I have a problem that I am having an issue resolving. Each time a user is trying to save a file to their home folder with Excel, it wants to save to “Network Shortcuts” folder. As an example, if you click Save As to save a file and select a folder, it appears within Network Shortcuts. I have checked the following: Offline sync is enabled, the save settings are at default for Excel, and the user has exclusive rights to their home folder. Any help would be appreciated.
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Saved file always saves to "network shortcuts" location
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Migrating multiple Server 2003 file servers to one Server 2012
I have two 2003 file servers with shared folders, and many mappings to those folders, and I want to migrate the folders to shared storage on two clustered 2012 servers. I thought I could use DFS namespaces to maintain UNC paths and
mappings and use CAFS to provide HA, but the storage can only be used by one clustered role. How could I go about keeping the UNC paths and providing HA to the file server?
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Move directory tree
I'm walking on new territory here.
I have a Windows 8 file server that has a large directory tree that has multiple shared folders. Security is a convoluted mess. I need to move this tree to a new Windows Server 2012.
I can re-create the shares manually, but it would take a very long time to re-create all the security.
Is there a tool (free or paid) that will greatly simplify this task?
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2003 SMB client much faster than 2008 R2 SMB client
Hi,
Old client: Windows Server 2003 SP2
New client: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
File server: Windows Server 2012 R2 with 2014 November Rollup
Copying a folder with a large number of files from a file share using Windows Server 2003 is about twice as fast than copying the same folder from the same file server using Windows Server 2008 R2. Robocopy statistics:
Windows Server 2003:
C:\>robocopy \\server\share C:\temp\test /MIR /NP /NJH /NFL /NDL /NP
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Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 209 208 1 0
0 0
Files : 7500 7500 0 0 0
0
Bytes : 405.53 m 405.53 m 0 0 0 0
Times : 0:01:04 0:01:03 0:00:00 0:00:01
Speed : 6722641 Bytes/sec.
Speed : 384.672 MegaBytes/min.
Ended : Thu Nov 20 22:00:16 2014
Windows Server 2008 R2:
C:\>robocopy \\server\share C:\temp\test /MIR /NP /NJH /NFL /NDL /NP
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Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 209 208 1 0 0
0
Files : 7500 7500 0 0 0
0
Bytes : 405.53 m 405.53 m 0 0 0 0
Times : 0:02:13 0:02:11 0:00:00 0:00:01
Speed : 3224473 Bytes/sec.
Speed : 184.505 MegaBytes/min.
Ended : Thu Nov 20 22:03:18 2014
I found some tips suggesting to disable SMB Signing on the Windows Server 2008 R2 client, but that didn`t make any difference (I modified the local security policy, not the Default Domain Policy as suggested in the article I found).
Any ideas why there is such a huge difference?
An application accessing the file share is behaving much slower on Windows Server 2008 R2 compared to Windows Server 2003 due to this issue.
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Unable to shrink VHDX - Not enough disc space?
Hi!
Im hope that i'm posting this in the correct forum/subforum.
The thing is that im running several server 2012 hyper-v guests on a server 2012 host machine.
During the night the host ran out of disc space and all the servers where paused, causing a complete stand still for the company. To free up some space for the host, i want to shrink a fixed size vhdx disc for one of the guests.
When i go to Disc Manager and click Shrink, it says that i can shrink 100471 Gb. However, when i press OK, i get an error message saying "There is not enough free space on the disc or discs to complete the task".. or similar. I get the message in Swedish on the server. Instead of shrinking 100 Gb, iäve tried to shrink only 70 Gb, 60 Gb, 40 Gb and 10 Gb, but every time i get this message. I've ran Check disk as well, but it found no errors.
I'm puzzled by this since i have free space both on the host and the disc i'm trying to shrink.
Free space has been created on the host by shutting down some of the other guest servers.
Any ideas?
As of now i can't have all needed servers running, since the all disk space for the host is consumed and the guests can be paused dut to lack of disk space any second.
Thanks,
Daniel
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DFS Namespace Windows 2012 r2 domain controller and file server
Our environment is Windows 2012 r2 domain.
We are in the process of moving from Windows 2008 r2 file servers to Windows 2012 r2 and are changing the mapping to use domain unc and not server based unc as we have done until now.
We had no problem mapping the domain unc path \\x.int\dfs\folder1 etc but where not able to see the folders when browsing \\x.int\.
We made our domain controllers a namespace serves and where then able to browse the namespace \\x.int\ but we had a problem that when we needed to boot the domain controller that the user had as logon server they lost their dfs mapping for a few minutes.
Is their a way that we can make the dfs namespace visible when browsing \\x.int\ without using the domain controllers as namespace servers.
Another option would be to change default cache duration from 300 to 10 which we don't want to do.
I can't find any good best practices for DFS in Windows 2012 r2.
Regards
Hans Petter
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Unable to list SFTP Directory on windows 2008 r2 server from internet
Hi experts,
I have configured a SFTP on windows 2008 r2 server. And i am using the Filezilla on client machine to connect to SFTP server.
The connection works properly on internal network but it displays error when i connect from internet.
Error: GnuTLS error -53: Error in the push function.
Response: 550 Data channel timed out.
Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing
This machine is publish with public IP and port22. The connection and authorization process gets complete but stops are Directory Listing.
PLease suggest the troublshooting steps..
Let me know if any more info is rquired.
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Saved file in Excel always saves to "network shortcuts" location
I have a problem that I am having an issue resolving. Each time a user is trying to save a file to their home folder with Excel, it wants to save to “Network Shortcuts” folder. As an example, if you click Save As to save a file and select a folder, it appears within Network Shortcuts. I have checked the following: Offline sync is enabled, the save settings are at default for Excel, and the user has exclusive rights to their home folder. Any help would be appreciated.
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Distributed File System Replication between servers with different performance
If Distrubuted File System Replication is set between servers with different performance. What
will happen with the performance of the fastest server? Will the performance decrease to match the performance of the slowest server in the chain?
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file and print sharing resource is online but isn't responding to connection attempts
hi,
I'm on windows 8.1 enterprise. All of a sudden in windows explorter when I try to access drives on my network I get "file and print sharing resource is online but isn't responding to connection attempts".. This formerly did not have any issues.
I did a restore to a point where I know it did work...but it still does not connect to network drives.
Please advise,thanks James
AJ Anning
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robocopy commands to copy data with NTFS permissoins from windows server 2008 R2 to windows server 2012 R2
Hi,
I am planning to copy all the share folders along with data to the new server ( server2) and decommission the old one (server1)
The other server is also on the same domain as server1. i want to use robocopy as it would copy with permissions.( so that i don't have to recreate the permission levels for the share folders in the new server)
Source : 10.0.90.12\D:\Share ( share folder has many subfolders and files)
Destination : it's also the same D drive .Have to create the same shares ( folder names). \\10.0.90.18\D:\Share
What command do i need to use ?
Please suggest
Thansk in advance
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Storage Space 2012 R2 CPU / Memory requirement
How much impact would does CPU core density has with Storage Space 2012 R2? Given the option of dual socket 5500 series quad core vs dual socket 5600 series hex core for a SMB environment (attach up to maximum of 2 x 24 JBOD), would there be any
significant performance improvement? Dedup feature would be enable, at least on some virtual disk, along with SSD storage tiering.
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Is there anyway to use Storage Spaces with FC or FCoE?
Is there anyway to use Storage Spaces with FC or FCoE?
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The DFS Namespaces service keeps initialising every 30 minutes
Hi Everyone,
We have recently built a Windows Server 2012 R2 server and installed the File Services role with just the DFS Namespace and DFS Replication features. Although everything looks to be working fine, I am a little concerned why we keep getting the following repeating message, I see no indication that the service is crashing or failing but every 30 minutes we get the following information alert in the system.
The DFS Namespaces service has successfully initialized the shared folder that hosts the namespace root. Shared folder: ournamespace
The server also has the AD DS, DNS & DHCP roles installed as well, all operating fine. The server is patched up to within the past few months as well.
Cheers,
Leigh
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WinSXS CleanUp Issue
I have a Windows Server 2008R2 SQL Server. All updates to date, and a gigantic WinSXS folder. Bottom line is that I need to clean it up. Ok, but when I run Disk Cleanup WITH ADMINISTRATOR PRIVILEGES I still don't have the Windows Update Clean. I also downloaded the updates from the Microsoft website but they say not required for my machine. What's going on? I heard that an update from august 2014 may remove the Windows Update Cleanup?
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Replacing higher capacity to existing mirrored hard disk (x2)
Hi, I have a customer requesting to replace his existing Dell Server hard disks running on MSSQL with 2x 250GB mirrored hard disks with 2x 1TB hard disks. Can he just plug in 1x 1TB hard disk at a time to let it rebuild then expand the remaining raw
capacity in the OS? server is currently running on Windows 2008. Please advise. thanks..
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Calling script to reset NTFS acl by mouse right-click... Possible???
hello
One subfolder have name as domain account name, like mikesmith...I want to right click on folder and choose example "reset ntfs". this "reset ntfs" is menu under right click which call script. this script need to disable inheritance, grant modify access to this user AUTOMATICALLY (from name of folder) and full to admin, auditing bla bla and rest all child object...
Is that possible?
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Windows Server 2012 R2 - Drive Redirection Not displaying full list of Files
Hi Guys,
We have recently deployed a remote app via windows server 2012 r2, we have set it to redirect drives which look like a really good feature.
But when the users go into the redirected drives through the remote app not all the files are displayed it only displays around 50 files but there is actually around 700 files in the folder. It seems to be happening on a number of the redirected drives but if you map the drive on the server then there is no issue, but this fix doesn't really solve the problem as we have over 100 users using multiple drives. So would mean us having to go round every PC and mapping multiple drives for each user which could be very time consuming.
I'm really stumped on this one, would really appreciate any advise.
Thanks
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Connect Windows 95 to Windows Server 2008 R2 Share
Hello there,
we have multiple Win95 / Win 98 machines still running, used for CNC machines. There cannot be upgraded.
Is there a step by step manual how to enable these machines to connect to a share on our SBS 2011 server? The Win95+98 machines are not joined in the domain, just in a workgroup.
Thanks in advance, Marcus
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WNetOpenEnum returns extended error code 2107 : The device is not connected
Hi All
Can you do me a favor please, thanks.
I developed a program to enumerate all domain and computers at the local network. This program works normally except
one Windows 2012 R2 windows, and WNetOpenEnum always return 1208, the corresponding extended error information
is :
Extended error id : 2107;
description : The device is not connected;
Provider : Microsoft Windows Network;
Can you please give me some suggestion , thanks.
Thanks
Regards
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