Where can I find a deep dive whitepaper on Windows 2012 R2 DFS?
Anyone know where to find a deep dive white paper on Windows 2012 R2 DFS? I currently work for a hedge fund firm and looking into an alternative to DFS. We're currently using Windows 2008 R2 DFS and in...
View ArticleMoving File Server
Good Evening,I need to upgrade one of our file servers as it is running Server 2003. However I understand that as the current server is on 32 bit I can't just upgrade it to Server 2012 or Server 2012...
View Articleissues with rights on a specific file
Hi,Given this details: a folder called \\netshare\Temp where a user doesn't have any rights, I put a file called test.txt and give full rights on this file, I instructed the user to access it by...
View ArticleDFS explicit permissions on folder are reverting to objectSid - Server 2008...
I've recently been dealing with permissions that keep changing to an objectSid. This is only reported in DFS GUI as I'm able to run the cmd "dfsutil property acl \\dfsroot\share" on the server and it...
View ArticleFolder Sharing and Security workgroup
Hi,I do have a shared folder in my system with Windows 2003 server installed.All the systems are distributed across two workgroup in the same network.The problem is I am only able to delete files or...
View ArticleSOFS JBOD resiliency
HiCan anyone explain JBOD awareness/resiliency in server 2012R2 SOFS with mirror spaces? Why there is requirement for 3 JBODs if lets say we are using mirror spaces? How data is then distributed across...
View ArticleI cannot remove the read only attribute from a file on Windows Server 2003
I have an application that downloads an update file to a temporary folder in the All Users profile. Although this works on many customers machines in this case every time the file is downloaded it ends...
View ArticleDFS New Setup migrating from 2003 R2 file server to 2012 Server STD
We currently have a 2003 R2 flat file server with multiple layers of nested network shares with over 2.5TB of data. We want to migrate to DFS on 2012 Server standard version with deduplication enabled....
View ArticleHow to merge two or three disks in a single drive without OS installation .
Hey Guys..i have a windows 2003 server with C drive which is around 132 GB.I also have Disk 1 disk 2 and disk 3 which has unallocated space of 136 GB Each.I want to merge into a single drive - D.So...
View Articlemirrored volumes pathing problems
mirrored volumes pathing problems I am running Windows 2008 Server Datacenter.I created some mirrored volumes with disk administrator.These disk are in a fibre channel fabric.All paths go down...
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 ArticleFile Expiration Task - User rights lost
Hi I created a File Expiration Task on Windows server 2008 R 2. And the job is running successfully.But all the user rights of those expired files are lost after they has been moved...There is no...
View ArticleCan I migrate physical hard disks in storage space from Windows 2012 R2 to...
Hi, We have a Windows 2012 R2 server. It's running storage space with 10 hard disk in Parity mode. We would like to move the hard disks from Windows 2012 R2 server to Windows 2012, so that we can...
View ArticleShared Resources , Showing up some time, then dissappearing.
Hi, I'm having some trouble setting up some shared folders on Windows Server 2008 Standard x64, whenever I share the folder, it shows up in the network, and I have access to it, but after some time ,...
View ArticleWindows 2003 File Server Upgradation to Windows 2008
Hi,We have Windows 2003 R2 Standard server (32bit) which is configured as File Server, all users files and folders are stored on our Dedicated NAS device. NAS device and Windows 2003 R2 Standard server...
View ArticleFSRM Quota Management - quota shows 100% usage
I'm having this issue which need advise.I'm having a dedicated shared folder for each staff limited to 5GB (Quota : Hard). However i noticed some folder already shows 100% quota usage. The thing is.....
View ArticleiSCSI targets left behind by vss provider?
Hello all,I have a Windows Server 2012 Failover cluster running a number of virtual machines. Storage for the cluster is provided by a Windows Storage Server 2012 instance and mapped to the nodes via...
View ArticleDFS Replication doesn't work. Windows server 2012. Failed to communicate with...
Hi! I really confused with this error. I created replication group within two servers - AD domain controller and File server. I just want to migrate some files from AD domain controller to FS. But...
View ArticleDESKTOP WALLPAPER GROUP POLICY NOT EFFECTING
I HAVE 2003 DC ,CREATED A GROUP POLICY FOR SETTING ALL DESKTOPS WALLPAPER AS A COMMON JPG IMAGE BUT THEN ALL WINDOWS 7 SYSTEMS LOGGED IN WITH TEMPORARY PROFILE AT FIRST LOGIN THERE IS ANY SOLUTION
View ArticleCan I boot my PC through a "Bootable ISO image" stored on my Local hard drive ?
Can I boot my PC through a "Bootable ISO image" stored on my Local hard drive? So that I need not to burn a CD/DVD as Bootable media.Just like in a VMWare machine, an Acronics Bootable ISO image is...
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