Robocopy Windows Server 2008 version Changes Destination Directory to System...
I have been living with this bug in the new version of robocopy for awhile now, but I now need a better solution to this than adding theA-:SH parameter to my robocopy commands. I noticed this was...
View ArticleWin2008 Backup Failure: Volume Shadow copy operation failed for backup...
I recently performed a clean install of Win2008 x32 and have been trying for several days to get the Windows Backup program to work on my system drive C: (hardware RAID 5 - Intel Embedded Server RAID...
View ArticleQueue Depth
Hi,I have two hosts running vmware esxi 5 with two vm's running windows 2008 r2 and sql 2008 r2. The windows 2008 r2 vm's are configured to use Microsoft iscsi initiator to access the Dell Equal Logic...
View ArticleDFS Replication suddenly stops on 1 server
I have been running DFSR for some time between 3 Servers (Call them A, B, and C). Suddenly 2 days ago, with no error messages, replication between A and the other two stopped working. B and C still...
View ArticlePortmap service will not start
Portmap service will not start with the WIN32_EXIT_CODE 31. The exit code means “A device attached to the system is not functioning.” but it is not clear which device. There is no warning or error seen...
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 File Migration (Send-SmigServerData / Receive-SmigServerData)
Hi There,I have problems to migrate a directory (including subfolders and files) from a Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 to a Windows Server 2008R2 Service Pack 1. The error message...
View ArticleUsing a root namespace with DFS and the purpose of a namespace server
I've been browsing DFS articles and still can't seem to grasp some of the basic parts. Hopefully someone can explain this to me without name calling :)---Question 1:(When dealing with a Domain based...
View ArticleMoving Shadow Copies, DFSR Data, and VMs between Volumes
We have two servers that we are planning on upgrading the RAID arrays in (We are just planning to buy bigger drives). We have the ability to mount the new RAID array and the old RAID array at the same...
View ArticleMultipath IO on Server 2012
I've configured Server 2012 as a poor man's SAN in my lab environment. My virtualization host is connected fine to the iSCSI target I've created. I have 4 NICs, 3 I have reserved for iSCSI traffic....
View ArticleDFS issue
Hai, I am having 2 windows server 2008 r2 and one windows 7 client machine.In that servers one server is domain and another is the server which is joined to the domain. My scenario is I am enabling DFS...
View ArticleVSS Failure
I have SBS 2008 and remote Backup Exec client(2010 r2.) I have errors every night -Backup- AOFO: Initialization failure on: "\\HS-EN-DC-02.HSAA.local\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group"....
View ArticleNTFS with partition sizes up to 16TB minus 4KB
I understand the max partition size of 16TB, but what does the minus 4KB mean?
View ArticleDFS - Decommisioning Old Server
Hi,Our domain functional level is 2003 and has to remain as this for the time being.We need to decommission our DFS Root Server (2003) and migrate DFS to an existing 2008 R2 box. The DFS role is...
View ArticleSynchronize
Hi all,Is it possible to enable file synchronization in Windows server 2008 R2 and how?Source files are in Windows server 2008 R2, and destination folder is on the windows server 2003.
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Add volumes and folders to File Management Task from command line
Hi all,I am working with File Management on windows server 2008 r2. so far I am able to work with just about everything but I have one question.as you can see below there's a path of F:\test that the...
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W2003R2x64 slow folder browsing to local SAN
We have a physical server running Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 SP2. It has 24GB of RAM, using Xeon E5620s totaling 16 cores. We're using one of two embedded GigE interfaces. This server is located in a...
View ArticleWindows server 2003 and 2008
hi, I would like to know if it possible to keep track of administrator account in the server. For instance, i created an administrator account and allow them full access to the server, is it...
View ArticleUser can not see the whole content of share folders
Hi There is a share folder on windows Server 2008R2 Sp1. All users can create files and folders in our share folder but some of users can not see the whole files and folders in share folder in the...
View ArticleMoved to Server 2012 getting Access Database Corruption
We moved our company file shares to a new Windows 2012 server and are now having issues with Access databases becoming corrupted when accessed by multiple clients at the same time. Does anyone have...
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