File Recovery?
I was cutting and pasting files into a folder when the power went out. I wanted to know if there was a file recovery program already installed on Windows 7 computers. Help Please!
View ArticleOne JBOD, Storage Spaces & 2-4 Node Hyper-V Cluster
Hi. Im looking at putting together a 2-4 node Hyper-v cluster. For shared storage im looking at using Storage Spaces and a single HP D3700 JBOD connected directly to each of the three nodes via SAS...
View ArticleFile In use not apprearing
Hi, I have a shared folder in a File share sever and given Everyone read and & Change privilege. On the NTFS i have given modify privilege to users. All my clients are windows 8.1. When a one...
View Articledfs root target showing random folder only
We have two of our dfs target root servers in one office when people connect to them it shows one folder that has random characters and when you click on it, it will list one of the folders that should...
View ArticleCreate Storage Pools using USB drives?
Hello all,Can I create storage pools and storage spaces with USB drives? I have a bunch USB drives laying around and instead of used internal hard drives I would like to use them to create a storage...
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DFS NAME SPACE - The specified path is invalid
Please help: I have four dfs servers and replications as mesh. Each time I try to add the 4th server to the namespace it failed with “The namespace server \\server\dir cannot be added. The specified...
View ArticleDFS set all the folders to read only
One of our Jr. Admins was setting up a DFS server to be a replication point and accidentally selected the entire drive that file shares are on. He made it read only. In the DFS manager changed it...
View ArticleHow do you Check the Health of a ReFS volume?
With NTFS, there is check disk. What is the proper way to check the health of a ReFS volume?
View ArticleAudit DFS directories
Hi,Is there a way to log all the activities in a DFS directory, such as file creation/modification/deletion/etc ? We are required to keep track of everything that happens in our DFS directory and save...
View ArticleIs there a way to recover VHD after reset?
Hello, everyone. Help me please with one problem: I have windows 2012 r2 server + hyper-v role. Virtual machine is also 2012 r2. Vhd is attached to it. Using server manager, file server role i did: -...
View Articleforce clients to only access a dedicated DFS server
Dear All,We have DFS infrastructure with following configurationSite HO;DFS server 1 , DFS server 2SITE DR DFS server 3.we have configured domain based dfs name space and add all the 3 servers in the...
View ArticleRobocopy and Anti-Virus process exceptions
Hi All,We are in the process of migrating 54 TB (upward of 100 million files) from a group of file servers (mix of 2K8R2 and 2K3R2) to a new storage solution using Robocopy pushing data from the source...
View ArticleStorage tier calculator
Hi,Does anyone know of a storage tier calculator, where I enter can enter X number of SSDssize of SSDsY number of HDDssize of HDDs And get results of total amount of storage space available and...
View ArticleLimit access to folder/files to only its creator
Hi everybody,I am on a AD-based network driven by Windows Server 2008 as the Domain controller and a WIndows Server 2012 as a storage server.There is a shared folder for sales persons where I want all...
View ArticleDFS NameSpace on Windows 2003
Hi, Just like a lot of you, we am trying to remove our 2003 servers.I had 3 DFS namespace servers sharing the same root folder. 2 were 2003 DCs and the other 2012 DC. Yesterday, I removed(dcpromo to...
View ArticleFile server IP changing, How to deal with drive mapping problem.
Hello Team,My management is decided to retire one sever from the production environment and currently which is acting as File server. Our plan is to install same Operating System on new server and will...
View ArticleSetting rights to This Folder Only sometimes causes Server to go through all...
Hi,Just a question out of curiosity, not really a problem. I have file servers at separate sites. The servers are identical (Server 2012, clones of same VM template)I needed to give a service account...
View ArticleEvent 137
I'm seeing event 137 twice an hour, all day. It looks like this: - <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> - <System><Provider Name="Ntfs" /><EventID...
View ArticleMigrating Physical cluster to Virtual Machines
Hi ,In our environment, maximum of all the Physical servers are being migrated to VMware farm.There are physical clusters too each with 2 nodes of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64 bit edition.Each...
View ArticleFile locking not occurring as it should
Hi,I have a bit of a strange problem. When i open a word document which is hosted on a file server cluster, Word does not show the traditional message about the file being locked if someone else has...
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