Best Practises For Retiring an Old DFS (Member) Server
Hi,We currently have two DFS servers. The original member server at our site is a Server 2003 Standard (x86), and the new (replacement) server is a virtual Server 2008 R2 Standard (x64) on a Hyper-V...
View ArticleRestoing File Permissions on windows server 2008
Hi Folks,We has hard disk failed on File Server. Recovered from Tapes..After restoring from tapes, permissions are not appilied...Need to help to recover the file permissions on Windows Server 2008 -...
View ArticleServer 2012 - VSS Event ID 8194 - Unexpected error querying for the...
I'm seeing an error popping up in the application log on both nodes of my Server 2012 cluster. The events seem to occur when DPM begins a system state/bmr backup of the node. The DPM Backups usually...
View ArticleDFS namespace slow when DFS replication is running
Hello everyone,I have an open ticket with Microsoft, but not getting anywhere very quickly as of yet so wanted to post this question here as well to make sure we are not overlooking anything. I have a...
View ArticleNTFS - Allow *only* read, delete and rename of existing files / folders
Hi All,I'm pretty sure that I can't get there from here, but I am hoping that I have overlooked something and someone will have an answer for me.We are in the process of retiring an old file server...
View ArticleStorage SMB disappearing from SCVMM 2012
Hello MS team,We recently deployed SCVMM2012 SP1 successfully in PROD. We did present the storage and the hosts and cluster without any issues.2 days ago, Storage SMB Share keeps disappearing from...
View ArticleDFS-R over Satellite Link
Hi,What are your thoughts on using DFS-R on a file servers over a high lantency Satellite Link?Links are 2MB but over Satellite.
View ArticleExpanding a basic GPT disk
Hi All,I have an existing 2.2TB basic disk, formatted with NTFS, partitioned with GPT. This is physically an HP array connected via fibre. The server is Windows 2003 SP2. It is not the system...
View ArticleUSB copy only doc
Hi everyone. Please helpWe have domain A. Most of users work on thin clients on Terminal services. USB port on computers and thin clients turned off. Now we want to add 1 computer and turn ON usb...
View ArticleNTFS permission on a folder is not working properly
A user has a read, read& execute, list folder contents and write permission on a folder. He is able to edit a excel file on that folder and unable to save it and it shows a error "Access denied....
View Articlesan disk showing raw suddnely
i have conncted on san lun 2.8 gb to windows 8 server ,suddenly it stoped working and in windows disk manangement it showing rawplease help to resolve the issue if anybody have faced
View Articleaccess to file server
Hello, is Domain Users ever required to be in the local "Users" GROUP on a 2008 R2 file server? (to access files on it via a mapped drive) My assumption is not. A consultant not knowledgable with...
View ArticleNTFS Permissions on disk
So I accidentally modified some NTFS permissions on a disk drive connected to one of my servers and I'm no longer able to access it when I go to Computer -> Disk E:I get "Access is Denied"If I log...
View Articledfsradmin and ArgumentNullException on Windows Server 2012
Hi, I'm trying to create DFS replication using dfsradmin on windows server 2012I execute this:dfsradmin RG New /rgname:NAMESPACE\something /rgdesc:'something replicated'and it worked OKthen I execute...
View ArticleVolume entry not present in MountedDevices key
HiOn a number of Win 2003 R2 servers here, I can't find the volume binary entries in the MountedVolume key. I resized a volume by deleting/recreating the partition and I need to rename it to the old...
View ArticleXP PC's network drives stand as disconnected
Hi AllI am having a problem which is driving me crazy. I have a large company which are using Citrix. No problems here everything is working as designed.My problem is from every local XP computer. We...
View ArticleAdd DFS namespace server to existing DFS setup
Hi,I'm looking for a point in the right direction in how to add a DFS namespace server to an existing namspace server (working side by side).Here's my current setup:I have multiple departments on...
View ArticleFile still inside windows 2008 r2 DFS staging folder
Hello All,We just built a windows 2008 R2 DFS server and replicated with our fileserver. After a few days of replication between the 2 servers, I notice that there are still files stuck in the staging...
View ArticleStorage Spaces - 2 drive failure in Win 8
Hi,I'm desperately looking for answers. I have had 6 hard drives in a two-way mirror pool. 4 of the drives were full, so I recently added 2 more for a total of 6 drives. As I understand, storage spaces...
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