File Servers in Multiple locations
HI All, We have seven sites and each location have the Windows 2003 File Servers, Tape drive and offsite Backup service. So what is the best practice to reduce the cost and give better solutions to...
View ArticleCombine Hardware RAID1 with SIMPLE TIERED Storage Spaces Windows Server 2012 R2
I have a lot of customers with HP ProLiant ML350 Servers using HP SmartArray controllers. Since you can NOT configure SmartArray Controllers to handle Harddisks in JBOD mode (which is a requirement...
View ArticleW2K12-R deduplication optimization job stuck at 100% for days
Hello,I've W2K12-R server (VM, 4 vCPU, 14 GB vRAM) with a 7 TB D: drive, deduplication is enabled for this drive. I use this drive for backing up virtual machines, at the moment 3,6 TB are used. Each...
View ArticleWindows 2008 Alignment of Drivers less than 4GB
Guys, why does Windows 2008/2008R2 alig drives that are less than 4Gb to 65536 and all driver larger than 4GB to the 1MB boundary (1048576)? It's not uncommon on virtual machines to present small...
View ArticleDFS Member not replicating
Hello.I have 3 DFS Members each at different sites (Server1,Server2,Server3)all were replicating previously but Server 3 is no longer replicating/reflecting the changes made from it.i.e Server 3...
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„Dfsutil /pktinfo“ and „dfsUtil cache referral“ only show one referral?
Hi Guys,i have a short question about „Dfsutil /pktinfo“ and/or„dfsUtil cache referral“On OS 2003-2008 this commands show a ordered list of referrals to a DFS Namespace. Sample for sysvol in my test...
View Article2012 storage pool
Hello. I have an HP DL380 G6 server running Windows 2012 Server. The server has the following disks available (no raid/array configured):2x136GB SAS 15k8x72GB SAS 15k4x500GB SAS 7.2kUsing the raid...
View ArticleFile Server Migration NTFS Permissions cleanup
Hello,I have migrated a file server from Domain1.com to Domain2.com, using the lates ADMT tool the security translation that i have choosen in the wizard is Replace so I can get the same users on...
View ArticleFiles and Directories Disappear Server 2008 R2
When files are copied to the users home directory they are there at that time and check out OK. From that time up to 5 days later they just disappear. Nothing in any logs or the file audit logs. On one...
View ArticlePrivate network folder for each user on Windows Server 2012
Hi,I'd like to share a folder on my Windows Server 2012 network with each user that other users can't read. How could I do this?
View Articlesysvol replication fails
Hello everyone,I have a problem after changing primary dc in company. Old DC became unstable, so we replaced it, migrated all to a new one. Old dc was 2003 r2 server, new one is 2008 r2. Error: The...
View ArticleRisk to recreate DFSR Group Replication in Windows 2008 R2
DFS replication group has been deleted and I need to recreate it. Now what I just want to make sure if I recreate the replication group are all folders between my 3 servers will resynch without...
View ArticleFiles go missing from Share
Hi,I'm having an issue where files are being deleted or go missing from a share on a Server 2003 Machine.Files on the share are being deleted by different PCs at different times. During one instance...
View ArticleDrive capacity on servers
I was asked an interesting question yesterday and honestly didn't know the answer. As we view the drive capacity in the property of computer, they are often depicted in either Blue or Red (presumably...
View ArticleDeduplication Schedule
Hello-We have data dedup enabled on a volume that contains user profiles. The dedup works great. I get 87% savings. What we are trying to figure out is how the schedule works. We are not concerned...
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Unable To Create and/or Rename Folders on DFS Share
HiWe have a Windows 2008 Storage Server that we use as a data server. About 100 folders are shared on our network and we use DFS to collect these shares into manageable shared units.The network...
View ArticleNeed to recover deleted data!
A customer has deleted data from their server that didn't need to be deleted. I need to know if there is a way to recover the data even though shadow copies was not enabled.
View ArticleWindows user cannot see files copied into a folder
File share is on a Windows 2008 (R1) server. We use shared folders as mailboxes for users. When the file scanning person (Heidi) scans the incoming paper mail, it is placed in each user's individual...
View ArticleOWNER RIGHTS (NTFS) and locally administrative accounts
If <local system>\Administrators owns an NTFS object and an OWNER RIGHTS ACE:Modify is in that objects DACL... what happens when the object's DACL does not include another ACE granting <local...
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SMB Locking in 2008
I'm having an issue with an app who's files are hosted on a 2008R2 fileserver. The app is running slow at times. I wiresharked and saw lock requests from clients. What kind of locks are these and can...
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