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Is there a separate service pack for Storage Server 2008 R2, or can the standard Windows 2008 R2 SP1 be down loaded and applied. If there is a separate SP1 can someone provide a link to the down load...
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View ArticleNetwork Drive Issues - Win 7 and Server 2008 R2
We have the following network setup: Server 2008 R2 HostName = S3 IP = 192.168.0.4 Subnet = 255.255.255.0 DNS = 192.168.0.4 Roles = AD-PDC, DNS,DHCP, File & Printer Server, etc... Firewall =...
View ArticleWhat is Microsoft's recommendation for making file shares available to users?
I'm building a Windows file share environment (using DFS) to replace our aging Novell infrastructure, and I'm wondering how best to make the file shares available to our end users. The two ways I know...
View ArticleMirroring System and Boot partitions
My overall goal is to boot from SAN instead of local disk without reinstalling the OS or all my applications. I have to use Windows disk mirroring. Here's my current setup: Disk 0 (all MBR)...
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Hello, I'm fairly new to Windows 2008 R2 and here is my first post here. I'm attempting to create DFS namespace and associated replication groups. This configuration is simple and only contains two...
View ArticleRobocopy /MOVE switch
Hi all, I have created a script to move home folders using Robocopy, on a Win 2008 R2 64bit server. All our file servers are Win 2k8 R2 64bit. The approach I have to move them effectively is as...
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hi everyone, We have a windows storage server 2008 with 4 NICs working on a LACP team and connected to a 3com switch 4200G. Users connect to it from another subnet through a Cisco ASA 5520 firewall....
View ArticleWindows Server 2008: Boot from mirror dynamic disk!
Hello. I am using Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter and I got two 1.5TB S-ATA2 hard disks installed and I want to make a soft raid. (I do know the disadvantages of softraid vs. hardraid) I have...
View ArticleNetwork drive not working
HI friends, In our company we have 4 network drive in our windows 2003 standard edition server. We are facing some problems from last 2 months that every day we need to restart our server in the...
View ArticleDFS Replication stops replicating on folder for several hours
My DFSR appears to disable itself daily at various times for at least an hour or two. I have two Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 running and on the “main” server I see the following informational...
View ArticleDFS Namespace madness
I've got two DCs (Win2k8 R2) local to each other. Ran into issues with creating a new NameSpace and long story short eventually decided to start over. At this moment neither DC has a Namespace however...
View ArticleWHS 2011 Server Backup Fails
WHS 2011 Server backup to a new WD 3 TB USB 3.0 drive fails with the error message: Backup Status: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. My I-O Data 3 TB works on the same...
View ArticleNetwork drive mappimg WS 2008 R2
Hi, I have mapped a network drive using the following command: net use x: \\ipaddress\C$ /user:someuser somepassword /persistent:yes this works fine, however when the server is restarted the connection...
View ArticleDFSR read only replica, errors in log
I have one test replica setup: Server 1 - Windows 2008 SP2. Primary data source. Referral is enabled. Server 2 - Windows 2008 R2 SP1. "secondary" data source". Referral is disabled and folder...
View ArticleDFSR namespace and replication not linked after accidental namespace deletion
All A colleague of mine accidentally deleted a DFSR namespace on our W2K3 r2 domain yesterday when meaning to delete a target(!), we've followed KB969382 to restore the DFS configuration blob back into...
View ArticleRegenerating 8.3 file names
Hello, 8.3 file names creation was disabled and so we had to enable it using fsutil. Now we need to assign some the 8.3 names to the files which where created until then. I tried to use fsutil file...
View Article2008R2 - robocopy - copy particular folder between two NAS devices
Hello Gentlemen, I have a 2008 R2 file server in the domain. to the server are connected to two of the NAS devices. NAS1 Drive1 Z: folder1 folder2 Subfolder1 Files1...
View ArticleWhat do the file icons in Win Explorer mean in Win2k8?
Can anyone explain what the different icons mean on icons in Windows Explorer in Win2k8? Some are folders, some have little padlocks, others appear to be a sheet of paper with a clock on it.......
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