Find who has files open in Windows Server 2008
I’m sure that I’m not the only one who has become accustomed to opening up Computer Management on a server, and looking in the shared folders in order to find out who has a file open. Well, that was Windows Server 2003. Now that we have Windows Server 2008, it’s just a little bit different.
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Here’s how you do it.
In Server Manager, expand Roles, then expand File Services, and click on “Share and Storage Management”.
On the far right of Server Manager, in the actions pain, click on “Manage Open Files”.
After clicking on the Manage Open Files option, the Manage Open Files Dialog will pop up. Which, although it looks a little different from what you’re used to, performs all of the functions you would expect.
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THANK YOU!
I've looked for that numerous times. So a sincere thank you to Mike.
and my most sarcastic "Thank you" possible for Microsoft for taking something that was relitively easy and adding numerous clicks to get there.
I also miss being able to just right click on the (Local Computer) under manage and just put in any computer on the network. Another shortcut gone..
Take the most frequent tasks and make them harder to get too!
Like needing to at least 2 different interfaces in SBS2008 for user creation. Add a user, then Add an e-mail alias..
Glad it helped! You can
Glad it helped!
You can still go into manage of other computers on the network from Vista and XP, I still use that method to check for open files.
As for SBS, I take it you're using SBS 2008? I actually haven't used it yet, still have a couple of SBS 2003 machine around though. That is too bad if you can't create the alias from within SBS. Of course, you could use the email creation policy (I can't particularly remember what they are called off the top of my head) to make a alias of whatever your standard is.