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Windows Explorer Displays Redirected Folders as a Different Name
Hi Guys, Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 has this new feature where it displays folders in which you have ownership of as "Documents" or "Start Menu" for Folder Redirection. This only renames it when...
View ArticleRobocopy - exclude destination files from /MIR
Attempting to do a nightly run of robocopy while we transfer over to a new file server. We've a load of extra files with an offline attribute on the destination, which are files archived by Enterprise...
View ArticleVery slow responce when working with Office file on DFS-Share
Very slow responce when working with Office file on DFS-Share We have implemented the following configuration Domain level Windows 2000. Two member servers with Windows Server 2008 R2, sharing the same...
View ArticleDeploy EFS Using Group Policy/Active Directory
So for the past week or so my boss and i have been attempting(in a test environment) to deploy EFS on out file server. We have some test files. And they are encrypted, but i am having issues trying to...
View ArticleXP Offline Files: DFS Shares Vs. Ordinary Redirection
I have 8 different OUs. I will call them OU1 - OU8. Each OU has a GPO assigned to it to redirect client Desktops and My Documents to domain-based DFS shares. The GPO for OU1 redirects to...
View ArticleXP Clients not working offline, USERINIT event ID 1000
I have a lot of XP clients. Their desktops are redirected. When they attempt to work offline they cannot access the files. There are several USERINIT 1000 erros in the log files of the clients saying...
View ArticleExtended partition but doesn't show in My Computer
Extended an iSCSI mounted disk from 500GB to 750GB in Server 2008 R2 Standard. Saw the larger disk in Disk Management and extended the partition successfully. Ran Chkdsk on the new drive and it shows...
View Articlemoving shadow copies to a new volume (windows server 2008 r2)
I have a windows server 2008 file server with shadow copies configured to store on the same volume (E). I want to keep a lot of shadow copies so I think I want to move the location where the shadow...
View ArticleShrink DFS SYSVOL folder
I have a issue of DFS folder under System Volume Information. I get one WIN SBS 2011 server and one WIN 2008 R2 server. DFS replication is setup between two servers. Everything is working pretty good...
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)...
View ArticleDesktop Folder Sync
I was wondering the overall opinion that people may have when selecting the "desktop" folder as redirected via GPO. Do people normally do this? What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages?...
View ArticleChange permissions on migration of redirected folders
Hello. I've a client that have redirected folders configured to redirect My Documents folder to a server share (\\server01\MyDocs$). In this actual GPO, they use Basic redirect to the same location,...
View ArticleRDC -Change size threshold - To few byte
According to: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773238(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_028 "When is RDC used for replication? RDC is used when the file exceeds a minimum size threshold. This size...
View Articletaring on Server for NFS mangles symbolic links
Hello, I'm running into an issue where symbolic links are mangled when taring files which reside on both Server 2003 and Server 2008 running Server for NFS, serving to Redhat Linux 4.6, 5.3, 5.7 and...
View ArticleCannot add multiple members of a failover cluster to a DFSR replication group
Server 2012 RTM. I have two physical servers, in two separate data centers 35 miles apart, with a GbE link over metro fibre between them. Both have a large (10TB+) local RAID storage arrays, but given...
View ArticleDFSR, event 2213 on branch server
Hi I noticed yesterday that one of our branch servers (lets call it B1) had logged Event 2213 15th of August, two weeks ago. (I know we really should monitor this better) And because the KB 2663685...
View ArticleDFS & DFSR keeps failing on server 2003 R2 every couple of days.
I have been trying to setup DFS and DFSR on a pair of servers both running windows storage server 2003 R2. These connect to an SBS 2003 R2 domain. All goes well, the domain based namespaces setup...
View ArticleError 0x8007003B unexpected network error at copying big files on a DFS share
Hi, i have a problem with some of my DFS-shares. The issue i noticed the first time today. if i copy a big file (> 100mb) on my DFS share (domain-based namespace) i've got the error 0x8007003B...
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Removing Really Old Backups of Removed Drives
If I run backup details I am seeing really old backups listed from removed drives. However, if I run either "Vssadmin list shadows /for=Z:" or "WBADMIN GET VERSIONS -backupTarget:z:" they are not...
View ArticleBranch Cache and file modification question
Hello, We have two remote offices on the same subnet, the plan is to setup Branch Cache Servers in Hosted Cache Mode at each location. I haven’t really read anything in regards to file modifications....
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