choosing the right Azure Product
We are a small construction company. Currently all our project related folders are on permises. but we are looking to take it to the cloud and we want all the team to access project folders from their laptop from anywhere as long as they have internet…
Insecure Azure storage SAS token
Hi, I am getting the recommendation "Insecure Azure storage SAS token" in Defender for the cloud. How to resolve it?
Storage Spaces can't remove disk
W10. Storage pool composed of four drives. I had two drives get degraded, in my storage pool, and had to replace them. The dead drives are now marked as "retired" , and has been physically removed, but I can't actually remove them from the…
How do I reclaim space on a shared storage cluster after I have deleted a vxhd?
Ok My Shared Storage Cluster is almost completely full. I am in the process of getting a new server and more staorage but for now I need to clean up my current one. I found a VM that had a 500GB hard drive that was not being used. I dismounted the drive…
Changing default download and storage location for Windows updates
I recently discovered that my C drive is nearly full, while my D drive has much more space. However, even though I've set my default download and storage location to the D drive, my Windows updates still go to the C drive. Is there a way to permanently…
Usb drive unable to be used in createing a pool in storage spaces
I just got my pc and haven't been able to us it due to the frequent low disk storage went out and bought 2 external usb drives bcuz after doing a little research on google I thought i would b able to create virtual space with them. Of course, I was wrong…
Storage Spaces Direct - Can't Remove Physical Disk from the pool in order to able to use it by operating system
Unable to remove disk from S2D I have a virtual lab /virtual box/ windows 2019 server environment Lab setup: 1 Domain controller windows 2019 Datacenter server 3 windows server 2019 Datacenter each of them member of the domain,…
Cannot search in specific folders in a shared drive
Hello so the computer crashed a few days ago. and i've reinstalled windows 10 on it and joined it back to the domain. Now when we search in a specific folder on the shared drive we will nog get any results... With an other computer with the…
Windows storage space 63TB limitation
I have a jbod of 12 drives and each one is 16TB for a total of 192TB. I want to create a single volume of out these drives so I tried using windows storage space but it seems that it won't let me create a volume more than 63TB. After googling it…
how to migrate file server from windows server 2008 R2 to windows server 2019
Dear Team, does anyone have detailed how to documentation on "how to migrate file server from windows server 2008 R2 to windows server 2019 R2"
Server 2019: Files not inheriting permissions after move
By design, when a user moves a file within a volume, the NTFS permissions (ACL) moves with the file. This is different from a copy operation where the destination file will inherit permissions that are set by the target folder. In my case, the volume…
REFS formatied storage pool very busy
My REFS-formatted storage pool is very busy (95 - 100%) after a system boot for several minutes. It then becomes unbusy and is good. My pool consists of three 14TB SATA drives striped for speed. I was hoping the REFS could provide a minimum level of…
Cannot attach virtual disk from storage pool
When attempting to attach a virtual disk from a storage pool it fails with no specific error message. Here is what I see when I attempt to attach it from powershell: PS C:\Windows\system32> connect-virtualdisk -FriendlyName f_disk…
All our S2D Clusters suddenly freeze and fail when one node is offline
Hello, we are running 12 hyperconverged Hyper-V / S2D Failover Clusters on Server 2019 which were installed during the last 3 years and everything was running fine and stable until a few month ago. 3 of them are 2 node clusters with 4-way mirrored /…
"Not enough space available..." error when trying to extend simple volumes on a Dynamic disk on a virtual Windows server
I have a virtual Windows 2012 R2 server hosted in a vCenter cluster and after adding 50GB of space to the disk I logged into the VM and pulled up Disk Manager to extend the volume, only to find that it is a Dynamic disk with multiple E: partitions (see…
Require the related information about Windows HCI hardware certification test.
Our company require the related information about Windows HCI hardware certification. Where could I get them? 1.How to perform Windows HCI hardware certification? (Program/Document...) 2.Windows HCI OS certification submission process for Server…
Windows Admin Centre Cluster View
Hi, When I look in Windows Admin Centre it says that the Volume for cluster performance history is offline, but when I look in Failover Cluster Manager the volume is online with no errors. I cannot see any errors anywhere in relation to this. When…
Shared storage solution Windows n Mac
Good day, I need to regularly back up files from 2 computers at our church - one which records service audio - one which records audio/video. Originally both PCs were windows and I had intended to place external drives on each then have each PC back up…
Shared storage solution Windows n Mac
Good day, while not precisely a server storage question - that was the tag that matched most closely. I need to regularly back up files from 2 computers at our church - one which records service audio - one which records audio/video. Originally both PCs…