaving it mounting for 2 months.The configuration:StorageSpace:10 4 TB drives 3 128 GB SSD's...
View ArticleCan't rename a single file to autorun.inf even all ntfs permissions are correct
I have this odd problem:Logged in as Domin Administrator I couldn't rename or open for editing an existing file "autorun.inf" even though all the ntfs permissions were correct. Every other files in...
View Articlewhat is disk offset
hellocan someone explain what exactly this disk offset is, in simple terms
View ArticleMirrored Disk space dropping 2008 R2
2008 r2 server C: drive dynamic type mirrored disk and the disk space got drop and only 6% is available, whether i have to choose to insert new disk drive additionally to the server machine or is...
View Articlewindows 8.1 will not recognise my buffalo removable hard drive
the hard drive worked until I had my laptop camera fixed & they have removed the driver & now it wont recognise it at all
View Articlestructure trustee
Hi,I am moving from a Novell Server to a Windows 2012 server and I just start getting familiar to NTFS Permissions. By default in Novell , there was a "Visibility List" function that, giving...
View ArticleUnable to Establishing an anonymously accessible file share on Windows 2008...
So far I tried all this to no avail, server keeps prompting me for username/password when I try to access such share from non-domain Windows computer:this is what i tried:1. Enable the guest account2....
View ArticleAsk for password every time accessing file share
Maybe its simlpe but I don't now how to do that: I need to open file share folder but want to every time type password. I don't want to file share open automatically.
View Articlemonitoring of windows clustered storage spaces
How we can monitor if there is any drive failure or storage pool or virtual disk or volume getting full ?We use splunk to monitor servers so it can check for these events below on two cluster nodes and...
View ArticleClustered storage spaces and thin provisioning.
Can we do thin provisioning in windows 2012 R2 for clustered storage spaces ?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/06/02/10314262.aspx Clustered storage spaces must use fixed...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Problem After OS Reinstall
Hello! My Windows Server 2012 computer (used primarily as file storage and movie streaming for the family) was undergoing an update when a power outage hit and the UPS died, thus completely crashing...
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Folder Share over the Network
Dear All,I have shared a folder over the network.This shared folder consists of 25 folders that must be accessed by 25 users.Every user must be able to access his own folder. (For this, I have set the...
View ArticleHow to add Local Admin group to a file server without changing current...
Here is the tricky part I am having issues with , I tried to add the local admin group from the root folder to all subfolders and files but faced the follows :- Subfolders are configured with different...
View ArticleRobocopy /mir and keeps destination 2 file Unchange.
Hello Team, I am using Robocopy to copy paste files from Production server to Staging server , i want to move all files from production to staging using mirror excluded 2 config file, in this i want...
View ArticleRemove offline server from DFS-R Replication Topology
Hello allI'd appreciate some help with this scenario:A server which was a member of a DFS Replication topology was recently decommissioned and wiped without it being removed from the topology. As such,...
View Article\\?\UNC\server\share - verylongpath errors out
In Windows Explorer the UNC long path construction errors out as: Windows cannot access \\?\UNC\server\share (Error: 0x80004005)Background:...
View ArticleImport already existing directory structure into DFS namespace?
Hi all,I'm planning to migrate three file servers to a single DFS namespace and after reading the official docs and numerous blog posts I'm still unsure about the right way to do it.The "main" server...
View ArticleClustered Storage Spaces Management
What is the best way to manage 2 node windows clustered storage spaces. I have two storage Pool and have General Purpose(NFS), ISCSI target Server(ISCSI) and Scale out file server (SMB) roles installed...
View Article2008 R2 DFS multisite
Is a namespace server needed at each branch site for DFS? Or just the primary namespace server and the folders on its local servers. This is a domain based namespace and we have DFS in the home office.
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