folder redirection directory change
hello, i am an ict technician at a school in belgium. i have a problem with folder redirection, orginaly the folder redirection was configured for SOME of the users f.e: my document to...
View Articlewhat you guys use for production vm storage?
i mean explicitly not labs / homes but something you roll in the office you don't own yourself :) would you put into production some free solution with allowed commercial use (no eula violation! ) but...
View ArticleDisk punch via powershell and PSExec
All,I have been struggling on getting some virtual machines to disk punch and getting the right syntax to work.The below is the powershell script which was posted on "whats up duck". However getting...
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Access Based Enumeration not working Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter
I am having a hard time figuring out why Access Based Enumeration is not working for me. I have set and re-set the settings and I'm still able to see folders I should not. I do get denied access on...
View ArticleChanging from channel 0 to channel 1 on the SCSI card to see the RAID Array.
Hi,We have a IBM eServer X series 236 running Windows sever 2003 standard. We have an EXP400 with 13 drives as part of a Raid Array connected to a dual channel SCSI card. This past weekend the SCSI...
View ArticleAdmin shares on a Windows 2008 R2 server not accessable from Primary Domain...
When trying to connect to one of my member server from the primary domain controller that it is a member of, I cannot access the administrative shares. EX:\\server\C$ or \\Server\F$. I am able to...
View ArticleDoes Storage Spaces take advantage of NAS drives?
Most of my servers have LSI Raid Cards in them and I usually run Raid 10 and use Western Digital "Red" drives . My understanding is that Drives that are categorized as "NAS" drives, like the WD Red...
View ArticleEnterprise policy to deny making "long file names" "long path names" on file...
helloIf deepest file in structure is at border of 256 path characters, when someone rename any of parent folders above this file with new longer names, access to this file/s is broken.Is it possible to...
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Clustered Storage Spaces & Fibre Channel
Guys,did anybody implement working configuration with Clustered Storage Spaces built from FC disks? With a SIMPLE spanning volume on top (no need to have fault tolerance)? Technically it would be...
View ArticleUser directories not searchable
Have setup roaming user profiles with folder redirection several times without problems, until now.Server 2012 R2 with folder redirection and roaming user profiles enabled. Settings followed (to best...
View ArticleDeduplication file cloning
Take a golden generalized VHDX, with the intention of creating a few billion copies of it. Can this be done in a few milliseconds with deduplication, using no additional space until the VM's are...
View ArticleCopy Utility for Data Deduplication and Long Path Names
I thought I'd share a bit of information I learned from several weeks of research.If you have data deduplication on a volume, most copy utilities will fail. Tested utilities include:TeraCopyRoadkil's...
View ArticleWidows Search not working with Data Deduplication?
Hi,I noticed that many files were missing when searching for them on my Server 2012 Fileserver.After some troubleshooting I noticed that the ones missing, had a Size on Disk of 4KB and the "SparseFile"...
View Article2008 Disk Manager extend volume parameter is incorrect
I extended my E drive partition from 500GB to 750GB using disk manager extend volume...this is the error I got after running through the GUI...."the paramater is incorrect" Any advice?
View ArticleDoes Windows Search Service drag everything to a crawl?
Just looking for some experienced information so I won't have to set up my own and spend a weekend experimenting. Most of my searching turned up guides on disabling the indexer in XP - 7. Setup:I work...
View ArticleNew design resources for software-defined storage and Storage Spaces in...
We have two new resources for designing software-defined storage using Windows Server 2012 R2 and its technologies such as Storage Spaces and Scale-Out File Server:Software-Defined Storage Design...
View ArticleDFS replication group question
So, we have file servers that sync their data to one clustered file server which is a replication partner to ALL file servers. We have over 100 file servers. They basically use one clustered file...
View ArticleDFS namespace high availability
Hello,I have two servers 2012 R2 :- Server1 is an AD with DFS namespace & replication. - Server2 is regular server in the domain (not a secondary domain controller) with DFS...
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