Auditing failed access to files and folders in Windows Storage Server 2008 R2
Hello, I've been trying to figure out why I cannot audit the failed access to files and folders on my server. I'm trying to replace a unix-based NAS with a Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 solution so I...
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Hi, I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 with a SSD boot drive, and 7 2TB disks. 5 of the disks are simple volumes, some split into multiple partitions, some single partition, and two identical drives...
View Articlefile server audit?
hello, i want to know how many times a file is opened in file services how its possible? thanks
View ArticleSearch for file contents in 2008 R2
In my Citrix XenApp 6.5 environment I want the users to be able to search for contents in files. I have installed the File services on the server, but what settings in group policy do I have to enable...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 NFS services hang out after a while...
Hi, I would like to submit to the community the issue below. We are experiencing troubles with a NFS shares running on a Windows 2008 R2 standard system. The server is used as a storage server for VMs...
View ArticleSource: EventSystem with Event ID : 4354
Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise with SP2 running Exchange 2003 SP2. I'm receiving Source : EventSystem with Event ID : 4354 with below output. Can you please help? The COM+ Event System failed to fire the...
View ArticleAdministrators Can't Access Folders
Here's the scenario: Brand new Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise server. Set up with local Administrator account, all working fine. A Domain Administrator (not me) joined the server to our domain and...
View Article016100 - Windows Server 2003 Shadow Copies not being generated on schedule
I have setup shadow copies on 3 of my file servers so that users will be able to restore/revert to previous versions of their files. I turned it on, created one manually for each volume and setup a...
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Windows Server Backup 2012: error message 'systemgenerator not found in the...
If i start a full system backup on a shared Network folder (NTFS), i receive an error message 'the systemgenerator is not found in the backup'. I do not find any help searching in blogs.Peter Rutishauser
View ArticleFailed to toggle drive light; Not Supported
I recently purchased three 3TB Western Digital My Book 1140 Essential USB 3.0/2.0 hard drives and configured them in a Windows Server 2012 storage pool. When I right click the physical disk in the...
View ArticleRemoting: NET USE on DFS Share, error 1312
Hello, we are having the following issue: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;968264&sd=rss&spid=11737 BUG: When psremoting (or winrs-ing) onto a client Win7x64 machine,...
View ArticleAny way to get progress indicators while repairing a virtual disk?
Hi -- I'm trying out the retire-a-disk procedure in Storage Spaces and have a virtual disk that hasn't repaired after 22 hours. It's small, 77GB, and only contained about 120 MB of data. Eight...
View ArticleFresh install of Windows retain file security permissions
We would like to do a clean install of Windows server 2008 R2 on a machine that is currently running 2003 R2. only problem is that this machine is the primary file server and has folders upon folders...
View Article2012 won't create RAID 6 or more than 8 columns in Storage Spaces
Hi -- I'm working in Windows Server 2012 Standard edition RTM, and I can't seem to get the new-virtualdisk cmdlet to let me do anything interesting. -I created a storage pool with 12 40 GB disks...
View ArticleWindows Storage Server 2008 log errors - pls advise?
Hello... In my Win Storage Server 2008 logs I noticed two errors. They are repeated all the time... First: Log Name: Application Source: Automated Storage Manager (Server) Date:...
View ArticleCan't figure out how to remove a disk from Storage Spaces
I have a storage pool on Windows Server 2012 Essentials. The drives are all connected via SATA. Because I want to increase the size of the storage pool, but because I'm using all of the SATA ports on...
View ArticleAlerts
Hi Guys, We have 3 file servers and I just want setup an alert when the file server reaches the 80% and I came across the user who save music, video files on the server and sometime it gets full and...
View ArticleDFS Replication not working
Hi, DFS replication suddenly stopped working. The replication is set between a windows 2003 and 2008 server.Out of the the three replication group one of the replication group stopped working. There is...
View ArticleUsers unable to 'Make Available Offline' on some network folders/files
I have some users on our network that can use the 'Always available offline' on some of our Windows 2003 file folders, but not on our Windows 2008R2 shares. The clients are Windows 7 PRO and have...
View ArticleDFSR files in C:\Windows\debug directory
During some netlogon monitoring, I noticed quite a few files in the C:\Windows\debug directory on my PDC Domain Controller. We've got DFS Replication configured in our domain. There are over 200 of...
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