Migration of shares
Ive got a 2008 file server (physical box running storage server 2008) and i want to migrate the shares across to a couple of new physical Server 2012 boxes which are set up in a cluster using 2012's...
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Hi, Please see the details of the issue I have. Back ground: Client: Dell Latitude E7440 – Windows 8 Enterprise File Servers: Windows Server 2012 clustered Active Directory domain functional level:...
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WMI Bug with Scale out file server
Think I've uncovered a WMI bug with Scale out file server. The issue manifests itself in the fact that SOFS utilizes a DNS name pointing to multiple nodes. The problem is that certain calls seem to...
View ArticleShared Folder Becomes Unshared
Running Windows 7 Pro (x64) and also have an external drive plugged into it. In this external drive we have a folder that we share out to the employees at that location. Every so often after the...
View ArticleDFS Namespace Folder creation error: File Already Exists
I am moving from a traditional File Server with Mapped Drives to DFS on a Windows Server 2012 R2. I created 2 namespaces with Folders below the Namespaces. I did move a folder from old server to the...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 Folder Redirection on Windows 8.1 Not Working
I am running Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controllers on 2008 R2 Functional Level. Only our IT Dept is running Windows 8.1, everyone else on 7 Enterprise SP1 edition.I cannot get Folder Redirection to work...
View ArticleAccess Denied:You will need to provide administrator permission to change...
Access Denied:You will need to provide administrator permission to change these attributes
View ArticleFull permission but unable to create file on network share
Hi all,We have a file server running Server 2003 R2 which has multiple shares configured.On one of the shares, there is one user who cannot create files on a share, even though they have full control...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 File Server best practice and design considerations
Hi All,Can anyone here share some best practice for building Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server for 1000+ users ?initially the home drive H:\ will be 2 TB NTFS and the file share S:\ drive will be 4 TB...
View ArticleIf I decommission as server in DFS will it delete the files on the other...
Hello Everyone,So this question may have been answered before, but I am not 100% sure. I am getting ready to decommission a Windows 2003 server box. The question is, when I go to decommission the...
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"Next" button grayed out in Extend Volume Wizard
Greetings,I'm kind of stumped, I've never seen this before. I've seen where the "Extend Volume" option is grayed out, but never have I seen where you can get into the Wizard, but not continue.Here is...
View ArticleAccess Based Enumeration causing slow downs on File Server
I am looking for ideas here.We have a 2012 r2 file server that has a share with Access Based Enumeration turned on. This has been going on forever, what happens is if around 6 or more people try to...
View ArticleDFS replication Cause missing huge amount of files on server 2012, how to...
I have two files servers with the name File-1 and File-bak in one domain. I installed DFS Replication role on both servers and created a replication group for collection. File-1 is the source server,...
View ArticleMissing GUID in "Cumulative Replica Sets", "Replica Sets"
Hello expertsI have a problem. We are 4 DC in our environment. Few days ago i found my DCs not replicating SYSVOL share. Then i was googling and found...
View ArticleDFS replication - backlog increasing - incoherence beetween bandwidth use &...
Hello,we have a 3 servers (physical) DFS setup over VPN connections (dedicated to server-to-server connection)Most of the changes are made on 1 server (A) and are replicated to the 2 others (B &...
View ArticleDisk usage
Hi guys,I got a strange issue on a server. The C drive is for the system. The D drive contain the file for the file server (13Gb) and is a volume of 600Gb C and D are two disks RAID mirroring. The E...
View ArticleDetermine Shares on servers..
Hi,our customer would know, where on windows servers ( Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 & Server 2012 R2 ) are shares and who has permission on it .. it´s possible to determine it ? via...
View ArticleDFS replication is OK, but it is changing the times on files
I have two 2008R2 servers that use DFS to replicate data over a wireless link (150MB/s).They seem to replicate really well, except that some of the files seem to have different times, that are off...
View ArticleiSCSI target server role on only one node of a cluster - can't add targets
I have a Windows 2012 eight node cluster. One of the nodes has 20TB of direct-attached storage (not my idea). All the rest have only local system drives and use a dedicated shared storage array (a...
View ArticleFolder not visible
I have a windows 2008 r2 server that I am using as a file server. It has every user's home directory on it. I have one folder that I can not see. If I try to copy over the folder, I get the folder...
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