Volume Shadow Copies
Ally77
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I was wondering if anyone could clear somethin up for me. I have a small test lab at home which contains of a DC running Server 2003 and a client running XP. I have a single basic disk in the DC which consists of 2 partitions; C: and 
. The problem arose when i enabled shadow copies on the volume and i set the storage space for these copies to be the C: volume (recommended by Microsoft for better performance). Set up like this, i could not get a previous versions tab to appear when accessing a share from the client computer. It worked fine when i enabled C: for shadow copies and as the storage for the copies. I initailly thought that the storage area couldn be the same volume that the system files were located but surely i would have encountered some kind of error message. Anyone help with this?? 
. The problem arose when i enabled shadow copies on the volume and i set the storage space for these copies to be the C: volume (recommended by Microsoft for better performance). Set up like this, i could not get a previous versions tab to appear when accessing a share from the client computer. It worked fine when i enabled C: for shadow copies and as the storage for the copies. I initailly thought that the storage area couldn be the same volume that the system files were located but surely i would have encountered some kind of error message. Anyone help with this?? Comments
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NPA24
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That's like a practice question that I have been seeing while studying for my 70-292. You would have to setup the shadow copy client.
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RamsesK
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YES! exactly i had the same question, you can't see the tab option "Previous Versions" of a shared folder until you install this from microsoft:
ShadowCopyClient.msi
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e382358f-33c3-4de7-acd8-a33ac92d295e&displaylang=en
install it and then try again, you will see the option on any shared folder, besides that, this is not installed by default in the OS and is not an update either so if you have many machines in your network and you want to use this utility you need to install it in each one manually or pushing the shadowcopy client by using group policy
hope that helps!
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Ally77
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Sorry i should have made that clear in my original message. The client software for volume shadow copies was downloaded and properly installed. This is what i dont understand. It works if shadow copies is enabled on the system volume (c:) and the storage space for the copies is the d: volume but not the other way round????
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jaydhills
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Try browsing shadow copy on share by using \\computername\c$ then check the properties of share
