Difference in storage benchmark resuIts: iometer vs. SQLIO
Hey guys,Just wondering if anyone could explain a difference in benchmark numbers between iometer and SQLIO.To set this question up: I'm trying to get baseline performance for a new SAN installation,...
View ArticleDFSR Not Replicating Properly
I have just set up DFS in our environment. We made a full backup of our existing file server running 2003r2, restored the backup to our new 2012 server and then set all of the shares as individual...
View ArticleAdding a DFS Namespace on Windows 2012 produces an error
I have a very small lab environment with a 2012 AD server and two 2012 clients which I am testing DFSR before placing into production.I can't seem to get a Namespace created.Regardless if which host I...
View ArticleAccess Denied Errors on DFS Namespace Shares
I'm having issues access the namespace share in my domain. I will randomly get Access is denied errors hitting \\domain\dfs. I have 12 namespace servers and three of them (one 2008 R2 and two 2003...
View Articleopen file problem still
started with this thread open file problem and thought creating shadowstorage will fix my problem. looks like i spoke too soon.i'm back to square one, still having the same open file errors,7/8/2013...
View ArticleData Deduplication service detected corruption in "{filename}". And other...
Hi! I reviewed logs in Event Viewer\Applications and Services Logs\Microsoft\Windows\Deduplication\Scrubbing and found lot of events with Error level.I am using Windows 2012 (Version 6.2.9200 Build...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 file services randomly not respongding
Hi We deployed a 2008 r2 server to serve as domain controller and file server.The problem is this server happened not to respond to any smb request. Since we have some logon script on it, the users...
View ArticleBitLocker with Self Encrypting Drives
Hi,Has anyone tried to use Hardware SED disks with Windows 2012 BitLocker ?We have a couple of Seagate SED disks we are testing and i was expecting BitLocker to detect they are hardware based...
View ArticleOverride Referral Ordering; First/Last among all targets
Has anyone tried this and had success with it?We have replication between (2) 2008 R2 servers. We were having issues with multiple people making changes to the same file, and changes getting lost. I...
View ArticleServer 2012 DFS over WAN, Home dir's & TS profiles
I am considering deploying Server 2012 DFS for our two sites to host redirected Home dirs, TS profiles, and general network shares, ideally in an Active/Active or if I have to an automatic fail over...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 - Extend Partition .. space not showing available
Good morning all -- have a question about extending a volume on Server 2008 R2. The volume is an iSCSI target using the Microsoft iSCSI initiator -- the iSCSI device is a Dell MD3000i.The volume was...
View ArticleFile Server CPU at 100% MSMPEngine, Trusted Installer, mscorsvw.exe, System Idle
Environment:Windows 2008R2 SP1 File Server Xeon E5630 @ 2.53GHz CPU 4GB RAM This fileserver is a Hyper-V VM. The host machine's CPU runs at a constant 0-4%. The other VMs are running fine. We are a...
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 ArticleServer 2008 R2 Cluster Roles
I have a 2008 R2 cluster setup with DHCP and file services running now. Would it be safe to say that I can add print services to it as well for ~100 printers? Current specs on servers:E5606 processor...
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Server 2012 Shares
Hi Microsoft community!I hope you can help me with an issue...I have a machine called \\shares\There are two drives on it, the "Local Disk (C:)" and the drive I want to put the shared resources on...
View ArticleSMB file transfer issue on windows 8
Issue: When I transfer the file from UNIX OS to Windows Server 2012 (SMB 2.0 or 3.0) system using SMB (Samba), the file gets transfer but contains of file dose not (Only empty file size of 0 KB gets...
View ArticleFile server replication setup?
Hi,I have file server (Rather a server with a shared folder).I want to implement another server (these are vm's on hyper-v 2012) and ensure some sort of replication between both servers such that if I...
View ArticleI can't see folders in file server (Windows 2008 R2)
Hi,We have two file servers, both Win 2008 R2. I have the exact same permission configuration in both servers.The folder structure is this:Folder1 | --> Subfolder1 | --> Subfolder2 | -->...
View ArticleCan't view DFSR Health Reports in IE 10 or IE11
As a part of monitoring our DFSR infrastructure, I generate health reports on a weekly basis and have them emailed to me. The DFSR reports require IE in order to be viewed. On top of that, they...
View ArticleFile Permissions
Hey There, How are you?. Can Anybody help me with this issue?. I have a shared folder and special permissions configured, but it really doesn't work like i wanted. I need to restrict the file...
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