Windows 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 ArticleCA and Clustered File Server for General Use
Hi all, I am currently designing a multi-site failover cluster file server for information workers (approx 110TB of data). The role will be 'File Server for General Use'. I was going to enable CA so...
View ArticleMoving files on the same volume.
Hey guys so we have the following setup:SetupWe are using Server 2012 R2N:\ ---- driveN:\Network ----- The root folder for all folders. This has inheritance turned off on its permissions. The ACL's are...
View ArticleStorage spaces - physical disk with status Unrecognized Metadata - Please help!
HiI am really hoping i can fix this issue, so any help is sincerely appreciated!I have a 3 disk striped storage pool, where one of my disk now has status Unrecognized Metadata.Is it anyway possible to...
View ArticleFile permissions don't inherit after moving to a different directory
Hello,I'm having a problem when moving files from one directory to another directory as described in the following article: ttps://support.microsoft.com/kb/2560088/en-us?wa=wsignin1.0 (please add the...
View ArticleUsers open shared files but they get an error that file is already open when...
we have a windows 2012 r2 environment with a hyper-v cluster with 4 virtual servers (2012r2) that are located on an hp storage.users in the office work on windows 7 pc's and sometimes (more than once...
View ArticleHardware upgrades to DFS replication partner
Hi All,I have 2 DFS servers. They are setup in a primary/secondary situation with users all connecting to the primary server of which the secondary server is a replication partner. I have plenty of...
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Network Share (user Home Folder) no longer connects (Win7 64bit client, 2008...
User was able to naigate to their home folder (network location mapped to H:\ drive via active directory user object setting - profile tab), but now when they attempt to click on their H: drive they...
View ArticleWhere the disk space goes ?
Dear all,I understand this might be a dump question but I really need a solid answer for my boss.On Windows Server 2008 R2 I checked the disk space of Drive C is 278.1 GB, Free Space 260.6GB and Used...
View ArticleWindows Server 2003 file share issues - on wifi directory changes to root...
I have this strange issue and it ONLY happens on wifi. If I browse to windows share: \\hpdsfandp\common$\folder1\folder2 - within seconds explorer changes the directory back to...
View ArticleUsing Windows Storage server 2012 R2 as NAS
Hi,We have an HP Nas as a cluster of 2 nodes handling all our shares, but we are looking in adding another NAS, and before going to HP again, I was wondering if we could use Windows Storage server 2012...
View ArticleSMB signing not working?
Hi,We are looking to force SMB signing on all our servers and workstation to tighten the security. But so far in my test setup it does not work.We have number of 2008 r2 machines plus mixed Windows 7...
View ArticleDFS Namspaces - 2012 R2
Hey,We've recently upgraded all our domain controllers from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 (same hardware though and it was a clean install (with proper decommissioning), not an in place upgrade), and every now...
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 ArticleDFS-Namespace Server managing
Hi.. In my test lab i have created 2 DC with DFS. When i create a NameSpace from 1 server and try to manage the name space from the 2nd server while 1st server is down i cannot Manage it. I also did...
View ArticleCreating new Namspace
When we create a new namespace the wizard asks for Namespace Server:(Enter the name of the server to host the namespace. The server can be a domain controller or a member server.)Here we can only enter...
View ArticleHow to monitor DFS login prompt problem? (share corruption)
Twice we have experienced problems with our DFS shares, both times we discovered that there was one server with a share problem. If we tried to open a share from that server we got a logon prompt. The...
View ArticleISCSi drive does not appear in list of volumes
Hi, I have configured a windows server 2012 r2 OS with 2 disks/ The server is a VM. Both disks are SCSI. Hoerver, the data disk does not show in ISCSI setup Screenshot of the part in question is here:...
View ArticleMoveSecurityAttributes in Server 2012 R2
Hi,Does anyone know whether the MoveSecurityAttributes registry setting should work in Server 2012? In 2008 you could enable this to make moved files/folders inherit permissions from their parent. But...
View ArticleTrying to merge unallocated disk space to virtual disk
Hi All,Running a Scale out File server on Server 2012 R2.I am covering for a co-worker and one of the virtual disks have run out of space. So I extended the virtual drive to a desired size but now I...
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