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DFS Replication from Multiple Time Zones

August 16, 2012, 7:24 am
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Hello,

Currently I am replicating data from 3 diffreent time zones (branch offices) back to our Corp office which is in CST. I have three servers in Corp setup to match those three time zones.

I am planning to consolidate those 3 boxes into 1 DFS server that will reside in our Corp office.

Question: will there be any possible issues with the file time stamps, resolution of which file would get overwritten in the case of conflict etc. if Branch office DFS server's time will not match with Corp DFS server's time?

Thanks

John

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memory utilization

August 20, 2012, 12:21 am
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We are using windows 2008 server and SQL server 2005 I want to check memory utilization for this purpose I need software.

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DFS not replicating from one server

August 19, 2012, 8:31 am
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I have three 2008 R2 servers which are setup with DFS. Let's say server A, B, and C. I am running into an issue where server A is not replicating to server B & C but servers B & C are able to replicate to server A. Any ideas?
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File Visibility / Access Problems Depending on Route of Access

August 15, 2012, 1:03 pm
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I am having problems with shared files only being accessible via the path I originally wrote them.

For instance, let's say this is my folder structure on "Server" "(This machine could be Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7):

C:\Folder\Subfolder

Folder is shared as Folder$ and Subfolder is shared as Subfolder$

The issue is as follows:

  1. I copy a file to\\Server\Folder$\Subfolder.ext (it doesn't matter what the client is) with a domain admin account
  2. I try to access the file via \\Server\Subfolder$\file.ext and can't see it
  3. I perform a search and I am able to see the file, but when I try to copy or open it, I am told it "no longer exists"
  4. In some cases, I can't even see the file locally via C:\Folder\Subfolder\file.ext
  5. I try to access the file via the original path and it works fine

I have experienced this issue without changing users, and have tried multiple domain admin accounts that also have explicit permission to access the path in question outside of the domain admin privileges.  I have checked file permissions and they appear to be inherited.  This doesn't happen with every file and I haven't been able to find any rhyme or reason for the behavior.  Does anyone have any idea why I might think I'm experiencing such behavior (I just can't imagine that there are access rules beyond those already defined when I learned sharing and security for Server 2000, but I am open to ideas that should seem obvious)?

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Quota domain users read permissions - Windows 2008 R2

August 20, 2012, 8:08 am
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Is it possible to give domain users read permissions for their homedirs quota? I would like to give users option to run script from their desktop so they can check free space on File Server (dirquota quota freespace /path:path /remote:RemoteServer).

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How to Remove Server Role in Windows Server 2008

August 20, 2012, 1:55 pm
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Hello!

How do I remove a server role from Windows Server 2008 (not 2008 R2)? There is no Indexing Service under Available Snap-ins even though the File Service is installed. This is making searches on files to run slowly because folders are not indexed. I have tried to un-install the File Service but do not know how to get this done - unlike Windows Server 2008 R2.

Please give a helping hand.

Thanks in advance

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DFS Replication and Active Directory problems

August 20, 2012, 3:06 pm
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I have 2 servers that are both DC's and have a replicated fileshare that lost communication for a while (a DNS error I think) and now won't resync. Both servers are running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. Server1 is the server that should have the most up to date files, and I have backups so I'm not worried too much about losing files on Server2.

If I could get some recommendations of how to get the servers back into synch I'd appreciate it.

(Server 1) ActiveDirectory_DomainService Error 1988:  Active Directory Domain Services Replication encountered the existence of objects in the following partition that have been deleted from the local domain controllers (DCs) Active Directory Domain Services database.  Not all direct or transitive replication partners replicated in the deletion before the tombstone lifetime number of days passed.  Objects that have been deleted and garbage collected from an Active Directory Domain Services partition but still exist in the writable partitions of other DCs in the same domain, or read-only partitions of global catalog servers in other domains in the forest are known as "lingering objects".

(Server1) ActiveDirectory_DomainService Error 1863: This directory server has not received replication information from a number of directory servers within the configured latency interval. Latency Interval (Hours): 24 Number of directory servers in all sites: 1 Number of directory servers in this site: 1

(Server1) NtFrs Warning 13508: The File Replication Service is having trouble enabling replication from SERVER2 to SERVER1 for c:\windows\sysvol\domain using the DNS name server2.xxx.xxx. FRS will keep retrying.

(Server2) ActiveDirectory_DomainService Error 1864 (multiple occurrences in 24 hours): This directory server has not recently received replication information from a number of directory servers.  The count of directory servers is shown, divided into the following intervals. More than 24 hours:1 More than a week:1 More than one month:1 More than two months:1 More than a tombstone lifetime:1 Tombstone lifetime (days):60

(Server2) ActiveDirectory_DomainService Warning 2093 (multiple occurrences in 24 hours): The remote server which is the owner of a FSMO role is not responding.  This server has not replicated with the FSMO role owner recently. Operations which require contacting a FSMO operation master will fail until this condition is corrected. Elapsed time since last successful replication (hours): 3148

(Server2) ActiveDirectory_DomainService Warning 2088: Active Directory Domain Services could not use DNS to resolve the IP address of the source domain controller listed below Alternate server name:  server1.xxx.xxx Failing DNS host name:  ee9bab52-8c14-4bbe-b1aa-082a53945d5e._msdcs.xxx.xxx

(Server2) DFSR error 5002 (multiple occurrences in 24 hours): The DFS Replication service encountered an error communicating with partner SERVER1 for replication group User Data. Partner DNS address: server1.xxx.xxx Optional data if available: Partner WINS Address: server1 Partner IP Address: xxx.xxx.xx.xx The service will retry the connection periodically. Additional Information: Error: 1825 (A security package specific error occurred.)

(Server2) SRMSVC Warning 12317 (multiple occurrences in 24 hours): File Server Resource Manager failed to enumerate share paths or DFS paths.  Mappings from local file paths to share and DFS paths may be incomplete or temporarily unavailable.  FSRM will retry the operation at a later time. Context:   Domain: MyDomain Error-specific details:   Error: DfsMapCacheAdd(Domain), 0x80070005, Access is denied.

(Server2) NtFrs Warning 13508: The File Replication Service is having trouble enabling replication from SERVER1 to SERVER2 for c:\windows\sysvol\domain using the DNS name server1.xxx.xxx. FRS will keep retrying.

(Server2) DFSR warning 14526 (multiple occurrences in 24 hours): DFS could not contact the server1.xxx.xxx Active Directory. DFS will be using cached data. The return code is in the record data.

(Server2) DFSR event 14529 (multiple occurrences in 24 hours): DFS has connected to the server2.xxx.xxx. Active Directory.

Best practices analyzer:
(Server 1&2) The following domain-based namespace meets the prerequisites for using the Windows Server 2008 mode, but is instead using the Windows 2000 Server mode.
(Server 1&2) The File Server Storage Reports Manager service is running even though all reports, file management tasks, and classification rules have finished.
(Server2) There should not be a large number of replication conflicts in the replicated folder ‘share3’
(Server2) There should not be a large number of replication conflicts in the replicated folder ‘share4’

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System Volume Information DFSR Files

July 30, 2010, 5:24 am
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Hello,

I am running Windows server 2008, and have DFSR set up. I am concerned about disk space. (9% free).

I have disk capacity of 272gb, my system volume information\DFsr takes up 76.39GB in the private folder.  I don't know why, and want to know if it is possible to reduce/delete this?

Thanks

Amanda

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W2K8R2 RAID 5 Resync Monitoring

August 20, 2012, 5:39 pm
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Is there any way to monitor the resync process of a s/w RAID 5 array in W2K8R2?  I have a server that has 6 2T drives: 2 mirrored via h/w and 4 in a s/w RAID 5 array.  I had one drive go offline so I reactivated it (oddly, there was nothing in the event log to indicate why this happened) and the array has been resynching ever since.  The problem is, it simply says "resynching".  Occasionally, it will give me a percentage but most of the time it doesn't.  Is there some way that I can monitor its progress?  This is a hyper-v box so I shut down the VM's in an effort to speed things up but I really can't tell if it made any difference or not.

Another odd thing going on here is that disks 1 through 4 are in the array and it was disk 2 that went offline.  However, if I fire up the resource monitor, it shows that disks 1 through 3 have an activity % of around 3 (varies from about 2.75 to about 3.8) but disk 4 is sitting at a constant 93% +.  If disk 2 failed, why is disk 4 being hit so hard?

Thanks

Bert

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File Distribution by using a link sent via email

August 20, 2012, 9:20 pm
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I have a client that wants to implement a file distribution solution for distributing files to third parties for a short term project.  

They want some thing that has the look and feel of something like FileShare with Citrix or Web Access bundled in with some products like LinkStation.

Basically they want to email a link to third parties via email, the third party would click on that link to access the file to download. Or alternatively senda link that, when clicked, directs them to a webpage that they would logon to and then down the file.

The client has an all Windows 2008 environment. Is there any built in feature, configurable feature or windows app/third party app that could be implemented on Win 2008?  I suspect there is but I have not been able to find the “Name or Feature Name” to focuse my search and search for configuration senearios.

Does anyone know of some thing I can use that is essentially Windows based that would allow me to accomplish this goal at relatively low cost?

Thank you.



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Shrink DFS SYSVOL folder

August 20, 2012, 5:29 pm
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I have a issue of DFS folder under System Volume Information. 

I get one WIN SBS 2011 server and one WIN 2008 R2 server. DFS replication is setup between two servers. Everything is working pretty good except I note that the files under the System Volume Information folder are very large, about 200GB which is the same size of the server file. 

I check the System Volume Information folder and find out that the the largest folder is PreExisting folder. The path is \System Volume Information\DFSR\Private\CODE\PreExisting where CODE is a reference number such like {F5955F85-478D-46B3-B02F-05BED5F5FE32}-{E85F6C95-5EFA-4EB6-9649-A551A2DE0D4C}

I am sure files here are old versions and do not know why the server does not delete them automatically. I dare not to delete them to make trouble. Any ideas to delete them safely so that I can save space on server?

Thanks. 

Regards

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Windows 2000 server loses listing of data in mapped drive

August 21, 2012, 12:58 am
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We are using a Windows 2000 server and users are finding that the drive mapping (mapped from a batch file at logon) to the server is sometimes showing as "Empty" when there is a substatial amount of data in the mapped folder. They can access the data by other means e.g manually mapping the folder or by clicking on a Recent File listing.

Any idea what is causing this and how to resolve it? Mappings to other folders on the same server work OK.

Iain McDonald

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Attempt to restore shadow copy file results in "Access Denied" after OS reinstall

August 20, 2012, 2:26 pm
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My server had corrupt data due to power loss.  I had to reinstall the OS (Win 2003 Server).  I am now needing to revert to a older version of a file.  I can see the previous versions listed, however when i try to restore/view a folder Windows displays \\server\Data\@GMT-2012.08.13.-12.00.00 is not accessable. You might not have ......"Access is denied".

Obviously since i have reinstalled the OS and AD the permissions have to be reset.  How do i go about resetting permission on my shadow copy data/files to retrieve an older version of the file?

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DFS lost File

August 20, 2012, 6:43 pm
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Guys, Good Night.

I implemented a DFS servers in DC, s primary and secondary environment on Windows Server 2008 R2 on a client.
Today I got the call from the client that some files and folders disappeared mapping \ \ domain \ share (test) \, I realized that this example test folder existed another test folder in this folder and subfolder probably files with same name and those who were disappeared .
My question is how can I recover these files and folders with the same name or duplicate?

Thanks for all help

Leonardo Almeida

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Can anyone force windows 7 X64 to accept Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI card?

October 9, 2009, 10:46 am
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Adaptec 2940 had 64 bit drivers for 2003 server and xp X64 and can run in emulation mode using aic78xx.sys in x86 windows7.
Is it at all possible to get this card to install for use in windows 7 x64??

There are a lot of people out here in "never" land that would like to know this answer  .  particularly if you can describe how to do this ...

Cheers
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can a disk size be smaller than a partition size.

May 11, 2012, 6:37 pm
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Hi All,

Hope someone could give some inputs.

I have observed in few servers(windows 2003/2008 sp2/2008 R2)  - specially Hyper-V/VMware guest that the actual disk size is smaller that the partition size, these VM's were migrated from Physical Servers to Virtual Machines using some P2V conversion tools( which I am not aware of ).

I would like to know if someone else has observed the same details in Windows System Information. Also I was wondering what could be the impact of such configuration.

Thanks,

~Aj~

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Error el replicar el DC2.

August 21, 2012, 10:18 am
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Buena tarde tengo el siguiente problema.

El DC1 se reinicio por cuesitones de actualizaciones y el DC2 no replica las politicas del DC1.

Tanto en el DC1 Y DC2 veo los DNS,usuarios, sites  sin problema alguno.  En el DC2 la carpeta sysvol no esta copartida.

En el DC2 aparece este error en el log de DFS Replication

Additional Information:

Replicated Folder Name: SYSVOL Share

Replicated Folder ID: 7B840CE2-9150-4C5D-B3D3-BC648908A14B

Replication Group Name: Domain System Volume

Replication Group ID: 0ADE2F46-206C-4C25-AF7B-BA087CCEBC8C

Member ID: 2117085B-F9AB-4449-AE3D-4A9AAF05F60A

Read-Only: 0

Log Name:      DFS Replication
Source:        DFSR
Date:          8/21/2012 2:42:46 AM
Event ID:      4612
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      dc2.dominio.biz
Description:
The DFS Replication service initialized SYSVOL at local path C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain and is waiting to perform initial replication. The replicated folder will remain in the initial synchronization state until it has replicated with its partner bizad.bizperanto.biz. If the server was in the process of being promoted to a domain controller, the domain controller will not advertise and function as a domain controller until this issue is resolved. This can occur if the specified partner is also in the initial synchronization state, or if sharing violations are encountered on this server or the sync partner. If this event occurred during the migration of SYSVOL from File Replication service (FRS) to DFS Replication, changes will not replicate out until this issue is resolved. This can cause the SYSVOL folder on this server to become out of sync with other domain controllers.
 
Additional Information:
Replicated Folder Name: SYSVOL Share
Replicated Folder ID: 7B840CE2-9150-4C5D-B3D3-BC648908A14B
Replication Group Name: Domain System Volume
Replication Group ID: 0ADE2F46-206C-4C25-AF7B-BA087CCEBC8C
Member ID: 2117085B-F9AB-4449-AE3D-4A9AAF05F60A
Read-Only: 0
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="DFSR" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">4612</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-08-21T07:42:46.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>91</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>DFS Replication</Channel>
    <Computer>bizad2.bizperanto.biz</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>7B840CE2-9150-4C5D-B3D3-BC648908A14B</Data>
    <Data>C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain</Data>
    <Data>SYSVOL Share</Data>
    <Data>Domain System Volume</Data>
    <Data>0ADE2F46-206C-4C25-AF7B-BA087CCEBC8C</Data>
    <Data>2117085B-F9AB-4449-AE3D-4A9AAF05F60A</Data>
    <Data>bizad.bizperanto.biz</Data>
    <Data>0</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Espero me puedan ayudar!!!!!!!!!
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XP Clients not working offline, USERINIT event ID 1000

August 21, 2012, 7:08 am
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I have a lot of XP clients. Their desktops are redirected. When they attempt to work offline they cannot access the files. There are several USERINIT 1000 erros in the log files of the clients saying they cannot access a domain controller and the network is not available. I am not sure if this is why the offline files do not work, but it does seem as if the XP clients do not realize they are offline  and keep trying to access the server paths instead of the offline cache locally.

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The clients are located in a remote site connected to the main location via 1GB fiber WAN. The main site houses all the domain controllers and file servers. Perhaps this problem is related to this somehow?

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Any thoughts on why the XP clients keep trying the network path when disconnected instead of accessing the local offline file scache ? I have verified the files are in sync locally, and the cache is there. Offline files is configured correctly.  Windows 7 laptops on the network in the same site with the same GPOs do not have this issue. Only XP clients. SP3. All updates.

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NTFS Folder Permissions

August 21, 2012, 8:51 am
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Hello,

I'm looking for some help on changing NTFS folder permisions on a shared network folder called Groups.  A previous admin set the NTFS folder permision for the "Users" group to modify.  I would like the Groups folder to only have read & excute, list folder contents and read for the "Users" group, so users are unable to create folders in this directory.   How do I set these permissions to the group folder only?  I don't want the subfolders, and files below to inherit the new permissions. 

Here is a screenshot of the permissions now.

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DFSR PropTest error

August 21, 2012, 1:53 am
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Dear all,
I'm just trying to find out the reason why dfsrdiag proptest is returing error "Err: -2147467259 (0x80004005)" this is the command launched:

dfsrdiag propreport /rgname:RG-NAME /rfname:DATA /testfile:dfstest.txt /domain:domain.local /v

My DFS infrastracture is as below:
a DFS Root with 2003 R2
a DFS additional server with 2008 R2

The output of the previous command is as below here:

[INFO] Found replication group <RG-NAME> under system naming context
[INFO] Found <2> msDFSR-Member objects under the replication group
[INFO] Found <2> msDFSR-ContentSet objects under the replication group
[INFO] LDAP Bind   : LDAP.DOMAIN.LOCAL
[INFO] SitesDn     : cn=sites,cn=configuration,dc=domain,dc=local
[INFO] ServicesDn  : cn=services,cn=configuration,dc=domain,dc=local
[INFO] SystemDn    : cn=system,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL
[INFO] DefaultNcDn : DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL
[INFO] ComputersDn : cn=computers,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL
[INFO] DomainCtlDn : ou=domain controllers,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL
[INFO] SchemaDn    : CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL

PROCESSING MEMBER 2008R2 [1 OUT OF 2]
[INFO] Found <1> subscriber objects under computer: 2008R2
[INFO] 2008R2.DnsHostName = 2008R2.DOMAIN.LOCAL
[INFO] Computer Name: 2008R2
[INFO] Computer DNS: 2008R2.DOMAIN.LOCAL
[INFO] Domain Name: DOMAIN
[INFO] Domain DNS: DOMAIN.LOCAL
[INFO] Site Name: HQ
[INFO] 2008R2.RootPath = X:\DATA
[INFO] Check for test file at \??\UNC\2008R2.DOMAIN.LOCAL\X$\DATA\__DFSR_DIAGNOST
ICS_TEST_FOLDER__\dfstest.txt
[ERROR] Failed to read file at <\??\UNC\2008R2.DOMAIN.LOCAL\x$\DATA\__DFSR_DIAGNO
STICS_TEST_FOLDER__\dfstest.txt> Err: -2147467259 (0x80004005)


PROCESSING MEMBER 2003R2 [2 OUT OF 2]
[INFO] Found <1> subscriber objects under computer: 2003R2
[INFO] 2003R2.DnsHostName = 2003R2.DOMAIN.LOCAL
[INFO] Computer Name: 2003R2
[INFO] Computer DNS: 2003R2.DOMAIN.LOCAL
[INFO] Domain Name: DOMAIN
[INFO] Domain DNS: DOMAIN.LOCAL
[INFO] Site Name: HQ
[INFO] 2003R2.RootPath = W:\DFSR\ROOT\DATA
[INFO] Check for test file at \??\UNC\2003R2.DOMAIN.LOCAL\J$\DFSR\ROOT\DATA
\__DFSR_DIAGNOSTICS_TEST_FOLDER__\dfstest.txt
[INFO] Connected to WMI services on computer: 2003R2.DOMAIN.LOCAL
[INFO] Issuing query: SELECT * FROM DfsrIdRecordInfo WHERE ReplicatedFolderGuid=
"565E6E42-D434-4D27-A719-1AB2C17F4777" AND FileName="dfstest.txt"
[INFO] Issuing query: SELECT * FROM DfsrIdRecordInfo WHERE ReplicatedFolderGuid=
"565E6E42-D434-4D27-A719-1AB2C17F4777" AND Uid="{C12F90AB-AA91-4853-AE84-193FF24
F076E}-v365531"

Total number of members: 2
Number of disabled members: 0
Number of unsubscribed members: 0
Number of invalid AD member objects: 0
Test file access failures: 1
WMI access failures: 0
ID record search failures: 0
Test file mismatches: 0
Members with valid test file: 1


[INFO] Execution Time: 6 seconds
Operation Succeeded

The file dfstest.txt is there and I tried both, running the script with my user having access to the file as FULL CONTROL same with UAC disable with ADMINISTRATOR account and double checked FULL CONTROL

M.


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