I am having a problem with sharing files in 2012r2. Every time i add admin domain group to a sharing folder it grants permission to everyone. even if the folder is not on inherintance. but when i take out admin domain group everything seems to work, i also check users and groups and none of my users are under admin domain group and also admin domain group is not part of any other group. I have to add admin rights to manage the folder
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
We have a situation where we are hosting user home folders on two different 2TB dynamic disks with MBR partitioning on virtualized Windows Server 2008 R2. Since we cant extend or convert the disks we tried moving some of the users to a newly created basic disk
with GPT partitioning.
Using RoboCopy and PowerShell this was not a problem on the server side, but during testing we had several of the Windows 7 clients end up with a corrupt offline folder cache. By corrupt I mean that the sync stopped working, and we had to reset the cache one the client side which again could lead to loss of data. I don't know why this happened, but it might be because we changed the profile path in AD to a new DFS link without doing anything with offline files and folders on the client side.
We are also using folder redirection of my documents to home folder with GPO, so we had all the clients reboot after the change to get the updated path, and the corrupt cache only happened to 4 out of about 50 users and mostly to those with very large folder
sizes. (20-70GB)
I was wondering if we can make this completely transparent to the clients if we create two new GPT disks on the same server, and copy all the content to them and then change the DFS/share to point to the two new disks which we then can extend past the 2TB limit?
Thanks in advance.
I've been asked to provide some additional security for my companies data drives by encrypting them. They don't want to spend the extra money on self-encrypting drives at the moment so I'm looking to use Bitlocker.
My reading and limited testing on a non-production server show that this will be okay for what's required. But before I start the process off I just want to check that there is no harm in enabling Bitlocker whilst DFSR is still running? Although I am inclined to stop the DFSR service whilst Bitlocker is doing it's thing just as a precaution.
Thanks.
Hello,
Have Windows 2012 R2 server with storage spaces. Trying to replace two disks in storage spaces pool, but only one disk at a time.
There is two physical disks in storage spaces pool (PhysicalDisk1 and PhysicalDisk2). I create virtual disk in this pool with mirror layout. Have tried to use all available space and have tried to use only 50 GB of space. And had write some data to this virtual disk. Next i do the folloving:
1. I remove from server PhysicalDisk1. Storage Spaces pool becomes degraded. Shows PhysicalDisk1 missing.
2. I insert PhyscalDisk3 (new physical disk for replacement) to server. Add this PhysicalDisk3 to storage pool as HOTSPARE.
3. I wait for regeneration job to start OR i manualy start virtual disk repair job.
4. Job finishes.
5. I mark removed PhysicalDisk1 as retired, remove it from pool. Storage spaces shows that pool and virtual disk is consistent.
6. I remove PhysicalDisk2 form server and then storage pool becomes offline.
WHY ? It has data copy on PhysicalDisk3, before removal of PhysicalDisk2 it shows pool in good condition, but it crashes...
WHY???
HI All,
I got 2 Servers and each got 12 x 1.2 TB drives. This is going to be our production file server and put second server to DR location.
1. What is the best Storage pool size ? 2x6 drives with Raid 10 or 3 x 4 drives with raid 10
2. How do i replicate data to DR?
3. What is the best way to setup failover? DNS Alias name for file server ( CropFS.domain.com) and point to DR if any emergency
4. What is the best folder structure? Users and company data for 3 location users to access
As
Hey there. We are using Windows 2012 as a file server to store archived data.
Lets say my server "FS" has 1 TB of storage data (attached via iSCSI share). Is there a feature where I can turn on to track "version" change of the data? Lets say I want to store 30 days for restoring purpose. I want a snapshot of each day and only the changes after. I am not talking about full backup, etc.
I heard something about VSS that might be what I am looking.
Thanks ahead.
TT
Dears
We are preparing a DR site for a .NET application hosted on IIS8.
Is it supported to a replication group in order to replicate the web content between the 2 sites?
Please share with me what is the best way to do it and it will be great if you can share a document from Microsoft validating the the replication method to make sure it is supported.
I apologize if Im posting this in the wrong place, first time using TechNet if it should be elsewhere please let me know!Just need some guidance on a problem Im encountering with file access and ownership.
I need to change ownership and then remove a security feature from a large group of files.
Background:
Fresh Windows 8 install (x64)
personal files on separate internal back up drive.
When attempting to access and modify these files (copy rename cut delete etc) I am told I don't' have ownership permission.
To correct this I right clicks and unchecked the box for read only and then clicked Apply.
Apply changes to folder subfolder and files
pop up Access Denied
"you will need administrator permission to change these attributes"
Continue or cancel
I am administrator
When it attempts to remove the read only status from files in this directory I receive the error
Error Applying Attributes
an error occurred applying attributes to this files
D:\files\filesname
Access is denied
Ignore IgnoreAll TryAgain Cancel
When I do change the ownership manually and then check file properties there is a security notice on the bottom of the properties box
"This file came from another computer and might be blocked to protect this computer"
It has a button beside it that I can click to "Unblock" once I do the file behaves normally and I am free to modify it as I please.
What I need to do is change the ownership of all the files in this directory and then unblock them all
Doing some reading I've learned that various parts of this process can be done from cmd line using Cacls command, however some forums say I can't use this and should use Xcacls and others say I should use icacls
However my experience working with the cmd line is noob tier, could someone tell me exactly what I need to be typing to affect the changes I need?
My thanks in advance
Hi,
Process of upgrading Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 is currently going on for file servers(Physical & Virtual servers).We are maintaining standard in all our Windows 2003 servers in which E & H drives are used to keep the data .Currently we are using the Robocopy to copy E & H drives to new Windows 2008 servers' E & H drives respectively and finally doing the cutover to Windows 2008 and removing the Windows 2003 servers
Old servers E & H drives are currently mapped to LUN's through EMC SAN.New servers are also having E & H drives mapped through LUNs' via EMC SAN.My question is whether we can request the storage team to unmap the LUN's from the old server and map them to the new Windows 2008 servers to avoid Robocopy which is time consuming and we are facing some problems during the robocopy.
This is my guess only , may be I am missing many information to provide, sorry for my limited information
Any suggestion is greatly appreciated!
Thanks & Regards S.Swaminathan Live & let others live!!!
I am new to BitLocker. I have some sensitive data on a customers server and have encrypted the drive with BitLocker. I ideally want to unlock the drive on boot so I am using this script to run using Task Scheduler on startup:
cscript C:\Windows\System32\manage-bde.wsf -unlock m: -recoverypassword RECOVERYPASSWORD
Is this defeating the point of having BitLocker because the recovery password is stored there in plain text? Is there another way of securely unlocking the drive on boot?
Thanks
Dave
Hi all,
2 server DFS-N & R solution for this particular namespace root.
Can map a drive to the namespace and directly to the shares in both sites and it works fine.
If I run dfsult root <rootname> - it comes back fine from the central site, but with "SYSTEM ERROR - The RPC server is unavailable." from the remote site.
Clients get the following errors logged in their system event log
"The DFS Namespaces service failed to initialise the shared folder that hosts the namespace root. shared folder <foldername>"
However, the drive maps fine for clients - but points back to the central server.... if I then force it locally from the GUI to use the local server for referals, it will.
DFSutil /pktinfo shows an access status of 0xc000003a for the local source, and an access status of 0 for the remote (central) share.
So from what I can see - everything appears ok configuration wise - however the clients always choose to use the central (remote) referral instead of the local server. I believe the RPC error has something to do with is - but am happy to be proven wrong.
Any help appreciated.
Hi All,
Does anybody know if it's possible to access a domain bound DFS namespace with an alternative path?
Instead of \\mydomain.com\share it would be \\mypath\share
I thought about creating an A record for mypath to point at all DCs IPs
Please don't ask why I would want to to this. Just want to know if it's possible
Thanks
Regards
Paolo
HI All,
I got one big ( 500GB) reporting Folder in QNAP NAS now i got Windows File Server and need to move with all the security groups.
This folder got lots of sub folders and security groups.
What is the best way to export the permission and copy the data ? is there any free GUI ?
As
Hi Guys, on a 2012 R2 Test lab I've created a Storage Pool and a Virtual disk ( Assigned a drive letter and created test folders within ). Now when I try to create an SMB Share using the Advanced option I can't see the virtual disk but if I choose the Quick or Application option I can.
I'm studying for my 70-410 exam and would appreciate your help.
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
I am having an issue with accessing some file shares and files after transferring them from Server 2003 to 2012 R2. Some shares deny access to every user, including the domain and enterprise administrator accounts, as well as the local administrator account on the 2012 R2 server. The shares have the same permissions as the 2003 server; domain admins full control NTFS, and everyone full control on the share permissions. I used robocopy to copy the file structure and permissions (robocopy r:\ k:\ /mir /copyall).
I have tried taking ownership of the files as local admin, domain admin, and enterprise admin. Sometimes this works, but on most it does not.
I have "disabled" UAC through group policy on the local server. (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\policies\system\EnableLUA=0)
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you!
Anybody knows why would it be that when i right click on a folder i get 0 in the size.
The operating system is windows 2008 STD, the folder was a shared folder in another server but i was forced to move it.
Hi,
We have 2 Windows 2012 R2 file servers that use DFS-R to repicate files. Initially about a year and a half ago when this was set up, it appeared to be working correctly. We have 4 DFS replication groups each represents a business data area, data is replicated from the live site to a DR site, and the connection between the DR site as a sending member back to production has been disabled; the theory being data gets replicated to DR but not back, and if anyone made an error or deleted something at DR it would not delete live data.