Our Namespace incorrectly appears blank to some client PCs
We've had a namespace in place for over a year and it's worked fine. Until last Thursday when a couple of client PCs could still see the namespace but with almost NO contents. Looking at the local...
View ArticleWindows explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space. Free space is...
I have a Windows Server 2008 which is reporting wrong free disk space. Windows Explorer and Computer Management are reporting the same issue, while chkdsk show the correct values. Current situation is...
View ArticleCross Forest File Server Migration using FSMT - Security settings not copied
Hello all, I am testing a cross forest file server migration. We have two forests that both have a fileserver. I'm using FSMT (File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2) to copy all files from the fileserver...
View ArticleDeduplication cmdlet, parameter not found -ContinueWhenSystemBusy
Hello All, I'm having some troubles with the start-dedupjob cmdlet in server2012 standard. According to the help, I can use the parameter -ContinueWhenSystemBusy. When I try to use it, I get the...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 cant create NFS share on software raid5.
Hi, I have a Windows Server 2012 member server that i'm trying to configure as a storage server for ESX. I have tried and failed to create an iSCSI LUN that will successfully present to ESX5. I get a...
View ArticleNTFS - Manually delete a file/folder from the $MFT
Guys, I have an interesting issue. I have a windows 2000 box where a single particular directory has more than 4 million files in it. This seemed to cause the OS to blue screen and when the system...
View Articleserver 2003 can't acess folder on share : acess denied
Hi, there is a folder i want to delete from share on which i belong to a group with FullControl on the root fo the share. I can't change the ownership of this folder nor even see the ACL, what could be...
View ArticleFile screen implementations on File Cluster
Hi all, we have a windows server 2008 R2 file server cluster. we are about to implement file screen to prevent users from copying files that don't comply with the company policyes. I'd like to know if...
View ArticleWindows Explorer Displays Redirected Folders as a Different Name
Hi Guys, Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 has this new feature where it displays folders in which you have ownership of as "Documents" or "Start Menu" for Folder Redirection. This only renames it when...
View ArticleRobocopy Windows Server 2008 version Changes Destination Directory to System...
I have been living with this bug in the new version of robocopy for awhile now, but I now need a better solution to this than adding the A-:SH parameter to my robocopy commands. I noticed this was...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Storage Server Cached Memory
I have currently installed a Windows 2008 R2 Storage Server and noticed that "all" physical memory (6GB) is being cached leaving zero Free. We increased the server memory to 12GB and the same is...
View ArticleFile Server Administrator Folder Permissions
I have a weird issue with our file servers that is affecting a number of folders. This is affecting folders that are and are not replicated. Here are the symptoms: -In the root of the drive I can...
View ArticleUse DFSR to setup Read Only DR file server
<p>Hi, I am trying to setup DFSR to replicate 2 folders to a DR file server to be used in case the primary fails. I want to setup the DR server as a read only member, if a failure...
View ArticleDeny access to Network and Sharing using group policy
Hi, I work for a school, and we have created mapped U drives for the students to log on with and to save their school work. However, when they log-on their U drive shows up but when going to windows...
View ArticleHow Managing NTFS
Hello everybody, I wish you guys give me an idea about best practices NTFS. Well I have a shared folder called USERS with full permission for a group called G_USERS. This group has 10 G_USERS users,...
View ArticleCannot access Windows share from Linux
Let's have this situation: - Windows server named SERVER_WINDOWS (Windows Server 2008 R2 with latest patches), - Linux client named CLIENT_LINUX (VMware Data Recovery = CentOS 5.5 x64), -...
View ArticleHow do I rebuild a RAID 1 disk on a Dell Poweredge Small business server 2003?
I have a Dell Poweredge server with two mirrored disk. To test the failure, I took out one drive (A), and it rebooted with the exisiting disk (B), When I took out the second drive ( B) (with A in), it...
View ArticleNetwork shares becoming unavailiable intermittently
Hi! It drives me mad. Our Win 2008 Server was working fine for years. But recently, clients intermittently lose connection to its network shares. This often happens when Office documents are open and...
View ArticleCannot repair virtual disk in SS pool
Brand new installation. FriendlyName CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage Size ------------ ------- -----------------...
View ArticleVSS Writer Fails
We are using Server 2008 Standard 64 bit. Any time we try to back up to a local disk, USB disk or external share it fails, upon further investigation it says the VSS writer has failed. We uninstalled...
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