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Server 2016 - Workfolders not setting up on local domain

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Sync Share discovery failed. Server URL: http://workfolders.server.local; Partnership type: User Data; Error: (0x80c80037) You're not set up on the server. Email your organization's tech support and ask them if they can give you access to Work Folders.

I cannot get pass this error, I have DNS on my DC pointing to the file server. Two seperate VM's. Any help would be welcome

Thanks


Windows Server 2019 Virtual Machine SMB Performance problems

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Hello,

We're seeing a very odd issue. I've just setup a new 2019 Standard file share using a 2019 Standard VM. The issue we're experiencing is very specific. The issue is that all file transfers FROM the server share to a Windows 7 Professional, domain attached PC are excessively slow compared to any other OS.

I've tried simply copying files and seen between 15MB/s and 20MB/s transfers from the server to the Windows 7 client. I've tried copying files directly to the server from the client workstation and have gotten between 90MB/s and 100MB/s. From any other client OS, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 with varying OS revisions, this problem is non-existent.

I have tried every fix I could find online from updating network card drivers to applying registry changes. None have made a difference. This issue is specific to Windows Server 2019 running as a VM copying files to Windows 7 Professional, both OS's are fully patched. I have even attempted booting both OS's to safe mode with networking, same results. I have uninstalled all Antivirus software, same results, I have checked physical networking hardware, same results.

Just looking to see if anyone has an idea I haven't tried yet because for the moment, stepping up the migration to Windows 10 is the only foreseeable fix.

Server 2012 R2 Indexing

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Hello,

There are just over 3 million files/folders in an NTFS partition on our 2012 R2 file server.

Indexing only indexes just over 1 million items.  I have rebuild the index multiple times, and on a few occasions I have deleted the index file as well.  The same number of items gets indexed every time.

All the right file types are selected, so that is not an issue.

I appreciate any suggestions and/or links to articles that might explain this behavior.
At this point, I will not be rebuilding the index unless it is absolutely going to work, thanks.

Kamal

No SMB2/3 access, only SMB1

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Hi,

I looked hours for a solution but it seems that I am the only one with this problem. So I hope here is someone who can help me.

I started a Windows Server 2019, created some users and groups, plugged my USB-Storage in, started a share, gave rights to the users (and groups) and everything as always. There is no problem for a windows-based system to connect and use the share. But once I tried to connect with android the problems started. Apple iOS, Android, Kodi, ... no device (except for windows-based devices) can use the share. Every system sees the share but once I connect and put in the credentials every system tells me, that username or password are wrong.

The Windows Server 2019 Error-Log also tells me, that a device tried to connect BUT without a username. There was no username transmitted. I tried with and without domain. Always the same error. So desperately I tried to activate the smb1-protocol and everything works fine. Every device connects and down-/uploads every file.

For security reason I would like to use my share without smb1. Is there any solution to deactivate smb1 AND use the share from my mobile devices?

Thank you for your help and time.

Regards,

SAN based Storage management for Failover Cluster

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required to implement a storage management policy for failover clustering that SAN based storage is utilized. Following requirements should be fulfilled by your solution. Should provide disk space usage information, quota tracking by folder or volume and email notifications when their quota limit exceeds. Which action suits best?

SMB Server Security Error

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I have a couple file shares on a Server 2016 build, the users are able to access the files no problem, but when reviewing the event viewer I found this error which I am not sure what it is relating too.

Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-SMBServer/Security
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-SMBServer
Date:          4/17/2019 12:00:13 PM
Event ID:      1006
Task Category: (1006)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Audit Failure,(8)
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      
Description:
The share denied access to the client.

Client Name: \\192.168.1.32
Client Address: 192.168.1.32:51903
User Name: Domain\Computer$
Session ID: 0x1700078000061
Share Name: \\*\Folder
Share Path: \??\C:\Folder
Status: {Access Denied}
A process has requested access to an object, but has not been granted those access rights. (0xC0000022)
Mapped Access: 0x80
Granted Access: 0x0
Security Descriptor: 0x01000480AC000000BC0000000000000014000000020098000400000000002400FF011F000105000000000005150000001090F1A31FB3486114BADC1A5C08000000002400FF011F000105000000000005150000001090F1A31FB3486114BADC1A5E08000000002400FF011F000105000000000005150000001090F1A31FB3486114BADC1A9108000000002400FF011F00010500000000000515000000C714F62B5E19EFD99B2E1495F401000001020000000000052000000020020000010500000000000515000000C714F62B5E19EFD99B2E149501020000

Guidance:

You should expect access denied errors when a principal accesses a share without the necessary permissions. Usually, this indicates that the principal does not have direct security permissions or lacks membership in a group that has direct access permissions. To determine and correct the permissions on the specified share, an administrator can use the Security tab in File Explorer Properties dialog, the SMBSHARE Windows PowerShell module, or the NET SHARE command. You can also use the Effective Access tab in File Explorer to help diagnose the issue.

Applications may generate access denied errors if they attempt to open files in a writable mode first, and then reopen the files in a read-only mode. In this case, no user action is required.

If access to the share is denied and this event is not logged, you can examine the file and folder NTFS/REFS permissions.

This error does not indicate a problem with authentication, only authorization.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-SMBServer" Guid="{Example}" />
    <EventID>1006</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>1006</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x810000000000008</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-04-17T17:00:13.476209300Z" />
    <EventRecordID>79434</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="12116" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-SMBServer/Security</Channel>
    <Computer>Computer</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <UserData>
    <EventData xmlns="Smb2Namespace">
      <ShareNameLength>7</ShareNameLength>
      <ShareName>\\*\BCC</ShareName>
      <SharePathLength>10</SharePathLength>
      <SharePath>\??\C:\BCC</SharePath>
      <ClientAddressLength>128</ClientAddressLength>
      <ClientAddress>0200CABFC0A8012000000000000000000000FFFFC0A801200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</ClientAddress>
      <UserNameLength>16</UserNameLength>
      <UserName>Domain\Computer$</UserName>
      <ClientNameLength>14</ClientNameLength>
      <ClientName>\\192.168.1.32</ClientName>
      <MappedAccess>0x80</MappedAccess>
      <GrantedAccess>0x0</GrantedAccess>
      <ShareSecurityDescriptorLength>216</ShareSecurityDescriptorLength>
      <ShareSecurityDescriptor>01000480AC000000BC0000000000000014000000020098000400000000002400FF011F000105000000000005150000001090F1A31FB3486114BADC1A5C08000000002400FF011F000105000000000005150000001090F1A31FB3486114BADC1A5E08000000002400FF011F000105000000000005150000001090F1A31FB3486114BADC1A9108000000002400FF011F00010500000000000515000000C714F62B5E19EFD99B2E1495F401000001020000000000052000000020020000010500000000000515000000C714F62B5E19EFD99B2E149501020000</ShareSecurityDescriptor>
      <Status>0xc0000022</Status>
      <TranslatedStatus>0xc0000022</TranslatedStatus>
      <SessionID>0x1700078000061</SessionID>
    </EventData>
  </UserData>
</Event>

cant find quota shares?

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Hi, i took over a file server for my fiances business, and whomever set it for has 3 folders shared that share to drives E: F: :P on the clientside computers...

the file server is running windows server 2008 R2

so the drives on client side say they only have 2.8gb left

the drive on the server (raid setup if that matters) where the folders are stored has 400GB free space. 

ive tried right clicking the folders, theres not quota managment box

FSRM was not installed, i installed it thinking ok maybe i can manage quotas there

ive been pretty much hunting through everything for a few days now trying to figure out how to give the shares more space

anything else i should check? would screenshots help? 

im kind of at a loss here


Storage Pools on Windows Server 2019 Dual Parity

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Good Morning,

we are in a project replacing some old NAS systems by a central new system.

I was reading about storage spaces and storage pools in Windows Server so I try setting up a test server 2019.

Hardware is SDDS certified, 10x 300gb SAS HDD´s are in and I was able to set up the pool of all 10 HDD´s.

If I try to set up a Virtual Hard drive with dual parity of any size I get an error.

"The Storagepool does not have sufficient eligibile resources for the creation of specificities virtual disk "

Can't finde some obvious reason for that, we need some RAID 6 like resilience for sensitive data where 2 drives could fail but we do not need a storage spaces direct typ setup because it would be way overkill for us.


Can't shrink my 17TB volume very much

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Hello,

When I originally set up my volumes, I created about a 17TB volume D: drive for all the storage of the files on my file server (which is a guest hyper-v machine on a host.   Both are running Windows Server 2012 R2.   

The 17TB volume contains 5TB of data.    I tried to shrink it an the most after a defrag was about 1400GB.   I ran diskeeper on it to see if that might help and it was still about 1400GB.   I shrank it and it is now 16272.  Any suggestion on shrinking it further?   If I had the space on the host I'd create a 5TB VHD and copy the data over and then wipe out this volume but that is not an option.

How to migrate file server from A Host to Host B with NTFS and shared

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Hi Support,

I have file server 2012 r2 and i want to migrate on new server. Please share the step to migrate file server from A Host to Host B with NTFS and shared.

  • I don't to assign permission and shared folder again.
  • I want to copy data with NTFS permission & as shared. 

ReFS vs NTFS for FileServers on Windows 2019

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 Windows 2019 version of ReFS now supports de-duplication.

 For a DFS setup, is it recommended to go for ReFS or NTFS?


Shahid Roofi

Storage pool deleted my files

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Hello,

My computer did an update and this message popped up and of course I do everything Microsoft prompts me to now.  Bad mistake.  It connected my external WD external drive and wouldn't let me access it.  So I tried to remove it and guess what?  It deleted all my files.  These are precious photos, important files that are on a back up drive for a reason.  Now what the hell do I do?  System Restore won't bring them back.  I searched online and lots of free data recovery programs until you get to a certain size and then it's over $100 to recover them.  I'm not even sure these are legitimate programs and will actually do the job for me. 

Someone please help me recover my important files.  If I have to pay then so be it but, I can guarantee my important files will no longer be connected to a Microsoft product in the future.  You want too much control and I was dumb enough to fall for it.

Thanks in advance.  here's my email hbirrell@gmail.com

0x80070043 The network name cannot be found

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Hi,

We recently started facing an issue, where Drive Maps in group policy starts failing, with the following error code in Event viewer:

The user 'M:' preference item in the 'Users - Shares {9A76434E-7AD4-47F5-8C4B-51E69FF94580}' Group Policy Object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070043 The network name cannot be found.' This error was suppressed.

source: Group Policy Drive Maps

Event ID: 4098

The "M:" share is set to Update (tried with replace)in Group Policy, and the path is set to an DFS namespace "\\domain.local\data\" , where there is approx 10 namespace folders listed under this namespace, spread out accross 2 servers, that also holds the shares.

The users are only facing this issue, when connected to the RDS session host servers, but its not limited to individual servers, but for several users, spread accross several servers - so it works for most of the users, but for some of the users it dosent.

This is the settings, for the GPO:



Normally i would have guessed, that the computers couldnt connect to the file servers - but if we access one of the users, that cant access the network share´s RDP session, and run GPupdate (with or without force), the network share appears just fine.

After a couple of hours, the network share dissappears again, and the same eventlog entry appears on the Eventlog...

We first thought that this was related, to an internal project where we disabled NetBios accross all our servers, but after enabling it again, rebooting and testing once more, the issue still persists.

I cant seem to find the solution at this point, and any help would be much appreciated! :)

Dual Work Folders Authentication

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Can we set one work folders to use both windows authentication from joined domain client on internal network and ADFS for mobile client from external network?

We want to retain currently working windows authentication for client on internal network. We have also configured ADFS and ADFS Proxy servers but Android Work Folder client still cannot connect to Work Folder. Can we deprecate ADFS and ADFS Proxy, so that Android Work Folder client can authenticate using windows authentication via Web Application Proxy?

Win2019 Data Deduplication "DataPort API" link/reference???

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The "Data Deduplication" section of the storage -- whats-new-in-storage page (updated April 2019) mentions:

DataPort API for optimized ingress/egress to deduplicated volumes:

Developers can now take advantage of the knowledge Data Deduplication has about how to store data efficiently to move data between volumes, servers, and clusters efficiently.

I can't find any documentation on the "DataPort API".

Can someone provide the appropriate link/reference?

Thanks



Hyper-v 2019 kernal power shutdown after trying to initialize NTFS Volume in Storage tier

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since Storage Tier with ReFS doesn't support pinning files to a specific tier, we decided to roll back to NTFS.

I moved all the VMs to another pool and deleted the ReFS tiered virtual disk/storage pool and created it again. The moment I try to initialize the volume to use NTFS, an Bug Check Reboot will occur. I tried to remove it and create it again but didn't work.

The tiers in this pool: SSD & HDD. The other non-tiered-pool consist of only NVMe SSD with ReFs filesystem.

used commands to create the volume: (it's happing at Initialize-Disk or Initialize-Volume)

Get-VirtualDisk $tier_sp_vd_name | Get-Disk | Set-Disk -IsReadOnly 0 
Get-VirtualDisk $tier_sp_vd_name | Get-Disk | Set-Disk -IsOffline 0
Get-VirtualDisk $tier_sp_vd_name | Get-Disk | Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle GPT
Get-VirtualDisk $tier_sp_vd_name | Get-Disk | New-Partition -DriveLetter “E” -UseMaximumSize
Initialize-Volume -DriveLetter “E" -FileSystem NTFS -Confirm:$false
Set-Volume -DriveLetter E -NewFileSystemLabel $tier_sp_vd_name

I tried to read the memory dump file but couldn't figure out how to use the information inside of it. Here are some informations inside of it regarding the link https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/315271/how-to-use-dumpchk-exe-to-check-a-memory-dump-file

MajorVersion        0000000f
MinorVersion        00004563
KdSecondaryVersion  00000000
DirectoryTableBase  00000000`001ad000
PfnDataBase         ffff9400`00000000
PsLoadedModuleList  fffff803`13ab69b0
PsActiveProcessHead fffff803`13aaa5f0
MachineImageType    00008664
NumberProcessors    00000020
BugCheckCode        0000012e
BugCheckParameter1  ffff8104`2c5ff8f0
BugCheckParameter2  ffff8104`196c6220
BugCheckParameter3  00000000`00040000
BugCheckParameter4  00000000`00000200
KdDebuggerDataBlock fffff803`13a9a5e0

I appreciate your help with issue, since the new Storage pool with 30TB is hanging out because of it.

P.S: after the reboot the tiered virtual disk goes offline and becomes read only


Re-sharing a Windows 2012r2 share as read-only

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Looking for a Windows based solution.

Background:

  1. A standalone WS 2012R2 located on NETWORK A is sharing a folder with R/W access through a local user.
  2. A segregated NETWORK B contains user PCs, some joined to NETWORK B’s WS 2019 AD, others configured as standalone.
  3. NETWORKS A and B are connected via a firewall/router appliance.

Requirements:

  1. Make the share on the 2012R2 server in NETWORK A available as READ-ONLY to user PCs on NETWORK B.
  2. Both domain-joined and standalone user PCs on NETWORK B need to have access to the share.
  3. Guarantee that users’ access is READ-ONLY.
  4. Users need to be able to launch applications directly from the READ-ONLY share/mapped drive.

Constraints:

  1. No changes can be made to the Windows 2012R2 server.
  2. Users should not be able to bypass the RO control and map the share as RW.

Discussion:

Basically we need to either re-share the WS 2012R2 share inside NETWORK B but this time as READ-ONLY, or somehow configure user PCs to map the RW share RO. However, since some user PCs are not domain-joined, we can’t simply let them “see” the external share (requirement 3).

Temporary solution:

A Linux machine CIFS-mounts the WS2012R2 share and exports it as RO using samba. This works, but introduces another platform which is not desirable. Also, it is somewhat slower than a true Windows solution, and reparse points get “lost”.

Attempted so far:

  1. SMB sharing the SMB share
  2. mklink /d the share and then exporting the link
  3. SUBST command
  4. Various chains of the above 3
  5. DFS namespaces
  6. FTP sharing the SMB share (does not work well as a true map)
  7. NFS sharing the SMB share (windows keeps dereferencing all the way to the network path, resulting in failure)
  8. Share between a Hyper-V host and a VM
  9. Building SAMBA on Windows. Got quite far, but still unable to complete the build. Even if it builds, not hopeful that it will work correctly on Windows (unsupported)
  10. Proxying the requests via a router. No luck so far.

Other notes:

Have tried using the DFS namespace option in different configurations, but these all seem to be providing symbolic links to the source drive, thus I am unable to control permissions from Network B.  Giving up on the DFS option.

We can't create another user on the remote machine because we cannot modify the 2012R2 server. Also, DFS replication requires domain membership and here again we cannot modify the 2012R2.

We have the ACL set as needed. Because of the volume of files on this drive robocopy is not a viable solution. The drive has 10's of millions of files, and a large number are changed throughout the day by the number of users working. The copy would get stale and not usable too often.


Problems with Junctions on DC

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We have installed two new domain controllers with Windows Server 2016 onto our domain and have noticed a strange phenomenon.

Any Junction links created on a network share on the new DCs are not accessible by clients using their Computer account.

See example below:

DC1, DC2 Windows 2016

Folder called C:\Share\Share1 shared as "Share1" created with "Full Control" permissions assigned to Everyone, Authenticated Users and Domain Computers both on the share and NTFS security permissions

Inside the Share1 folder, a junction "files" points to "C:\share\files". This folder is assigned "Full Control" permissions to Everyone, Authenticated Users and Domain Computers.

The link C:\Share\Share1\files can be successfully followed locally as well as by accessing \\DC1\Share1\files as a network user. However, if the computer account tries to access this location, either by startup script or by running a cmd prompt as SYSTEM account (using PSExec) one is either prompted for credentials or given an "access denied" error.

This problem first came to light when the policies on our clients could not be updated. Through debugging the problem, we noticed that the client machines could not access \\mydoman\SYSVOL\mydomain which is a Junction on a share.
When we tried to create new Junctions with similar permissions we noticed the same problem.

We cannot determine the cause of this problem.

FSRM - Block folder creation

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It's easy to create a file group and template which blocks all files, but is it possible to also block creation of new folders? 

Andreas Hultgren&lt;br/&gt; MCTS, MCITP&lt;br/&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://ahultgren.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://ahultgren.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;

Timeout whilst running Get-StorageSubSystem Cluster* | Get-StorageHealthReport

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When we run the Get-StorageSubSystem Cluster* | Get-StorageHealthReport command i get the following error on one of our clusters.

Invoke-CimMethod : Timeout
Activity ID: {6c63d452-e4e6-4270-a8ca-49514d62e5c7}
At C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\Storage\StorageScripts.psm1:3223 char:13
+             Invoke-CimMethod -CimSession $session -InputObject $sh -M ...
+             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OperationTimeout: (StorageWMI:) [Invoke-CimMethod], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 3,Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimCmdlets.InvokeCimMethodCommand

This command runs fine on our other cluster but for some reason we get the above error when running it on the other cluster.

Cheers,

Liam

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