DFS redesign ideas?
Hi,Basically I am looking for a few ideas on how to redesign our file servers.We have multiple physical file servers and a few virtual servers and what is replicated and what is not is quite confusing....
View ArticleHow to calculate the disk failure level for a 3-way mirror pool?
On another post in this forum, the following information regarding a 3-way mirroring storage pool is given:Pool requires a quorum of 50% plus drives to be present to survive. with 3 way mirror - we...
View ArticleWork folders - certificates with .local domain
Hello,We'd like to deploy Work folders in our domain.local environment. Technet states that the certificate name should be the public URL workfolders.domainname and that for every file server a SAN...
View ArticleShare folder + Allow user to see only the folder he has access to
Hi,I have a shared folder called Backup, under this folder there's folders for each user in my organization which can only be accessed by the username associated with it.When an user access the share...
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Access control entry flags
Hi! Have the ACE flags changed from earlier Windows Server versions to Server 2012 R2?I'm a bit confused, checking a Server 2012 fileserver we have, that was just upgraded from 2003 I think.I was...
View ArticleRepair Degraded Storage Spaces Virtual Disk - All physical disks show healthy
I've seen this mentioned a few times but no definitive answers. I have a Storage Pool with 8 physical disks. Each physical disk shows as healthy and auto select. I have thick provisioned Virtual Disk...
View ArticlePowerShell Script to Enable Auditing on a Share Folder
DearsI have more than 100 share folders in my company, I have enabled auditing to monitor users when they delete any files in share folders in Continue add users, because it will take time, my question...
View ArticleUnable to track disk usage on Server 2008 standard 32bit domain controller
Hi One of the drives on a domain controller has a disk space issue. Last Thursday a domain controller on our network could not be accessed either remotely or locally - I could log on with the domain...
View ArticleFolder Redirect mess up : Domain Admins added after "Grant the user exclusive...
Everyone,We ran folder redirection on our environment, and noticed that the default was left for "Grant the user exclusive rights to Desktop". Problem being, Domain Admins did not have access to this...
View ArticleCap size of directory windows sever 2008 standard
Hi,Is there a way to cap the size of directories in Windows Server 2008 Standard? The application is a shared web hosting environment, I don't want users to be able to monopolize the entire server's...
View ArticleCreate a client access point using powershell on 2012 Cluster
Hello,I would like to be able to create a new CAP(Client Access Point) using powershell. I'm not 100% sure how to do this, I'm kind of confused between these commands Add-ClusterResource...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 r2 File service and Storage File opened by "another user"
When I was using Windows server 2003 it show files opened by "user's name" but after changing to windows server 2008 r2 it only shows File opened by "another user" this is a hug problem in our...
View Articleabnormal MPIO delay and explorer delay toleration.
Hi, We have a win2008r2 server with MPIO installed. The host has two iSCSI path to a dual-controller SAN storage. We are trying to test the LUN trespass latency by doing a explorer copy operation....
View ArticleSharing folders issue - immediate subfolers to parent cannot be listed...
Hello everyone, On MS Server 2012 I would like to share a folder with my domain users and they should be able to list all immediate subfolders but only able to browse those that have been granted...
View ArticleHow to correctly rename a redirected home drive
Hello. I'm aware of the fact that when users' home directories are redirected to a network share, the folders are renamed to 'Documents' for when a client has logged on with a Windows 7 machine.My...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 backup schedule wizard not showing volumes
Hi folks,We have a Dell PowerEdge R620 server running Windows server 2008SP2 and are running into issues when attempting to configure a Windows Backup schedule either by running the Backup Schedule...
View ArticleFSRM Quotas - Directory Rename on Win2K12/Win2K12R2
On Win2K12 & Win2K12Rs [but not Win2K8R2], renaming a directory can result in the File Server Resource Manager no longer being able to display or manage quotas on sub-directories under the...
View ArticleDFSR Backlog Stuck on Non-Existent Folders
I have two 2008r2 servers setup in a full-mesh multipurpose replication group. (01 and 02). 01 was the source server. The initial sync just finished last night and there are 2 folders that do not...
View ArticleBackup tape device on windows server2008
Dear Expert,As we know that windows server2008 does not support on tape device backup, can anyone know there is any free software can be used on this case?Many thanks.
View ArticleUnable to copy / move data from one folder to another
Hey Tech gurus , I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 datacenter , with 3 partition of NTFS file format ,I come across this error when I move / copy data from one partition to another " An unexpected...
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