Brain fart! Is there a way to extend Disk 6 into Disk 2 and Disk 3? I don't know why i'm having a brain fart about it.

I'm used to expanding within the same disk.

Hi,

Running Windows Server 2008 R2.

Service stops running with "Failed to initialize the needed name objects. Error Specifics: hr = 0x80004005, d:\longhorn\com\complus\dtc\dtc\msdtcprx\src\dtcinit.cpp:571, CmdLine: C:\Windows\system32\dllhost.exe /Processid:{02D4B3F1-FD88-11D1-960D-00805FC79235}, Pid: 4776" - Event ID 4427.

Then when I try to start the service again I get "A critical error occurred in an MS DTC component therefore the process is terminating. The category field identifies the component that encountered the error. Please contact Microsoft Product Support. Error Specifics: hr = 0x80070002, d:\longhorn\com\complus\dtc\dtc\msdtc\src\cservice.cpp:473, CmdLine: C:\Windows\System32\msdtc.exe, Pid: 9408" - Event ID 4209.

Any ideas?

Dear All,

We have  DFS infrastructure with following configuration

Site HO;

DFS server 1 , DFS server 2

SITE DR 

DFS server 3.

we have configured domain based dfs name space and add all the 3 servers in the name space servers. also created DFS folder targets and pointed all three servers , created replication using full mesh .

I want to make restriction  for dfs access ,

1)All user should access DFS server1 all time for share access, is DFS server 1 failed then only user access the DFS server2, if both servers failed, clients should point to DR dfs server.

2) Also, once the DFS server1 is up, all clients need to fail back to DFS server 1.

how can I achieve the above requirement.

please help me

Hi Everybody,

DFS was configured and working fine on 2 Windows Server 2012 64 Bit.  But now no longer to replicate. I'm have Done some do some troubleshooting. But still failed to solve the issue.

1.)Failed to run on both DFS Server :\>dfsrdiag backlog /ReceivingMember:server1/SendingMember:server2 /RGName:folder/RFName:folder. 

2.)DFS Replication Health Report Failed to Generate.

3.When i trying to restart (Server A) as the Promary Member. I always get this error: Error: The DFS Replication service has detected an unexpected shutdown on volume D:. This can occur if the service terminated abnormally (due to a power loss, for example) or an error occurred on the volume. The service has automatically initiated a recovery process. The service will rebuild the database if it determines it cannot reliably recover. No user action is required.

Hi There,

Massive shot in the dark here but I am struggling with a pretty major issue atm.  We have a production file server that is hosted on the following:

Dell MD 3220i -> iSCSI -> Server 2008 R2 Hyper-v Cluster -> Passthrough Disk -> Server 2012 R2 File Server VM

Essentially 3 times now, roughly a month or so apart.  The file server stops accepting connections.  During this time, the server is perfectly accessible through rdp or with a simple ping.  I can browse the files on the server directly but no-one appears to be able to access the shares over SMB.  A reboot of the server fixes the issue.  

As per a KB article I removed nod antivirus from the server to rule out a conflicting filter mode driver after the second fault.  Sadly yesterday it happened again.

The only relevant errors in the servers log files are:

SMB Server Event ID 551
SMB Session Authentication Failure

Client Name: \\192.168.105.79
Client Address: 192.168.105.79:50774
User Name: HHS\H6-08$
Session ID: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Status: Insufficient server resources exist to complete the request. (0xC0000205)

Guidance:

You should expect this error when attempting to connect to shares using incorrect credentials.

This error does not always indicate a problem with authorization, but mainly authentication. It is more common with non-Windows clients.

This error can occur when using incorrect usernames and passwords with NTLM, mismatched LmCompatibility settings between client and server, duplicate Kerberos service principal names, incorrect Kerberos ticket-granting service tickets, or Guest accounts without Guest access enabled

and

SMB Server event ID 1020
File system operation has taken longer than expected.

Client Name: \\192.168.105.97
Client Address: 192.168.105.97:49571
User Name: HHS\12J.Champion
Session ID: 0x2C07B40004A5
Share Name: \\*\Subjects
File Name:
Command: 5
Duration (in milliseconds): 176784
Warning Threshold (in milliseconds): 120000

Guidance:

The underlying file system has taken too long to respond to an operation. This typically indicates a problem with the storage and not SMB.

I have checked the underlying disk/iscsi/network hyper-v cluster for any other errors or issues, but as far as I can tell everything is fine. 

Is it possible that something else is left over from the NOD antivirus installation?  

Looking for suggestions on how to troubleshoot this further.

Thanks

I've been having a lot of issues with my storage pool lately and in all honesty, I've been messing around so much I don't know what's going on anymore.

The facts:

1. I get warnings on two of my six physical drives
2. I lose connection to my virtual disk when writing to it
3. Once #2 happens, I cannot detach and reattach the virtualdisk.
   After reboot it works sometimes, but only until I write to disk again.
4. I think #2 occurs because of a corrupt drive, but I can't run chkdsk because I don't have drive letters
5. I physically checked all drives and they are connected and should be recognized properly
6. I replaced one of the drives because I thought maybe it's corrupt, but the storage pool did not rebuild
7. I don't understand the names of the Physical Disks anymore (I have two disks named "PhysicalDisk-1")
8. Get-VirtualDisk gives me OperationalStatus: Incomplete

So, it's just one big cluster*** :)

I think I just want to start over with a new storage pool / virtual disk, but I don't want to lose data and I can't physically add more drives.

How should I go about it?

Thanks!

Screenshots: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6rtssflhs72d7rs/AADvSKLxY4oG4p5LpUw3atRFa

I will be getting a new server to replace our Windows 2003 file server and the users from a remote site like to know if I can add a replicating server to their site.  Our main file server server is located in Texas and the remote site is located in Florida.  They currently access the file server through Cisco ASA VPN.  There are 5 users and they do Solidworks, so they usually do them locally and the files are large.  They then copy the file to the main file server and sometime that cause issue with the toolset that they use.

Basically, does anyone know a good way to do replication in real time between the two sites if I get identical server for each site?  Site A changes will get replicate to site B and vice versa?  Thanks and appreciate the helps.

On my old server I have the following folders redirected using a group policy \\server\data\username\appdata & \\server\data\username\Desktop& \\server\data\username\Documents& \\server\data\username\favorite I also have offline folders enabled. The group policy redirected the folders to the above paths if the user was a member of DataSecGrp.

I added an additional path to \\newserver\data$username\AppData& \\newserver\data$username\Desktop & \\newserver\data$username\Documents  &\\newserver\data$username\Favorites and added a group named DatasecGrp2 so that the member of DataSecGrp2 would point to these new paths. I then have to move each folder to the new location.  The problem I'm experiencing is that as soon as I remove access to the old location The Start menu items and the task bar become unusable. If you click on items such as documents in start menu nothing happens. I can right click on it and then select open to open it but single left click on document doesn't work.  I'm sure I'm doing lots of things wrong can someone give me an idea on what I did wrong? Thank you

I have a small home server running Windows Home Server 2011. I have 3 home PC's, a media PC, a desktop and a laptop, with the laptop I have it set up for me and my Girlfriend to log on (Richard & Dee) and on the home server I have 2 Users (Richard & Dee) 

How exactly do I log on to the server to see my Server folders.....

1 Using the laptop log on Richard and the PC password or

2 Using Richard and the password I have set on the Server (which can be the same or different as I see it)

Do I connect to the Server with the connect app or can I browse the server from File Manager?

Do I need to set up a "Homegroup"?

For something which is for the Home User it is quite complex (as a Novice) and there seems to be little info on the web (I stand to be corrected!)

I am trying this with a NAS device.  So enabling ABE using Share and Storage Management is not an option.  The OS on the NAS device is not Windows.

I enabled ABE in the DFS mgt console.  Set the permissions.  And it works fine.  I don't like the fact that you have to set additional permissions, but that's just the way it is.

Here's my question;  If I browse a share using a DFS link, ABE works correctly.  But if I browse a share using a UNC path, i.e. \\ServerName\ShareName, I see everything.  Is this by design?
I hope not, because that would make it a very lame feature.

I was tasked today on setting up a new 2012R2 server to take care of our DFS. The current DFS is on 2003R2. This all resides on a 2003 domain. The current DFS has approximately 5TB of data, so migration tools is out. Having never done anything with DFS before, I'm not even sure where to begin. Can anyone suggest any tools to assist in this migration and any place I can find more info on best practices with DFS?

Thank you!

Sean

Hello! 

I recently setup a Dell PE410T server that has 6 (2x500GB 4x2TB) drives using Windows server 2008 R2 SP1. Unfortunately the card came with a SAS card instead of a PERC card. I was unaware of the difference be tween the two and my Dell rep never pointed it out.. surprise surprise. The SAS wont do RAID5. So to work around this I configured hardware mirroring for the system drives and decided to use Windows Software RAID5 for the 4x2TB drives. Due to client demands I had to roll-out the server before the initial sync was completed. I find the sync keeps having to rebuild after each reboot. It's brand new so there are no disk failure problems.

Is there any way to speed up this process? They are obviously seeing the performance hit. The machine is a quad-core Xeon and overhead is at 25% on the disks at the moment. I noticed it's also taking an exorbitant amount of time to sync.. like days just to do 25%. Is this normal?

Rob Holmes

I cannot find a fix for this error.  It happens when trying to build a replication group with folders on servers in separate domains.  Both domains are in the same forest, and adding the remote server to the namespace works fine.   The replication setup wizard starts building the replication group and fails at Step 2 , and gives the error below.

"The dfs replication subscriber object cannot be created in active directory domain services.  The parameter is incorrect"

I have tried the hotfix in this KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971079, but it said the hotifx did not apply to my machine.

EDIT:  I Think I may have found my own answer...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772804(v=ws.10).aspx

I'm seeing event 137 twice an hour, all day. It looks like this: 

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System><Provider Name="Ntfs" /><EventID Qualifiers="49156">137</EventID><Level>2</Level><Task>2</Task><Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-06-25T18:10:07.316240100Z" /><EventRecordID>261406</EventRecordID><Channel>System</Channel><Computer>computerName</Computer><Security /></System>
- <EventData><Data /><Data>\\?\Volume{fff77c93-1a09-11e5-a9d8-005056a64248}</Data><Binary>1C0004000200300002000000890004C000000000100000C000000000000000000000000000000000100000C0</Binary></EventData></Event>

When I use mountvol to look at the volume GUIDs, the GUID in the error, does not appear. I'm also not sure what the C0000010 error is.

I found VMware KB2006849, which indicates that there is a known issue with some versions of vSphere, but we applied the patch. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Please can you help with my problem. 

We are using a 2008 R2 SP1 server to run DPM 2012 (server name is DPMServer). We are backing up a Sharepoint 2010 farm and Exchange 2010 along with other loner SQL and FS boxes. The backups go onto a VNXE box and there are currently 28 virtual hard disks on there, each is 2 TB 

I am currently unable to run ‘windows server backup’ on DPMServer. Once you open up WSB, it takes about 40 minutes to start a backup job, but it then fails. The error says ‘the operation was stopped; detailed error ;access was denied’ . 

But I am able to successfully run a system state backup with this command; 

wbadmin.exe start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:C: 

I also cannot currently get a VSS system state backup using EMC Avamar (I think this uses WSB?). We back up the DPMServer  (FS/SQL/VSS ) using EMC Avamar 

I am also getting the following Virtual disk service error. Event ID 25

‘A failure was encountered while retrieving the volume properties. Error code: 0x80070002@020A000D’

And also;

The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎06‎-‎25T12:43:09.607000000Z' has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being backed up failed with following error code '2155348129'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved 

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: An invalid XML document was returned from writer {7a639cef-d3e8-42f0-abef-e1d7d727c7d6}. 

Operation:

   Writer Modifying Modifying Backup Document 

Context:

   Execution Context: Requestor

   Writer Instance ID: {7A639CEF-D3E8-42F0-ABEF-E1D7D727C7D6}

 I think the problem is that 2008 R2 doesn’t support the large number of volumes that I have?

 I checked online and found a similar issue. They suggested running ‘diskshadow’ and ‘mountvol’ 

I ran the diskshadow command. From the diskshadow command output, one can see that the ASR writer has a huge number (about 350) of volumes as components of the BMR backup. The following shows just one of these (there are 350): 

+ Component "ASR Writer:\Volumes\Volume{41ff80f6-1bf1-11e4-8491-001999efa6a0}"

                              - Name: Volume{41ff80f6-1bf1-11e4-8491-001999efa6a0}

                              - Logical path: Volumes

                              - Full path: \Volumes\Volume{41ff80f6-1bf1-11e4-8491-001999efa6a0}

                              - Caption: Select this volume (\??\Volume{41ff80f6-1bf1-11e4-8491-001999efa6a0}) if it is a critical volume.

Critical volumes are those which ASR must restore.

                              - Type: VSS_CT_FILEGROUP [2]

                              - Is selectable: TRUE

                              - Is top level: TRUE

                              - Notify on backup complete: FALSE

                              - Components:

                              - Paths affected by this component:

                              - Volumes affected by this component:

                              - Component Dependencies:

And from the command  ‘mountvol’ output (see file mountvol) ; you can see that there are ~111 mounted points on the DPMServer from volume#227 to volume#338;  109 of them are on the C: volume as following:

  Volume 227       DPM-vol_28c  NTFS   Simple        11 GB  Healthy

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\DPM\DPM\Volumes\DiffArea\File System\vol_28cdafcb-c759-472a-96ce-3b8d238e949e\

  Volume 228       DPM-vol_28c  NTFS   Simple        65 GB  Healthy

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\DPM\DPM\Volumes\Replica\File System\vol_28cdafcb-c759-472a-96ce-3b8d238e949e\

…………….

…………….

   C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\DPM\DPM\Volumes\Replica\File System\vol_0d574152-f2d1-4402-b2dd-5dd1a42f132e\

  Volume 335       DPM-vol_03e  NTFS   Simple       156 GB  Healthy

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\DPM\DPM\Volumes\Replica\Microsoft Exchange Replica Writer\vol_03eca8c2-1d80-4d81-b53d-6791438c9690\

  Volume 336   D   SC2012DPM    UDF    DVD-ROM     3368 MB  Healthy

  Volume 337   E                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media

  Volume 338   C   system       NTFS   Partition    278 GB  Healthy    System

Based on a Microsoft article - the max number of software shadow copies for each volume is 512. However, by default you can only maintain 64 shadow copies that are used by the Shadow Copies of Shared Folders feature. To change the limit for the Shadow Copies of Shared Folders feature, use the following registry key:MaxShadowCopies. I tried this and set it to 256 but that didn’t work.

If you have any ideas for a solution then I would be very much obliged

thanks

I have a mirrored storage pool that originally had 2 mirrored physical disks. I have one large Virtual Disk that is using the storage pool. I wanted to replace one physical disk with a larger SSD so I disconnected the smaller HDD and replaced with the SSD. I ran a repair on the virtual disk and it completes very quickly and then shows a status of complete but with a degraded status.

I have followed the steps:

1. Open PowerShell in admin mode (PowerShell ISE is better)
2. To get the names of the disks, type the following command:
   Get-PhysicalDisk
3. To get the names of the virtual disks, type the following command:
   Get-Virtual-Disk
4. First mark the disk you want to remove as "retired" by the following command:
   Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName 'PhysicalDiskXX' -Usage Retired
5. Now your disk is mark to be removed.  You need to rebuild each of your virtual disks with the following command:
   Repair-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName 'My Virtual Disk'
6. You can monitor the progression of the process by typing the following command:
   Get-StorageJob
7. Once everything is done, just remove the disk from the pool with this command:
   PS C:\> $DiskToRemove = Get-PhysicalDisk -Friendlyname "PhysicalDiskName"
   PS C:\> Remove-PhysicalDisk -PhysicalDisks $DiskToRemove -StoragePoolFriendlyName"StoragePoolName"

But I receive the below error when I get to step number 7:

Team - Need suggestions

Setup - Windows 2008 Ent R2

DFSR is running on 20+ global file servers, every server has a hidden DFSR >> System Volume Information >> DFSR >> Private folder in GBs (100+) looks to be a global problem

If i check the age of the data in the folder, from one the server as reference:

50GB - 1 day old

5GB - 1 week old

80GB - 1 year old

30GB - 2 years old

Any suggestions on how to reclaim the storage, i am sure deletion is not the solution would like to get to root of the problem and fix it for global file servers, appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks

Inderjit

Hi,

Shares are being created by the persons(non-administrators) in the helpdesk team remotely in the file servers.

How to allow them to set the quota for the newly created share  remotely ?

In other terms, who will have the rights to modify quota.....

Any suggestions please

Thanks & Regards S.Swaminathan Live & let others live!!!