May 2006 - Posts
A customer recently contacted us about how to recover from data corruption on a volume where replicated content was stored. He writes: “We have recently experienced data corruption on our hub server. This data was on a large volume, and I want to avoid
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Our very own Sanjoy Chatterjee will be hosting a webcast on new DFS Namespaces features in June. Details are below--hope you can join us! Summary This webcast introduces two new features of distributed file system (DFS) Namespaces: target priority and
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It’s easy: use the dfsrdiag staticRPC command. You can verify the static RPC port change by using the dfsrdiag dumpmachinecfg command. (Note: the default value of the StaticRPC parameter is 0. This indicates a dynamic port assignment.) Will this setting
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I see this question fairly often in the DFS_FRS newsgroup . A customer will be setting up a new namespace and wonders whether he needs to move a bunch of shares under the root folder. The answer is simple: don’t use the root folder for storage. Keep your
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When you configure DFS Replication, you select the primary member that has the most up-to-date files that you want replicated to other members. The primary member's files will always win the conflict resolution that occurs when the receiving members have
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A blog reader recently reported that running a diagnostic report resulted in the following error: The DFS Replication service is unable to access the performance counter DFS Replicated Folders(Apps-{B0CFA463-027A-47BE-B1B8-8A84D5C758F2})\File Installs
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We recently received an email from a customer who was seeing sharing violations in the DFS Replication health report, even though the sharing violations were no longer being reported in the DFS Replication event log. He writes: “I recently converted a
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Do you have any favorite forums, blogs, and other sources of information about file services and storage? We'd love to know where else you find information and get your questions answered! Let us know in the comments of this post, or send us email. --Jil
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Our DFSR guru Rob Post recently helped a newsgroup customer troubleshoot why certain .jpg files would not replicate. The customer described the problem as: The file does not get replicated when it is copied into a DFS replicated directory. No errors are
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Thanks to Shobana Balakrishnan, Richard Chinn, and Brian Collins for contributing to this blog. Overview Anti-virus applications have caused interoperability problems with file replication in the past, namely with NTFRS (File Replication service). In
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