Hello everyone. Have an interesting task :
On our 2008 R2 File servers we have basic quota template, which sends email notifications if storage limit > 75%. Usually there are 2-3 quotas based on template on each server. Of course, they have different limit for folder. Can I change notification text in template centrally (script\gpo?) without changing quotas ( imean - will their own limits left untouched?)
Am I correct in assuming I can not create a `symlinkd` to a network share, local path, or a UNC path on a network share that will be accessible by clients?
###Mapped drive letters don't work:
1) navigate to a network share:
pushd \\windows2008server\share\
mklink /d test_sharedir t:\directory\
dir .\test_sharedir
#Directory of Z:\test_sharedir
#File Not Found
pushd \\windows2008server\share\
mklink /d test_dirunc \\windows2008server\shareI can create a functional `symlinkd` on a local drive to a mapped drive letter or a UNC path.
dir .\test_dirunc
#Directory of Z:\test_dirunc
#File Not Found
We are in the middle of a migration and have created two symlinkd to UNC paths for shared DLLs, one below c:\windows\system32\ (directing to a share containing 64-bit DLLs) and one below c:\windows\syswow64 (directing to a share containing 32-bit DLLs).
On the file server, we have had a path to 32-bit DLLs (from Windows 7 clients: s:\dll\). I am attempting to rename this directory so that it is accessible via "s:\dll32\" and would like to create a symlinkd that links "s:\dll" to"s:\dll32" [again where S: is a mapped drive on a Windows 2008 server]. How do I do this?
Thanks,
Matt
Hi All,
We have enable Indexing services on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit sp 1, it has cataloged all the files(PDF/DOC/TXT).
When we search the catalog its not returning all the files.
Any one has the solution.
Thanks for your help,
Thanks,
Prashant Suryawanshi
This is also posted in the Office 2010 - IT Pro General Discussions, but was suggested to repost here, since a definitive answer was not found.
Hi,
An issue that's happening is that Excel and Access files are locking on the network. We're currently using Office 2007 and 2010.
Here are some different scenarios that are happening:
The two more common events are incident 1 and 2 with 3 happening the less common.
This message will continue until the sessions are closed through computer management on the file server.
The file server is running Windows Server 2003.
This does happen on both Windows XP and Windows 7 clients.
This does happen for users using Office 2007 and Office 2010.
There are two sets of Office 2010 Users when it comes to patches. Everyone has the most current patches with Office 2010 SP2 while anyone that has Microsoft Project 2010 is using all the current update before Office 2010 SP2.
All users that are using Office 2007 have all the current patches and service packs.
Another variable is that we have users that will leave a file open on the network for 3+ days and after a while it will lock the file out.
Also we have Shadow Copy that runs daily on the system which I'm not for sure if that impacts anything if a file is opening during that time.
Any ideas on how to mitigate the lock out issues would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Binary Process
Edit November 12, 2013: This issue can occur if and if not another person actually has the file open. If the person doesn't have the file open then there is a hung connection which needs to be disconnected by going to the Computer Management of the File server.
Hi,
I currently have a server setup as the time server (Windows 2008). If I go onto any of the workstations and enter "net time" it shows the correct time of the server as if it is linking correctly e.g.:
Current time at \\TimeServer is 15/11/2013 09:24:55
The command completed successfully.
However the workstations themselves are always several minutes or more out of time (Although the Net time command seems to make out it is linking to this server). So it seems that it's not syncing correctly
but pointing to the correct location
I do know that you can resync the workstations using a command per workstation but this will eventually go out of time again. I need a more permanent fix.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
I can connect with the Win7 iSCSI initiator to it. But the Server 2012 fails. The device is a model STBN4000100 with latest firmware.
Have RAID1 mirror - using File mode.
Anyone have advice?
When I create the DFS namespace the wizard allows me to edit settings and choose various permissions. First of all, I do understand Share and NTFS permissions. My question is related just to this initial DFS names space share (which I aptly called\\domainname\dfs). I chose "Administrators have full access; other users have read and write permissions. My thinking here is that we can always locked them down further down as we add folders point to various volumes.
Any Problems or Caveats with this appoach.
Also we point to NetApp files that have their own ABE implementation.
Thanks
-David
David W King
I would like to replicate *.pdf file's located in all subfolders called "\04. Documentation\" to one folder "c:\destination".
C:\Shop\%Subfolder A%\%Subfolder B%\04. Documentation\*.pdf
%Subfolder A% and %Subfolder A% are dynamic.
And as second,
Files removed from *\04. Documentation\ should all so be removed from "c:\destination".
Twan
we have one Windows 2003 dc with frs installed; which holds our root target\\domain\root link
we do have several root targets.
now, we need to decommision this dc and what is the right way to remove this root
target link?
Thank you.
Hi - I'm un-deduping a parity+dedup volume (~2gig) via powershell, and it's taking ages (30+hours) - although it is actually doing stuff.
I've just tried creating a new non-dedup volume using the same pool/disks, and moving dedup'd folders from the deup'd volume to the non-dedup'd volume, and it's going much faster than un-deduping 7
Can anyone explain why moving is faster than un-dedup ?
Hi,
II'd like to know if there is any truly working solution for establishing an anonymously accessible file share on Windows 2008 R2 (SP1) server running Active Directory (domain controller) and File Services.
I've been crunching through all google hits on that issue and seems nobody has gotten it to work unless the Guest Account was enabled (not an option for production domain controllers).
So far I tried all this to no avail, server keeps prompting me for username/password when I try to access such share from non-domain Windows computer:
1) created a folder, e.g. ASHARE and shared it under the name ASHARE$ ($ so it stays hidden from public)
2) assigned both share and ntfs permissions allowing full access to EVERYONE, GUESTS and ANONYMOUS LOGON
3) edit Default Domain Controller GPO to make following changes (under Local Policies Security Options and User Rights Assignment):
-enabled policy "Network access: Shares that can be accessed anonymously" and put "ashare$" on the list
-enabled policy "Network access: Let Everyone permissions apply to anonymous users"
-disabled policy "Network access: Restrict anonymous access to Named Pipes and Shares"
-changed policy "Access this computer from network" and added ANONYMOUS LOGON account to the list
-made sure the policy "Deny access to this computer from network" does NOT include any of: Everyone, Guests and Anonymous Logon accounts
-checked policy "Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts" and this is disabled by default, but it doesn't have impact on Domain Controllers anyways.
-checked policy "Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts and shares" and it is currently disabled (and should be unless I am reading it backwards?)
what else left?
The server still keeps prompting me for password when I try accessing \\server\ashare$ from any non-domain computer/user account. why is that so, what am I missing here? it should be a simple thing! I just need public dropbox folder on this File Server...
Hi,
I'm currently trying to determine what, if any, performance impact might occur on our domain controllers when enabling Access Based Enumeration on a domain namespace, and hoping someone might be able to suggest ways to capture this.
I was thinking just processor counters in perfmon, but hoping some of the experts here might have some suggestions, perhaps other tools. I'm also leveraging Network Monitor on the client side to determine impact to browsing times, but need to make sure we're not going to kill the namespace servers, aka DCs . Hoping to capture some performance data there to show the impact is minimal.
Microsoft's documentation on the subject of enabling ABE simply states there is the potential performance hit, then points to a link for more information, but the link is dead.
"In some environments, enabling access-based enumeration can cause high CPU utilization on the server and slow response times for users. For more information, see the Microsoft Web sitehttp://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=140356."
And not finding much on the web.
Thanks!
Hi
We have recently swapped our file server from Server 2003 to Server 2008. Our accounting program has thousands of linked files pointing to the file server directories, but unfortunately these are the shortened 8.3 paths containing tildes:
\\filesvr\work fi~\some fi~\filena~1.pdf
These worked fine on the old server but if I try and browse to them on the new server I get the error:
\\filesvr\work fi~\some fi~\filena~1.pdf refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location.
As there are thousands I don't want to have to go through and manually re-add them - I was wondering if there is a way around this issue? Any settings I can set on the server to get these type of path to work?
Thanks in advance
Ben
Server: Windows Server 2012 Standard
Trying to setup a passive File Screening path on my server via powershell however it doesn't want to set it as Passive, it always sets it as active. I checked my coding with the Set-FSRMFileScreen Library from Microsoft (sorry can't paste link as i'm not verified yet) however what i seem to be doing is correct. It should set the File screening by default as passive and only set it as active if defined that way. Here is the line i use:
New-FsrmFileScreen -Path "E:\Home" -Description "Monitor Media Files" -IncludeGroup "Audio and Video Files"
Since i didn't define "active" it shouldn't set it as active and stop users saving media files to that directory. However in powershell and also in FSRM it sets it as active.
Problem is i can't find anyway to actually set this as passive as by default it should be.. Would mean that once i create the Screening i have to go into each server and define it manually which.. i really really don't wanna do lol.
Can someone help or am i doing something wrong?
Thanks
RB
A few weeks ago, I created a striped virtual disk using storage spaces on Win2K12R2 formatted in ReFS. I copied a large amount of data to the disk with apparently no issues. I am now finding problems and corrupted files in the new disk. Files that apparently cannot be accessed or deleted from the ReFS disk. "Error 0x80070143: A data integrity checksum error occurred. Data in the file stream is corrupt". What gives? This seems to be a pretty significant flaw. I know that ReFS is supposed to have built in error detection and recovery hence the lack of chkdsk. Is there no way to scan the file system for errors and correct? I can't even delete the bad file so obviously there is something wrong with the file system. Any advice is appreciated.
Joe
Hello,
I have a windows server 2008 r2 standard SP1 x64 virtual machine with only 821MB of free space available out of a 35GB single hard drive.
After scanning the hard drive with TreeSize I see the following folders taking up the most space:
Windows\winsxs = 15.7GB
Windows\Installer = 2.6GB
Windows\System32 = 2.4GB
Windows\assembly = 1.4GB
Windows\SysWOW64 = 1GB
Program Files\pagefile.sys = 3.1GB
Program Files\ProgramData = 1GB
Is there anything that I can safely remove from any of these directories...especially the "winsxs" directory? Or do I need to increase the size of the hard drive (I would prefer not to if at all possible).
Thank you!
I have found tons of posts with this issue, but all of them were related to NetBIOS and/or DNS issues. My problem here is a little different.
I have two 2008R2 Servers, one is the DC and the other a member server. Last night for some reason the trust relationship became broken between the domain and all the other member servers. So, I haven't fixed them all yet, but I did un-join one of the servers and then rejoin it. Once doing this I was again able to log in to the server with domain credentials.
Now for some reason from the member server I cannot browse to \\DC1 and the error I am getting is "You do not have permission to access \\DC1. Contact your network administrator to request access".
I still don't know what broke the trust relationship with all the servers. The server's computer accounts were all in AD and not disabled. Rejoining it is allowing me to login with domain credentials as stated, but obviously something is broken with the account now (SID, etc.).
Any help is greatly appreciated!
I am unable to get instance of a dynamic disk, using Storage management API Classes.
I used the sample code for Storage Management Application and modified such that it takes Disk Number as argument for fetching the disk instance.
I get the following error:
Failed to Get an Instance of Disk. Error Code is '6'.
The function returns with Invalid Handle error.
Can someone suggest on how can we fetch the instance of a Dynamic disk using Storage Management API Classes / Functions?