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I've only been with this company for a month as system administrator, the servers was not install by me, a file server - member of a domain

I found some curious setting and errors need to help !!!

The file server architecture as below : The file server architecture

  1. Why is it designed this way, with a Hyper-V running on Windows 2019 and two guest Windows running on Hyper-V?

  2. As a domain administrator (also member of local administrators group), when I log in and attempt to access the D:\ drive, I encounter the error "shown in capture 2. I've even created a local administrator account, but the same error persists. Both accounts can perform administrative tasks but can't access D:

Strangely, the built-in Administrator can access D:. Why is this the case?

Error Message

  1. The HQ staff informed me that D:\ is mounted by Hyper-V, which is why I can't access it.

Is this true? If so, how can I resolve this issue? (Hyper-V manager is depicted in below capture.)

Hyper-V Manager

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We don't know the design decisions that have been made in your company. There might be a an workload being used which requires direct disk access. You should be able to access the disk from a VM, where its mounted on.

You can also use the Get-VHD powershell command, this is to retrieve information about the attached VHDX files, which represent pass-through disks.

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  • I think that there is some icalcs restrictions applied, we do this for example on backup drives to harden it
    – djdomi
    Oct 23 at 4:23

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