I'm trying to solve a problem with two Windows Storage Server 2008 (Dell Powervault) servers that stopped replicating data about a month ago.

The Organisation has Two Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers, and Two Storage Servers, in the same site on the same subnet. No hardware/network firewalls exist between these 4 servers, they're connected to the same Switch. On each, the Windows Firewall Service is Running, but firewall Disabled.

The Storage servers both show the DFRS Event 5002 - Error: 1753 (There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper.)

The DC's have no such error and are replicating SYSVOL just fine. Problem only exists on the Storage servers, and most guides/troubleshooting steps I have seen relating to Error 1753 seem to assume it's a DC that has the issue, rather than a member server.

There was only one noted change that occurred at the time this problem started happening; the server had been rebooted overnight to allow Windows Updates to install. No configuration changes were made, so we think that something changed by windows updates caused this, but we don't know how, or which update.

Using rpcdump, I can see that On both the DCs, there is a listening TCP Port for the Frs2 Service;

First DC:

Second DC:

But on the Storage servers, which I'm more interested in as it's these that have the Endpoint Mapper problem, there are no such entries when scanned remotely with RPC Dump. No TCP/IP entries. However, Locally on each server if you run RPC Dump, you get more entries including NamedPipe entries, and This:

So it seems like the DFS-R Service is not registering a TCP/IP (ncacn_ip_tcp) connection for the Service but It is registering one of type ncalrpc

I have tried;

1. Raising the MaxUserPort value to 65536 in the registry, but as I feared, made no difference. There are and were before, plenty of other services on the Storage Servers that showed up with rpcdump using ncacn_ip_tcp connections with TCP ports in the 45000 range.

2. Verified all the DNS stuff. But it's all correct. The issue isn't that the two servers are talking to the wrong server..there's just nothing (for DFS-R, at least) listening at the other end?

3. Various reboots and restarts of the DFS-R service on both Servers.

I'm really not sure what to try next. K2089874 Seems to suggest it might be an issue with the Application not successfully registering with the RPC Endpoint mapper, but perhaps I am misinterpreting what I see.

This forum post was useful in explaining how to use rpcdump to get the Information about the frs2 service, but only seems to state it should say Listening: Yes, and that Listening: No is bad - On these servers it's not in the list at all...

Can anyone give me some ideas what to try next?

Hi, in my organization there are 2 file servers at different locations. For the test purpose , I created folder with many files in it in both the servers and applied DFS replication. Replication is working fine in this. 

But, when I am applying replication in main folder which contains many sub-folders like Accounting, Marketing, HR ect.  in both the servers. Replication is not working. In event logs it is showing errors. I have following questions, please answer me as soon as possible. Thank you in advance

1] I need to replicate around 500GB data from each replicated folder in both the servers. I leave the Staging size default as 4GB. Do I need to increase it? and how much should I increase it ?

2] I generated Diagnostics report (Health report) in that Replicated folder and reports says errors in both the servers. 

Server 1 :  error 1 : 

DFS replication error, event ID 4004

Additional Information: 
Error: 9098 (A tombstoned content set deletion has been scheduled) 

error 2 : 

DFSR - Content skipped by replication, event ID 11004

DFS Replication does not replicate certain files in the replicated folders listed above because they have temporary attribute set, or they are symbolic links . This problem is affecting at least 35 files in 1 replicated folders (up to 100 occurences per replicated folder are reported). Event ID: 11004

Server 2 :  

DFSR - Content skipped by replication, event ID 11004

Please help me solve this issue

I have a "User Drive" that has the following permissions:

Administrators and System: Full Access: This folder, subfolders and files
Authenticated Users: Read/Traverse/Create Folders: This folder only
Creator Owner: Full Access: Subfolders and files only

I have a GPO that creates a folder (under user context) as \\server\users$\%username% and followed by another \\server\users$\%username%\home.

I would expect that on creating that first folder it would then receive full access permissions on it for all subfolders and files. But instead the permissions are configured on it as Inherited and for that user: Full Access: This folder only. Same result on the Home folder as well.

What am I missing here? Why is the Creator Owner permission not creating an explicit Full Access for Subfolders and Files on that User Drive then being inherited? Basically now all the users home drives are unreadable by the user... Fucking nightmare when every step of this makes sense to have worked.

5th time in the last week simple fucking things from MS that should work have failed and been egg and shit on my face. So fucking sick of this this week has convinced me to look elsewhere than IT... MS are the devil and all these tool and policies are fucking nightmares.

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I am reviewing Microsoft's ODX documentation.  It states the following:

The Windows host also limits the number of file fragments to 64. If the offload read request consists of more than 64 fragments, Windows fails the copy offload request and falls back to the traditional copy operation.

I have two volumes (S: and T:) on an iSCSI SAN.  I have a test file 960MB.bin on my S:\ drive.  My disk editor shows that this file is comprised of 180 clusters:

I then copy the file from the S:\ volume to the T:\ volume.  During the copy operation, I monitor the traffic going to the iSCSI volumes.  I see 180 back-to-back ODX transfers comprised of the following sequence:

• Source Volume:  CDB - Populate Token
• Source Volume:  CDB - Receive ROD Token Information
• Destination Volume:  CDB - Write Using Token
• This repeats a total of 180 times until the file copy is complete

So when Microsoft's documentation states that The Windows host also limits the number of file fragments to 64, what is it referring too?  If it's referring to the file fragmentation like I show above, why did ODX engage for me?  Is there a difference between Server 2012 and 2012 R2?  Is there a registry key to adjust this setting?

Hi,

Could someone please help me.

We have a DFS namespace in which we have 6500+ DFS links hosted on WIN 2008 R2 Server and we have 20+ Namespace servers.

The problem is that when user tries to connect to our namespace they can see all the 6500+ links or not even a single link.

It is an access-based enumarated design so user should be able to see only the links for which they have access.

Please help.

Hi ,

I have DFS Namespace created in a cluster mode across Windows server 2008 R2 in my environment.

Some users have the problem that their Shared Folder (DFS Root Folder like "\\abc-intranet.net\MyDFSroot" is Empty or Sometime it shows all the Shared folders (in thousands) within DFS root , While they can access the Shared Folders to which they have been given access by using their UNC paths without any issues.

Could anyone suggest why the Mapping of DFS root doesnot show any folders to users to which they have access? Where might be the bug?

Generally the mapping of DFS root Folder should contain all the Shared folders to which the users have access to.

Any Bright ideas or suggestions are highly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hello im just evaluating Storage Spaces and encountered the problem that i can not use the optimize-volume command from powershell for my storage space once i encrypt it with bitlocker. i can reproduce this easily: enable bitlocker = optimize-volume fails -> disable bitlocker = optimize-volume works -> enable bitlocker again = optimize-volume fails again.

Optimize failure:

PS C:\Windows\system32> Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter f -Verbose
VERBOSE: Invoking slab consolidation on (F:)...
VERBOSE: Slab Analysis:  0% complete...
VERBOSE: Slab Analysis:  100% complete.
VERBOSE: Slab Consolidation:  100% complete.
Optimize-Volume : A general error occurred that is not covered by a more specific error code.
At line:1 char:1+ Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter f -Verbose+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (MSFT_Volume (Ob...5-825e-d050...):ROOT/Microsoft/...age/MSFT_Volume) [Optimize-Volume], CimException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x89000016,Optimize-Volume

bitlocker turned off and the same command gives:

PS C:\Windows\system32> Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter f -Verbose
VERBOSE: Invoking slab consolidation on (F:)...
VERBOSE: Slab Analysis:  0% complete...
VERBOSE: Slab Analysis:  100% complete.
VERBOSE: Retrim:  100% complete.
VERBOSE:
 Slab consolidation was skipped because there were few evictable slabs.
VERBOSE:
Post Defragmentation Report:
VERBOSE:
 Volume Information:
VERBOSE:   Volume size                 = 511.81 GB
VERBOSE:   Cluster size                = 64 KB
VERBOSE:   Used space                  = 2.56 GB
VERBOSE:   Free space                  = 509.24 GB
VERBOSE:
 Allocation Units:
VERBOSE:   Slab count                  = 254
VERBOSE:   Slab size                   = 2 GB
VERBOSE:   Slab alignment              = 1.87 GB
VERBOSE:   In-use slabs                = 2
VERBOSE:
 Slab Consolidation:
VERBOSE:   Space efficiency            = 100%
VERBOSE:   Potential purgable slabs    = 2
VERBOSE:   Slabs pinned unmovable      = 2
VERBOSE:   Successfully purged slabs   = 0
VERBOSE:   Recovered space             = 0 bytes
VERBOSE:
 Retrim:
VERBOSE:   Backed allocations          = 7
VERBOSE:   Allocations trimmed         = 4
VERBOSE:   Total space trimmed         = 8.00 GB

the test is done under windows 8.1 (not yet retested under server 2012 R2)

the error shows in mirrored and parity spaces the same way  (always formatted in ReFS with Integrity Streams enabled)
e.g. New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName 2M8 -StoragePoolFriendlyName Pool -NumberOfColumns 8 -PhysicalDiskRedundancy 2 -ProvisioningType THIN -ResiliencySettingName Mirror -Size 512GB

is this expected behavior? i found nowhere information that bitlocker would obstruct storage spaces in any way.

thanks in advance
Uwe

This is my first time posting here, so hopefully this is the right place to request help with this problem.

What I need help with is this. I have a network with a Windows 2012 file server with mostly Windows 8 clients. The users in Active Directory have their Home folders directed to a path on the server (mapped "U:" drive in the user's AD Profile tab) and then their "Documents" folder is redirected to their server shared folder (So their "Documents" folder is the same location as the mapped "U:" drive). In the past file servers have been replaced with different server names, so the Home folder needs to be reconfigured to the new server's path (In the AD User's profile). Unfortunately, some users had not been reconfigured in AD and still had the now non existent server path directing to their local "Documents" folder. However, they could still open "Documents" and edit and create new folders and files via a cache of some sort. My question is where is the location of those cached files? What happens is when the error is discovered and the path in their AD profile is redirected to the new correct server path, they lose all of their documents that were created and located in the local cached or old server location (obviously, the user is not connected to the old server, the local computer just stores the files somewhere waiting to sync with the now non existent server). They just disappear. Where are those files located on the local computer (Windows 8) and are they recoverable?

Hi

my server is cannot startup when I try to restore system image I get an error saying error details: the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable (0x80070570) . meaning i cannot restore system image in backup. THis came up when i wanted to restore my server to a recommended system restore date.

Hello,

I have a issue regarding VSS differential snapshot related with ReFS volume on Windows Server 2012. The scenario is mentioned below:

I have one NTFS volume (V1_NTFS (G:)) and one ReFS volume(V2_REFS (H:)).

Now I have created shadow storage of V1_NTFS volume on V2_REFS volume using following command:

C:\>vssadmin add shadowstorage /for=G: /on=H: /maxsize=20%

Then I created multiple shadows of V1_NTFS(G:) with following commands:

C:\>vssadmin create shadow /for=G:

Suppose I have created 4 shadows as snap1, snap2, snap3, snap4. Now the problem is that whenever I revert to a shadows, lets saysnap3, then snap3 and snap4 shadows should get deleted and older ones(snap1,snap2) should remain there which is the expected behaviour. But here, in this case, after successful revert tosnap3 all shadows (even older ones get deleted.) So the question is that: is this a known issue and is expected behavior with this type of scenario or is this a bug with ReFS? 

Or in simple way, can diff area be on ReFS volume for a NTFS volume? is this supported configuration ?

Nilesh Savant

Nilesh Savant

I'm seeing numerous events logged on our Windows Server 2012 R2 servers, relating to the Volume Shadow Copy Service.  They only seem to occur on 2012 R2 servers with both Active Directory and DHCP roles installed.  Seems to be a registry permissions problem, but the only solutions I can find via Google are for 2008 R2 servers and the solution doesn't work on 2012 R2 servers.

"Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine RegOpenKeyExW(-2147483646,SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VSS\Diag,...). hr = 0x80070005, Access is denied.

Operation:
Initializing Writer

Context:
Writer Class Id: {5382579c-98df-47a7-ac6c-98a6d7106e09}
Writer Name: TermServLicensing
Writer Instance ID: {d32431a0-4d67-4deb-9c7f-c90cacce7728}"

"Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine RegOpenKeyExW(-2147483646,SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VSS\Diag,...). hr = 0x80070005, Access is denied.

Operation:
Initializing Writer

Context:
Writer Class Id: {35e81631-13e1-48db-97fc-d5bc721bb18a}
Writer Name: NPS VSS Writer
Writer Instance ID: {94f97fa2-145c-477e-8f7d-60691e0990a6}"

"Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine RegOpenKeyExW(-2147483646,SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VSS\Diag,...). hr = 0x80070005, Access is denied.

Operation:
Initializing Writer

Context:
Writer Class Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Name: System Writer
Writer Instance ID: {8fd570e7-0000-4375-b3ca-568961018633}"

Is there a 2012 R2 solution to this problem?

Matty Brown - Computer Programmer (VBA 7.0/MS Access 2010, VB.Net 2008/2010, SQL 2008)

Hi  all

I had enabled file server using windows server 2008 sp2 and given folder access to  our Active directory users and  using the same.

I  need to enable the folder auditing  for particular folder  like who done the  changes, deleted the files etc.,

 Is it possible to do the  folder auditing  in windows 2008 server itself? it yes. how to achieve that. how do I found the  folder access logs?

Please help me on this.

Best Regards

Jags

Jags

Hi

I'm trying to build a Hyper-V cluster using a cheap JBOD for storage and some old servers, but I'm having a hard time getting my planned configuration validated.

My planned configuration might be flawed and impossible, so I'm hoping someone can give me some pointers.

This is what I'm thinking:

The cluster should consist of my 4 HP DL380G7 serveres with Windows Server 2012 R2 and connected to an Intel JBOD2224S2DP JBOD. 

In the JBOD I want to put a couple of SSD's and a mix of different SAS HDD's and use the tiering and dedublication features in 2012 R2's Storage Spaces and configure cluster volumes for VHDX's and VM configs.

I don't see any possibility to run dual SAS to each server, since the JBOD only has 4 external 8088 SAS ports. (and 2 for connecting another JBOD on top) Can't see that I can upgrade to 8 external SAS ports..?
But since the 4 servers are in clustered HA setup, I don't see the single SAS connection as a huge problem.

Later on, I would like to add a second identical JBOD enclosure. As I see it, that would make it possible to connect SAS redundant to all 4 servers, or to extend the cluster with another 4 nodes.

Is this possible at all?

Hello,

I'm having a problem renaming new folders in one directory only.
The folder is a sitting on a file server which is apart of the file server cluster Windows 2008 R2.

Let say I have a volume mounted on X:

I have the following folders

X:\Test
X:\Test\Desktop
X:\Test\Favourite

If I create a new folder under X:\Test\Desktop that will be called New Folder by default. After the creation the system will not let me rename it (folder or file in use by another process), however I can move it or delete it without problem.

I have checked if the file is locked already with different software, did not help, folder not locked.

I have admin rights, I'm the owner also.

I can create and rename folders on the same driver anywhere except from the Desktop folder. File server has been rebooted and failed over to other node in the cluster, but the problem still stand.  Have no antivirus installed.

Any idea what is the problem? Where should I look?

Thanks!

DA-Sky