Hi,

hummmm...

The client had 1 Server with AD and All Apps, IIS, Terminal Servers (30 device Cal), File Server, SQL2008R2 on it

Task: Install new AD server promote it to DC,  bring in 2nd server, Replicate the File Server (DFSR) on these 2 servers, and demote it to standard server. 

1) Old AD with name "Server" with OS-2008R2 SP1 and is a DC.

2) Brought in a new server "PrimaryAD", Installed 2008R2, done DC Promo, and added it as Additional Domain controller

3) Transferred roles from old server "Server" to "PrimaryAD"

4) Brought in a new File Server replicating server "Backup-Server"

5) Copied all the data from Server to Backup-server as DFS initial file sync with robocopy

6) here the problem started, after the copy finished, next morning the "Server" server crashed.....

7) thank god the data was backed up on Backup-server. but we didnt get the time to Demote the server "Server" and remove AD from it.

8) Since AD was replicated so "PrimaryAD" was are DC, brought 2nd Server "SecondaryDC" as additional domain controller.

9) we cleaned up the metadata and used ASIEDIT to clean the remaining stuff.

10) the "Server" server was formatted and renamed as "Primary-Server" and OS2008R2 SP1 was installed with rest of required apps

11) so now the PrimaryAD the DC, SecondaryAD the Additional Domain controller, Primary-Server the mail server and File server, the Backup-server, the replicated server.

Now configured DFS Replication from Primary-Server to Backup-server and receive following Event ID 1202

If i Configure DFS Replication as follows

PrimaryAD <<>> SecondaryAD -= Works... no errors...

PrimaryAD <<>> Backup-Server = Creates but Dosent works Event ID 5012, error The DFS Replication service failed to communicate with partner BACKUP-SERVER, Additional Information: Error: 9026 (The connection is invalid)

PrimaryAD <<>> Primary-Server = Dosent creates replication job just hangs,

on primaryad continious Eveni ID 10009, DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer "SERVER" using any of the configured protocols

......something on PrimaryAD is still trying to connect to old corrupt AD server "Server"

No errors with AD replication, SYSVOL & Netlogon shares also working fine and accessible.

DFS Diagnose report says

DNS name: backup-server.mydomain.com
Domain name: mydomain.COM
Reference domain controller: --           (HERE there is NO DOMAIN CONTROLLER mentioned) 
IP address: 192.168.1.248,192.168.1.251,::1
Site: Default-First-Site-Name

Forgot to mention, gave full rights with ADSIEDIT to DFSR-LocalSettings  for all server to Administrator and read permissions to "Authenticated Users"

DFSRDIAG POLLAD throws following error

c:\Dfsrdiag pollad /verbose
[INFO] Computer Name: BACKUP-SERVER
[INFO] Computer DNS: Backup-Server.mydomain.COM
[INFO] Domain Name: mydomain
[INFO] Domain DNS: mydomain.COM
[INFO] Site Name: Default-First-Site-Name
[INFO] Connected to WMI services on computer: Backup-Server.mydomain.COM
[INFO] Invoke PollDsNow() method on Backup-Server.mydomain.COM
[ERROR] PollDsNow method executed unsuccessfully. ReturnValue: 12 (0xc)
[ERROR] Failed to execute PollAD command Err: -2147217407 (0x80041001)

Can anyone point me to any direction which can lead to resolution of this ERROR and make DFS_R work..

Thanks

bikram

We want to use Windows Server 2012 R2 as File server, but I don't know that I need the following options:
- File Server VSS Agent Service

- iSCSI Target Server

- iSCSI Target Storage Provide

- Server for NFSThe data of the file server is located on an iSCSI Dell Equallogic PS4000 and also MAC users need to access this with smb://....

I have been looking for something that documents a DFSR best practice around the number of replicated folders per replication group.  Specifically, I found a reference in the forum post here to a best practice published somewhere that there should be a 1:1 mapping between RFs and RGs.  Other than the link above, I've had no luck with any of my searches in finding anyone else with this question nor have I found any best practices in this space.

I've got a number of RGs with multiple replicated folders, and it works fine, but it leads to management headaches if we need to move one folder to a new server in the same RG.  I'm considering moving to a 1:1 configuration and migrating those RGs with more than one RF to a single RF per RG, but I'd like a little backup on this.  Where might I find best practices for this?  If there aren't any, then relevant discussions that I've not seen on this or other forums would be helpful.

Thanks in advance!

Jamie

I have 2 - Win 2003R2 server that do DFSR services (63 GB folder) between US and Asia.  I need to move them to 2 - Win2012 R2 Servers and remove the Win2K3 servers.  Pre-seeding is key...! 

For pre-seeding, can I use an ArcServe backup server to backup the folder to tape and then Restore the folder to the new location...? 

OR...

RoboCopy...?  My understanding is to pre-seed, the copy program must copy the main folder AND files/subfolders.  I see robocopy can copy files/subfolders, but what if there are other folders at the same level as the folder I want to copy...?

Say I have D:\data\dfsr and D:\data\apps and D:\data\forms.  How do I tell robocopy to copy D:\data\dfsr to d:\ and it copy the folder DFSR and files\subfolders...?

robocopy D:\data\dfsr d: will copy the data in dfsr and not the folder itself..?

All help is greatly appreciated,

Thank...  Tom

Tom Karpowski...

I'm getting the following error when trying to enable disk de-duplication on a volume on my Windows 2012 R2 file server.  The error is:

"There was an error updating Data Deduplication on volume: MSFT_DedupVolume.Volume='\\?\Volume{8dfc4322-9997-11e3-93f5-005056a84b9b}\' - HRESULT 0x8056530b, The specified volume type is not supported. Deduplication is supported on fixed, write-enabled NTFS data volumes and CSV backed by NTFS data volumes."

The volume in question is a 1TB VMFS volume mounted to the virtual machine that is the Windows file server.  I could find no info anywhere that references this error as it relates to a standard mounted volume or VMware or VMFS. 

Any ideas on what could be the problem or how to fix it?  I could find nothing in the log files other than an entry which is basically a repeat of the error above.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

- ADEHART

I'm seeing an error popping up in the application log on both nodes of my Server 2012 cluster.  The events seem to occur when DPM begins a system state/bmr backup of the node.  The DPM Backups usually complete successfully, but over the course of a sync or consistency check this event might appear 8-10 times in the application log of the cluster node.  The event reads:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"><System><Provider Name="VSS" /><EventID Qualifiers="0">8194</EventID><Level>2</Level><Task>0</Task><Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-05-13T05:15:50.000000000Z" /><EventRecordID>11424</EventRecordID><Channel>Application</Channel><Computer>node1.domain.com</Computer><Security /></System><EventData><Data>0x80070005, Access is denied.</Data><Data>

Operation:
   Gathering Writer Data

Context:
   Writer Class Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Name: System Writer
   Writer Instance ID: {c9b83054-b318-4486-a5aa-6c36b591b3f8}</Data><Binary>2D20436F64653A20575254575254494330303030313330302D2043616C6C3A20575254575254494330303030313235342D205049443A202030303030313631362D205449443A202030303031353238382D20434D443A2020433A5C57696E646F77735C73797374656D33325C737663686F73742E657865202D6B204E6574776F726B53657276696365202020202020202D20557365723A204E616D653A204E5420415554484F524954595C4E4554574F524B20534552564943452C205349443A532D312D352D3230</Binary></EventData></Event>

If I run 'vssadmin list writers' after the backup job completes, all writers report their state as stable with no errors.  

I came across this error recently when trying to troubleshoot another issue, but looking back, I can see that these have been going on for a while.  The first instance I see occurred in early March.  

Any suggestions on what I can do to clear up this error?

Hello,

Trying to create cluster of VM guests on hyper-v cluster.

Have SOFS (clustered storage spaces) server for HYPER-V cluster. In cluster i have two VMs. I create VHDX on SOFS share and connect it to VM's on the cluster and enable virtual hard disk sharing.

Shared disk in VM's are displayed as "Not Initialized". I try to initialize it and get error : The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

and in event log error is : VDS fails to write boot code on a disk during clean operation. Error code: 8007045D@02070008

if i uncheck "Enable virtual hard disk sharing" and try to initialize it - it works. But after enabling virtual hard disk sharing disk is displayed as Not initialized and i can't initialize it. 

What can be wrong with my SOFS server?

Hello All,

I am looking into how to implement DFS on a Windows 2012 R2 server and very new to this. Currently we use just a basic File Server on 2008 R2 and have GPO Drive Mapping to control access between our departments. I would like to use DFS as I have read how simply and secure it is but I do not see anything on how this is published to the End Users nor does any guide/tutorial go into deep folder creation.

Goals:

create folders for each department (Around 6 folders), Create Public and Self-Help Folders.

Setup Permissions for Department 1 has full owner rights on Dept 1 folder, etc. Only allow scaled down permissions for departments that need to access Dept 1 folder, etc.

After that is setup do I use GPO to map the drive to the end-users? That is the part I am lost at.

hey

we have a branch office behind a really bad wan link

the connection could be offline for more than a hour

so i placed a domain controller on that site and made it a dfs replica

when the connection is online there are no problems

when it is offline for some time it stops working as a domain controller and dfs share

the branch office domain controller is a old 2008 (non R2) server

the main office is running windows server 2012R2

how can i set the dc and dfs to work even if there is no wan link availible?

I don't post much on technet so I applogize if I'm not in the right area.

I'm working on a domain environment with two DC's (2003 & 2008) and a file server (2008).

On the file server (lets call it FileServ) there are 3 shares. Users, Shared, and Data. We have one Windows 7 computer that cannot browse into the Users share. No mater what user is logged into the workstation (including domain administrator accounts) this computer cannot browse the Users share. Users on this same computer can browse the other shares.

Error: "You do not have permissions to access \\FileServ\Users. Contact your network administrator to request access."

STOP... don't reply yet... :)  Keep reading.

When on other workstations users can access the Users share with no problem.

I remove and re-added the computer to the domain, but nothing changed.

Customer is not sure of the last time this worked properly, or if it ever did.

Thinking there is something wrong with the workstation, I ran a sfc /scannow, but everything was ok. Ran a full malware scan, but found only a few cookies.

Using Vipre antivirus. Disabled Vipre, but this didn't help.

I get no events showing up in Application, System, or Security logs.  Well, other than it complaining that the redirect group policy is failing due to not being able to access\\FileServ\Users.

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Possible issues:

Permissions issue:  No, because the Users share can be accessed from other computers by the same employees.

Windows Firewall: A-It's not on. B-Employees can browse to the other shares on the same server.

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Workstation is Windows 7 Pro. SP1. Desktop using wired.

oh... And the computer account is in the same OU as the other computers.

Thank you in advance for any recommendations or insight.

Jim

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5/22/14
More info:
Found that browsing to "\\IPAddress\Users" or "\\FileServ.domain.local\Users" work ok. It is only "\\FileServ\Users" that gives the permissions access message.
I checked the Hosts file. There is one entry there, but for a totally different program and server.

I also found two other posts/forums of people who had the same or similar issues. One resolved it by wiping and reloading the computer. :(  The other resolved it by deleting all listings of "\\FileServ" from the workstations registry. (http://serverfault.com/a/32507)

I searched this computer for references to "\\FileServ\Users" but ony got hits referncing other useraccount profiles that we redirected to that UNC. I think if I have to delete all "\\FileServ" from the registry that it may cause enough problems that a wipe/reload will be the answer.

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90% of the laws are made because of 10% of the people.

Hello,

We have a DC Windows Server 2003 that is running out of disk space all of a sudden.

1) We checked that inside the "System Volume Information" it has a catalog.wci with couple gigs in it. Is this safe to delete and how do I do it properly without causing any problems.

2) In Domain Admin account under "Local Settings\TEmp" folder, is it safe to delete everything that is inside?

Thank you in advance.

Jet.

Hi guys, I would really love some help troubleshooting the following:

We have a namespace e.g. \\Domain.lan\org that has multiple referrals. It is mapped via GPO to an F: drive, so users click on F: and see multiple folders via DFSN.

Every once in a while, the referral information gets corrupted and we start seeing files and/or folders from a random server (so far it looks like the file/folder exists on one of the namespace servers) show up inside the mapped folder.

I have tried running dfdiag the CLI tool, and it comes back with no issues.

We usually resolve this issue by restarting DFSN/R services on all hosting servers. Recently I also had to run a DFSUTIL command to clear my referral cache before I stopped seeing junk show up on my F: drive.

My questions are: 1. Is there a way for me to identify what might be causing this corruption issue? And/or what server(although my file/folder owner info I could suspect one)

2. Is there any way you might recommend I proactively monitor the services. e.g. scripting up a solution to check query the namespace for refrrals from each respective server and compare results, when discrepancy is found, alert and/or restart all services. I have Orchestrator in the env. and good with Powershell and programming.

Would love some input from the experts! Thank you!

i want to select the best solution

FTP

DFS

file sharing on windows

please help

• I want to test CIFS File server implementation running on Linux [SUSE Linux - Open Enterprise Server]
• The client accessing the file services from above CIFS server implementation is vastlyWindows clients.Though would like to know ways of testing if the client is a Linux based desktop or a Mac based client as well in future.

Greetings,

I was tasked to build a new DFSR server on our enviroment and I would like to build on Windows Server 2012R2. My question is, Can I build the server and add it to my current replication groups? All servers are build on Windows Server 2008R2 SP1, DFS namespace is on 2000 Mode and Our Forest and Domain Functional Level is 2008R2. Please, let me know if this will be an issue or should I then build the new server on Server 2008R2 as the others? Thanks!

Christian

Hello,
I'm writing to ask a question about Free column shown as output of list disks inside diskpart command.

I get this output:

Disk###, Status, Size, Free

Could you tell me what does Free column mean ?

Thank you,
Luca

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Hi I have a dell Poweredge 1850 service tag 4LWHKB1 and with my server have the software raid1 via the R2 disk management. I had disk two fail on me and so I replaced it with a larger drive because it cost less to buy two of the larger drives than one of the smaller.  

My issue is that I can not figure out how to replace disk one with the newer drive. I have tried disconnecting the mirrors but get an error saying that I can't. I tried loading Windows off the second dive to disconnect the raid and get the same error that the drive is the one  in use or something.

How do I replace Disk 1 of the raid so that I can utilize the larger hard drive?

When trying to run an application (specifically "Image for Windows" by Terabyte Unlimited), I receive the following error message:

"Error while unpacking program, code 2. Please report to author."

I have seen numerous hits for this error while searching Google and nearly all of them point to an issue with a Windows Update. However, it's nearly always for Windows Vista.

I'm getting this error Windows Server 2008.

I have another machine running Windows Server 2008 that does not have this issue.

Is this an issue with a particular Windows Update or could something else be the cause?

Hi, I have setup a domain-based DFS Namespace on Windows Server 2012 with 2 folder targets that point to shares on 2 NetApp Filers located in separate offices. When accessing the namespace, should I be able to see a consolidated list of folders from both the shares in the single namespace or is DFS not designed to work in this way? There is no DFS replication enabled between the 2 shares.

Thanks,

Sailesh.