Cache drive reconfiguration in Server 2025 Storage Spaces Direct cluster
We have a three node S2D cluster running Server 2025, with the storage in a 3 way mirror, running Hyper-V VMs. Each node has 4 x NVMe drives that are currently being used as cache drives, but which are connected to a RAID controller (in HBA mode), so in the S2D configuration they appear as SSD drives rather than NVMe drives. We've purchased the required cables and drive bays to be able to reconfigure the NVMe drives so that they're attached directly to the PCIe bus, so they'll show up as NVMe drives and hopefully give us a performance boost, so I'm just trying to plan the reconfiguration. I was hoping it would be a relatively simple process of shutting everything down, reconfiguring the storage and bringing everything back online, but ChatGPT suggests things won't be that easy and that a complete reconfiguration of the storage would be required. So in a nutshell, can the cache drives be reconfigured without a complete rebuild of the S2D storage ? Cheers, Rob
S2D FaultDomainAwareness
We're setting up a 2 Node windows 2025 cluster with storage spaces direct After creating the pool we created two virtual disk but see the following output PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-VirtualDisk | Format-List FriendlyName, Size, FaultDomainAwareness FriendlyName : ClusterPerformanceHistory Size : 25769803776 FaultDomainAwareness : StorageScaleUnit FriendlyName : S2DVOL01 Size : 10995116277760 FaultDomainAwareness : FriendlyName : S2DVOL02 Size : 10995116277760 FaultDomainAwareness : The FaultDomainAwareness is empty for the two virtual disk created on the storage pool which is configured like this PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-StoragePool –FriendlyName S2D-CLHV-001-Pool | Format-List FriendlyName, Size, FaultDomainAwarenessDefault FriendlyName : S2D-CLHV-001-Pool Size : 57592038555648 FaultDomainAwarenessDefault : StorageScaleUnit is there something wrong ?
Server 2022, network drives and content searching
We have two drives with close to 1TB of data, The one drive has a specific folder where end users want to search for a file using content from the files. The files are generally .xls based files End users are 99% Windows 11 based and server is server 2022. Indexing on the server with content aware filtering has occurred and can find the files when searching for their names however not when searching content. This needs to happen using Windows Search in explorer. Data is unstructured, however structured in a folder system. (Year, month, etc) I have read that Windows Content Search is not supported on network drives, can this be confirmed? Any suggestions on a resolution would be appreciated.
Issue with existing drive formatted to ReFS and mounting in new server
I had a hardware failure which also took out my Server installation drive. I have new hardware and have installed Server 2022 again on new drive. I have connected a drive that I had formatted as ReFS and now it shows as RAW and Event log shows "ReFS failed to mount the volume. Version 3.14 doesn't match expected value 3.7" I have no idea what is going on here. Both installations of Server 2022 used the same media. This is getting very painful. I have connected the drive to a Windows 11 24H2 computer, and it reads fine.ReFS volume appears as RAW after rebuild of server
I had a Windows 2022 server that had a drive formatted as ReFS. The hardware failed and I had to get a new system. The Windows installation also got corrupted when the hard failed. I have the new hardware and I have installed Server 2022 again but the drive is coming up as Raw and ReFS failed to mount the volume. Version 3.14 doesn't match expected value 3.7 is appearing in the ReFS/Operational event logs. I connected the drive to a Windows 11 Pro pc and are able to view the drive. Why has this happened? Is there a way to upgrade the version of RsFS to 3.7? Is there something I have missed when building the new server?
iSCSI Target servers - high availability?
Hello, I have two VMs configured as iSCSI target servers with a 600GB VDHX file on each, and then two VMs configured as file servers in a failover cluster. The iSCSI servers should serve out the data that is shared in the failover cluster file server. I would like to also configure the iSCSI target servers in high availability mode, so that they replicate their data and if one of the iSCSI target server go down, the shares and data is still accessible. How would I go about doing this? So far I've tried setting up storage replica, but since I only have one site, it doesn't allow me to replicate to the second iSCSI disk from the one that currently has data. I also tried iSCSI Target-role in the failover cluster manager, but it puts me back at the same situation where if the storage server with the virtual iSCSI disk goes down, I lose access to all data.Clarification on NTLM Authentication Events (Event ID 4625 & 4624) in SOC Monitoring
Hello, While monitoring authentication events in the SOC, I frequently encounter multiple failed (Event ID: 4625) and successful (Event ID: 4624) login attempts associated with NTLM authentication. Upon investigating the affected machine, I found no active NTFS shares or resources being accessed. Despite this, NTLM events continue to appear in the logs. I’m trying to understand what might be triggering these events. Could this be related to background processes, service accounts, or another NTLM authentication mechanism? Although this is a low-level incident, I’d like to fully grasp the cause to rule out any potential security concerns. I’d appreciate any insights you can provide! Thank you.
Increase the size of user profile disk in my remote desktop server
Hi all experts. I have a server for remote desktop services purposes, Windows 2016 standard, and domain joined. It is configured using User Profile Disk, and the maximum limit is set to 5GB. I want to increase the maximum limit but I can't do it under the collection's properties because that field is grayed out. My questions: How to increase the maximum limit? Please guide me and let me know how. Can I increase the maximum limit for 1 single user only? If yes, please let me know how. I found some info from the web that this can be done by the Diskpart command, is it true? If I follow the Diskpart method, do all user profiles encounter data lost? I need your guidance and input, I appreciate it. Here are some images:Write to workgroup fileserver from AzureAD joined device.
Hi, We currently have a situation where we are trying to install a program locally, but we want some of the data files (master data for projects, company settings for the most part) to be stored on a fileserver. The installer allows for this change to set UNC path to the share manually, and in our case recommends doing that. The problem we are facing occurs when trying to go on with the installation, the problem reports back that write-protection is enabled. I have the share mapped as a nettwork station, and can create folders/files through explorer. But I think the issue here is that the share mapped using the "Connect with different credential" option, which is required since the share is on a server in a workgroup and the client I'm using is joined to AzureAD. And when i run the installer for the program it is ofcourse ran with my azure user (local administrator), and I guess it tries to write to the UNC path with that user ofcourse. Is there any way i can let the program write to the share without it being to much of a security risk? The same program also has a nettwork license installed on a different workgroup server. I also had to add local users to that server and do some DCOM permission tweaking for that to work. For the license part i can authenticate with the local server user, but thats not an option when trying to install with UNC path for the file/folder structure.feature Installation Error
I am facing this issue in Windows Server 2019 STD. i am also tried to solve this issue to select sources\sxs path from the OS media but still i am getting the same error. Mistakenly i have removed .Net framework from this server and after that i am facing this issue. please help me to solve this issue.
