STG_E_LOCKVIOLATION from StgOpenStorage when reading a network file from...
We have found that if processes on multiple machines attempt to open a networked structured storage file forreading they will occasionally report ‘A lock violation has occurred’ (STG_E_LOCKVIOLATION)....
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Server 2012 Shares
Hi Microsoft community!I hope you can help me with an issue...I have a machine called \\shares\There are two drives on it, the "Local Disk (C:)" and the drive I want to put the shared resources on...
View ArticleI can't see folders in file server (Windows 2008 R2)
Hi,We have two file servers, both Win 2008 R2. I have the exact same permission configuration in both servers.The folder structure is this:Folder1 | --> Subfolder1 | --> Subfolder2 | -->...
View ArticleCan't view DFSR Health Reports in IE 10 or IE11
As a part of monitoring our DFSR infrastructure, I generate health reports on a weekly basis and have them emailed to me. The DFSR reports require IE in order to be viewed. On top of that, they...
View ArticleXP clients losing access to file server
We have a file server that has been in place for over 2 years now. It is running windows server 2008 R2. Two weeks ago, all our windows xp and windows 7 clients were able to access files and folders...
View ArticleDFS Replication
Hello Everyone,I have a quick question, keep in mind I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to dfs. :) Here is my situation:I have a simple wan setup with 2 Windows 2008 R2 vmware virtual servers...
View ArticleSearch Index performance (W2008 R2)
HiAre there any limits to the number of files the search index can process on W2008 R2 ? We have a file server which is connected via iSCSI to an external SAN device. The data volume is approx. 2TB...
View ArticleExclude DfsrPrivate from DPM protection?
So, I've been trying to troubleshoot intermittent one way DFS replication (in a full mesh setup) with a Microsoft support engineer. I'm running server 2k8R2 on my file servers (one is a DC), and...
View ArticleHelp! DFS Root Server Issues
Yesterday, we took a Windows Server 2003 box offline and retired it for good. We were unaware at the time of removal that this server was part of the DFS infrastructure. It did not host any shares,...
View ArticleHow to Remove DFS completely
Hi allI am looking to remove distributed file system from my environment completely. I see other articles about removing namespaces, root etc.I am not happy with it and want to remove this...
View ArticleI can write to a folder when logged in directly
But if I connect from my desktop and use \\server\folder and try to write it tells me I don't have permissions, I have looked at everything I know does any one have any suggestionsScott Cummins
View ArticleIs RDC feature to be installed before using RDC compression in DFSR in...
Hi There,We have windows 2008r2 standard servers with dfsr setup across file servers. I was wondering if we need to install RDC feature before we can use RDC compression in DFSR. Does DFSR use RDC...
View ArticleDATA Directory Permissions on Win 2003 File Server
I recently was assigned management of a win 2003 standard file server. It has a standard seperate partition for data. The root is called DATA. The permissions are Domain Guests, Domain Users, and...
View ArticleDFSR member not replicating
Setup a DFSR folder between 2 servers and it was working fine for weeks. Now all of the sudden one member is not replicating any changes.If I create a file on SRV1 in the DFSR folder it replicates...
View ArticleEnabel referrals for this target folder
If I uncheck that setting on a DFS target, what happens during a failover, if there are only 2 targets? Can it failover in that situation?The reason we chose to uncheck those is to prevent the problem...
View ArticleDFS Issues, where's Powershell's Get-DfsnRoot?
I'm having some DFS access issues. Articles like"How to configure DFS to use fully qualified domain names in referrals" Article ID: 244380talk about using Get-DfsnRoot in Powershell to switch to DNS...
View ArticleInheritable permissions of shared folders acting very strange - Server 2008 R2
I'm having trouble making sense of some permissions issues with my 2008 R2 server. I have one DC which has a local drive shared out to users in the network.The top level of the drive (G:) is not...
View ArticleBest Practice to add storage to a shared resource file share
Can a shared file folder resource be pointed across multiple drives?I have a Shared file folder and I want to add more storage to the share.What is the best way to do this?Thanks in Advance
View ArticleStorage Server 2012, dedup & snapshots, iSCSI vs SMB3
Hello,We are soon going to deploy a server 2012 storage cluster with a fiber channel san as the backend disk. Our dilemma right now is that our file servers are getting to be too large and our VMDK...
View ArticleRobocopy - Move Files/Folders and retain time/date
I am helping a department creaning their data - they have around 2TB. I have made a copy of all the data (Zero length files) to a folder - this way i can do some test runs of the scripts. The next...
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