Would I ever see a "storage subsytem" other than "Storage Spaces" in 2012?
When looking at the Storage Pools UI, one of the columns tells me that my disks come from "Storage Spaces." When I want to create a pool with PowerShell, I cannot accomplish that without specifying...
View ArticleWin2008 R2 Backup Failure: Volume Shadow copy operation failed for backup...
Failed to get exclusive lock on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) system partition. [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Backup [ Guid] {1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D} EventID 517...
View ArticleDFS Changes folder names
I'm pretty new to DFS and luckily I've set up a test environment with copy of production data.<o:p></o:p> Under the root DFS folder that is being replicated there are five catalogs where...
View ArticleNew Storage Pool - No Physical Disks found
Hi all, I am trying to setup a new storage pool, I have a primary HDD (with Server 2012 installed) & a secondary HDD in the same machine and would like to use both (if possible) to start a new...
View ArticleDFSR DR Plans
Hi All, I'm planning to run a mock DR in infrastructure and i have the following queries related to DFSR. Can any experts help.. Setup : Two Windows Server 2003 R2 Std Edition, one server in each...
View ArticleIs it possible to make a Clustered Shares in 2012.
Hello everyone, I was wondering if it is possible to create shares in Windows Server 2012 that will replicate on multiple server for High Availibility & Fail-Over. My question come because of the...
View ArticleWhat would cause Access Based Enumeration not to work? I have a problem which...
Windows 2008 R2 Server with Access Based Enumeration enabled on any of its shares will still present inaccessible folders to the users. However upon double clicking on the folder the error message will...
View ArticleUsers get kicked out of DFS Share
We have a persistant issue with our DFS share and would like to find a solution. The DFS namespace was working fine for over a year, and we have three drives mapped to it using GPO. Two months ago we...
View ArticleRole Base Access for File Server
Hi All, I got new File Server and i want to setup role base access to the share folders? As
View ArticleSFTP in Windows 2008 R2
Is SFTP included in Windows 2008 R2? (without using 3rd party applications). Not the FTPS either. My web searches so far didn't give positive answer. Thanks in advance for your inputs
View ArticleSan Problem
i currently acquired a Network Appliance DS14 MK2. Im current having raid problems with it but, i think it maybe a setting im doing wrong. This is any type of raid. ~250mb/s read ~12mb/s write. I do...
View ArticleIssue with Offline Folders on XP Clients Access Denied during synchronization.
Recently installed 2 new servers on same site one as domain controller and data server, the other for SQL The issue is with Server 1 Domain and data. Software is Ms SBS2011. We are trying to use...
View ArticleBatch File to Stop and disable services also to output if the process was...
Good day, Request assistance to stop and disable various services on over 40 servers using a batch file and producing an output in text advising if successful or failed. I have tried net stop...
View ArticleTrial download windows storage standart.
Where can perform a download of the trial version of Windows Storage standart?
View Articledisk management showing wrong values + server 2008
Hi All, I have one windows 2008 enterprise r2 server having 4 luns assigned, 1250GB X 2 no and 250GB X 2 no from EMC. Out of the 4 LUNS one of the LUN of 1253GB showing wrong free space value i.e. 8%...
View ArticleDFS share using FQDN very slow | OK when using UNC path?
Hi, I have a 5 node File Server cluster with DFS setup - Windows Server 2003. (We have 15 Domain Controllers across 10 sites) 2x DFS referral servers The shares from the DFS are being accessed by one...
View ArticleWindows 2012 NFS 4.1 does not support FQDN in FATTR4_OWNER and...
We did some testing of the NFS 4.1 Server Feature of Windows 2012 (Final Release) - mounting the NFS exported filesystems on Linux-Clients works fine, but user-mapping does not ! The Windows 2012...
View ArticleShare disappear after reboot on iSCSI volume
Hello, I've a share on an iSCSI disk that keep disappearing on reboot. I've read most of the post on the subject and the following is done - iSCSI volume is binded - LANMANSERVER depend on MSiSCSI This...
View ArticleFolders under C:\dfsroot\namespace\
Hi, I see some additional folders in C:\dfsroots\namespace folder and I need some experts help.. When i look at the "C:\dfsroots\namespace\" apart from virtual directories there are some other normal...
View ArticleCleaning up staging folders after all DFS replication is removed.
I used DFS Replication to move files from 1 server to another. When the replication was in synch, I then removed the original share from the replication group. Then the old server was demoted, removed...
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