FSRM - File Screening - How to scan pre-existing files?
Hello and greetings from Portugal!I'm implementing file screening on some Windows Server 2008 R2 servers. Although everything's working great when a user tries to add a "prohibited" file, because this...
View ArticleDFS Replication of Files/Folder having Non English characters
Hi,I am planning to configure DFS replication of users home folders between 2 sites.Users home folders have lots of files and folders with non-english characters (e.g. Russian characters).We are doing...
View ArticleHard Disk not Present/Failure Email Notification
Is it possible to have an email notification if one of my hard drives were to go offline/fail?Thanks
View ArticleAuditing on file server
HiI want to do auditing on file server win 2008 r2. I want to find logs for file/folder creation,deletion,create share,delete share...etc.Please suggest how to achieve this.thanks
View ArticleiSCSI Initiator using Round Robin w/ Subset dropping paths into Standby on...
Using the MS iSCSI Initiator on a Windows 2008 R2 host to connect to iSCSI target on an IBM XIV. When discovered, the targets on the XIV report that they are available via six paths. We want to use...
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need help with permissions for remote user to execute file
I am trying to allow end users to connect to a remote server and execute a batch file through a unc path. This is a screen shot of the error that occurs when an attempt is made to execute the file.It...
View Article[Win 2k3 DFS-R] 4324 MEET 3109 Meet::GetParent -> BLOCKED Could not find parent
Hello, I currently have a strange situation where I have added several new folders to existing replications groups. Therefore, some folders are reporting a status of normal, where some are reporting...
View ArticleHow to remove file/folder permissions for disabled NT Id's on all the member...
Is theer any way we could automate removing file/folder permissions of disabled NT Id's on all the member servers in a domain.
View ArticleWindows Server 2003 DFS Removes (Deletes) Files from Primary/Master
A little over 2 years ago we ran into a problem where changes made to files on the master server would appear to get deleted. After dealing with this for months, and losing quite a bit of man hours as...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Deduplication - Access share from Windows XP / 7
Hi, We're currently working through a support ticket with MS regarding an issue with Windows 2012 deduplication and accessing that deduplicated data via a SMB Share from Windows 7 and Windows XP...
View Articlewindows 2008 web server
I am trying to add the file services role for my server but I can't see this role as an option to be added?I am trying to do that in order to set up the NFS mount for this server.please advice if...
View ArticleTraditional way of allocating Disk Quota and the newer way via File Server...
Hi we have disk quota been allocated on drive using the traditional way i.e Right Click Drive -- Properties -- Quota then Ticked Enable quota managent Ticked Deny disk space to users exceeding quota...
View ArticleCound not map network drive: Extended error has occurred
Hi everyone. I've got a 2 domain setup with a two-way trust set up, and have a user getting an error when trying to map a drive to a share on a server. The name of the server is \\rgm-server.domain.com...
View ArticleScript to delete files inside a temp folder
I'm looking for a simple script that allows the deletion of all files in a "temp" folder (or maybe the ones that are more than several hours long) inside a specified folder path with a dynamic variable...
View Article2008 Windows Server backup allow for incremental/differential and cleanup
Was wondering if there's a way to specify in Windows Backup that we'd like an incremental backup, and how long should the increments be kept for. Is this even an option?This new version of the server...
View ArticleFile/Folder Permission - "Synchronize"
I'm trying to get effective permissions for folders by user, but sometimes among the permissions is a "synchronize" permission. I understand that it's not really used much, but that doesn't explain why...
View ArticleRebalancing Storage Spaces?
I know that storage spaces doesn't automatically rebalance when you add / remove drives. Is there any way through powershell to manually rebalance?I don't know if it matters but i'm using ReFS in a...
View ArticleUser Profile Disks and DFS replication
We're looking to replace a single, heavily used 2003 TS server--for performance, feature, and capacity reasons. Our users frequently have small amounts of data on their desktops/settings that we'd to...
View ArticleSysvol not Replicating
I have about 20 Domain Controllers spread over 12 sites. Everything is replicating correctly except SYSVOL. I am not able to find any errors in event logs. Have run all sort of diagnostic tests with...
View ArticleAll DFS namespaces created with dfsutil not visible in GUI
I create a new namespace like this: dfsutil root addDom \\$ComputerName\$Namespace $DescriptionAnd can verify the namespace exisits in "Sharing and Storage Management", but it never appears in the DFS...
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