Cannot remove "Owner" in "Advanced Security Settings for "
I am using Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Evaluation Server Core (with the GUI shell enabled). I set myself as the "Owner" for a specific directory using File Explorer by right-clicking on the...
View ArticleDFS Replication stops, Debug Log:...
I've had 2 DFSR servers replicating for about 12 months now with no issue, with in the last week one server has stopped replicating some files, ie will have a directory with 30 jpg files on server a,...
View ArticleISCSI traffic between client and server
HelloHow much traffic will there be between a server and a client when using iscsi. I'm thinking of create a hyper-v cluster, using only 1gb nic. All storage will be provided by iscsi.I have an idea...
View ArticleShow Files on the Explorer as the truncated file size
How can i make windows reflect the truncated file size of a file rather than the original file size
View ArticleMigrating Data
Hi,I have a project to replace a small network. The existing network is running Windows 2008 DCs and new project will consist of setting up new DCs running Windows 2012 R2 but the domain will be new....
View ArticlePermissions error to copy certain type files to a Windows 2008 R2 shared...
Hello,I have a Windows 2008 R2 Server on a domain, with some shared folders, and a Windows 7 client joined to the domain. From the client, I can access the shared folders, and create, modify or delete...
View ArticlePerformance tuning and tweak for 1000+ user accessing File Server 2012 R2...
Hi People,Can anyone here please share some knowledge and suggestion of any settings that I need or should implement forWindows Server 2012 R2 file server that will be used by 1000+ user access...
View ArticleDedup job fail with 0x8056530c
I have a 2012r2 box, enabled dedup, Hyper-V role, but when i use powershellStart-DedupJob -Type Optimization -Volume d:the task fail like this:PS C:\Windows\system32> Start-DedupJob -Type...
View ArticleDFS Replication problem between server 2012 and server 2008 R2
Dears:i have clustered file server of 2 servers windows 2008 r2 , and is configured for DFS replication with the DR site on windows server 2008 r2now we have storsimple , and we have configured it to...
View ArticleConvert Lotus Notes Contacts to Outlook
Hunting down the tool that gives your contact details from Lotus Notes to Outlook. On the off chance that you need to change over your Notes Contacts to PST, Excel or vCard format than Notes Address...
View ArticleUnable to create a share on file cluster
I am having problems creating a share on a new 2012 file cluster. I keep getting an error message that "The resources must be online on the same node for this operation". The disk is online according...
View ArticleTransfer of large filesover iSCSI reported as complete by OS way before...
New to iSCSI and trying to set up a Synology RS813 NAS as a backup repository for a 2012.R2 hyper-v host. The iSCSI initiator on the 2012.R2 server connects to the NAS iSCSI target (block based) via 2...
View ArticleMigrate DFS to Windows 2012
We are currently running Windows2003R2 as our DFS server. This server has three network drives to address the Department folders and User folders. Some of the department folders are replicating to...
View ArticleConvert disk from Dynamic MBR to Dynamic GPT (Without losing data)
Is there a way to convert Dynamic MBR disk to Dynamic GPT without losing the data that resides on them? I know there is ways to go from Basic MBR to GPT. But the existing disks are already Dynamic...
View ArticleFile share effective permissions and "encrypt data access"
I create a file share and everything works fine. But when open Server Manager \ File and Storage Services \ Shares and goto the properties of the file share \ settings and enable "Encrypt Data Access"...
View Articleit's possible to upgraded DFS Server(win 2003) into win 2008 R2 directly
I have a DFS Server which only configurated replication(win2003 R2 x64). Now I need to upgraded this server from win2003 into 2008 R2. it's possible to upgraded into 2008 R2 directly without...
View ArticleDistributed File System - event id 4004
the dfs was working perfectly fine...until recently. I had to delete the replication group for troubleshooting an issue. But, up until then replication was perfectly fine. But, now that I'm trying...
View ArticleWork Folder errors
I have Work Folders set up on a Server 2012 R2 machine which is fully updated. The client having trouble is running Windows 8.1 and I am seeing the following errors:Upload Failed: Access is Denied...
View ArticleIs it possible to extend volumes with DFS without taking any resources offline?
I am running two Windows 2008 R2 servers (hosting DFS) within a VMware 4.1 environment. From the VM side of the house additional space was allocated. My question is: Can I simply expand my volume using...
View ArticleDFSUTIL State="2"
Hi,Is there any where that states what the state field means when running dfsutil /root?I'm getting a problem on client machines where I right click on a drive mapped to a dfs root and click on the DFS...
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