Indexed Search with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2012 on a network share
Hi,we've setup a windows server 2012 with fileserver role and windows search feature providing file based services. The share is indexed with limited file types (office and pdf) - only file...
View Articlecan't restore previous versions from shadow copies
Hi,I have one files server(2K8R2) for user home shares, and shadow copies is enabled. Recently, I found out that I'm not able to restore some user folders to previous versions, but some without no...
View ArticleRelocating DFS root share
Hi,We recently had to rebuild one of our DFS enabled file servers and following some testing last night we have noticed that one of the namespaces has been created incorrectly. When created it should...
View ArticleBSOD on Server 2012 running dfs namespace and dfs replication roles with...
Hello,I have recently setup 2 dfsn & dfsr servers, both 2012 one physical the other virtual.The idea is to have one server as primary and the other as a failover \ DR.The primary server is virtual...
View ArticleDFS Replication halted. Need to restart/resync
Hello,I am new to DFSR in terms of support/engineering. I recently discovered replication has stopped between 2 partners.Servers are Win 2008 R2 SP1 (x64).I have 3 event errors/warnings in the App log...
View ArticleDPM Backups Fail on File Server, (ID 2033 Details: The System Cannot Find the...
I've found a few treads and posts related to this error, but none of the answers seem to work. I have DPM 2010 U7 server backing up my file server (Server 2008 R2). The backup of the D: Drive(which...
View ArticleFSRM reporting quote usage larger than the actual Size
File server resource manager is reporting quote usage larger than the actual Size or even “Size on Disk”. The only theory I have so far is that the FSRM is counting data in Shadow Copy. Does FSRM count...
View ArticleIssue overwriting or saving .PDF files on server. File currently in use, but...
Hello all, and thank you for taking the time to possibly assist me.. Since my first day of hire at said company, Primary Domain controller was a Dell Power Edge 5200 server running Windows Server 2008...
View ArticleWhat is backlog in DFSR?
What is exactly backlog in DFSR? Is the files that are not replicated yet to the target server or if we change security on a file and this is not finished to replicate can be considered as a backlog too?
View ArticleDFS Question - replication
Hi,Please can somebody explain the following:our DFS share is:\\domain\dfs\folders\fileswhen going to the exact same path directly to the share on a server:\\server\folders\filesThe files in here are...
View ArticleSMB2/3 stack unstable/crashing on Server 2012 - no errors in eventlogs...
One of my clients is experiencing the following issue with their Windows Server 2012 fileserver (so far it has happened twice in a timeframe of several months):Access to fileshares hosted on the server...
View Articleset max folder name length on server 2008 r2
HiCan you force a max folder name length in server 2008 r2?users continually make folders with stupidly long names. Education didn't help, i now need to make it impossible for them to make long folder...
View ArticlePersistent Windows 2008 Mirror Errors : Reactivate required every time I log...
Greetings,I have a software-mirrored volume on a Win2k8r2 server. The status every time I log in says ERRORS. After right clicking the drive and clicking Reactivate, the ERRORS goes away, but only to...
View ArticleWindows server 2008 R2 Standard edition time server problem: The computer did...
Hello,I'm trying to get my 2008 R2 server (physical server) to synch with an external time server. I've read other threads on the topic but have not found a solution. I'm sure i'm missing...
View ArticleIn DFS, How to make servers LEAST COST for different subnets.
Hello, We setup DFS in our domain (SERVER1) and we replicated the DFS namespace into a server which is also a member of the domain but it is on a DIFFERENT SUBNET (let's call this server SERVER2). How...
View ArticleCan I add a 2012 R2 server to a 2008 SP1 DFS?
I have a DFS system on a Server 2008Stnd SP1. I am adding a new VM Server 2012 R2 server at my data center. I want to add my 2012 server to the DFS and remove the 2008 server after it syncs. I will add...
View ArticleHome Directories Remote Access
Hi,As a school we are looking to give students access to their home directories from anywhere (preferably with easy access from tablet devices). We have an on-premise SharePoint Server (2013), and...
View ArticleFC disks LUNS disappearing
Hellogentlemen, I havethe following problem.I have aIBMFCstorage V7000and Iuse iton a cluster of WindowsServer 2012, Windowsis BrazilianPortugueseversion.Created twoLUNsinstorage, one of2GBforQuorumand...
View ArticleMPIO setup
Hoping somebody can shed some light on a setup and performance question I have regarding MPIO.we have 2 * 2012 (not R2) Hyper-V boxes with 3 iSCSI links setup. We are using CSVs hosted on another 2012...
View Articleshare best practice
I heard somewhere in reason years that its no longer best practice to put a share at the root of a drive, that we should create a folder and share out a subfolder, never heard exactly why.Does it...
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