Unable to access DFS shares when server 1 goes down
Hello all,I have a test domain I am building in order to prepare for a new domain we are going to create. We currently have an SBS 2003 that is reaching the end of its' life. We are going to start...
View ArticleCan't access anything but offline folders on slow VPN
As the title says, some of my users have set up offline folder syncing on Windows 7 laptops because they are out of the office at customer sites pretty frequently and want to have files handy. From...
View ArticleDeploy DFS namespace and DFS-R for different locations
Hi All,I am new to DFS-N and DFS-R, I have never deployed and used DFS before. We have different branches where different file servers are deployed on Windows Server 2008 R2, we want to migrate from...
View ArticleFolder permission
I have an Windows 2008 R2 file server with clients on Win 7 & 8, there is a requirement for 2 different departments to have a common shared folder with different permissions asper the below...
View ArticleMultiple friendly names in storage tiering
Hello everyone,I recently managed to setup the following: 1 raid1 with 2 ssd drives for the hypervisor 1 raid1 with 2 ssd drives for storage tiering 1 raid5 with 4 hdd drives for storage tieringI...
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Confusing disk usage numbers
Hi, all.While in a prosess of moving a large file share I came across a strange issue. I wanted to check the amount of data moved so I checked the properties of the disk I'm moving data to - 1.38TB...
View ArticleServer 2008 NTFS vs 2012 NTFS
I have a 2008R2 File server with 2 large NTFS volumes. I want to upgrade this server to 2012R2. If these NTFS volumes, that were created on a 2008R2 server, are attached to a 2012R2 server, will they...
View ArticleAccess Based Enumeration causing slow downs on File Server
I am looking for ideas here.We have a 2012 r2 file server that has a share with Access Based Enumeration turned on. This has been going on forever, what happens is if around 6 or more people try to...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 Fileserver - Files open sometimes slow
We have problems - file open sometimes slow. Fileserver isWindows 2012 R2 (all updates) and Window 7 clients. The Fileservers are virtual and running von VMWare vShpere 5.1. (paravirtual, vmxnet3...
View ArticleDFS Replication Problem - 2 out of 3 groups replicating
Hello,I'm having a small problem with DFS replication. This is a home lab with 2 Windows Server 2012 R2 machines as the upstream/downstream servers. I have 3 replication groups. The replication works...
View ArticleMirroring a volume with partitions...
Hi there folks,I seek advice as to mirroring a drive that has 4 partitions on it. Each partition has a separate drive letter. This is on a running prod server 2012 r2.I have an identical spare drive...
View ArticleShadow Copy restore
Trying to restore shadow copies of files that have changed in error.If on the file server (Windows 2008 r2) you drill down to the file that needs to be restored and right click "Restore previous...
View ArticleDFS Best Practice and domain structures
We currently have built a new domain structure for our client which consist of domains in separate forests with the approapriate trusts in place. The domains being:user, resource, legacy resource and...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 File Server Stops Responding to SMB Connections
Hi There,Massive shot in the dark here but I am struggling with a pretty major issue atm. We have a production file server that is hosted on the following:Dell MD 3220i -> iSCSI -> Server 2008...
View ArticlePrevent deletion of files
Hi Windows Expert,I am creating a share folder for one of my department user. for this share folder, their requirement is some users in this dept will have full access right and some users only have...
View ArticleCan not get access files from Windows 7 to Claims-based file authorization share
We have AD level 2012R2, DCs running 2012R2 of course, and we have clustered File Server (3 FSNodes running 2012R2).We enabled 2 policies KDC Support for claimKerberos support for claimWe created 1...
View ArticleBranch Cache Deployment
Hi Techies,I need to deploy a Branch Cache Solution for one of the client’s remote office. Users in the remote office need to access 3 files shares from two different locations (parent or main office)....
View ArticleUser Profile Disks and DFS replication
We're looking to replace a single, heavily used 2003 TS server--for performance, feature, and capacity reasons. Our users frequently have small amounts of data on their desktops/settings that we'd to...
View Article2012R2 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 ArticleiSCSI MPIO with only one LUN
If I have a Server 2012 MPIO iSCSI connection to the storage server but I'm only connecting to one LUN will that provide any kind of increased performance or is the benefit just redundancy at that point?
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