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Repairing Parity Virtual Disk failing
I have a 4 disk SATA III controller with four 4 TB drives. I created a 4 disk parity storage pool with a single Virtual disk. One of the drives completely died and is no longer visible to windows....
View ArticleTroubles with shared folder Windows Server 2008 R2
We have a very simple new deployment server, hosts file services and runs WDS and VMAT thats it, not a DC or anything just a member server.We have a dedicated D drive (Since this server is a VM on an...
View ArticleScale out file servers still only have one instance of data, right?
I have used windows clustering to do a hyper-v cluster before, and now I am looking at the scale out file server feature. I wanted to make sure a hadn't missed any features.Even when you use scale out...
View ArticleConfig.ini
I need to allocate memory to a backup agent and was told I could had 2 lines to the config.ini to accomplish this. Where do I find the config.ini file and what is the proper way to add lines to it?
View ArticleReFS corruption
A few weeks ago, I created a striped virtual disk using storage spaces on Win2K12R2 formatted in ReFS. I copied a large amount of data to the disk with apparently no issues. I am now finding problems...
View ArticleReboot changes filestamps on folders - even in folders were nothing has changed
Reboot changes filestamps on folders - even in folders were nothing has changed. This is making it harder for endusers who expect to see the same dates as yesterday on the shares folders. I've noticed...
View Articlepart of domain admin group but no access to folder
i am logged in as a user who is part of the domain admin group but when i login and access a folder. It says I do not have permissions. Checking the security tab on the folder, domain admin group has...
View ArticleAllow read, write, modify but Deny delete for group- Share Folder!
Hello,I have a share folder 'HR Share' on Server 2003 where I have a security group 'HR Users' from AD. I needHR Users - read, write, edit, modify, rename etc but NO DELETE permission (This folder,...
View ArticleManaging NTFS Rights - File Server on Windows Server 2003 R2
Hello everybody !I'm looking for help to give specifics rights on a directory tree ... like this one:├───.android ├───.gimp-2.8 │ ├───brushes │ ├───TEST │ ├───curves │ ├───dynamics │...
View ArticleDFS Namespace Shared folder not opening
Dear sir/madam, i shared a folder in domain client system (windows 7)with everyone read&write permission and i added the shared folder in DFS Namespace.i am trying to open...
View ArticleAccess Based Enumeration hiding accessible files?
Hi,I've just migrated our main 2003 file server to 2008 R2 and enabled access based enumeration.This has hidden everything in the share from my users. Disabling ABE allows users to see all the folders...
View ArticleServer 2012R2 - Thin provisioned out of space when 14TB still available
Hi,Suspect this is a configuration error but I can't see where. Original system install was Server 2012 Data Center with six 3TB disks (showing as 2.73TB each). Storage Pool was created with ReFS out...
View ArticleMemory Usage on 2008 R2 file server is high and doesn't seem to be accounted for
this is a vmware vm running 2008 R2 server with file services with 8 GB of RAM at 95 percent usage.The memory usage by processes doesn't add up to 7.5 GB and the active memory on the vm is only 1.2...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 Storage Spaces Tiering + Hyper-V , Backup & Replica
Hi, I'm building a new server for a client. The server will host a couple of VMs, everything will be 2012 R2. The server won't be part of a cluster although I may be able to use Hyper-V replica to...
View ArticleDashboard not listing server folders and hard drives
I seem to have a problem with the dashboard on Windows Server 2012 essentials R2. The Storage tab of the dashboard is no longer displaying a list of server folders and hard drives. It just displays the...
View ArticleSMB share
Hello to all, I have a question regarding SMB. I would like to build a two-node cluster with SQL and I would use it as a storage pool technology. My question is about how to expose the disk to the SQL...
View Articlestop adding domain admins to folder security by default
Hi AllI would like to remove this default behavior. I have two local domain admins with access to file server. They always login to server as them. When they are changing any permissions on shared...
View ArticleHow to properly restrict rights on home directories?
Howdy, I'm struggling with basic rights allocation here.The situation: Have a SHARE (USERS) with user directories under it.I have share rights set to full for everyoneI have domain admin F/C for share...
View ArticleTroubleshooting DFS referrals in a full mesh replication topology
Hi,I'm using DFS namespaces to publish links, but not DFS replication. We use a full mesh AD replication topology (multiple sites in 1 AD site link).Users on VPN sometimes do not get all the folders on...
View ArticleQuota threshold exceeded - no email
hello,I installed FSRM role on Win2k8R2, then I created Quota on D:\Provate folder and enabled Email Notifications on Quota.But when quota is exceeded no email is sending by FSRM.In EventViewer I...
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