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Resize-IscsiVirtualDisk fails with parent virtual disk was not found

December 1, 2016, 11:26 am
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Hello everyone. I am testing out iSCSI and when I try to resize (extend) the virtual disk, I get the following error:

The specified file path or its parent virtual disk path was not found. In a failover cluster configuration, virtual
disks can only be created or imported on shared cluster disks.
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (Microsoft.Iscsi...rd errorRecord):IscsiCmdException) [Resize-IscsiVir
   tualDisk], IscsiCmdException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : *:System.IO.FileLoadException:00000000,Microsoft.Iscsi.Target.Commands.ResizeIscsiVirtua
   lDiskCommand

I typed in the following command within PowerShell: Resize-IscsiVirtualDisk -Path D:\iSCSIVirtualDisks\LUN01.vhdx -Size 4.5TB which gives me the above error.  The system is a Dell 730 with SAS attached JBOD (MD1400). It's stand alone so I'm confused as to why the error references shared cluster disks.  The server is running Windows Server 2012 R2 Core Standard.

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Work Folders - recent security updates leave it broken

September 19, 2016, 3:22 pm
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We have a small Work Folders implementation for a few clients.

Until recently, the function has been working great, no problems.

However, we have confirmed that two recent Windows10 patches leave Work Folders broken and completely unusable for clients who have either of the patches installed.

KB3185614 (security rollup for Win10 build 1511)

KB3189866 (security rollup for Win10 build 1607)

If a Win10 client has either of these updates applied, they cannot use Work Folders.  The client attempts to connect to the Work Folders Server and gets the error:

"there was a problem finding your Work Folders server", error code 0x80072f76.

Work Folders server is fully patched.

Removing the patch will allow the client to connect and use Work Folders successfully, but as we know Windows10 will just reinstall that patch again in a few days.  We are using the Microsoft "driver update" prevention tool for now to block the patch on affected machines.

We are opening a support case with Microsoft soon.

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Windows Server 2016 RTM -Storage Pool Virtual Disk Tiers Mirrored using Powershell results in Layout: Empty and Provisioning: Unknown

October 15, 2016, 10:19 pm
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With 2 * SSD 250Gb and 2 * HDD 2TB

using the following powershell commands:-

$PhysicalDisks = Get-StorageSubSystem -FriendlyName "Windows Storage*" | Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $true
New-StoragePool -FriendlyName "CompanyData" -StorageSubsystemFriendlyName "Windows Storage*" -PhysicalDisks $PhysicalDisks -ProvisioningTypeDefault Fixed -ResiliencySettingNameDefault Mirror -WriteCacheSizeDefault 5GB
New-StorageTier -MediaType HDD -StoragePoolFriendlyName CompanyData -FriendlyName HDD_Tier
New-StorageTier -MediaType SSD -StoragePoolFriendlyName CompanyData -FriendlyName SSD_Tier
$SSD = Get-StorageTier -FriendlyName *SSD*
$HDD = Get-StorageTier -FriendlyName *HDD*
New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "UserData01" -StoragePoolFriendlyName CompanyData -ResiliencySettingName Mirror –StorageTiers $SSD, $HDD -StorageTierSizes 180GB, 1TB

then:-

get-virtualdisk | FL *

Usage                             : Other
NameFormat                        : 
OperationalStatus                 : OK
HealthStatus                      : Healthy
ProvisioningType                  : 
AllocationUnitSize                : 
MediaType                         : 
ParityLayout                      : 
Access                            : Read/Write
UniqueIdFormat                    : Vendor Specific
DetachedReason                    : None
WriteCacheSize                    : 5368709120
FaultDomainAwareness              : 
ColumnIsolation                   : 
ObjectId                          : {1}\\SOMEPC\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_VirtualDisk.ObjectId="{2cb0c12b-65ab-11e6-80b4-806e6f6e6963}:VD:{9a3c2324-74da-470c-ab6
                                    d-139859cd6ebb}{97191edf-d131-4a08-aba8-f39b426af22f}"
PassThroughClass                  : 
PassThroughIds                    : 
PassThroughNamespace              : 
PassThroughServer                 : 
UniqueId                          : DF1E199731D1084AABA8F39B426AF22F
AllocatedSize                     : 1303522574336
FootprintOnPool                   : 2617782566912
FriendlyName                      : UserData01
Interleave                        : 
IsDeduplicationEnabled            : False
IsEnclosureAware                  : 
IsManualAttach                    : False
IsSnapshot                        : False
IsTiered                          : True
LogicalSectorSize                 : 512
Name                              : 
NumberOfAvailableCopies           : 
NumberOfColumns                   : 
NumberOfDataCopies                : 
NumberOfGroups                    : 
OtherOperationalStatusDescription : 
OtherUsageDescription             : 
PhysicalDiskRedundancy            : 
PhysicalSectorSize                : 4096
ReadCacheSize                     : 0
RequestNoSinglePointOfFailure     : False
ResiliencySettingName             : 
Size                              : 1303522574336
UniqueIdFormatDescription         : 

Can anyone tell me if this is a bug? If the disks are mirrored? What I did wrong?

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file server resource manager 2012 r2 missing

January 3, 2017, 2:32 pm
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Hello,

I have installed FSRM on my 2012 R2 servers over a month ago and need to make a change to one of them today and could not find it on the server.  The service is running and I'm getting reports from the File Screens I setup.  FSRM.MSC does not exist on the server and if I copy it from another server it will not load the snap-in.  Why would it just go away?

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The requested object has a non-unique identifier and cannot be retrieved.

January 5, 2017, 6:25 am
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Hello,

i want to map a share on the network. The share is hosted on a windows server 2012 r2. My client is a windows server 2008 r2. Client and Server were on different domains. The domais are configured to trust each other. When i want to map the drive as a domain-user via "net use" i get the following error:

The requested object has a non-unique identifier and cannot be retrieved.

I can map the drive as the administrator of both domains. Permissions are correct.

What could it be?

Thank you for your help.

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File Server Authentication on AzureAD joined computer / non domain services joined client

January 9, 2017, 10:58 pm
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Dear all, 

please forward me to the corresponding RTFM link for that problem: 

I have an AzureAD joined client computer cli1 using Windows 10 in a remote office. In Azure I have a Windows Server 2012 File Server sqlfs1 (the server is running SQL Server 2014, so using the default templates I can't use Windows Server 2016 for SQL 2014) that also provides an SMB share share1 the clients user user1 connects to. 

On the share level, the user is granted the required access, let's say "fullAccess" for now. If you do that on an on-premise server using a domain user, the user was able to access. Basically I'm trying to do the same with AzureAD and no AD DS except AAD Domain Services.

User1 connects using a point-to-site VPN connection, so she can access the file share \\sqlfs1\share1 . Unfortunately the user is prompted for credentials although user1 is on AAD and  on share1 I setup permissions. If I enter credentials manually, user1 is able to access. Saving the credential is not an option, as I have about 4,000 users to grant access.

How can I provide file services SSO to a client user that is authenticated to AzureAD, but not on a domain-joined computer?

Many thanks for your help.

Regards,
Martin

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DFS domain cache issue

January 10, 2017, 2:54 am
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Hi, we have a domain-based DFS environment. Everything is DNS based, all domain controllers are also namespace servers. Everything is working fine but today we had to bring down a domain controller which caused some dfs namespaces to fail for some users.

I guess the problem is the DFS domain cache. When I do a dfsutil /spcinfo I only see one domain controller on a client. The domain controllers differ from client to client but there's always only one listed. If I go through the articles I notice that all domain controllers should be listed there but I can't how to investigate or how to fix this. All dfsdiag commands show no problems, not for integrity, not for domain controllers, etc.

Anyone has an idea on how to fix this domain cache list? There should be at least three domain controllers displayed.

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DFS doesn't delete folder added to subfilter folder

January 10, 2017, 5:04 am
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Hello,

I've two servers that have DFS enabled. The first server is a Fileshare that replicates the dolfers to the second server, this second server is a read only server. The replication is working for a while and now we decided to add exclude a subfolder from the replication, so we went to subfolder filter and add the subfolder. 

The problem is that the folder wasn't deleted from the read-only server (second server). If i try to remove says "YOU'LL NEED TO PROVIDE ADMINISTRATOR PERMISSION TO DELETE THIS FOLDER". This folder shouldn't be removed automatically after applying the filter?

Thanks

Regards.

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Error Witness

January 10, 2017, 5:58 am
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For a few days, I have repeated this event every 20 seconds. I've been looking for a solution but I can not find anything.

This event is in the section. "SMBWitnessClient\Admin"
It is a windows 2016 Datacenter with the roles hyper-v and failover cluster, the storage is a cabinet netapp. The shared folder is set to "continuous availability".

The operation of hyper-v and cluster seems not to be affected, but this event worries me.




System

-Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-SMBWitnessClient
[ Guid] {32254F6C-AA33-46F0-A5E3-1CBCC74BF683}
EventID8
Version0
Level2
Task0
Opcode0
Keywords0x8000000000000000
-TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2017-01-10T13:38:00.639323600Z
EventRecordID216963
Correlation
-Execution
[ ProcessID] 1332
[ ThreadID] 9756
ChannelMicrosoft-Windows-SMBWitnessClient/Admin
Computerhost12.domain.lan
-Security
[ UserID] S-1-5-20
-EventData
WitnessServerIPnetapp01-02-CIFS
NetNamecabinet.domain.lan
Error1728

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Firewall

January 10, 2017, 12:01 pm
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If I am using a router with the firewall turned on should I still turn on the server firewall and workstations?

Ward

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Searching PDF properties with file explorer on client PC fails to return results

January 10, 2017, 12:16 pm
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I have a Windows Server 2012R2 that is being used as a file server. It contains many PDF documents where metadata was added for search purposes.

If I execute a file explorer search on the server, it searches the PDF metadata and returns the expected results.

If I perform the exact same search on a Windows 10 client that is accessing the exact same folder (located on the server), no results are returned.

I have re-indexed the server, selected "Index Properties and File Contents" for .PDF in the Index Options, and checked the box next to "Allow files in this folder to have contents indexed in addition to file properties." on the Properties of the folder. Nothing changed.

It seems to be a client side problem (submitting the query over the network to the server), because everything functions as expected when executed on the server.

Any suggestions?

I'm also having issues (which I assume is related) that if I rename or create a folder from a client when the folder resides on the server, it takes an excessively long time to complete. 30-60 seconds. I believe this is a known issue that MS is aware of.

Thanks!
Jim F.

Jim

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Error applying: failed to enumerate objects in the container access is denied

January 10, 2017, 2:40 pm
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I am trying to turn on Auditing on Share drive.

I turned on the Auditing by going to Properties > Security > Advanced > Auditing > Add > My custom policy > Add > Replace all child object auditing entries with inheritable auditing entries from this project.

However, it does apply that to few folders; then stops and says "failed to enumerate objects in the container access is denied"

Now I am Domain Administrator and able to make any changes.

The Share drive is almost a terabyte. I can't just sit here for a day and hit continue everytime the popup comes.

Any suggestions?

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2 disks retired in parity pool, WTF!

January 10, 2017, 9:52 am
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Hi guys, hopefully your are able to help me out.

I have a storage pool with 2 SSD and 6x 4TB drives all from same type. All 6 HDD were configured as a parity virtual drive.



I can't exactly say what happend, this morning I realized my Parity Virtual drive has gone -> 2 drives missing and retired. I think they ran hot and hung. Restarted my server, both drive spin up correctly and fine, happend in past as well with drive I think but not since I improved the cooling. 

All smart values and stuff looks fine, drives get online normally. But as there are 2 failed I dont know how to get my pool back to work ...

Ideas?

I already tried connecting the drive to one of my integrated ports. Both drive are seens as part of the pool and the error message persists. 

I uploaded my Eventlog which shows the drives beeing lost by system:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ar_eIBtD4lGqhL4SevYTbyO6C-us6Q


Edit: I just installed ReclaiMe recovery tools for Storage spaces. All drives are physically correctly detected but i dont want to spent 300 bucks for a weird Storage Space Fault. Any how, it must be possible to repair it via integrated features.



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Storage Spaces Virtual Disks missing Provisioning and ResiliencySettingName

January 11, 2017, 1:57 am
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Dear all.

I am using Server 2016 Datacenter together with Storage Spaces to handle my 6x4TB drives + 2x233GB SSDs.

I want to create 3 virtual disks on that single pool.(to use the SSD for tiers and cache as Parity without ssd cache is slow as shit)

  • Mirror Tier for important daily userdata (SSD Space + HDD Space)
  • Parity Tier with SSD WriteBackCache  (Movies, Music) on HDDs
  • Mirror on the SSDs for VMs on SSDs only

So far I used the following commands:

  • created a single Pool with the GUI
  • created an SSDTier and an HDDTier

C:\Users\Administrator> Get-StoragePool MyStoragePool | New-StorageTier –FriendlyName SSDTier –MediaType SSD

C:\Users\Administrator> Get-StoragePool MyStoragePool | New-StorageTier –FriendlyName HDDTier –MediaType HDD

  • set Mirror Colums to 1
C:\Users\Administrator> Get-StoragePool MyStoragePool | Set-ResiliencySetting -Name Mirror -NumberOfColumnsDefault 1

  • set variables

C:\Users\Administrator> $SSD = Get-StorageTier -FriendlyName SSDTier

C:\Users\Administrator> $HDD = Get-StorageTier -FriendlyName HDDTier

  • Created a Storage Tier with 50 GB SSD and 4000 GB HDD Space
C:\Users\Administrator> Get-StoragePool MyStoragePool | New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName MirrorTier -ResiliencySettingName Mirror -ProvisioningType Fixed -StorageTiers $SSD, $HDD -StorageTierSizes 50GB, 4000GB –WriteCacheSize 5GB

  • Created the Tier for SSD only Mirror
C:\Users\Administrator> $vd1 = New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName MyStoragePool -FriendlyName Mirror -StorageTiers @($SSD) -StorageTierSizes @(175GB) -ResiliencySettingName Mirror -WriteCacheSize 0GB

  • Created the Parity VDisk with Size close to max and 1 GB WBC
C:\Users\Administrator> $vd1 = New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName MyStoragePool -FriendlyName Parity -StorageTiers @($HDD) -StorageTierSizes @(12259366260000) -ResiliencySettingName Parity -WriteCacheSize 1GB


Any how Provisioning and ResiliencySettingName is missing.

Is my setup correct? Any ideas?




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January 11, 2017, 3:33 am
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hi everyone,

Am having issues working on my file share server where i have a shared drive with folders in ti for each department.

users are able to access the folders based permission assinged

but the problem here is that they are not able to create ,copy or perform any task on the folders

even as admin i cant paste any document

please i need urgent help?

thanks

kingsley

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Storage Spaces out of box parity volume causes timeout when copying

January 11, 2017, 6:23 am
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Dear all,

I just created a parity over 6x4 TB in a pool which doesn't contain SSD. Blank Parity volume fixed on a LSI controller Xeon D board + Server 2016.

Once I copy large movies I easily reach 112 MB/s from Client to Server for 1 Minute. I can see the memory load in the server (64GB) slightly increasing, ~100 MB/s so it seems like Microsoft caches the received data to memory. That is done for about 5 GB -> then the transfer stucks at 0MB/s and the cache is getting written to disk.

Any how, that takes too long so the client gets this:

If i click retry after a minute it starts copying at full speed again and a minute later the same issue again.

What the heck is wrong with MS Storage Spaces implementation. I dunno. Even if I try it with journaling SSDs it might work so far so good and the speed seems to be okay enough for the client not to run in timeout but its far from good.

I can create the pool randomly over 3 to 6 disk in my system and it behaves the same. Timeout on client side.

Ideas? Thanks a lot!




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Collecting data usage on domain PCs

January 11, 2017, 7:01 am
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Happy  new  Year  to all, 

I am  trying to  find a  script, and  I am  thinking it  is a  logon  script  to collect  two  pieces  of  information ,  the  size  of the  hard drive  on a domain PC and  the  number  of space  used by  data files  on the PC.  Basically  I need to  know  if  users are  using the  file server  or  keeping  all the  data  on their domain PC. 

Possible  ?

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Windows 2008 R2 Client for NFS mount fails using AD

November 21, 2016, 7:37 am
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Hi,

I have a Windows 2008 R2 AD and client system. As far as I know, I know very little about Windows, I've set up everything correctly. When I log in to the client with my AD credentials I don't have any issues. But I'm trying to access and NFS export from a Linux system that is using the same AD server to authenticate users to access that export. I can mount the export just fine from a Linux system but when I try to mount it on the Windows 2008 R2 client I always get: Permission denied. I looked at a network trace and it appears to be failing doing a GETATTR right after the mount succeeds. The reply to the GETATTR says: denied and the guy looking at the error on the Linux system is saying that the GSS context for the GETATTR is empty. 

How would I troubleshoot this issue? The documentation on using "Client for NFS" with AD is either non-existent or I just can't seem to find it.

Thanks,

Rob

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Shared Virtual Hard Disk - what is it good for?

January 11, 2017, 10:12 am
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Since you can't (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn281956.asp)...

    • Resizing
    • Migrating
    • Backing up or making replicas

Are there other ways to address these same 3 needs outside of the guest cluster itself? Those seem like pretty huge drawbacks. I assume 'making replicas' refers to incompatibility with hyper-v replica, but what specifically is 'backing up' referring to...VSS?

Was the intention behind this pretty much -> "You don't have / can't get enough hardware for new cluster(s) AKA SOFS, so here's a way to do it as a guest cluster to get High Availability but with these pretty major drawbacks." Even so, I'm pretty much in that boat right now: I can't get any additional hardware right now and I need somewhere - in pretty short order - to move a bunch of data since the old hardware is being retired.

    born to learn!


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    The create operation stopped after reaching a symbolic link

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    I recently deployed symlinks in a DFS file share deployment (symlink /D). I started receiving "The create operation stopped after reaching a symbolic link" on some client machines. I am not able to find any information on what this error actually means or what should be done to remedy it. Does anybody have any suggestions on possible solutions or additional troubleshooting steps I should take?

    The create operation stopped after reaching a symbolic link

    Environment:

    • Windows 7 x64 Clients
    • Windows Server 2008 x86 and Windows Server 2008 R2 file share using DFS folder Targets (2) and DFSr replication (2) (although the error started before I created additional folder targets, but after I enabled folder replication.)
    • I've only been able to reproduce the error with a few clients connecting to the Windows Server 2008 x86 Server.
    • The connection is over a WAN link

    Regards

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