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dannetsphere
Copper Contributor
Oct 15, 2020
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Data Deduplication Commands missing

I am trying to disable Data Deduplication on Windows Server 2012 R2.  When I try to run any of the deduplication commands in Powershell I get the term disable-dedupvolume is not recognized as the nam...
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  • HidMov's avatar
    HidMov
    Oct 15, 2020

    Hi dannetsphere 

     

    The commands should be available in once the DeDuplication feature is installed on the server; if you run the below does it show up as installed?

     

    Get-WindowsFeature -Name FS-Data-Deduplication

     

    In addition, can you see the deduplication settings via Server Manager (assuming this isn't a core installation of 2012R2?

     

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HidMov
Steel Contributor
Oct 15, 2020

Hi dannetsphere 

 

The commands should be available in once the DeDuplication feature is installed on the server; if you run the below does it show up as installed?

 

Get-WindowsFeature -Name FS-Data-Deduplication

 

In addition, can you see the deduplication settings via Server Manager (assuming this isn't a core installation of 2012R2?

 

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    dannetsphere
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 16, 2020

    Hi HidMov

    I ran the command you provided and it did say the feature was installed.  I was able to copy the files from another server so I'm good now.

    There wasn't much info in the Server Manager

    Thanks for the reply