Windows 2012 R2 DC in Windows 2003 domain, users cannot access any shares
I had a 2008 DC die in a domain that it is functioning at 2003. We were in the process of starting to roll out new hardware for all 9 sites, starting with the head office which is where we have 2 x...
View ArticleWindows Xp machines cannot connect to Windows Server 2008r2 after Update from...
After allowing sever updates from Microsoft, My customers XP Machines can no longer connect to the Windows server shares using the server name. We get "can't find path error". I can ping the IP...
View ArticleShared Files Open as Read Only
Brand new Server 2008. Server configured as a Workgroup only - no domain. I created four users and put them all in the Administrators group. I created a new folder named “Shares” on the C: drive. I...
View ArticleAbout windows 2003 32bit with a partition larger than 16TB
About windows 2003 SP2 32bit with a partition larger than 16TBI've got a windows 2003 SP2 32bit with a partition of 12TB,then i converted it to dynamic disk,and expand it with another 5TB lun,...
View ArticleGroup Policy Folder Redirection
I am moving my user's documents from one server to another. Group Policy is creating the folder with the username and moving the data. The old server is 2003 and the new one is 2012 R2.The folders on...
View ArticleIIS 8 on server 2012 is adding last http redirect to new site
I start a new website and the redirect i put in the last site I set up is being entered on defaultthis is not right
View ArticleHow to upgrade ReFS version
I moved from Windows Server 2012 to 2012 R2. I had several drives attached to the server, including some in storage spaces, formatted as ReFS. After the upgrade I'm getting this warning in the event...
View ArticleAn error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\DR3 during a paging...
How can i ensure that the harddisk3 designation is relatd with USB etxernal disk?I have several erros in LOGs:An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\DR3 during a paging operation.andThe...
View ArticleStrange Defrag error 0x80070057
Hello everyone,I am observing a strange issue with defrag on Windows Server 2012 R2. There is a hardware RAID volume using deduplication in VDI mode and containing some virtual machines. Deduplication...
View ArticleNTFS Compression Hanging Server
I have an automation process that uses Robocopy to copy backups (WindowsImageBackups and other backup files) from my Virtual Servers to a seperate Physical Server (WIndows 2008 R2). This process has...
View ArticleDFSR - Preseeding to USB - Appropriate Robocopy job
Hi Everyone,I'm in the process of preparing a DR solution, and will be setting up DFSR of several Volumes on a Windows 2008 R2 File Cluster to a 2008 R2 Single File Server.For this, I was going to copy...
View ArticleRemove Data Deduplication role
Hello,I would like to know what happen if I remove Data Deduplication role when I have one deduplicated volume.Will the original size be restored?, Will nor let me remove role until unoptimization...
View ArticleStoring Desktop hard drives in storage array
I am wondering if anyone has setup their networks where you have a large storage array that the users desktops boot from, using iscsi, AoE, or similar. If so would I set that up with windows server...
View ArticleDrop box folder
We have an FTP server we want to give outside business partners access too to drop files.They will drop files on our FTP server in our DMZ to a shared folder location.I want them to be able to drop a...
View Articleglobal security group permissions not propogating
I have a single flat domain that has migrated from NT to 2003 to 2008. A number of the global groups go back to the mid ninties.I recently purchased a EMC VNXe 3300 for addition storage, joined it to...
View ArticleStorage solution with NAS backend?
Hello,I want to share folders (CIFS/SMB) to multiple users from windows server (2012) box. They will work as a file storage for users. But I want to use NAS box (exporting cifs/nfs) as backend...
View ArticleReFS can not be automatically correct in the Parity Space ?
I had to test the automatic correction of ReFS on parity space, but did not cause the automatic correction is performed any times I try. ReFS does not corrected even if tried on dual parity. I...
View ArticleError removing physical disk marked as Retired
I have Server 2012 with one storage pool and one virtual disk. The virtual disk uses layout parity and thin provisioning. It contained 4 physical disks. One of the physical disks failed. It was pulled...
View ArticleShadow Copy - Fixed number of File Versions
hello,we are planing a big file server, arround 20 TB, many people will work on that.we want to enable shadow copy in the file server in order the users can restore themselfs previous versions of their...
View ArticleEvery user can read any file while ACL mass change in progress
Hi!We're having some strange things happening here. Maybe someone can help us what exactly is/was going on here.1. We have to add an additional user in the NTFS ACL list for all file shares in our...
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