File disappears soon after its creation
Hi Friends,i have one shared folder which i recently created & given the required permission to users on it.its works fine for me & users as well & they used to store there files in it.but...
View ArticleCannot write to DFS Share at Branch Site
Hi All,I have a problem that is really making me pull my hair out.We have a 2012 Essentials server at our head office and a 2008R2 server at our branch office connected via a secure tunnel. Both are...
View ArticleTiered Storage with SSD, 15k and 7.2k drives all together?
Just wondering how tiered storage in Server 2012 R2 would handle a mix of 15k and 7.2k HDDs with SSDs in regards to performance. Ideally, I'd love there to be a way to essentially have three tiers, but...
View ArticleWhat happens if you exclude a folder from DFS replication? How would users...
We have an "apps" folder that we want to replicate across 4 sites. This way if the user logs in, the login script will map a Z: drive to \\domain.com\dfs\applications.However our Marketing department...
View ArticleFile locked by system
Hi,We are running a few server 2008 r2 64bit standard servers as file shares. Recently we have been having a number of users coming to us with locked files. When we look at the file it is not showing...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 - Access Conditions
Domain functional level: 2008 R2 File Server: Server 2012 R2 Trying from a Win7 and Win8 client. Both are in the "Arizona Computers" security group. I shutdown the 2008 DC and have a 2012 R2 DC online...
View Article2012R2 Storage Spaces - Enclosure redundancy
Hi,We are currently testing redundancy with Storage Space and have ran into a big problem..Here is a description of our setup (I'll try to be as precise as possible):Two HP DL360 Gen8 servers with 2x10...
View ArticleDFS replication 2008R2
Hi,I've got a server replicating from a site over a 1mbps line.The source server hasn't been replicating for 2 weeks due to large video files. after removing the files, I can see from dfsrdiag.exe...
View ArticleQuestion about adding an Extra Node to SOFS cluster
Hi, I have a fully functioning SOFS cluster, with two nodes, it uses SAN FC storage, Not SAS JBODS. its running about 100VM's in production at the moment.Both my nodes currently sit on one blade...
View ArticleWindows 2012 storage server and tier with external SSD disks
HiMy query is in case I have one SAN storage with SSD and FC disks connected to Windows 2012 storage server, will Windows be able to manage Tier between two types of disks if the volumes are properly...
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iSCSI target weirdness
Hello!If I hadn't experienced the issue I'm going to talk about I would have hardly believed it may ever happen...I'm starting setting up a test cluster (all hosts = WinServer 2012 R2): Host3 = iSCSI...
View ArticleDedupe question
Does dedupe work on a virtual file server's data drive that is a vhd file within a cluster shared volume?
View ArticleiSCSI virtual disks 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 ArticleFile Server explicit permissions
Hi All, We have a file server windows 2008 r2, recently it has been migrated from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 using File server Migration tool. While Migrating the servers we have used the Admin id...
View ArticleWin 7 Client cannot access Win 2012 encrypted share even if...
I enable either Global-level or Share-level encryption on Win 2012 and try to access the encrypted share from a Non-SMB3 client (Win 7). As we know, "RejectUnencryptedAccess"by default is TRUE in Win...
View ArticleSync Center Issue - Incorrect function
I have ran into an issue with Sync Center with some of my users, while others are unaffected. When a user that is affected attempts to sync with the share setup for their account setup something like...
View ArticleError 0x80042407 restoring to exact same disc!!
I'm trying to restore a backup taken before the disk I backed up from became part of a RAID 1 array. Both disks are exactly the same, size, model, etc. Again, the backup is from the disk I am trying...
View ArticleWin2008R2 DFS Replication Keeps Re-Adding Files to the ConflictAndDeleted...
Has anyone seen this happen before? I manually delete over 36k files from the ConflictAndDeleted folder on a couple read-only members (WMIC command) and they end up showing up again when the DFSR...
View ArticleCannot add new volume to OS drive
I have two SAS raid-0 arrays on my workstation/test server. I usually keep data on array2 and OSs on array1.Array1 has 3 OS installations since I am testing a few things using win8, hyperv2012 and...
View ArticleDFs (Windows 2000 Server Mode)
I am running windows 2008 R2 DCs but DFS is still on windows 2000 Server mode.Can I add a windows 2008 Server as a DFS server?
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