DFS on Server 2019 not accepting long file names
We recently upgraded our DFS servers to Server 2019 in an attempt to get long file paths working. All DFS servers in the replication group have been updated, a group policy was created and applied to enable long file paths, and the test machines are all…
Windows Server 2016 S2D Cluster - SDDC Management Cluster Resource fails to come online
Windows Server 2016 version 1607 (OS Build 14393.3808) I have a 4 node Windows Server 2016 S2D cluster and I want to use Windows Admin Center to manage it. However, when I try to connect, it fails saying "Unable to create the "SDDC…
Issue with DFSR replication
I have two servers in a replication group. connection status is enabled, topology is fully connected and verified. I put content in Folder1 on Server A. That content does not replicate to Folder1 on server B. However, if I but content in Folder1 on…
Change default ports for workfolders
Hello, I am trying to change default ports for work folder, because they are conflicting with iis service (system center distribution point). i found how to do this …
Error add NFS server role
Hi Guys, When I try add NFS Server role in Windows Server 2016 I take the error attach in the image, Some idea about fix this? Thanks
File server Migration 2008 to windows 2016
Hi, Can I directly upgrade my file server running on 2008 to 2016? during upgrade OS it will upgrade file server roll too? And what about shared folder security & permission, It will remain same or need to do something more. we are using SAN…
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Runas another user to share
Hi All, can someone help me understand runas permissions in windows 10? If a standard user has read access to a file share and log on to windows with that account, can they runas a different user who has admin permissions to that share and be able to…
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Extensions
Hello all. I have to implement FSRM in our company but i didn't find any information about hyper-v I need to know what kind of extension use and create HYPER-V so i can continue my work. For example: .vhd .avhd .vhdx Please note that i made a research…
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"File server resource manager failed to enumerate share paths or DFS paths.
"File server resource manager failed to enumerate share paths or DFS paths. Mapping from the local file paths to share DFS path me be incomplete or temporarily down. FSRM will retry the operation at the later time." how I can solve this…
Storage Migration Service tool
Hi, Is the Storage Migration Service tool in Admin Center able to: migrate data from a failover cluster to a Storage Replica cluster? migrate only a subset of the data / shares to a target location (ie if we want to move some to cluster A and…
How to protect against, and recover from, a boot failure
Rebuilding my windows system from scratch would take me several days so naturally I'm looking for a better way. (Especialy as this computer is our office server on which several people depend.) A few years back I tried restoring windows (10) from a…
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Unable to Access DFS after Updating KB4565541
Yesterday morning, I updated my DNS/Active Directory server with KB4565541 from Microsoft. On 4.30 pm, user inform that they cannot access file server using DFS namespace (\mydomain\fs) using Windows Explorer. I try access using IP, ping, check my file…
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Does a windows 10 NFS client respect linux ACLs?
Hi, I'm trying to export an NFS shares from Centos 8, with ACLs applied, to a windows 10 NFS client, the connection is fine, but I can't get the windows client to respect the ACLs, connecting as a named user, using the AnonymousUid and AnonymousGid…
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Change disk volume name in Disk management of Hyper-V Cluster Disk's
Hi all, We have a Hyper-V Cluster of 9 Nodes, connect to a SAN Dell. By the time the cluster has implemented the person who configures it didn't make the disks volumes (volumes of a physical disk in disk management), Cluster Shared Volumes and SAN…
LUN to VHDX move with DFS Enabled
Current Setup: 4 windows server 2012 R2 with IIS role. Running on Hyper-V 2012 R2 with failover clustering and live migration capabilities. DFS enabled on all web servers. Each server has a LUN attached to it with the size of 50 GB. A folder on…
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Failover Cluster and RAID
Hi, Kind of strange question, but can't we configure Failover cluster with RAID configuration, so if a node is malfunctioning, the second node can run the workloads of VMs? The book / documentation I have are only using Storage Space Direct (S2D) for…
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Operations possible on File and directory streams when connection to a share using SMB
Hi All, I am trying to figure out if there is a way that user can map to a share and run operations on the streams associated with files and folder in that directory. I understand there can be tools to do the same but is that an expected behavior? As…
Backup and Restore Quotas - FSRM
We are copying all our shares to a different drive on Windows Server 2012 R2. Once this is done, we will be making the drive the same letter of the previous drive. During this process, the old drive letter will be unavailable and this will cause all…
Is it possible to sync two volumes in S2D?
Hi all, I have a situation where a S2D Volume was created with double de size it needs. In order to reduce costs the manager wants to reduce replace the 2 disks of 4 TB for 2 disks of 2 TB, and reduce de volume, if possible. I know that shrink a…
DFS-R configure to restore deleted files on data-center server
I have a data-center server and one member server running DFS-R. I know it is not recommended/supported by Microsoft support services but I would like to achieve the following nevertheless. Current configuration: If an end user deletes a file on the…