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Setting rights to This Folder Only sometimes causes Server to go through all subfolders as well?

June 25, 2015, 1:21 am
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Hi,

Just a question out of curiosity, not really a problem.

I have file servers at separate sites. The servers are identical (Server 2012, clones of same VM template)

I needed to give a service account specific rights to two shares on each.

-Read Folders/Data; Create Folders

-set for This Folder Only, no inheritance, set on the root share folder

-Each share has around 100,000 sub-folders and files.

I set the rights through Windows Explorer on each folder. On server A, I clicked Apply, closed Properties, and was finished. On server B, I clicked apply, a 'Windows Security - Setting Security Information on:' window opened, and the server started going through every file and folder in the share.

This is not a major issue as the correct rights were still applied, and no rights were changed/added on the sub-folders, but I am curious if anyone knows why one server did not need to do this, & one did, taking hours to complete?


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Virtual Machine VHDX being removed

June 28, 2015, 12:41 pm
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I have been having a strange occurrence: 

Host Running windows Server 2012R2 using storage spaces for the volume hosting VHDX files

Host Volume has never experienced any chkdsk errors

Gen 2 VM Running windows server 2012R2 with a D: attached through a SCSI Controller

Virtual machine will loose any visibility to its D: (Does not show in disk manager or diskpart) even though it shows as been attached in hyper-v

Virtual machine shows the following errors:

The IO operation at logical block address 0x640a58 for Disk 1 (PDO name: \Device\00000043) was retried.  This one is shown repeatedly then eventually"Disk 1 has been surprise removed"

Rebooting the VM brings the disk back online and visible in the VM, after running chkdsk Bitmap errors are returned which i am able to resolve with a chkdsk /f

This has happened 3 times in the past couple months.  What could be the cause, I cannot find anything that relates to a VM loosing complete visibility to its' vhdx file.  All storage is local on the host where the VM lives (No SMB share, no possibility of this being network related)

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Take ownership of files and folders using security group instead of Domain Admin

June 21, 2015, 4:00 pm
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Apparently, I posted in the wrong forum in a previous post, so I am hoping I am in the right place. This is dealing with a takeown command for files and folders using Windows Server 2012.

I am reaching out to you all because I have a question concerning the takeown command. I am trying to change the owner of a home folder and all sub folders for users on the network, but I am getting stuck on how to specify a security group within the command. Lets say I am trying to add a security group called:  "battleship". Below is the following command that I use:             

takeown /f  "H:\Home Folders" /a /r

I can run the above command successfully, but the problem is this will give the domain admin ownership of the folders while I am trying to add "battleship" as the owner. How would I add the security group into the above command to successfully give ownership to all home folders on my network? Any comments and/or suggestions is greatly appreciated.

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Items not being found in drive search

June 29, 2015, 2:33 am
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Good morning

I am currently experiencing an issue on a windows server 2012 standard machine.

My issue is that I cannot seem to find files in a folder on one of the shared drives when searching for it. I can find some of the files when I search in the folder that they are located, but even then it does not display all of the results. When trying to search from folders above this in the structure, no results are displayed.

The drive is indexed, and I have tried rebuilding the index once already. This has only helped slightly.

What further action can I try to get these files showing up?

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Multiple DFS Servers Pointing to the Same Locations; Is this a valid scenerio?

June 22, 2015, 5:32 am
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Our current DFS root is an old 2003 server so we are migrating DFS from the 2003 server to 2012. All folders in DFS are already migrated to new servers and will stay put. No data migration is needed here. So I'm thinking of taking these steps to migrate DFS.

Create the namespace on the new server with a temp name and add all the same folders. Then remove the original root folder from the 2003 DFS server and finally rename the namespace with the original root folder name from 2003, on the 2012 system. Is that valid? Again,all the folders on all the servers will remain in place, I just want to have the main DFS server changed if you will. 

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Configuring DFS-R

June 19, 2015, 8:13 am
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Hi,

I already have DFS-R working between two offices, both running Windows 2012 R2.  This is great for replicating a single folder from one server to another.  However, I now have the scenario where I wish to merge two existing folders.

eg \\server1\folder1 and \\server2\folder1 - so importantly, the folders are named the same on each server, but both contain discrete information.  I want each server to replicate it's content of folder1 to each other server...  Is this possible without losing the data?

TIA, 

Ben Howard [MVP] | web | blog | book | P2O

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Windows 2012 - DFS

June 29, 2015, 7:43 am
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I setup a new Windows 2012 file server several months ago. I installed the DFS role as we planed to use DFS to replicate the file data to a second file server later. It's been a while since I used DFS and for some reason (not sure what I was thinking) I created a share named 'CompanyData' within the DFSRoots folder? I then created a DFS Namespace, also named 'CompanyData'. I cant remember why I did this but I guess at the time I forgot how DFS works. Users have been successfully accessing data using \\domain.local\companydata for several months now. We have just setup a second W2k12 file server with the DFS role. I have added the new server to the CompanyData namespace. I've just realised I never actually added a folder to the namespace. When I try to add the folder CompanyData it's accessible address becomes\\domain.local\companydata\companydata. My problem is I have users with mapped drives, shortcuts, gpo's etc which are all pointing to\\domain.local\companydata. What would be the least painless way to correct this?

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NFS Client Character Translation.

June 29, 2015, 9:15 am
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Hello,

I am mounting a files system on my Windows 2012 server that has been exported from a Linux File Sever.  The mount is working fine but the exported file names have some characters that are illegal in windows.  In particular I want file names that contain the : to have the : replaced by a - on the windows NFS client.

Linux Filename  ---  Windows Filename

XYZ:PDQ          ----  XYZ-PDQ

There are many articles describing how to accomplish filename translations in the Windows NFS server such as:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/324218?wa=wsignin1.0 

But they don't describe how to accomplish this with the NFS client when it is mounting a Linux/UNIX file system.

Will the server translation file be used by the client as well if I follow the procedures outlined here and in other articles or can someone point me to the appropriate procedure for the NFS Client?

Thanks 

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File Attributes are shown as APLO

July 14, 2014, 10:10 am
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Dear All,

I am facing some issues where i am unable to copy or move some files from one server to another server and when i check properties of those files it is showing me APLO in file attributes property.

Can anyone please help me solve this issue. I am attaching snapshot as well for better understanding.

Thanks & Regards,

ZB

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DFS replication is reporting okay but isn't working in one direction

June 29, 2015, 12:09 pm
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Two 2008 R2 DFS servers replicating 24-7, full bandwidth, both ways

We have two DFS servers where DFS replication seems to have completely stalled in one direction. Diagnostic reports show 0 issues. Is there a way to kick-start this replication again? This was probably caused by a smaller-than-needed staging area and not enough drive space - both of which have been corrected.

Ideally, I want to do it without deleting all the files, deleting the staging area, and recreating the replication group.

TIA!


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Folder Quotas Not Working

June 29, 2015, 3:01 pm
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   I am trying to set up file quotas for my end users at a school.  The problem is that whenever I set the limit, the users can't save anything at all.  The error message says that there is no room left, even if the user in question has an empty folder.

  The server is 2008 R2, running on a VM under VMware.

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Robocopy and Anti-Virus process exceptions

June 23, 2015, 5:13 pm
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Hi All,

We are in the process of migrating 54 TB (upward of 100 million files) from a group of file servers (mix of 2K8R2 and 2K3R2) to a new storage solution using Robocopy pushing data from the source (destination has no native utilities to pull the data).

I have written some powershell which enumerated each parent directory and kicks off a robocopy process for each sub-directory to attempt to speed things along.

I am wondering if anyone who has done large data migrations like this previously has explorer adding an A/V process exception (We are using SEP) for the robocopy process and whether there are any measurable performance benefits in doing so.

We do need to go through formal approval before making changes, and I know there would be no recommendations in excluding the process, as this would form a security hole, but if we were to place the executable in a set location and only launch that version, then we could apply security through obscurity for the data migration phase.

Thanks in advance.

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One JBOD, Storage Spaces & 2-4 Node Hyper-V Cluster

June 21, 2015, 6:15 pm
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Hi.  Im looking at putting together a 2-4 node Hyper-v cluster.  For shared storage im looking at using Storage Spaces and a single HP D3700 JBOD connected directly to each of the three nodes via SAS HBA's.    Just want to confirm if this is possible solution and if so is it supported.

Cheers


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Cascading Folder Security Rights

June 29, 2015, 10:04 pm
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Hi,

We have a scenario here. Permissions with one of our file servers have been messed up. We need to have an admin account set in the sub-folders. The issue is that if we set the admin account in the root folder and cascade it to the sub-folders, the other accounts in the root folder with their permissions will be cascaded also. We would only need the admin account to be cascaded and not all accounts in the root folder. We can't do one by one setting of the admin account per sub-folder because there are just to many of them. Is there a way that we can cascade only the admin account to the sub-folders?

Thanks!

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I cannot open my external local drive

June 29, 2015, 12:16 am
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When I try to open my external drive.. the system automatically display this message "do you want to scan and fix local disk(G).. there 2 option.. Scan ... or continue without scanning .......  so I just select "Scan and fix(recommended")

The system prompt the message Check disk option... so I select "Automatically fix file..."...then  I select start button..

The system process ...but after a while ( about three quarter) the system just stuck....

If the system cant fix the error .. I cant open any file..

IS there any option for me to copy all my file from corrupt disk to other backup drive

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Building a Windows 2012 R2 "SAN" with Storage Spaces / SoFS. Network RAID?

June 30, 2015, 4:37 am
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Hi Guys,

We have a HP LeftHand SAN at the minute, with two controllers/enclosures in Server Room A, and the other two in Server Room B.

I'm looking into the idea of replacing this with some x86 tin and Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Server, using Storage Spaces and Scale-out File Server.

With the LeftHand SAN, the 4 nodes are managed as a single logical unit, where I can provision LUN's which are accessed by my Hyper-V hosts using iSCSI. One of the big advantages of the LeftHand is what they call "network RAID". This means that as well as having RAID10 done within one of the disk enclosures/controllers, the same data is also mirrored and striped over another (or multiple) enclosures. Therefore traditional RAID will protect me from a disk failure inside of a single enclosure, but also if a whole enclosure was to totally break then there's another copy of the data on another enclosure (or spread across the rest of the enclosures) and the LeftHand SAN serves that up - with the Hyper-V host being none the wiser.


I'd like to do the same with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Storage Spaces / Scale-out File Server features.


So I'm thinking of having a Windows 2012 R2 server, connected to a JBOD disk enclosure via SAS. This will be done in each server room, giving me 2 servers and two enclosures in total.

What I don't quite understand, is how I can essentially perform "network RAID". E.g. should a single server or enclosure fail or even a whole server room blow up, then the data should be accessible from the other server room.

The reason for my confusion is that the Windows server in Server Room A, won't have a SAS connection to the disk enclosure in Server Room B. Each enclosure is connected only to one Windows Server.

So without shared storage between the two SoFS, is my goal achievable? AFAIK I think all  SoFS's will require CSV's... :(

Is there not another way to get around this situation? I can't be the only person who has two server rooms and would like to use Windows as my SAN and have my data stored in both server rooms.

Would replication be another option maybe? But for Hyper-V and/or SQL I'm assuming it would result in locked files and then having to rename "backup" SoFS to the same as the broken one if it came down to it. E.g. no automated failover.

Attached a diagram to try and explain the configuration I was thinking of - but if SoFS require CSV's then I guess I'm out of options and it's a non-starter...? Back to buying HP LeftHand SAN's then...! :(

Thanks - Steve

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Slow Upload to Windows Server 2012

June 30, 2015, 5:39 am
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Hi,

I have a Windows Server 2012 machine running on an old desktop (Dell OptiPlex 990). I use it for MDT and WDS. File uploads to the server are extremely slow, around 200Kbps. Downloads are fine, but I cannot upload anything because it is so slow. I've updated the NIC drivers on both the server and a test client. SMB signing is off on the domain. The server and the client each have gigabit network connections to the LAN. What else could it be?

Thanks in advance 

Jason

Jason

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MBR / GPT / DFS

June 30, 2015, 7:47 am
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We have 2 DFS servers, both of which have MBR volumes actively replicating data between each other.  One of the MBR volumes is steadily approaching the 2TB limit.

Our plan is to add a secondary GPT drive, robocopy the data to the new drive, and then swap letters with the MBR drive.  We'll do one server at a time (obviously). 

My question is, when I flip the drive letters around so that the GPT volume is the active volume, is DFS going to see those files as new or modified and attempt to replicate?


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Size on disk mismatch with data size

June 30, 2015, 8:38 am
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Running into an interesting non-issue with querying a folder property size on a file share after a data migration.

The data was previously attached to a 2003 physical server, and is now hosted on some Isilon storage in a non-deduped quota area.

The 2003 server sees the content (2.2TB) size, and size on disk as the same. However, my 2012 R2 server is showing the Size as 2.2TB, and Size on Disk as 6.7TB. My back end storage interface shows it as taking up 2.2TB.

Why would 2012R2 think that it is taking up almost 3X the amount of space it really is? 

Regards,

Kyle Weeks


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monitoring of windows clustered storage spaces

June 30, 2015, 10:30 am
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Hello Guys - We deployed clustered storage spaces. 2 Dell 720 connected to JBOD (84 drives). Installed cluster roles for general file server role for NFS and ISCSI target server to provide storage to external server

How we can monitor Storage pool, virtual disk and volume for capacity and physical disk for hardware failures ?

Thank you

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