i am currently configuring a server that will only house replicated folder from other servers, i would like to setup a folder that will store file that have been deleted from other folders and would store files that have been deleted from the servers and keep the in case the need arises to restore the files without having to rely on the files getting backed up and then having to go through the backups to find the file to restore.

i have been using DFS and have the replication setup but can find any information on moving files that have been deleted to a separate folder, firstly is this possible? and if so cam someone point me in the direction of finding the information i need to set it up?

Chris Mottershead

I have recently upgraded a clients servers to Windows Server 2012 & since doing so have lost the ability to scan to folder.

Both servers are domain controllers and previously on a 2008 domain controller I would have had to make the following change to allow scan to folder:
 Administrative Tools
 Server Manager
 Features
 Group Policy Manager
 Forest: ...
 Default Domain Policy
Computer configuration
 Policies
 Windows Settings
 Security Settings
 Local Policies
 Security Options
 Microsoft Network Server: Digitally Sign Communications (Always)
 - Define This Policy
 - Disabled

However I have applied this to the Windows 2012 server but am still unable to scan, possibly due to added layers of security in server 2012. The error on the scanner is Authentication with the destination has failed check settings.
I have also tried the following at the server:
Policies -> Security Policies
Change Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level to: Send LM & NTLM - Use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated.
Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) clients and uncheck the require 128 bit.
Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) servers and uncheck the require 128 bit
I have created a user account on the server for the ricoh and set this in the settiings of the Ricoh and verified everything is correct.

Are there any other things I have missed?

We're retiring a 2008r2 file server using NTFS and migrating the files to a Server 2016 server using ReFS.  Using robocopy to pre-seed the files, a small percentage of the files failed to copy.  The robocopy log reported:

ERROR 665 (0x00000299)...The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation

Trying to manually copy the file generated the error:

Error 0x80070299 the requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation

The files copy correctly to NTFS volumes, but trying to copy to any ReFS volume on any server generates the error.  If I copied the file to a FAT32 partition (to strip the NTFS metadata), it would then copy to an ReFS volume with no error, but trying to strip the attributes by going to the file properties, Details tab, and using the "Remove properties and Personal Information" option had no effect (it still failed to copy).

I was able to narrow it down to the presence of a particular Alternate Data Stream (ADS).  All the files that failed have an ADS called "AFP_Resource", which is apparently for Mac compatibility (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn392833.aspx).  If I remove that data stream or clear the contents of it, the file will then copy with no error.

However, we have a lot of files that also have that ADS that do copy successfully.  We have a fair number of Mac users, so I'd prefer not to remove that data stream from all the files that have it.  Ideally I'd like to remove whatever is problematic about the data stream and leave the rest intact.  Alternatively, it would also be helpful if anyone could re-assure me that removing that data stream won't negatively impact our Mac users.  I suspect it's not important, but I'd rather not find out by stripping the stream from thousands of files and end up getting a bunch of phone calls. ;)

I suspect I'm going to end up using robocopy to identify the problematic files and then script removing this ADS just from those files, but if anyone has more info on this I would love to hear it.

More info below for those who might also be struggling with this.  It took me a few hours to track this down, so hopefully this will save someone else some time.

You can see what alternate datastreams exist for a file using either of the following:
dir /w
get-item <filename> -stream * | select Stream,Length

Remove a data stream:
remove-item <filename> -stream <stream name>

Clear contents of a data stream:
clear-content <filename> -stream <stream name>

View contents of a data stream:
get-content <filename> -stream <stream name>

Decent blog post explaining NTFS attributes (particularly $DATA, but also $STANDARD_INFORMATION, $FILE_NAME, etc.):
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/2009/10/16/the-four-stages-of-ntfs-file-growth/

I know that this is a non supported scenario, but some month ago I created a mirror+parity REFS storage tiers on a windows 2016 standalone. I did not receive warnings during the creation about any misconfiguration.
As you can see in google I'm not the only one in that situation. (link) 
So I'm not in a standard win2012 storage tiers and nor I'm in space direct.

But the system seems to work well for months!

How can I confirm that data regularly rotate between hot and cold tier? How can I know if the cache space is enough ? How can I know if the SSD tier is too small or even full?

The optimization task is not supported, but in performance monitor, storage spaces counter I see(or it seems) that data continuously rorate between tiers.

dataCollector
 

This is the powershell script I used

New-StoragePool -StoragePoolFriendlyName "Pool1" -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName (Get-StorageSubSystem).FriendlyName -PhysicalDisks (Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $true) -LogicalSectorSizeDefault 512 -FaultDomainAwarenessDefault PhysicalDisk

Set-PhysicalDisk -Friendlyname "WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0" -MediaType HDD

New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName Pool1 -FriendlyName SSD_Tier -MediaType SSD -ResiliencySettingName Mirror

New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName Pool1 -FriendlyName HDD_Tier -MediaType HDD -ResiliencySettingName Parity

$ssd_tier = Get-StorageTier -FriendlyName SSD_Tier

$hdd_tier = Get-StorageTier -FriendlyName HDD_Tier

New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName Pool1 -FriendlyName "DATI" -WriteCacheSize 3GB -StorageTiers @($ssd_tier,$hdd_tier) -StorageTierSizes 249GB, 4560GB

Set-StoragePool -FriendlyName Pool1 -IsPowerProtected $True

Hi,

I have set read only replication folder ( w2k12) and noticed that lot of backlog so how do we clear this?

As

Hi ,

     Need help.I have got 1 namespace running on 3 servers.Earlier these were set up to use netbios name for the folder targets .Now we would like them to have FQDN .

Here is what I am exactly trying to achieve:

Only reason to use the script is not have any downtime and namespaces can remain online.

Appreciate the help in advance.

Regards,

Himvy

Hello,

I have a network share the was moved from a Server 2008 R2 to a Server2012 R2 system. The issue is searching the network files on the new system. I can open 2 explorer windows, one to the old share, one to the new share and search, as an example, *.pdf. On the new share it will list, again for example, 4,000 files, when I search the old share the search returns 165,000 files. Indexing is on, the desired folders are selected, and I have already rebuilt the index several times. This has had absolutely no effect on the issue. **I will not rebuild it again because it takes 36-72 hours to complete** during this time all searching is disabled. This folder is search by multiple users daily. **If "rebuild the index" is your solution please don't bother posting.** For some workstation systems if they check the "Don't use index to search..." box in search options, search in the new network share will list 165,000 files. This does not work for all systems (only seems to work for Windows 10 systems). These folders have 2-way file replication enabled so they should be exact copies. It seems automatic indexing is not adding all of the files. Here is the question, how do Iforce windows to index specific folders and files. I have seen this issue reported in several posts across various Microsoft forums but I have not found a working solution.

I am not allowed to upload screenshots or I would have.

Perhaps this is answered somewhere, but I only seem to find discussion and potential solutions that aren't across many years.

I currently am transferring a large amount of data (10TB) from one Server 2012 to another of the same.  The switch is a gig-switch, the NICs are both gig-NICs.  It is taking more than 3 days for the copy, or to use perhaps an easier number, more than 9 hours to transfer 1.2TB.  In the first minute or so the line was saturated.  Then, rather quickly, it dropped significantly, hovering back and forth generally speaking on either side of 35.0 MB/s.  Nothing else is running on either server other than typical overhead processes, and during this process there have been no outside connections.

What am I doing wrong?

Rookie

I got one wired issue in our domain with multi site. Users got issues accessing the \domain.com\corpdata share intermittently. its freeze and noticed hapanning everywhere at the same time too.

So just install Wireshark on my laptop and start the capture and noticed having issue around 2.40-45 PM I have the capture saved. but try to identify with my limited knowledge but still couldn't figure this out.

error attached

link text 

Can someone help me to identify the root cause. 

As

Hello everyone,

I am having a problem here. I changed the domain admin password and now I cannot create or delete folders in  a DFS namespace.

Y restarted the DFS services and still can't add or delete folders.

Best regards

Environment:

2012 R2 hypervisor, three VMs (SBS 2011, 2012 R2, 2008 R2 respectively).
All VHDs and VMs stored on HV's D: drive.
Arcserve Backup 17.5 SP1

Background:

SBS 2011 server blue-screened, seems to be due to corruption in/with VHD for system drive. Boot order was lost, now fixed and server is running normally.

Issue:

SBS server seems to be experiencing issues with VSS writers & event 51s for errors during paging operations. Backups failing as a result. Arcserve leverages Windows VSS writers to take snapshots which are then backed up.

Steps taken so far:

Usual VSS troubleshooting - restart associated services, restart server, re-register DLLs.
CHKDSK /R & SFC /SCANNOW on affected server.
Shut down server, removed and re-attached VHDs.

Events/logs:

DISKPART> list vol

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0     E                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media
  Volume 1         System Rese  NTFS   Partition    100 MB  Healthy    System
  Volume 2     C                NTFS   Partition     99 GB  Healthy    Boot
  Volume 3     D   Data         NTFS   Partition    449 GB  Healthy

PS C:\Windows\system32> vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Waiting for responses.
These may be delayed if a shadow copy is being prepared.

Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
   Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
   Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
   Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
   Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
   Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
   Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {0fd2f208-866a-4633-b2a2-7509c646dbc0}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'SharePoint Services Writer'
   Writer Id: {da452614-4858-5e53-a512-38aab25c61ad}
   Writer Instance Id: {84b03184-534f-4715-a379-bf082a56c336}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {54ef1739-2650-4e34-9c40-100ba005f7ca}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
   Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
   Writer Instance Id: {a5b29068-d666-4d71-a870-e008fd9422bf}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'FSRM Writer'
   Writer Id: {12ce4370-5bb7-4c58-a76a-e5d5097e3674}
   Writer Instance Id: {171f9fe1-ba82-4c03-b26c-14b8118dcfcb}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {866b92e2-bfe3-4d41-80a7-5c0d9195cb25}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
   Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
   Writer Instance Id: {166b7390-bc7a-4b41-8cec-23995a4c973c}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'MSSearch Service Writer'
   Writer Id: {cd3f2362-8bef-46c7-9181-d62844cdc0b2}
   Writer Instance Id: {b3d7ddf7-38d6-4d3c-9bf2-b0ba11ff48c4}
   State: [10] Failed
   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {1812c8f8-af21-44ab-a38d-ef7f5b89acc6}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {65e8d950-69af-4f63-bed0-0875ccc9f22e}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'TS Gateway Writer'
   Writer Id: {368753ec-572e-4fc7-b4b9-ccd9bdc624cb}
   Writer Instance Id: {3cf3256a-5a12-4fe0-989a-25f4c3b892e9}
   State: [10] Failed
   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
   Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
   Writer Instance Id: {de5764c6-6181-465f-a7b2-46a1266adfd8}
   State: [10] Failed
   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'Dhcp Jet Writer'
   Writer Id: {be9ac81e-3619-421f-920f-4c6fea9e93ad}
   Writer Instance Id: {517b3010-6b88-4dc0-b609-753bb57a2147}
   State: [10] Failed
   Last error: Non-retryable error

Writer name: 'NTDS'
   Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
   Writer Instance Id: {fd4ae2b1-2821-4f53-997e-f75d65969b79}
   State: [10] Failed
   Last error: Non-retryable error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Instance Id: {5ded8fd7-7860-43aa-89a4-6c9dd7cbf98c}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Certificate Authority'
   Writer Id: {6f5b15b5-da24-4d88-b737-63063e3a1f86}
   Writer Instance Id: {023b1fcb-ab11-482a-bea6-40c35c1cf28c}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
   Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
   Writer Instance Id: {548d95cd-84a9-499c-95e7-d5b7a29e1c57}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'NPS VSS Writer'
   Writer Id: {35e81631-13e1-48db-97fc-d5bc721bb18a}
   Writer Instance Id: {b26bf05e-f738-4614-9f66-7a0ca282d6f1}
   State: [10] Failed
   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {1e102557-f63a-4b1f-aa1c-73032fa4eccb}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Microsoft Exchange Writer'
   Writer Id: {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
   Writer Instance Id: {8d5311e4-cb6f-4a40-8f2c-a97c4b75deef}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Errors on HV:
*  AE0603 2018-08-02 22:14:56 Failed to create VSS shadow copy for the VM on the Hyper-V host machine. (Hyper-V Host Machine=[HV], VM=[SBS])
* Checkpoint operation for '[SBS]' failed. (Virtual machine ID 4D9E428E-8CDB-42E1-9443-0538DB6681C0)
* Could not create backup checkpoint for virtual machine '[SBS]': The shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process the specified operation. (0x8004230F). (Virtual machine ID 4D9E428E-8CDB-42E1-9443-0538DB6681C0)
* VSS writers inside virtual machine '[SBS]' failed to perform BackupComplete to its shadow copy (VSS snapshot) set: A function call was made when the object was in an incorrect state for that function (0x80042301). (Virtual machine ID 4D9E428E-8CDB-42E1-9443-0538DB6681C0)

Errors on VM:
System
* An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 during a paging operation.
* An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\DR3 during a paging operation.
* The shadow copies of volume F: were aborted during detection because a critical control file could not be opened.
* The shadow copies of volume H: were aborted during detection because a critical control file could not be opened.

Application:
* Not all the shadow volumes arrived in the guest operating system. [vmicvss, 19]
* Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider {74600e39-7dc5-4567-a03b-f091d6c7b092}. Routine details PreFinalCommitSnapshots({8c1560b1-750c-41c3-9e5c-61e076c925d7}, 3) [hr = 0x800705b4, This operation returned because the timeout period expired.]. [VSS, 12293] Operation: Executing Asynchronous Operation Context: Current State: DoSnapshotSet
* Volume Shadow Copy Service warning: ESENT ERROR {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757} NTDS (ditto for Dhcp Jet Writer and Certificate Authority): -2404.  hr = 0x00000000, The operation completed successfully.

Operation:
   OnAbort event
   Aborting Writer

Context:
   Execution Context: Jet Writer
   Writer Class Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
   Writer Name: NTDS (ditto for Dhcp Jet Writer and Certificate Authority)
   Writer Class Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
   Writer Name: NTDS (ditto for Dhcp Jet Writer and Certificate Authority)
   Writer Instance ID: {fd4ae2b1-2821-4f53-997e-f75d65969b79}

Any help would be much appreciated! Need to get this server backed up so that I can sleep soundly again :)

Per link, it says that IDMU is deprecated in Win Server 2016 and up. Is there a simple alternative solution to map Unix ID's with Windows ID's so that I can share my files across both SMB and NFS? Without a mapping store, file permissions would not correctly be honored between users unix users and windows users.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/activedirectoryua/2016/02/09/identity-management-for-unix-idmu-is-deprecated-in-windows-server/

According to the blog post (and several other sources), it mentions that the UID/GID entries will still exist moving froward. But there's no mention of how to setup up the mapping alternatives. It also alludes to possibly using the UID/GID attributes with NFS Server for ID mapping, but I'm trying to find steps on performing this. 

"For example, you may require the RFC 2307 attributes in combination with Network File System (NFS) Server (which does not require NIS Server role to be installed on Windows Server) to map the identity."

Any help for steps on performing this would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Support,

I want o assign change permission & I want to remove delete write permission from users on shared folder. 

Example: I have one domain controller and file server. I want to give the change write to users on folder & files.

Good afternoon all,

I've some files where can't take the ownership of. I've tried every and searched allot of technet and the rest of google.

When is ue:

Takeown /f *.* /r /a /d y

i get like 4 succes messages and 16 INFO: Access is denied.

I need to copy/cut the files to new storage, can someone help me please??

Hi,

Home folder was working fine but when I changed my DNS ip to 8.8.8.8 to get the internet home folder disappeared and I changed to 172.18.10.39 (DNS Server) the internet is gone and I cant able to view the home foler.  Please help me

server IP - 172.18.10.39

DNS (Server) - 172.18.10.39

Client Ip- 172.18.10.39

DNS - ( I want to connect to internet and my server, when I make server DNS its not connecting to internet, please help) 

Hi,

I have created a namespace in my Domain \\domain\files, which points to a replicated share on 3 fileservers (in our 3 sites). Now, when a client executes net use x: \\domain\files, it connects to a "random" server it seems to me.

The 3 locations are recognized correctly in the DFS management for the 3 servers.

How can I diagnose further why that happens? What additional data do you need from me?

I want the behavior that all clients connect to their local file server (unless it's unavailable, then its ok to use another one).

Thanks!

VJP IT

Hi,

Is there a cmd or powershell cmdlet for the below option? I used takeown /R but it does not take ownership on all subfolders. However, if I try with GUI, I get no error message and it completes successfully.  I have 100 of users folders to delete. Please help.

 "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects"

Thanks,

Umesh.S.K

Hi,

I have 2008R2,2016 DC in my infrastructure and my clients windows 2003 and 2003R2,2008R2, Windows7 and above.

soon 2008R2 DC will be decommissioned. Due to application dependence still we are retaining 2003 and 2003 R2 servers.

I have a query in disabling SMB1 for my above mentioned clients and servers. Does it recommended to disable SMB1.

If I disable the SMB1 will my users face any issue in accessing the share folders on legacy servers.

Please assist.

We have skype for business server up to date and also, many Lync 2013  RTM clients and Sfb Clients. Power point sharing didn't work in all the clients. Therefore, after searching a little bit, we found a fix for Skype for Business 2016 patch, KB 4022221. However, still Lync 2013 didn't updated since unable to find the patch.

After that, we found that that article mention that we need to update the client version till the latest Lync version.

Please kindly let us know which list of updates or the path to update Lync 2013 RTM to a new version, 15.0.5023.1000. 

Thanks, 

Dulip