2012R2 Storage Spaces - Enclosure redundancy
Hi,We are currently testing redundancy with Storage Space and have ran into a big problem..Here is a description of our setup (I'll try to be as precise as possible):Two HP DL360 Gen8 servers with 2x10...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Column Guidance
A recently published TechNet article "Replace Failed Disks and Repair JBODs for Storage Spaces in Windows Server" offers guidance on column configuration that I had not seen before:"Use at least one...
View ArticleFailoverClustering Event ID 5125
I have two Server 2012 Hosts running in a cluster with some CSV's setup. I just recently started receiving this warning on one of the hosts. The host has also blue screened a few times. I'm trying to...
View ArticleContents in DFSroot folder are missing
Hello,In our environment we have DFS Namespace (no replication) on Windows 2003 R2 servers\\contosso.com\projectdfs, there are 20 servers configured as namespace servers for this DFSNamespace.Its...
View Articleevent viewer genrates too much events for 4663 id.
Hi There,I have configure files and folder auditing on server2008r2. I have define the auditing for create files / write data, create folder / append data, Delete Sub folders and files.from this i am...
View ArticleShortcut permissions
Hi, First let me explain my setup. I have a server acting as the domain controller. Â On this server it has a partitioned disk for Public folders and a partition for "home" folders and "profiles" that...
View ArticleSMB/CIFS share of encrypted windows directory
I have a windows 8.1 pro stand alone computer. It has one directory that is encrypted. This computer shares that directory and others with a linux computer. Just after the windows 8.1 computer reboots,...
View ArticleRobocopy questions.
Hello, I recently used the following robocopy command to copy files from a windows server to a NetApp.robocopy \\windowsserver\docs \\nas001\docs /e /copyall /r:1 /w:1 /log:c:\docs.csvtwo questions...
View ArticleCorrupt Previous Versions
We are running Server 2012 R2 and have a 4 TB drive connected to two 10 GB ethernet with multipath to an IBM V3700. In Windows we have enabled deduplication and previous versions. We have also added...
View ArticleDFS Replication - Large number of file installs retried
I have a single hub and spoke DFS replication topology that is replicating VHDs to a number of branch office servers. Replication is in sync on all servers except for one. Looking at the DFS...
View ArticleOdd behavior navigating folders on a server share
Server OS: Windows Server 2012 R2Client OS(es): Windows 7 Pro 64bitServer is a data storage server. We have shares set up that everyone uses. Sometimes when a user goes to navigate to the share windows...
View ArticleNetwork Share and DFS replication failure
One of our servers running Windows 2K8 R2 suddenly lost it's ability to replicate over DFS, allow users to connect to it's shares, or connect to external network shares that are known to work.Other...
View ArticleStorage Spaces: SSD tier size incorrect when using EnclosureAware option in a...
Hi folks,We're about to deploy Storage Spaces in our test environment, but we encountered an issue while configuring Enclosure Awareness on Storage Pools.When we create a Storage Pool (over 3 JBOD's)...
View Articledisk defrag
I'm showing a system defrag that will not defrag and the number keeps climbing. hard disk c and d are fine. how do I get rid of this
View ArticleStand-alone DFS Share - Folder targets - wrong credentials
Hi allI am currently setting up a stand-alone DFS root with some Folder targets on different servers.All server are Windows 2012 R2 with all available patches.I use the stand-alone DFS because many...
View ArticleStorage Spaces mirror with 2 physical disk. Trying to replace disks. FAILED...
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...
View ArticlePermission
hi,I have windows server 2012 and it acts as a file server. I would like to know how can I give access to users to do the following: read, open subfolders, open files and edit files,save the files....
View ArticleDeploy ODBC to clients remotely
In Server 2008 R2 is there any way to remotely deploy pre-configured ODBC to client machines?Unsure if it's something via GP or scripting and can't find much online about this.Has anyone done it before...
View ArticlePartition Table Lost
One Server is connected to MSA SAN, after restarting server, some volumes are missing, when we go to Disk Management, some drives are okay, and some are showing unallocated. It seem partition table...
View ArticleAccess to DFS root via VPN not working - error 0x80070035 keeps popping up
Dear all, when trying to access the DFS root via VPN from a Windows 7 non-domain member computer I always receive an error stating "Windows cannot access \\eggs.local\dfs", Error Code: 0x80070035, The...
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