New file saved from one computer slow to show on other computers
Server running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 7 Pro 64bit SP1 running on the PC's. Lately I've been noticing an issue where I downloaded a file to my PC, saved it to a directory on the server. I...
View ArticleDFS and Folder Redirection
I have (2) 2008 R2 DFS servers up and running. Folder redirection is enabled for users for Documents, Favorites, and so on. The issue is when working over a VPN, Windows detects a slow-link so it...
View ArticleHow to create share names containing spaces with net share command in W2K12?
Hello,For a File Server migration (W2K3 -> W2K12), I created a batch file in order to create hundreds of shares with the "net share" command in a Poweshell. Some of those shares are containing...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 Standard welcome screen hangs
Windows Server 2008 R2 appears to be hanging while loading the OS. The server gets to the welcome screen and appears to be loading, but this process for 20-30 mins before the OS loads. The screen also...
View ArticleAccessing DFS namespace from a different domain and from behind a firewall
I have a situation where we're trying to set up a couple of DFS namespaces that will be accessed by servers within the hosting domain and also from servers in a DMZ and a different domain. Access from...
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DFS + Dedup
Hi everybody.I have a Windows Server 2012 Std and two roles DFS + Deduplication. Disk K used for users files = 5.4 Tb.Domain users can successfully work with dfs shares (all works good). Also there is...
View ArticleHow to delete Folders and Files older than 10 day ?
If I use this below command, I am able to delete only the files and files in sub-folders older than 10 day, forfiles /p "D:\Testing\Sample" /s /d -10 /c "cmd /c del /s /q @file" Please help... Thanks
View ArticleHow to access file shares from Windows Phone?
I have a brand new Windows Server 2012 server in my office. It was easy to setup and works very well. I also recently purchased a new Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 phone. It's great that it...
View ArticleServer 2012 DFS only working on Hyper-V host and not inside VM
Hi I am deploying a new IBM X3650 M4, I have installed Server 2012 Hyper-V on the physical server and have one Virtual Server running. The VM is running Server 2012 too as addition DC. Primary DC is...
View ArticleVSS writers are in Waiting for completion state
Hi All,We have Win2003 R2, running NTbackup for data and System State, and it started skipping multiple files.We checked VSS writers and a lot of them are in Waiting for completion state.Here is result...
View ArticleFolder redirection help
Hello, We have an old 03 server that was used as a file server and folder redirection for "My Documents". The old server is dying, so we started to copy everything off of it to a new server. Once that...
View Articlefilesystem errors on Windows 2008 R2 data volume
Wondering if I did anything wrong I would like to run this by you: I had an old fileserver that needed to be decomissioned and an new needed to take over. Both are Windows 2008 R2. The "real data" is...
View ArticleCan't delete .tmp files from file server. Access Denied
There are a handful of .tmp files on a 2008 R2 file server that I can't delete. The files look to be created by excel but I'm not 100% sure that is where they came from.Here is what I've tried so far...
View ArticleIncremental Offsite Backup
Hello everyone.We have a software to transfer files via SSH/SFTP to a server. It is mainly used for backing up clients files. We have one customer with a LOT of data however, and our little software...
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Cluster Resource IP
Hi,I've got a client with a Server 2008 R2 multi-node File Server cluster. It is configured much in the same way as the example image below. If we browse (or map a drive) to\\FILE1\Sharename we get...
View ArticleAccess Denied
I'll give you the rundown....New install of Windows Server 2012. This server is a VM running on Citrix XCP. After initial install, DCPROMO, and a few rounds of updates, I added an additional drive to...
View Articlefile management task / move old files in just one special folder
hello, we would like to decrease the file amount of our fileserver. therefor 2008 r2 has file management tasks onboard. i just created one task and it works good. files older than 4 years are moved in...
View ArticleSpecific Permissions based on file type
I have a NAS device running windows server 2008 and I am trying to restrict users from editing or deleting PDF files only. Leaving them access to create and modify other file types freely. Any advice...
View ArticleWindows Search lack of compabitility with Windows keeps extending problems?:...
What a mess. Please fix Windows Search.http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/d8c9c5b1-fc38-476d-a780-e14910edcf6fAnd BTW:DFS still does not work with Windows Search:So...
View ArticleUnable to copy large files from server
The file-sharing server is a legal and activated Windows Server 2012 Standard, which acts as a secondary Domain Controller and File-sharing server. I didn't install any other programs on it, even...
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