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HOW TO: Create a Windows Server 2019 NAS / FileServer from the command line

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Rick Claus
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Nov 17, 2020
My old Synology NAS for home use had started to show signs of wear and was in need of replacement. It had plenty of disk space and performed well enough - but the version I had lacked any real power ...
Updated Nov 17, 2020
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DavidMaltby
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Aug 02, 2021

Thank you very much for this post.  I just completed it. 

One comment, I was unable to run:

PowerCfg /Set 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c

as mentioned in your text (I believe you meant /SetActive), but instead had to run what you showed in the screenshot:

PowerCfg /S 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c

Another issue was that I was getting a CanPool for each drive of False.  I came across https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/fd811772-a634-4dde-9a48-569bd40168e8/storage-space-error-all-drives-canpool-false-quotinsufficient-capacityquot.  These were old disks and so I did a "clean" and "Reset-PhysicalDisk" on each of them, but only got them to show True after a reboot of the machine (like was mentioned in the link).

 

Thanks again!