Windows Server 2012 r2 shared drive file access VERY slow
Whenever I open a file that's located in a shared folder on a drive with Windows Server 2012 r2 (videos and PDFs with graphics, especially), said file takes forever to load, videos often stutter, etc....
View ArticleWork Folders for iPad
Hi,We have configured a Work Folders environment with a clustered file server.Everything works great on Windows, but were unable to connect on the iPad app. It seems to authenticate with the server,...
View ArticleFile Server Resource Manager not moving expired files
I have setup a File Server Resource Manager task under Server 2008 R2.The task has the following properties: - Type: File expiration - Scope: W:\Share\Company - Expiration folder: S:\Archive - Days...
View ArticleFinding a failing drive
Hello,I have a Win 2008 R2 server running 10 internal drives and 1 external USB drive. Internal 1 SSD for boot, ASUS optical and 6 x 3TB spinner + 2 x 4TB spinner. The oldest drive is 18 months. They...
View ArticleRobocopy giving more files and folders at destination
Hello all,Running Robocopy locally on a Windows 2008 R2 server. By local I mean the source and destination have local drive letters on the server. Its a file server server cluster and I am moving user...
View ArticleFolder Redirection - Problem
Hi Guys... I am still facing the problem with Folder Redirection GPO. Yesterday accidentlly I have deleted the GPO, I have recreated the GPO but I cannot retrieve two folders for each user accounts to...
View ArticleFiles are getting upload continiously after FTP quota have used 100%
I have configured Microsoft FTP server version 7 and enabled the disk quota using FSRM. Now I am facing an small issue, once the folder size is 100%, ftp client end software is trying to upload the...
View ArticleSTG_E_LOCKVIOLATION from StgOpenStorage when reading a network file from...
We have found that if processes on multiple machines attempt to open a networked structured storage file forreading they will occasionally report ‘A lock violation has occurred’ (STG_E_LOCKVIOLATION)....
View ArticleEvent 4121 in Data Deduplication event viewer
I cannot copy files from a Deduped volume to a new volume and am getting the following error.A Data Deduplication configuration file is corrupted. The system or volume may need to be restored from...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 iSCSI Target - Multiple targets per iSCSI Virtual Disk with CHAP
Scenario I am trying to achieve is this: Windows Server 2012 R2 serves as iSCSI Target configured to have 1 iSCSI Virtual Disk2 Hyper-V servers connecting to this target with iSCSI Inistator and have...
View ArticleFTP Logging IIS 7.5 - need to find hostname
We are doing some work on our FTP server and we need to know how users are hitting our FTP server. In the Logging for FTP, I can see the IP address they are coming from, and I can see the IP address...
View ArticleExtending C: on windows server 2008 standard
I shrank the D: drive and moved all the data to the new space created after I formatted and gave the space a drive letter G:. I deleted the drive space D: and ended up with the free space that I wanted...
View Articlemy verbatim external drive 1.8 terabite does not show on my pc
my external drive does not show anymore on desktop
View ArticleStorage Spaces over Fibre Channel JBOD
Hello,I am trying to create cluster with shared storage spaces pool. My JBODs are connected to two servers with dual port FC HBAs with thi setup failover cluster manager pass all tests. When I create...
View ArticleHas anyone managed to get a 3TB dynamic disk on Windows 2003 Server?
I just got a pair of new 3TB disks that I wanted to put on my Windows 2003 server enterprise x64 system, SP2, all updates installed.When I first tried to convert to dynamic, I got the error "The...
View ArticleAttempting to use "backup and Restore" giver error message
In November 2014 I backed up my PC ( see below ) onto a 2TB ecternal drive ( Lacie). This ok and can restore. Spare space 1.2TBNow when I attempt to Backup again, using Windows Backup and restore,...
View ArticleUnable to format partition
Trying to setup a dev box with a 4TB HD. The last partition on the drive wont let me format it. Image link below.http://i.imgur.com/R3OFgLa.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/7HhxqtI.pngWhat am I doing wrong?
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 ArticleDFS Replication issues - DFSR JET database is not shut down cleanly and Auto...
Hi All,I had a dfs folder configured for replication between server 2012 R2 nodes but later broke the replication group. Some files had replicated before breaking the group.When I tried to create...
View ArticleBest 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...
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