Windows Storage Server 2008 -- write caching on NFS mounted volumes supported ?
Hi,Has anybody heard of this before ? It seems that writing to NFS mounted volumes from Windows 2008 Storage Server is s-l-o-w --- I have a situation where reading from the NFS-volume has a performance...
View ArticleRemoving domain DFS namespaces from AD following upgrade from Windows 2000...
Hi,Following the introduction of a number of new Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers during a functional level increase (from 2000 to 2003) we have demoted all of our Windows 2000 Servers to...
View ArticleSMB2 optimization fails with files located on a Windows 2008 R2 fileserver
Hello,we have the following problem: We have two locations one in Austria and one in Germany. Our fileserver is located in Austria. Between these two loacations we are using a Cisco WAN opitmizer...
View ArticleWindows 2008 r2 blank search results
HiI have a share that is being indexed. It is in the list of indexes drives. I gave A: as the drive letter. The indexer says is has indexed 180,000 files and I have rebuilt the index, but I still get...
View ArticleDFS in multi domain environment. Make a dfs root in the root domain or 1 per...
Hi Guys,What would be the advantages of using a DFS root namespace in the root domain, versus 1 per domain?My take is that 1 per domain will provide more high availability than one in root domain in...
View ArticleCompressed (zipped) folder file size limit?
In Windows 2008 Server R2(64bit), when Compressed (zipped) folder file size is over about 6GB, the error of "Compressed (zipped) folder invalid or Corrupted" occurs. Is it limit? I want to know the...
View ArticleRecover .TMP files on offline folders in Windows 7 Synch
Hello.I have a user with Windows 7 Pro and we set him up for offline folder synchronization.Somehow several of his office docs disappeared and seem to have been replaced by several.TMP files with...
View ArticleInstalling SATA card drivers
I have a machine with Server 2008 R2 that I've recently added a SATA card to. The drivers from the disk nor from the chip's manufacturer seemed to work and the reviews said that many people were using...
View ArticleVSS Errors and Backup problems
We are using DPM 2010 to backup a 2008 R2 file server. A few weeks ago backups started failing.DPM reports the VSS provider is in a bad state.Event logs on the file server at the time of backup:Volume...
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Storage Space in "Unrecognized Configuration" but appears healthy
I recently had a crash on my machine running W8 Pro x64. When I rebooted, my storage pool was offline, and I got a message stating that I had "Drives in an unrecognized configuration". However, it...
View ArticleDFS Root Namespace location
Hello,Bringing a new AD/File Services system into production (2008 R2 Enterprise). I currently have 5 file servers, all with a single data volume provided by our SAN. Planning to use a domain DFS...
View ArticleThe RPC service on server has stopped running
Event ID Details:Faulting application name: svchost.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bc3c1 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec4aa8e Exception code:...
View ArticleOption to extend partition is grayed out in windows 2008 R2
Option to extend partition is grayed out in windows 2008 R2
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 - BOOTMGR
In my environment I have two servers running as DC's and file servers. We use DFSR to replicate data between the two servers. I just noticed that in one of the shared directories there is a file called...
View ArticleFile Copy to New Server Preserving Security
What is the best method for copying files between servers while preserving permissions?I recently used robocopy to move a folder to a new file server. Somehow it took a couple days, but it was noticed...
View Articlenew file server
is there a good design as far as providing users access to their home folders and filescurrently we have a folder called users shared out and than we assign indifidual ntfs permisions to individual...
View Articleshare permissions - an object named Administrators cannot be found
Using 2008 R2 on Hyper-V: I've created a share on the file server, which is not the domain controller. When I try to add the domain\Administrators group to 'Share Permissions', it says "an object...
View ArticleFSCT step by step guide
Can not get pass preparing the server to run the test.Just trying to get one user to work before adding more ?? Step one completeC:\fsct>fsct.exe prepare dc /users 1 /clients "FSCT" /password...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Storage Spaces to create shared volume
Hi,If I have two servers with lots of local storage, both running Windows Server 2012, is there a way to use the new Windows Server 2012 features to create mirrored shared storage out of it.Note that I...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Storage Space across iSCSI targets
Hi,Most of what I read about Storage Spaces indicates virtualizing storage that's direct attached to a single server.Assume I have two iSCSI targets of the same size on two different devices (one a...
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