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February 11, 2019, 12:58 am
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Hi All,

I hope someone is able to help.

We are seeing quite a few issues where disks are getting full due to WSUS updates. We run a scheduled task to clean up WSUS on a daily basis and this works quite well, however, we need to increase the capacity of this virtual disk.

The setup now is as below. As you can see its one disk with additional volumes. I have added an extra 20GB drive and want to extend DATAPAR1 (D:) but I don't get the option. Is there a simple way to extend D: to give it the extra 20GB I just created?

Regards.

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Howto replicate the root DFS for Resiliency?

February 13, 2019, 4:54 am
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Hi, i have some file servers 2012 R2 configured with DFS.

I have the C:\DFSRoot only on First File Server. I need to replicate this folder for keep the DFS up in case of the first file server becomes down or reboot.

It's possible replicate this DFSRoot folder?

Best regards

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Orphaned DFS Namespace - How to Remove

February 18, 2009, 9:16 am
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We have two test namespaces in our domain along with one production namespace.  The two test namespaces had just one namespace server (the hosting file server). That server went down, and we had to rebuild the DFS  configuration.  Now we are stuck with the two test namespaces which show up when we browse for adding namespaces in the DFS Mgmt display, but it gets an "RPC is unavailable" error when I try to explore it.  From a command prompt, running "dfscmd /view \\ourdomain.tld\DFS_Test" results in a "System error 1722 has occurred.  The RPC server is unavailable".  Yet I can query our production one as "dfscmd /view \\ourdomain.tld\DFS_Prod" and it properly shows the DFS folders, so it doesn't exactly sound like a service isn't started or such.

Any ideas?  I would be happy to simply delete these orphaned Namespaces if I could figure out how!  Thanks!
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Lost DFS Namespace Server - Safe Removal

February 13, 2019, 1:49 am
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Hey guys,

Hopefully a quick one!

I (had) three DFS namespace servers (2008R2) within a single namespace. Lets call them DFS1, DFS2 and DFS3. Within the namespace are a number of share folders that were replicated between the three nodes. 

I won't go into detail, but we lost DFS3. Management then decided that two DFS nodes were sufficient. However, we still have a DFS configuration that is structured around 3 servers, not 2. As you can imagine this is causing a lot of white noise in event viewer as DFS continues to attempt to replicate to the lost DFS node. 

So I'm trying to safely remove DFS3 from the DFS configuration on DFS1 and DFS2. 

Would I be correct in saying that the correct / safe way in which to accomplish this is to...

1. Within the DFS console upon DFS1 and DFS2; navigate DFS Management > Replication. Select each replicated share and within the Membershipstab, delete the DFS3 node selecting the Delete the member and remove the member as a target in the namespaceoption. 

2. Within the DFS console upon DFS1 and DFS2; navigate DFS Management > Replication. Select each replicated share and within the connectionstab, delete the DFS3 connections. 

3. Within the DFS console upon DFS1 and DFS2; navigate DFS Management >Namespaces > \\mynamespace\fileshare and within the Namespace Servers tab delete the DFS3 node. I believe this might have to be a forced removal as the server is no longer online? 

Does this look OK? 

Thank you to anyone who has taken the time to read this post. I just want to make sure I'm following the correct procedure as I've read one or two horror stories online that have resulted as part of somebody attempting to achieve this same goal. 

Thanks again. 


M Tipler

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Best practices for basic NTFS permissions on a share

September 22, 2010, 11:34 am
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I was wondering which permissions you would use to setup a Windows 2003 server "root" share.  This is a share that would be used by a large portion of a company/organization.  This is coming about because on one of our Windows 2003 file servers we are "losing" a share.  This means that a user could be connected to a mapped drive and the content of the drive will suddenly disappear.  I think it might be due to the fact that users don't have the ability to traverse to the share (no root share level list access) so if there is heavy network traffic and the user loses a connection temporarily they can't re-establish it.  The drives are all mapped via login scripts and if they reboot they can always reconnect.

I have seen this document which describes how to setup security enhanced folders but was wondering if some of the permissions used here would also apply to other shares.

  • CREATOR OWNER - Full Control (Apply onto: Subfolders and Files Only)
  • System - Full Control (Apply onto: This Folder, Subfolders and Files)
  • Domain Admins - Full Control (Apply onto: This Folder, Subfolders and Files)
  • Everyone - Create Folder/Append Data (Apply onto: This Folder Only)
  • Everyone - List Folder/Read Data (Apply onto: This Folder Only)
  • Everyone - Read Attributes (Apply onto: This Folder Only)
  • Everyone - Traverse Folder/Execute File (Apply onto: This Folder Only)
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Workstation service wont start - error 2

November 29, 2011, 11:23 am
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I'm running Windows 2008 server enterprise r2 and I got hit by a nasty virus that modified a bunch of my services and its dependencies.  Since then I'm having a problem getting the workstation service to start.  When I try to start it, it reports:

Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.

I confirmed c:\windows\system32\svchost.exe & wkssvc.dll exist and have the proper dates (they match another 2008 install I have).

For DependOnService I have:

Browser, MRxSmb10, MRxSmb20, NSI

Any suggestions?

 

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User can't see sync state - Work Folders

November 23, 2018, 3:30 am
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Hi,

I've been searching for month now and couldn't find anything about this problem, so decided to ask here.
We successfully deployed Work Folders and it works well except one user - his files are synchronizing, but he can't see sync state in WorkFolders directory in explorer. Explorer should show green icon when file is synchronized or red icon when it's not, but right now it doesn't show anything.

I tried re-deploying Work Folders for his account, but it didn't work. I couldn't find anything suspicious in eventviewer.
Maybe he needs some permission to view sync state?
I'm stuck :(

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Event 5014 DFSR Error:1726

June 9, 2009, 4:09 pm
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I'm running DFS on about 45 branch office 2008 servers to replicate data back to our Corp offices. I keep seeing the error listed below and then a second later I get another event saying that the service successfully established a inbound connection. Data seems to be replicating fine. Why is this error showing up so much in the logs? Should I worry about it?

The DFS Replication service successfully established an inbound connection with partner BC-SERVER1 for replication group srg-llc.com\lvc\bc.

 

Additional Information:

Connection Address Used: BC-SERVER1.ABC.com

Connection ID: DEC9AA40-C300-4E7E-996A-9EB6B8690064

Replication Group ID: 0E7C2F66-2A38-4CD8-A77C-1A1BA157B971

Jason
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move storage spaces (pool, vd) to another server?

February 12, 2019, 3:35 am
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Hello, I have a physical server with mix of SSDs and HDDs, which make up single storage spaces pool, on top of that that are several virtual disk (mix of mirror and tiered volumes). The disks are connected via HBA.

We're making a DR plan in case of a HW failure and I'd like to know if it's possible to remove the disks from a server and insert them into another server (same HBA) and import the pool and virtual disks in the new server.

I've found this blog for WS2012, which suggests this is possible, but I'd like a confirmation if this is also possible in WS2019.

Thanks in advance

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Windows search not consistent. Is it my file server or the clients?

February 13, 2019, 3:18 pm
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Situation:
Our file server is a vm running Windows 2012 R2, our clients are a mix of Windows 7 and Windows 10. We were alerted yesterday that certain files, when searched for, can't be found even though people can see files when they drill down to the folder they are in. Some Win7 and Win10 users don't have the issue.....others do. These machines are locked down with Group Policy and nobody has admin rights, so these folks aren't making changes to settings. I even ran into the issue when I logged into the file server and searched. I enabled with the Windows Search feature on the server and now I can locate the files.

We haven't patched this month, so that isn't it. The search index has been rebuilt on the clients. These are shares that they are mapped to....been working fine for years. Not sure the issue started yesterday, but that is when we first heard of it. What's also odd is that on the machines you can do a partial search for the file name (we will call the file name i-p12345.msg), like i-p, and it will show up in the list....but as you add to the name the file disappears from the search. So, I can find it if I search for i-p but not if I search for i-p12. It's as if there is corruption in the name itself.

Jason

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How to create a storage pool? no storage pools exist

January 24, 2013, 10:58 am
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Hi I want to manage storage pools and do a lot of things with them but when I open the server manager and go to the Storage section in Storage pools there is no storage pool to manage how can I add one to the server?
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Registry entries for LanManServer for Windows Server 2008 gone

February 15, 2019, 10:35 pm
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I can't get file sharing to be enabled on a Windows Server 2008 box.  There is no entry for "Server" in Services, and when I look at the registry, there is no entry at all for LanManServer in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services.  The box was apparently being used solely as a mailserver since it's install, and so never had file sharing enabled.  We now need it to act as a file server too.  Does anyone know how I can reinstall LanManServer, or, can anyone post or link to the correct registry entries (an exported .reg file would be great)?  Unfortunately, we don't have another Windows Server 2008 box that I can get those entries from.
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Batch files not executing

February 15, 2019, 8:14 am
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I am trying to purge older files on a server and DFS.  One batch file works while running a task and manually as admin, but the other does not.  Below are examples of working an non working batch files.  

Commands execute:

forfiles /P "C:\Foldername\MonthBackup" /D -30 /C "cmd /c echo %date% %time% @file @path @fdate && del @file" >> "\\domain\dfs\groups\Foldername\Backups\Logs\PurgedFilesLog.txt"

Commands DON'T execute:

forfiles /P "F:\groups\Foldername\Backups\MonthBackups" /S /D -30 /C "cmd /c echo %date% %time% @file @path @fdate && del @file" >> "\\domain\dfs\groups\Foldername\Backups\Logs\PurgedFilesLog.txt"

I mapped the UNC to the F drive sine UNCs are not supported with forfiles or cmd. 

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Why don't I have permissions to read log file?

February 21, 2019, 9:20 am
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Running Windows 7 Ultimate.  Windows Backup is insufficient to my needs, as I have to back up different folders to different backup locations (not enough space on any one backup drive for an entire system backup).  I use Task Scheduler to start Robocopy each night, with each night's backup handling a different folder.  I periodically check the generated logfile, and each time have to take full control of the file just to open it.  (I've applied full control over the LogFiles folder as well, but this didn't successfully trickle down to each file.)

Is there a way to get Robocopy to output a log file that I can just open with minimal trouble?  I've had to set the "Run with highest privileges" option on the Task in order to use Robocopy's backup option.  Is that the problem?

[edit]

Looks like I may have posted this in the wrong forum...I did a search for RoboCopy-related forums, and this one came up at the top.  I'll delete the question and ask somewhere else if not appropriate here.

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“The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation.”

September 14, 2009, 2:26 pm
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“The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation.”   This is the only message that you will get.  Researching the question indicates the file system (good old NTFS) has a "limitation" such that when the targeted volume is "too fragmented" your read or write will fail.    Can you enumerate the file system limitations?  Can you point to the limitation that was violated so I can avoid doing what the file system doesn't like?  Could the file system muddle along without terminating my program in case a limitation is reached?  How much fragmentation is too much fragmentation?  Will defragging solve the problem?  How can I be sure that fragmentation IS the problem?  OS in question:  Windows Server 2008 R2 with reads and writes over the network via a share.  Simple, sequential writes mostly.

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Can't take ownership of files with take own get access diened

February 17, 2012, 6:28 am
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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??

I am a member of the adminsitrator group
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unauthenticated Network

February 20, 2019, 9:55 pm
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Hi all,

i face one issue that I have a lot of virtual machine it was turned of for 2 month and after i turn on it giving me unauthenticated network and after rejoin to domain it working fine, i know the issue happen because the computer account password is reset every 1 month but why my machine is not detecting the new password automatically?

Please anyone can help on this ?

like if there is anyway to avoid this issue? or is there anyway to make the virtual machine take the new password for computer account automatically?

thanks,

and best regards 

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Disk Queue Length Average is High

February 24, 2019, 5:34 am
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Dear Support,

We have file server on Windows Server 2012 R2. 

Shared folder has been kept on Storage LUN mapped to file server.

have been facing performance issue. Disk queue length is high approximate 50.  LUN Size 3 TB and free space 500GB.

Please let us know, how to fix

Thanks,

Ritesh

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DFS replication question.

February 18, 2019, 1:43 am
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Hi,

I have been assigned to audit a DFS infrastructure, because there are happening strange behaviour. I am not very experienced with DFS, so I come here in search of help.

The infrastructure is as follows:

All file servers are Windows 2016.

The company has a central office and several branch offices. Each branch office has a file server, some of them member server, others Domain controller acting as file server.

The central office has a domain controller acting as file server.

The company wants to centralize data in central office, so all users access their documents locally in their branch offices. All branch office data then replicates through DFS to the central server, so the backups are done against the central server. Nobody can write to central server.

The question is that I am seeing very strange things. There are offices that don't replicate to central since one month ago; there are offices that have never replicated. There are offices such as one that I put a file in the office server and in real time I see the file appear in the central office, but there are others that I see for example last date of modification in central server lets say, today at 10:00 am, but a file that I put in the office server today at 8:00 AM is not replicated.

Also, the Get-DFSRStatus -Computername Centralserver shows only a list of files, most of them in scheduled status, some of them in Running status, but all of them, source server one of the servers that has never replicated. 

In summary, there is a situation near a chaos. And I don't know how to afford it. Is there any direct way to diagnose the correct replication of DFS?

Thanks

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Cluster Virtual Disk shows as Healthy but the Volume shows as Unknown

February 20, 2019, 10:28 pm
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Hi,

We use Storage Spaces Direct across 4 x Windows Server 2016 nodes. We have 4 cluster shared volumes across these nodes. We began having issues with Live Migration of the virtual machines running in this environment, so one of the nodes was restarted. I used Get-StorageJob beforehand to ensure there were no active jobs running and Get-VirtualDisk to ensure everything was healthy with the storage. After this restart, one of the virtual machines failed and one of the cluster virtual disks has switched to 'Unknown' in the Volumes area, despite showing as 'Healthy'. This volume has also disappeared from ClusterStorage. The three other CSVs are fine.

All of the physical disks are listed as healthy and there does not appear to be any underlying problems with the storage. Is there any way to recover or repair this 'Unknown' volume, without just wiping it and recreating?

Can't post with images, so I have linked below:

https://ibb.co/3pjfCQZ 

https://ibb.co/JqzZ0Q7

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