Roaming Profile/Redirected folders issue with DFS...
We currently host our Remote Desktop user profiles and redirected desktops and mydocs on DFS shares. The DFS Namespace is hosted one several servers and the targets are on two servers. The first...
View ArticleRobocopy - Move Files/Folders and retain time/date
I am helping a department creaning their data - they have around 2TB. I have made a copy of all the data (Zero length files) to a folder - this way i can do some test runs of the scripts. The next...
View ArticleMember of domain group cannot access shared folder
I created a shared folder on my server and in the Share Permissions, i have Everyone full control. And for the Security tab, i have added a domain group (lets call it group abc) with modify permission....
View ArticleHow to Remove DFS completely
Hi allI am looking to remove distributed file system from my environment completely. I see other articles about removing namespaces, root etc.I am not happy with it and want to remove this...
View ArticleDFSR and nightly resyncs
We have an odd issue which has recently started. We have 4 offices connected using DFSR replicating 1,300,000 files. We recently replaced 2 older servers with 2012 standard boxes with two other 2003r2...
View ArticleHow to Restric Non Domain Computers to Access Shares
How can I restrict non domain computers to access shared folders hosted in my windows 2008 r2 servers?
View ArticleFolder redirection not going though for Server 2008
Hi everyone,We are currently doing a user migration at my company and the folder redirection to desktop is not kicking in as quickly as it should be. Here are some points I want to make:The group...
View Articlehw to audit in windows server 2008 R2
hi i have ADS in windows server 2008R2. have file server installed.now i have a share for my HR group (full control).someone deleted some files from that folder and i want to apply audit policy now.so...
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 ArticleOpen Ldap as an NFS User Mapping Store for NFS for Server 2012
Has anyone been able to get server 2012 to use OpenLdap as a naming store for NFS?Everything says you should be able to use an RFC2307 standard ldap store but I just can't seem to make it work.AD works...
View ArticleUnable to access Parity Volume on Storage spaces
I have raised a case with Microsoft support, but posting here to hopefully get a faster response (case raised almost a week ago!)I have a Windows Server 2012 file server, 4 USB3 disks, 4TB each, brand...
View Article2008R2 - File Server Resource Manager Quotas - Can't reset peak usage
I just implemented Quotas using File Server Resource Manager in Server 2008R2 for user folders. I auto applied the quota to all subfolders of a folder. I have a user who was over their limit, but has...
View ArticleSecurity Permissions question
Parent Folder-Child Folder 01-Child Folder 02-Child Folder 03If a user in a Domain Local AD group that has access to CF01 and CF03, I want them to be able to navigate to Parent Folder and only see CF01...
View ArticleSMB over VPN not working
I have a web server (one NIC only with two public IP's directly connected to the internet). The server is running win. server 2008 standard. I have installed RRAS server and configured static IP pool...
View ArticleCluster Failover not working - Cluster Disk Showing unknown and unreadable in...
Hi Experts, I have Windows 2003 R2 S2 Microsoft Cluster , we are facing Cluster Failover issue to one of our Server .Server Problem start with Blue dump error , I have Started Server With Last...
View ArticleFilserver migration
Hi I am are going to change file server, and the plan is following and I wonder if someone can see any potential problems with this plan, I cannot test it before the actually migration.I have a new...
View ArticleFile in shared folder not accessible for one user
Hello all,At the moment our file server (w2k3) has a shared folder structure. Folders, subfolders and files inherit permissions from parent andEveryone has read, write, execute permissions.There is one...
View ArticleDFSUtil fails to create target folder but GUI does
Hi all, trying to use DFSUTIL to create some DFS links along with their associated shares. This would be the equivalent of creating a new folder in the namespace and specifying a share which doesn't...
View ArticleFolder Permission not working when enabling share option.
Hello,Currently I am attempting to setup folder permission son Windows 2008 R x64 for my domain users.The folder structure as follow:Data>Software>Shared>ArchiveThe “Shared” folder will hold...
View Articlededuplication errors - event id 8200, 4148
i started using deduplication about 2 weeks ago and have started getting the following errors when i run a scrub job. Any ideas on what caused, it how i can fix it, and what I can do to avoid it in...
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