DFS Replication - Not eligible
Hello,We currently have a Windows 2003 DC, a Windows 2003 R2 File server with DFS and just installed a new Windows 2012 Server.In the process of trying to add the Windows 2012 Server to DFS for...
View ArticleFILE level encryption, client integration solutions
I have recently started investigating encrypted file system and it does NOT seem like it will do what I need it to do. Please let me know if you know differently or know of a product that does what I...
View ArticlePin a folder in SSD Tier?
Can pinning happen at the folder level? Instead of just pinning one file at a time to an SSD tier, would I be able to pin a folder so that any file inside of the folder would inherit the pinning to...
View ArticleImplementing Access Based Enumeration + Dynamic Access Control together with...
Hi All,Is it supported to implement Access Based Enumeration together + Dynamic Access Control toghethet with Distributed File System Namespaces in Windows Server 2012Kind regardsMikael
View ArticleFSRM - Shares & Templates
I have a large number of user home directories which have quotas setup (FSRM).I would like to move some of the directories to another volume, I understand that boththe share and permissions will change...
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Optimize drives "Empty"
On my Windows Server 2012 I go to Optimize Drives and I select Change Settings as it SHOULD be Defragmenting Weekly as it states. I found that when I clicked on Choose Drives the Select all was...
View ArticleDFSDiag: Unable to retrieve static site association information from the...
We have a DFS namespace that users cannot list the contents of, if they end up using a specific one, of our three DFS Domain Controllers, the other two allow users to list the contents of...
View ArticleETA for Workfolders on IPAD and Windows 7?
HiI can't seem to find any information regarding release dates for Workfolder support/APP for Windows 7 and IPAD.Anyone?Thanks in AdvanceFrank RasmussenInvodan IT APS
View ArticleNeed to transfer a lot of data over a slow link for DFS, can this be done...
We had DFS-R setup and ended up having a problem that caused it to stop replicating, this is now resolved and replication is working again but there's just over 130GB of data that needs to be sent from...
View ArticleDFSR Read-Only - Problems with Disaster Recovery?
Hi guys,I have (2) 2008 R2 file servers. One is production and one is for DR. First, I have to make sure that the DR server never writes back to production in any situation. The means that if the...
View ArticleExtended RAID Disk Not Showing Extra Capacity in Storage Pool Physical Disks
Hi,I added a RAID 5 Disk (3 * 4TB = 7.28TB usable) from a Dell Poweredge R720 server to my storage pool named "Backups".The Physical disk was nearly full so I extended the RAID disk using Dell Server...
View ArticleDFS Servers not running in HA mode
I have a DFS server set up as our main namespace. We then replicate from our remote offices to the main office. The main server is a PDC (yeah, I know). For some reason when the main server is not...
View ArticleDFS shares not showing up with \\domain.local, but \\domain.local\share works
I set up a new DFS namespace that shows up as \\domain.local\apps. The files are all located on the C: drive under C:\DFSRoots\apps. I can go to \\domain.local\apps and see all the files, but if I go...
View ArticleRemove One shared replication folder from DFS
I have 2 servers that replicate 6 folders. I want to remove just one of the folders that are in DFS and leave the others replicating and sharing the common name. The folders are user folder/files...
View Article[Forum FAQ] Troubleshooting Network File Copy Slowness
1. Introduction The Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol is a network file sharing protocol, and as implemented in Microsoft Windows is known as Microsoft SMB Protocol. The set of message packets that...
View ArticleWhat are basic and dynamic disks?
Basic disks and dynamic disks are two types of hard disk configurations in Windows. Most personal computers are configured as basic disks, which are the simplest to manage. Dynamic disks can make use...
View ArticleMonitor SSD cache utilization
Hello, I would like to know how I can monitor (or at least view with powerhsell) the usage of ssd cache in my storage space.I've created a storage space with 1.7TB of SAS (array controller raid 5) and...
View ArticleThe Application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005)
Dear Support,This is to inform you that we are using Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprises Edition (x64) & suddently it is showing the message "The Application was unable to start correctly...
View ArticleFolder redirection NTFS permissions - file issue - Access Denied
Here is my issue. I followed these steps exactly http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443/en-usThe used folder, Desktop, My Documents, etc…are created automatically. If user creates a document on the...
View ArticleDFS between 2 SQL Failover clusters a seperate sites
I have 2 clusters running without issues. 1 is located in a branch office and 1 is located in our datacenter. These clusters are providing a HA SQL 2008 R2 services. At the branch site we have a...
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