VDS.exe causes a Long Disk Queue Length
We have a situation were vds.exe is causing a very Long Disk Queue Length (Server 2008 R2) when the service is started. The problem is relatively easy to reproduce using these steps:1. Start Resource...
View ArticleVDS causing the disk to pause
We are having some issues with VDS and I was hoping to get some ideas.To recreate the error at will, I open a cmd prompt and go to the root of the drive. Then I type "dir /s" Next I start...
View ArticleDFSR Not Replicating Properly
I have just set up DFS in our environment. We made a full backup of our existing file server running 2003r2, restored the backup to our new 2012 server and then set all of the shares as individual...
View ArticleDATA Directory Permissions on Win 2003 File Server
I recently was assigned management of a win 2003 standard file server. It has a standard seperate partition for data. The root is called DATA. The permissions are Domain Guests, Domain Users, and...
View ArticleCan't view DFSR Health Reports in IE 10 or IE11
As a part of monitoring our DFSR infrastructure, I generate health reports on a weekly basis and have them emailed to me. The DFSR reports require IE in order to be viewed. On top of that, they...
View ArticleEnabel referrals for this target folder
If I uncheck that setting on a DFS target, what happens during a failover, if there are only 2 targets? Can it failover in that situation?The reason we chose to uncheck those is to prevent the problem...
View ArticleDFS Issues, where's Powershell's Get-DfsnRoot?
I'm having some DFS access issues. Articles like"How to configure DFS to use fully qualified domain names in referrals" Article ID: 244380talk about using Get-DfsnRoot in Powershell to switch to DNS...
View ArticleInheritable permissions of shared folders acting very strange - Server 2008 R2
I'm having trouble making sense of some permissions issues with my 2008 R2 server. I have one DC which has a local drive shared out to users in the network.The top level of the drive (G:) is not...
View ArticleBest Practice to add storage to a shared resource file share
Can a shared file folder resource be pointed across multiple drives?I have a Shared file folder and I want to add more storage to the share.What is the best way to do this?Thanks in Advance
View ArticleStorage Server 2012, dedup & snapshots, iSCSI vs SMB3
Hello,We are soon going to deploy a server 2012 storage cluster with a fiber channel san as the backend disk. Our dilemma right now is that our file servers are getting to be too large and our VMDK...
View ArticleSearch Index performance (W2008 R2)
HiAre there any limits to the number of files the search index can process on W2008 R2 ? We have a file server which is connected via iSCSI to an external SAN device. The data volume is approx. 2TB...
View ArticleACL folder access permission problem.
Hi,I having problem of remove an user from a folder, after i remove user A from folder and user A still can access to the folder, i go to folder and check permission tab, find out user A i deleted just...
View ArticleHelp! DFS Root Server Issues
Yesterday, we took a Windows Server 2003 box offline and retired it for good. We were unaware at the time of removal that this server was part of the DFS infrastructure. It did not host any shares,...
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DFS Namespace won't start and ABE not working properly
I have a network file server that I'm using ABE on. I did some updates to the default domain policy that enabled it on my servers properly.Before I did the update ABE was working fine, and hid the...
View ArticleServer 2012 DFS over WAN, Home dir's & TS profiles
I am considering deploying Server 2012 DFS for our two sites to host redirected Home dirs, TS profiles, and general network shares, ideally in an Active/Active or if I have to an automatic fail over...
View ArticleExclude DfsrPrivate from DPM protection?
So, I've been trying to troubleshoot intermittent one way DFS replication (in a full mesh setup) with a Microsoft support engineer. I'm running server 2k8R2 on my file servers (one is a DC), and...
View ArticleVDSBusTypeFileBackedVirtual and VDSBusTypeSpaces in VDS_STORAGE_BUS_TYPE
Hello all,I want to know more about the enum values VDSBusTypeFileBackedVirtual and VDSBusTypeSpaces in VDS_STORAGE_BUS_TYPE. I wanted to find out if any disk visible to VDS is a physical one or...
View ArticleMigrate the file server from 2008 to 2012 with data permission
Hi,I have to upgrade the data/file server in terms of software and as well as hardware and I would like to keep the permission on the files/folders.Any tips on it please. Currently, I have HP Pro...
View Articlethere is not enough space available on the disk (s)to complete this operation
When I try to expand the disk on my windows 2008 server I get this error: there is not enough space available on the disk (s)to complete this operation any suggestion are greatly appreciated Thanks AL
View ArticleQuery Directory SMB2 Command Problem
HiI am using SMB2 Command Query Directory in order to fetch directory information from a server. While I am using the flag "SMB2_INDEX_SPECIFIED" I can see that Server keeps on sending information...
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