Joining a Server 2012 file server to 2008 DFS Namespace
We had 2x Server 2008R2 joined in a domain-based DFS namespace and replication. We since lost one server due to both hardware and human error, so now we have a single 2008R2 currently serving our...
View ArticleExtended Drive Disappears after Activation
Using Azure to create Server 2008 SP1 VM and then creating an extended drive(Q:) on Temporary Storage(D:), the Q: is no longer available. This happened after activating with the license key.
View ArticleDFS-R One Way - Staging Quota for Read-only receiving member?
We have multiple servers setup for one-way DFS-R as part of our disaster recovery redundancy (also have daily tape backups as well).Does the staging quota for the server that is a read-only receiving...
View ArticleShadowcopy to utilising all space?
Hi Everyone,I currently have VSS configured on a 2008 R2 server. It will only list 1 weeks worth of snapshots for any given directory. My understanding is that VSS will use as much space as it can to...
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Extend volume is greyed out on Windows Server 2008 R2
Hi,I am trying to extend a volume to unused space on a disk and the Extend Volume option is greyed out
View ArticleSynchronize a Mac with Server 2008 R2 or SBS 2011
What is the best method for synching files from a Mac to a server 2008 R2 or SBS 2011? We would like it to operate similar to offline files.
View ArticleEvent ID 55 problem resolved after applying hotfix (981166), but recurs since...
I have a Server 2008 that was having an Event 55 problem during system state back-ups. I applied the hotfix mentioned in article ID 981166, and that resolved the problem. Subsequently, however, I ran...
View Articleevent viewer .log files
hi theredoes anyone know how i can get .log files to be viewed in event viewer?we have a piece of software that monitors event viewer, but the backup software that we have doesn't create an event in...
View ArticleActive Directory: How can I grant Deny access to a folder which is granted...
All users on the domain get access to this shared folder "Shared" and when I give deny access to the folder to some users, their login take exactly 10 minutes via remote after the change. We are using...
View ArticleNew Server 2012 - DFS not working
I added a new 2012 member server to a single domain forest consisting of 3 other Win2k8 servers. DFS works great between the 2K8 servers, but I can't get it work with the 2012 one.I created a simple...
View ArticleDFS: Mounting subfolder into an already mounted folder
Hi All,I am hoping this is possible. In my DFS root I have mounted a folder called "Departments". It has a whole list of folders in it (as you guess it, for different departments)....
View ArticleCan't access Re-Writable DFS folders after previously being Read-Only
Made some DFS folders Re-Writable after being Read-Only & now can't access DFSRprivate folder on those members.Using a domain admin account. Issue only occurs on member-shares that were read only...
View ArticleNFS Client performance goes down at intervals
I set up a NFS client service on windows 2008 Server R2 standard edition, using GID/UID in registry. My application can read/write files on remote Linux NFS server. But the bad news is that: every...
View ArticleHow to prevent users not to create folders/file path exceeding 260 Chars
Is there a registry edit/ group policy or any setting in Windows 2008 R2 to prevent users not to create folders/file path exceeding 260 Chars. Any third party tool is also welcome which give warning or...
View ArticleUnknown Unreadable Disk in Disk management
i am facing an issue with UNKNOWN UNREADABLE DISK in windows 2003 R2 in the Disk Manager. i started facing this issue after deleting some presented LUNS to the server from EMC VNX 5300. in the system...
View ArticleCannot connect to local shares
Hi all,We run in a strange situation with a W2k8 R2 FileServer.We can access its shares from any computer, but we cant access its shares while logging on locally. So, if we type\\fileserver we get...
View ArticleNTFS Permissions oddity
I have a user that can assume full control and ownership on a file by just editing it on a mac, but cannot do it on a windows system.The file is share out from a folder that is 3 level deep and each...
View ArticleQuota management Windows 2012 serveer
hello,I set up a Windows 2012 server as dc and a windows 2008r2 as file server.I have configured roaming profiles and folder redirection GPO for e.g. My documents folder, desktop etc...I didn't set up...
View ArticleCan not create storage pool
Hello,I have Win server 2012 installed in Hyper-V. I would like to create storage pool on 2 virtual disks. I tried it with IDE, SCSI and iSCSI disks but still no success. In "New Storage Pool Wizard" I...
View ArticleWindows search is not functioning properly
I'm having strange results when searching in Windows.For example i have a textfile called werkplek.txt When i search for werkplek it won't find the file. But when i search for werkple it does find the...
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