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VM Domaine Controler : backup and restore, is it sufficient to save only the vhd?

Hello, We have 2 DC's windows server 2008R2 in our domaine, both are vm in different hosts. Bakup procedure: For backup we save daily the vhd for each machine Restore procedure: for restore (for exemple if we lost the host) we will juste create…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
465 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:37:59.85+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:13:35.007+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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Backup Time is extremly HIGH

Hi, We have Windows 2003 Server Failover cluster server. One of the storage disk have some SAN patch issue - among 2, one SAN path is not working. Storage is HP EVA. Problem is that one of storage disk have around 1 TB space & one of file of the…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
465 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:37:15.587+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:13:26.667+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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VSS writers timeout Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

Hi Team, 3 VSS writers times out every-time and vss backup is failed. Server Restart Completed. No any other backup conflict. C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list writers vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
465 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:35:30.587+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:13:09.34+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Backup and Restore Issues with Cluster Shared Volume

Good day, I am running a Windows Server 2016 Datacenter 2 nodes hyper-converged cluster. I am using Storage Spaces Direct to create a Cluster Shared Volume (1 TB virtual hard drive). In order to be accessible on both nodes, it creates a volume path on…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
465 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:30:47.46+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:12:50.8+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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Recover lost files in Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

Using Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (service pack 1) Have lost some important files from a folder in C drive. This was due to re installation of an application program which overwrites that folder in C drive. Forgot to back up the files from the…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
465 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:29:52.73+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:12:29.853+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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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…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
643 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:17:12.06+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:12:03.647+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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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…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
643 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:14:34.917+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:11:43.413+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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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…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
643 questions
asked 2020-07-16T06:56:49.973+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:11:23.47+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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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…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
643 questions
asked 2020-07-16T06:55:00.297+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:11:05.28+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

DFS replication has stopped due to database error

Following a networking issue that disrupted our FailoverCluster last week, DFS replication has stopped on our primary server (Server 2016). It appears the database needs to be rebuilt. What is the best way to do this? Here is the error text from the…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
643 questions
asked 2020-07-16T06:54:11.21+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:10:57.237+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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Why Virtual Disk has 2 Column Layout on S2D Setup?

Hi there I would like to install the smallest possible S2D Setup on two VMs only for high availability file sharing services. I think this would be interesting also for small companies. So i set up two VMs with tree disks (one OS and two for S2D)…

Windows Server Clustering
Windows Server Clustering
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Clustering: The grouping of multiple servers in a way that allows them to appear to be a single unit to client computers on a network. Clustering is a means of increasing network capacity, providing live backup in case one of the servers fails, and improving data security.
979 questions
asked 2020-07-16T05:58:48.027+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:09:25.94+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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Is it possible to do an in-place upgrade of Windows Server 2008 SP2 Failover Cluster to Windows Server 2008 R2?

I have not been able to find any definitive documentation on this. If yes, is there a TechNet article or similar about it? If not, what's the option? Any help is appreciated. The failover cluster is running SQL Server 2008 R2 and it has 2 nodes. Thread…

Windows Server Clustering
Windows Server Clustering
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Clustering: The grouping of multiple servers in a way that allows them to appear to be a single unit to client computers on a network. Clustering is a means of increasing network capacity, providing live backup in case one of the servers fails, and improving data security.
979 questions
asked 2020-07-16T05:49:31.577+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:09:16.397+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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Permission only to do the cluster fail over activity

He Team I do have a requirement to provide an AD account access only fail over cluster management of few servers. The account shouldn't have any permission to restart\shutdown servers OR any other high privileges on these servers. Thread source…

Windows Server Clustering
Windows Server Clustering
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Clustering: The grouping of multiple servers in a way that allows them to appear to be a single unit to client computers on a network. Clustering is a means of increasing network capacity, providing live backup in case one of the servers fails, and improving data security.
979 questions
asked 2020-07-16T05:48:33.67+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:09:06.903+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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When adding a new node to an existing failover cluster it becomes a possible owner and takes ownership

Hello. Apologies if this is not the correct place for this. I have a WSFC that has multiple nodes which have SQL Server 2016 SP2 installed on them. We are running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. When I add a new node to the cluster it automatically…

Windows Server Clustering
Windows Server Clustering
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Clustering: The grouping of multiple servers in a way that allows them to appear to be a single unit to client computers on a network. Clustering is a means of increasing network capacity, providing live backup in case one of the servers fails, and improving data security.
979 questions
asked 2020-07-16T05:47:36.05+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:08:56.257+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
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BSOD errors after updating to Windows 10 version 2004

My laptop is Hp Pavilion g6 2312ax with 8GB ram running windows 10. After upgrading to version 2004, I have been getting various BSOD errors. I tried clean install multiple times. It would finish okay each time. But each time it froze my laptop after…

Windows 10 Setup
Windows 10 Setup
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Setup: The procedures involved in preparing a software program or application to operate within a computer or mobile device.
1,920 questions
asked 2020-07-03T20:14:39.397+00:00
Geet Patel 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-07-16T23:05:59.097+00:00
grounzero 1 Reputation point
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How to showing .xaml from static library? C++/winrt

I try to showing xaml ui with calling from library. dynamic library was fine but static library is not. when calling Navigate.. Navigate(xaml_typename< ' xaml Class ' >()); …

Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
asked 2020-06-05T08:14:54.657+00:00
sangpan 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-07-16T18:00:14.35+00:00
David Hollowell -MSFT 21 Reputation points
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Can we use Microsoft blend for our UWP application

I was making an UWP application using c++. Then i came across with Microsoft office blend for visual studio 2019 but when i read little bit about it, it is showing that it is for WPF application which use c# as language but i want to use C++ as a…

Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
asked 2020-07-06T07:52:50.833+00:00
Abhishek Dimri 61 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-16T15:38:35.31+00:00
Abhishek Dimri 61 Reputation points
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Windows Virtual Desktop - connecting to other Azure services

Hi, The use case is there are large number of Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation based client server applications, we need to take these to Azure using Windows Virtual Desktop services. My questions are: > Can I connect all the Azure…

Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop
A Microsoft desktop and app virtualization service that runs on Azure. Previously known as Windows Virtual Desktop.
1,450 questions
Remote Desktop
Remote Desktop
A Microsoft app that connects remotely to computers and to virtual apps and desktops.
4,399 questions
asked 2020-07-15T04:41:34.867+00:00
Moinak Bhattacharya 21 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-16T13:55:37.18+00:00
Moinak Bhattacharya 21 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How to activate Windows 10 PRO by AVMA as VM on Windows server 2019

Hello, I have Windows Server 2019 Datacentre. There is allready installed Hyper-V and some VMs. I try to activate by AVMA VM with Windows server 2019 standard and Windows 2016 standard -both are OK. I tried instal Windows 10PRO, but there isn't AVMA…

Windows Server
Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
12,624 questions
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,634 questions
asked 2020-07-16T13:09:04.443+00:00
Stanislav Kromka 21 Reputation points
commented 2020-07-16T13:53:58.063+00:00
Anonymous
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Evaluating server 2019 upgrade

Hello I have been tasked with evaluating Server 2019 in our environment (we are currently a 2012R2 shop). My first task was to download the evaluation ISO (finally available again !) and tried it in our lab setup on one of the existing servers. …

Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
3,607 questions
asked 2020-07-15T07:12:48.173+00:00
Teemo Tang 11,371 Reputation points
answered 2020-07-16T13:13:28.823+00:00
TimCerling(ret) 1,156 Reputation points