Files shares randomly display "Location is not available"
Hi all,I recently set up a windows 2012 file share server for departments and user folders. I've pushed the drive mappings out via group policy and on my laptop they work flawlessly. On everyone else's...
View ArticleNTFS permission
I have server 2012 standard being used as my file server. An error occurred while applying security information to: (folder path)Failed to enumerate objects in the container. Access denied.Why am i...
View ArticleDesktop Not displaying when offline from network.
My Remote User Laptops are displaying the desktop icons when they are connected to our network. When the machines go out in the field (and can't connect to our network), the desktop icons do not...
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 ArticleStorage pool Space full
I know this must have been asked many times, in my lab environment my storage pool filled completely while on vacation, it will only mount in read-only which is good because I didn't lose anything, but...
View ArticleRoaming profile for certain folders only
I have a server 2008 r2 with several client PCs. Is there a way to setup a roaming profile, but only for certain folders like Documents, Desktop, Pictures... But I want to keep the other stuff like...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 Deduplication Garbarge Collection eats up space
I have enabled Deduplication on a volume and it's running for a couple of weeks now. Backups are stored on this volume and dedup is doing a good job on this data (Weekly full backups +...
View ArticleDFS path problem
Hi there,I have a dfs related problem. When copying multiple small files from dfs path it gets very slow.If dfs path only includes one folder with target (e.g....
View ArticleAny way to recover Storage Spaces metadata?
Hello allI'll spare you the long, frankly moronic tale, but I have managed to delete the partitions that I suspect contain the glue that holds together my 4 drive storage pool. I did this whilst...
View ArticleDo I need DFSR in a single server environment?
I have a 2012 Host, running a single 2012 Guest. Guest is running as a DC with AD, DNS, DHCP, and File Services. DFSR is running, and it gives a warning every time my back runs (Backup is running on...
View ArticleNTFS Permissions
We are migrating from a Novell file server to Windows Server 2012 R2. We are having issues with folder and subfolder permissions.We have a top level folder that is shared, D:\FileShare. Under...
View ArticleDFS folder target showing wrong site
We have 1 DFS server running 2008 R2, for some reason a few of the folder targets are showing the wrong site name. The ones that are showing incorrect when you go to the properties of the folder target...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Standard disk extension greyed out
Hi I have a Windows Server 2012 Standard box. I did the disk extension on the EMC storage unit and all is fine on the Storage unit. I rescanned disk management but the additional space is not picking...
View ArticleEFS backup and restore without Recovery Agent
Dear all,I have a Windows 2012 R2 server (serverC) joined to a domain (domainA).Since I would like to secure my data, I have created a domain user (userB) who can encrypt a folder with files inside,...
View ArticleAccessing DFS Links needs to authenticate one more time
In domainA, there are serverA and serverB. A standalone DFS is created in serverA, \\serverA\DFS\DownloadsIn serverB, I configured DFS link \\serverB\DFS\Downloads pointed to \\serverA\DFS\Downloads....
View ArticleHow to configure SFTP on windows server 2003 without using any third party tools
Hi Team , Can you help me to configure SFTP on windows 2003 server.RegardsAnurag
View ArticleStorage Spaces and PCIe SSD
Hi everyone,Can anyone tell me if I can make use of a PCIe SSD device in order to make use of the auto-tiering functionality within Storage Spaces? I would prefer to a PCIe SSD device rather than a...
View ArticleDFS to make a copy of a live File Server
Hi,We currently have a physical Server 2008 R2 box which acts as File Server with approx. 3TB of data on. We have a Server 2012 R2 VM which we want to be the new File server. Currently we are thinking...
View ArticleDeduplicaton overhead on SAN
Good day everyone. Recently we deployed new file server on 2012 R2 and decided to turn on deduplication. File server is a VM hosted on 2012R2 Hyper-V cluster. After deploying users start complaining...
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