Maximum number of file shares and maximum number of files on Windows Storage...
Hello Windows Experts,Do you happen to know what are the theoritical maximums of Windows 2012 file shares and number of files that a single Windows Storage Server 2012 Standard Edition can support.I...
View ArticleWritten to Storage Space during Hibernation - after wake up the Storage Pool...
Hi everybody,does someone of you know what I have to do now?What I did wrong: •Turned the System to Hibernation. •Booted a Windows 8 from USB Harddisk. •Opened the Storage Space and wrote a file on...
View Articleapplying permissions 'after the fact' to an existing dir structure
OK; So I want to run through an existing folder structure and lock down a folder while keeping the subordinate folders modifiable by the majority of users.E.G. I have a set of project folders numbered...
View ArticleDate Accessed vs Least Recently Accessed Report
Hi All,So we are setting up quotas and sending out the reports for large files and Least Recently Accessed reports. And I have noticed two things since I activated fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess...
View ArticleSharing Folder Audit and Access report on daily basis
Dear All,We need report for shared folder and file (Who has accessed the file) on daily basis.Ad is in 2K8 Standard editionShared folder is on the same server and AD users have only read...
View Article"DFS Replication service is not installed" but event viewer is showing 4202...
There are two servers replicating file information, sending member is Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, the receiving member is Server 2003 R2 Standard. There have been no serious problems with this...
View ArticleNetwork access to server drives denied
Hello.When i try to access my servers drives, i get the following error:i use the following command, to get access: \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\c$Im using the right workgroup, and username and password.The user...
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 ArticleMissing VSS System Writer and CAPI2 error in Event Log
Hello, I'm having problems with making full system backup of Windows 2008 R2 x64. It looks like this is related to missing VSS System Writer. When I'm running command "vssadmin list writers" there is...
View ArticleMapping physical disks as seen by storage spaces to actual disks
I am testing storage spaces on windows server 2012 and on this particular server i have an Intel RAID controller, SRCSASLS4I, with 16 physical hard disks attached.for testing and getting familiar with...
View ArticlePerformance impact of SIS/ShadowCopies? SIS/ShadowCopy effects on robocopy?
We are migrating several old file servers(source) to a new 2008r2 file server(target), using robocopy. Everything has been going fine and we keep the data on the source servers in sync with the target...
View ArticleVM friendly storage
Ladies and gentlemen, does anybody have any specific tests to figure out how particular storage system handles VM specific workload? We want to compare Tintri, Virsto and some other accelerating...
View Articlerobocopy slow in windows 2008 r2
Hi,I'm testing robocopy (built-in command in win2008r2) and find the speed is not so fast. Here's my lab environment: 1. server A: win2003 (32-bit), 2 giga NIC forming teaming 2. server B: win2008r2...
View ArticleNamespaces Going Away
We have 7 namespaces in our domain and are having a severe problem with these namespaces disappearing. The namespaces are mapped to each user at logon with a Group Policy Preference. After some time (2...
View ArticleMake a 1 to 1 copy of a virtual disk with incomplete status
i have an incomplete virtual disk with a thin mirror configuration and the NumberOfColumns at four and the NumberOfDataCopies at 2.there are some data on the volume on this virtual disk that I need to...
View ArticleTwo different domains. Yet "net use" accepts mapping without password
Two completely separate domains with NO trust between them, but the EXACT same usernames(with same passwords) exist on both domainsSo username "Joe" logs into his windows workstation which is...
View ArticleNIC teaming / Load Balancing
Hello.Our EMR (Electronic Medical Records) system, NextGen, is SQL based. It is currently running on an HP server utilizing only ONE NIC card. I'd like to "Team" up two cards for load balancing. How...
View ArticleHelp with different quota for different users
Hello everyoneI'm not very familiar with setting up quota's, so here is my question. At my organization we are setting up an entirely new server park, so also the GPO's en user rights will be taken...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Disk Limit Issue
Hi Everyone, I have recently purchased a HP N54L microserver and installed Windows Server 2012. The issue I have is I have installed a 3TB hard drive however after installing Windows Server 2012 to it...
View ArticleSET extended file properties
I'm using a Windows Server 2008 machine as a source for various downloads. I would like to use some of the extended file properties to determine what to download. In particular, I want to check the...
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