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Storage Spaces Failed Disk - Volume Offline

We have set up an inexpensive physical server with a bunch of 3TB disks to use as a backup staging area before we push to tape. We've installed Windows Server 2012 R2 and set up Storage Spaces/Pools. We backup using Veeam to a faster server running…
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Remove Failed Drive in Windows Storage Pools

I am currently using Windows Server 2012 R2 with Windows Storage Pools I have a virtual disk called "2T RAID" that is in Parity mode. There are 8 - 2T hard drives in this virtual disk. Today one of them failed. I do not have a spare disk to replace…
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Can Dell storage servers be upgraded to full OS installations?

I have a Dell NX3000- which is a Windows Server 2008 based unit. It has an additional cabinet full of drives attached, as well. I have spare licenses for Windows Server 2012 Standard that could be applied to this unit to turn it into a smb 3.0…
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High network utilization - System Process - PID 4

Interesting issue that we observed recently with quite a few variables so I'll attempt to make it as clear as possible. HQ site located in Southern California where main file server is present (Older NAS box running Windows Storage Server 2008).…
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Windows Storage Server Disk Name

My windows storage server event log reports "Disk 2" for an IO operation being retried. The disks all show healthy when inspected. Using windows explorer or doing transfers cripples/hangs. So i suspect Disk 2 is the culprit. Being remote i want to…
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Server Resource Management service (srmsvc) event id 8197 is logged every 10 seconds

I am running a Windows Server 2012 Storage Edition server as a file server and am getting Event ID 8197 logged in my Application event log every 10 seconds. The message from the error is: RtlCreateSystemVolumeInformationFolder on volume…
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Can't Enable Bitlocker

Why not?! How can I find out why not? I recently enabled Bitlocker without TPM in our domain controller: Update Thanks to Greg's 2nd comment I've discovered that I need a basic disk: C:\Windows\system32>bdehdcfg -driveinfo BitLocker Drive…
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iSCSI Target drive turned RAW format

I have an iSCSI Target drive that was working fine after creation for a few days. After i copied about 40GB of data to it i lost access to the drive. the file system had changed to RAW and windows wanted me to format. I did not format but was able…
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Can the "C:\Build" folder be removed?

Our Windows Storage Server (Windows Storage Server 2008) has a "Build" folder at the root of the OS volume (in this case C:). The folder is 3.5GB in size and has a filerepository folder within it that seems like it may be full of packages from the…
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Hyper-V Server Cluster with Microsoft iSCSI Target Storage

I Have a windows 2008 R2 Ent Server. I installed a Microsoft iSCSI Target 3.3 configured and everything was fine until one reboot. The iSCSI Service will not start. You Can reproduct the error: 1 Install Windows Server 2008 R2 Ent. (64bit) 2 …
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Migrating Hyper-V storage server to another VM in Hyper-V

Here at work we have a storage server (windows server 2003) VM in Hyper-V. We recently installed a new VM in Hyper-V with server 2012 R2 and would like to migrate our storage server to this new VM. We have a a virtual HD allocated to the 2003 server…
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Storage Server 2012 R2 SMB share permissions

I am deploying a Dell NX3200 with Storage Server 2012 R2 as a NAS in my office and I am having difficulty with accessing the shares. My shares are defined with 4 groups. System - Full Control Administrators - Full Control local.group.on.server -…
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Windows Storage server 2003 file permissions issue

We have our users set up so that their My Documents folders are targeting individual network folders on a Windows 2003 Storage server. I am having an issue where a user who has Windows XP professional cannot open,or delete any of the folders she…
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User cannot access a share folder, even when account is member of a Full Control group for the Share

Last week, I set up Windows Storage Server 2012 for a customer. I'm not normally a sys admin, so it was a fun bit of learning. I created 3 Shares for the customer and a number of user groups that have different permissions on those shares. The lead…
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Windows Storage Server... Just a single Administrator session?

I have a server with "Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Standard" operating system. My problem is that I cannot access the server with Administrator account with two users at the same time... Just one can operate. Can you help me?
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