Edward

Using 2012 R2 Essentials.

My storage pool is 8 jbods & 2 SSD. Mirror with Fixed Provisioning. Capacity 1.62TB Allocated 1.62TB Tiered With a 1GB Wright-Back cache ReFS

Dashboard reports "One or more new hard drives are connected to the server."

Disk manager shows a 1661.81GB blue Basic disk 14 in read only. It has the same capacity as my Storage Space volume (basic disk 11) except the unallocated space is different.

Access to my storage space drive is not affected.

If I reboot the server, the new disk 14 will usually disappear until the next reboot or two.

What should I do to assess the health of Storage Spaces? Is windows seeing the Storage Space VHD and reporting it when it should be hidden?

I appreciate feedback and any help. 

Hi guys, 

Scenario : DFS not working

Source Server = Windows 2012 R2 Standard

Destination Server = Windows 2012 R2 Standard

Both the servers are in different AD sites.

Verify Topology = Ok

I tried to create a set of replicated folders

Getting this error when i run diagonistic report.

tfernandes

Hi There,

I have few Windows 2008 Enterprise servers with SP2 on a domain environment. Below is a scenario what I was trying to achieve and where I am stuck with.

I have created few Security - Global groups and have added members accordingly. Afterwards, I have created a folder called"Departmental" and then some sub folders such as IT, Finance, Corporate... etc.

What I have done initially is just shared the Main directory with read permission for Domain Users as I only require the directory to be seen/accessed by domain authenticated users. However, what I have also done is that, each of the sub folders I have manually added the respective groups be removing the inheritance. Now, when I do this all the domain users can see/access the root directory and also the sub directories belonging to their department (e.g. a finance user can only see/view finance folders, the rest are hidden from user view).

However, they are not able write into the directory regardless of the access. And when I move back and giveContribute access to the Domain Users group, then the users are able write into the sub directories.

I know t his will work out as the other folders aren't visible for them but what I require is, if there's a way to over come this by only giving the read access to the root directory and then to sub directories as required? is this possible or am I doing this wrong?

Hi,

I want to disable pagefile.sys in windows server 2008 r2 and then re-enable it, that can cause any kind of problems ?

The C partition ( with no pagefile.sys enabled ) is out of space and i want to put some space from D to C partition, the pagefile.sys is enabled on D, i want to delete partition D to make 2 partitions ( one with unallocated space ), in this way i will have space at the end of C partition that can be allocate to C. After that, i'll create D partition and will enable pagefile.sys again on it. Will this work ?

or

anyone knows how to move some space from partition D to C ?

Hi, i'm facing an error while trying to add scale out file server error, failed to add file share.

"The entered path is not valid for the selected server. Please enter a new path or select a different server..... "

Help !

Hi all,

Earlier this day, I wanted to restore a 15 days old file on our filer, a server ruuning Windows Server 2012 R2.

On the drive that holds this file, VSS snapshots are configured to not exceed the ~60 GB limit.

When I opened the properties of this file, I could see that there is no previous versions, so I assumed the 60 GB limit was reached.

But absolutely not : the space used by VSS snapshot was only ~30 GB. In addition, the first previous version of this file (as I see in my backups) is 20 days old.

Why my server did not keep previous versions of serveral files whereas VSS disk space limit is not reached ?

Thank you !

Regards,

FXE

For security reasons we only want to allow computers that are joined to our domain to use Work Folders.  We do not want to allow ipad/iphone apps to use work folders.

We have Work Folders setup and working with our firewall.  Now we are trying to figure out to disallow the use of devices like ipads.

Are we missing Set-SyncShare command that will lock down Work Folders to only domain computers?

Hi,

I have a 2012 R2 file server, which I am using for testing along with a Win7 client. I have the screens of both running side by side, so I can quickly and easily test the changes I am making. When changing permissions on folders to make them show/hide I notice this change is only effective for the user if I create/delete another folder in the share.

Here is how I can recreate it...

I have a root folder called "Data", which is shared (everyone = full access). I have enabled ABE on this share. Within this folder I have the following three subfolders

Finance
Jobs
Admin

All folder have NTFS permissions for users of the "Staff" group.

I created a new user account but did not add to the "Staff" group. I browsed to \\server\data and saw nothing - excellent, ABE is working.

So, then I create a new group called "contractors", add permissions to this group to theJobs folder above and put my new user in that group. I log off and log back on as that user.

I now see the Jobs folder, but no others - excellent, ABE still working!

Now I want that same user to see the other folders, so I add the "contractors" group to those folders also. When I look at my Win7 client, the two other folders do not appear. I refresh - nothing. I close Explorer, reopen, browse again, but still only see the Jobs folder, not the others - ABE is not refreshing my users view. Or to put it another way, my user cannot refresh his view to see the folder he genuinely has access to.

I then go back to the server, and create a new 4th folder, which gets the default name "New Folder" I notice on my Win7 client as soon as this new folder appears on the server theFinance and Admin folders immediately appear for the user. Odd. So, I remove access to these folders (by removing the contractors group from their NTFS permissions). This does not remove the folders from the users view - even if I refresh or close Explorer and browse again. If I go back to the server and delete the 4th folder (New Folder) then the users view does automatically refresh and the two folders disappear as expected.

It seems that creating or deleting a folder on the server causes the client to refresh their ABE view. Is this a bug?

Hello All -

I came across an interesting issue recently as I was working in a customer environment. They are leveraging Citrix for application virtualization and as such have both user profiles and folder redirection in place. It has been a Microsoft best practice for some time now to redirect all shell folders including AppData to prevent profile bloat and improve overall performance. We are following this guidance but have come across this issue. Instead of straight roaming profiles, we are leveraging Citrix User Profile Manager which allows some additional granularity - for example, the ability to include specific directories or files as a part of the profile even if that directory or those files are typically redirected. This works well for most applications, however, no matter how we try to sync the AppData\Roaming\IsolatedStorage folder it continues to be redirected. We are able to sync the AppData\Local\IsolatedStorage folder successfully. The inability to sync the AppData\Roaming\IsolatedStorage directory with the user profile seems to be what is causing an error to appear whenever we launch the Active Directory Administrative Center (dsac) application which states "Active Directory Administrative Center cannot restore the custom configuration settings. The default configuration settings will be used."  I have disabled the redirection of AppData altogether which resolves the issue, however, we don't want to disable AppData redirection for all applications when there is just one problematic application. 

Does anyone have any suggestions for what we can try to overcome this issue?

Thanks!

Dear Friends,

I am recently working on a share server with a very unprofessional former management!

After reviewing many permissions and correcting many more I found a huge problem.

My method for setting share permissions is to grant R/W share permission to everyone and manage the NTFS permissions as they are more flexible. As I create a folder by default it has a set of permissions (for example X - Y- Z) inherited from the parent, I share the folder (give R/W to everyone) then go to NTFS permissions disable inheritance, remove Y and Z permissions from the list and add A - B and C permissions to the said folder! everything is working fine as planned.

in that folder I create another folder (a sub folder) as I set on the parent it inherits the X (From root) and A - B - C from the parent (The first folder I created)! Still all fine! BUT as I create a sub folder in that sub folder it just takes the X from the root and there is no A - B - C!!!!

I have to redo the permissions on these sub folders of sub folders witch is impractical! I disabled and enabled the inheritance on the sub folders and "Replace all child object permissions..." on the parents! nothing!!!!!

Please help! Its exhausting...

Hey guys,

following scenario: I have a DFS Server (Windows Server 2010 R2), providing a standalone Namespace. 

With the following KB Article 829885 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/829885), it seems to be possible to get a DFS-Server with its DFSN functionality up and running.

As far as good, the KB Article itself implies that it only applies to Server 2003, seems to run on 2012R2 as well. There is another Article (http://virot.eu/setting-up-a-dfs-consolidation-root/) which was really helpfull as well.

It has a big advantage using a consolidation root in a legacy Environment. Users and scripts do not need to change their behaviour.

Normally you would need to browse through "\\AWESOMESERVER\DFSNAMESPACE\SHARENAME", with the Consolidation root it is possible to use the exisiting "convention" of "\\AWESOMESERVER\SHARENAME".

But i do have the following Problem. The Namespace needs to be called "#AWESOMESERVER", so there will always be a Share with the Name "#AWESOMESERVER" visible when browsing through the DFS Shares under "\\AWESOMESERVER" with the File Explorer.

I would like that "root share" to be invisible or hidden. Creating the Namespace with "#AWESOMESERVER$" seems to break the deep link functionality. e.g. i can't access "\\AWESOMESERVER\SHARENAME" anymore, i need to use "\\AWESOMESERVER\#AWESOMESERVER$\SHARENAME". Of course that is not what i want.

I tried to use Access Based Enumeration to hide it, but that does only prevent that users browse in the DFS-Root-Share, it does not hide the Share itself.

Any ideas how i could hide the DFS-Root-Share and still use a Consolidation root?

Thank you very much in advance.

Tom

I had a 2008 server replicating with a 2012 R2 server. There were issues and I had to stop replications. The 2012 server ConflictAndDeleted remained intact. However, 2008 did not, I know the DFSRPrivate pointers is gone, but I don't see anything under the System Volume Information either.

Does stop and remove the replication group delete that data in 2008? Am I looking in the wrong place? Can I restore it from shadow copy to a different location and pull the data out with powershell?

I have a folder I can't delete from one of our file servers.

H:\Printers\SIGNS\Corcoran

If I try to enter the Corcoran folder it appears to let me, and indicates the folder is empty.  However if I try to delete it from Windows Explorer nothing happens.  If I try to delete it from the command line I get the message that the system cannot find the file specified.

I do notice that if I try to rename the folder it appears there's a trailing space (or more likely some other unviewable character) after the "n".  For example if I go to rename the SIGNS folder, it looks like this:

However if I select the Corcoran folder to rename it looks like this:

If I change the name of the folder and hit Enter I get the message that it could not find the item, and it's no longer located in M:\Printing\SIGNS.  Verify the item's location and try again.

In the past when presented with this problem I could view the 8.1 directory name using dir /x, then remove the directory that way.  Unfortunately that doesn't work in this case because Corcoran is already only 8 characters, so there's no CORCOR~1 equivalent via dir /x.  I've also tried using rmdir to delete "Corcoran " with both just a space and also with ALT-255.  I'm kind of at a loss.  I've rebooted the server, and also run chkdsk on it but no errors were found.  Any ideas?

So, I have a customer running Windows Server2012R2 with a two NAS devices attached to the network  running drives as iSCSI in a Raid 1 configuration. THe server is the only machine on the network with iSCSI access configured. Up until now this setup has been used very nicely for storing multiple, sizeable backups of the server. Peachy keen. The customer has now installed Great Plains Dynamics  enterprise accounting software running Microsoft SQL on the server and the software vendor tells me that they need to be provided additional storage not located on the SQL server to address the demands of the new software for storing documents (not SQL files), eg. word, excel, etc. generated by users out of the Great Plains.

My question pertains to providing shared access to the existing iSCSi drive(s) from user workstations that will be running the Great Plains application. I know that accessing the iSCSI from multiple machines using the iSCSI initiator is a definitive no. What is not clear to me is whether it is permissible to enable access by using Windows sharing on the server for a specific iSCSI drive and then logically mapping that share from individual workstations.  The intent would be to discontinue use of the drive for server backups and never directly read/write to that drive except from the mapped workstation drives.  I have scoured the web looking for a clear answer, but have only found a few vague intimations that this can be done.  Physically I have had no problem activating sharing for the iSCSI drive from the server and then accessing the shared drive from workstations - either as a logical drive or using UNC ; but I don't know if this arrangement will present issues of data corruption. My initial thinking is that if all reads and writes to the drive are performed only from the workstations via the server's sharing mechanism that it ought to work, but I need to be certain. What's the verdict? Workable? Or, am I going to need to take the drives down and completely repurpose them without iSCSI being in the picture?

Hi,

My lab at home has a PC that runs Windows Server 2012 R2. It acts as an SMB 3.0 storage server which 2 hyper-v hosts connect to for their VM storage. It has a total of 5 disks. 2xSSD, 2x2TB, 1xOS.

The 2xSSDs and 2x2TB disks are in a big 2 tier pool using storage tiers.

Today I came home from work and found that the OS disk on this server had failed, (nasty clicking sound).

Tomorrow I’ll go and buy a new disk and re-build the OS. How do I go about recovering the storage spaces? I really don’t want to lose the pool, I've been building up this lab for over a year now and have about 40 VMs.  

I presume (hope) that all the RAID info is stored on the actual disks, not in the OS.

I’ll go and do my own research now but just wanted to get the question out there ASAP. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Rhys

Yesterday, we have finalized our migration of moving network shared from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2.

One of the map drive is the N Drive. Users have the Modify permissions on specific subfolders. Here is an example

N:\Programmers

The group Shares Programmers has the Modify right to that folder. One of the users is called userA.

If I login to any of our 3 W2012 RDS server, userA can add, delete, raname files et folders in the folder Programmers. However, if I try to copy or move a file from the Desktop to the folder N:\Programmer, Windows says Location Is Not Available. 

https://techjourney.net/location-is-not-available-when-copying-moving-with-mapped-network-drive/

I try this also using Windows 10. I've mounted the same network drive on my laptop. My local Windows account on Windows 10 has admin access and I was able to copy paste fine. Off course when mounting the network drive, I use the same credential of userA (an AD account). After, I tried the same thing using a non admin local account and the copy paste will fail. Again, the credential use to mount the network drive is still the same AD account of userA.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/2019185

It seems to be caused by the UAC but I haven't been able to find a solution yet.

For the RDS users, here is how the network drive is created:

Hello!

We setup a new DFS namespace server and a DFS replication group for 2 file servers within the same location, the issue we see is that if I create a new file or a foler using the name space, it takes at ~10 mts for the data to be replicated. When I cheked the respective file server I could see a warning as follows, but we know 4GB of staging space is more than enough for the data that is hosted on these servers for replication.

The DFS Replication service has detected that the staging space in use for the replicated folder at local path F:\Citrix is above the high watermark. The service will attempt to delete the oldest staging files. Performance may be affected.
 
Additional Information:
Staging Folder: F:\Citrix\DfsrPrivate\Staging\ContentSet{0554B179-D471-4532-9A84-926C9EC2038D}-{955D72A0-5022-4AF6-834A-3FDB641CEB86}
Configured Size: 4096 MB
Space in Use: 3699 MB
High Watermark: 90%
 
Low Watermark: 60%

Could someone please assist ?

Thank you!

RG

Hello,

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 system (service pack 1) which is giving me a heck of a time. After setting the system into safe boot (minimal services), I cannot login.

There was only one account: Administrator

The password does not work the same way as it did on the normal mode. It will show "Bad username or password".  

It also will show:

There are currently no logon servers are available to service the logon request

I want to be able to get my normal bootup restored and regain access to the server logon.

I have tried pressing F8 (actually space bar)  and when I select boot normally it still goes into

Safe Boot mode.  

I have tried a rescue disk (Lazesoft Recovery) to get to a cmd prompt, but cannot run msconfig

as it tells me that msconfig must be run in administrator mode and it is not registered as a service.

Thanks

Mike