Hi all,
I'm currently trialing BA for use in my small business. I ran into a problem where the eSATA disks would not automount when attached to a 2008 R2 Server.
“The disk is offline because of policy set by an administrator”
This is due to a default setting in the Enterprise and Datacenter versions of 2008 R2. You would think that those two versions would be very rare in a small business setting, but that isn't necessarily true. If you are a member of the Microsoft MAPS program, the only version of 2008 R2 available for download IS THE Enterprise version. Since MAPS is aimed at small businesses there is a good chance that someone might run into this same problem.
This article discusses what is causing the problem and how to fix it.
http://www.mcbsys.com/techblog/2010/07/esata-drives-offline-because-of-policy-set-by-an-administrator/
Hope it helps someone from wasting a couple hours...
Regards,
~jim