Best options for migrating Samba shares to DFS
My team is in the process of setting up a new domain for our organization. We want to slowly migrate users from non-AD accounts and workstations to AD (2012). One of the pieces we are having trouble...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 FSRM Quota Management
Having issues with Windows 2008 R2 FSRM Quota Management. We have everyones Home drives setup with a quota. We have different quotas for different people and the Quota % Used is not matching what is...
View ArticleUnable to repair degraded Virtual disks in Storage Spaces 2012R2
Hi all,I have an anoying problem that I cannot seems to find a solution for.I have a 2 node Failover Cluster with CSV-volumes consisting of 2 HP DL360 servers with 2 LSI 9300-16e HBAs each, connected...
View ArticleUser folder Quota not apply correct
Hey there, I had setup a user folder quota for all company users under the User Home folder with 1GB limit. However, there is something wrong with it recently. It didn't show up all users who are in...
View ArticleServer 2008R2 File tranfer speed very slow
I have a server 2008R2 with 32Gigs of Ram and 2 Quad core processors. When I copy a large file (200gigs) from one directory and paste to another local on the machine the transfer speed is about...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Conundrum
OK, so I had the following setup:4 4TB Hard drivesSingle Virtual Disk set as "Fixed" to the maximum size and 2-Way mirrorSeeing that I was approaching a point where the disk would fill up, I acquired 2...
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DFSR Error on Windows Server 2012
Hello I also have DFS Replication issue. I set up DFSR on Windows Server 2012 R2, which replicated data with Branch Server with Win Server 2008 R2. Everything was working fine when I initially set up...
View ArticleSaving Excel spreadsheet to network share generates .tmp files which do not...
We are having a strange issue with Microsoft Excel and saving to a network share. When anyone (users or admins) saves changes to an Excel workbook saved in a particular network share it generates a...
View ArticleServer 2012 Two-Way Mirror Storage Space Incorrectly Displays "no capacity"
I am running Windows Server 2012 Essentials and I have an identical pair of Western Digital 6 TB (Red NAS) drives in a two-way mirror storage space (assigned to drive S:).Yesterday this storage space...
View ArticleProblem with the files stored in our common drive. All the files suddenly...
Hi,We are having windows 2008 R2 File server as our file server.Our files are suddenly changed the extension to xxx.docx.rlspiam, yyy.xlsx.rlspiam which is not readable any more. We have tried full...
View ArticleFile server migration
Hi here the scenario,Domain A has a fileserver , access to shares are restricted with ACL, I'm planning to disjoin the fileserver from domain A and will join to domain B , will it affect ACLs.Thanks in...
View ArticleFolder Redirection Policy problem with cancelling the policy
Hello everyone. I have a little problem. I wanted to delete Folder Redirection GPO from Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard... By my foolishness I have deleted the GPO instead of setting up the right way...
View ArticleDedupe unoptimization questions
Hi there.We've got 4.5TB of data on an 8TB volume. It was deduped and we got around 60 % savings.. . Great! It worked well until our Mac users tried accessing via Mavericks/Yosemite. Now they're...
View ArticleMapping Shared Network Folders
Hi All,The company i work for are having issues with shared network drives essentially we've run out of usable drive letters... so we are looking at a way of scripting mapped network locations to...
View ArticleDFSR - Deleted files not being deleted on remote servers
Hi All, I have a central file server replicating its data to 2 remote files servers with read only shares.When a file is deleted on the central server, the files are not being deleted on the remote...
View ArticleCreate report with NTFS permissions
I would like to generate a report with powershell which creates a report with folder permissions on an ntfs volume.is there an easy way to set this up ?
View ArticleMoved files are not inheriting permissions -- Windows 7 on Windows Server...
I'm not sure if I should ask this in the server forum or the regular Windows forum, so I'll just ask -- if this is best asked elsewhere I'll move it.I'm sure that most of you are familiar with the...
View Articlerobocopy command help
Need to know what is wrong, please help with the following script:set Drive2=C: set flags=/MIR /W:10 /R:10 /A+:a /XF *.mp3 *.mp4 *.mpg *.m4p *m4a *.exe /XD "My Videos" "My Pictures" "My Music" Itunes...
View ArticleDisk Quota Problem
Hi Guys, I've applied disk quota through FSRM using 250mb template. When login from user 250 drive is connected.but that user can also access other users data by accessing shared quota...
View ArticleBest Practice Adding New Target to Namespace and Replication
Hi,whats the best way to add a new target to Namespace and replication. Goal is to replace a old file Server at the end.I did the following:- copied the share with robocopy incl timestamps of files and...
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