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Network Drive Mapping for users who have Port 445 (possibly others) Blocked by their ISP to a Server 2008 system

February 20, 2014, 12:58 pm
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Nice to see my original posts are still up.  I was hoping that in the ensuing time someone had found a solution.  At least I can now see many other posting the same problems.  :)  Thought I was losing it for a while.

We have 100% proven that the problem (in our case) is from the ISP blocking port 445 (possibly others but 445 for SURE) with the reasoning that it prevents the spread of some Internet "worms".  It also just happens to prevent people who work from home from being able to map to their network drives at work.

What I was hoping was that eventually someone would comer up with a solution for this short of having to load a server using a different OS from Windows.  The SMB protocol is the one needing port 445 as far as I can tell.  Not all ISP block port 445 and the laptops that use those ISP's  have no problem.  Unless they travel.  Then it is "hit or miss" as to whether the ISP for the Hotel they stay at blocks it.

I have run multiple tests to prove that this was in FACT the problem.  Even the particular ISP in question which is a very large national ISP company freely admits they do this supposedly to prevent the spread of an unnamed Internet Worm.  It also happens to prevent Business use of their Internet by Home Subscribers at they cannot map to their Business Servers which also need port 445 to map.

I have used WebDAV successfully to get around this but at a huge loss of speed and performance.  Cloud services all do essentially the same thing and all have pretty much the same loss of speed.

If anyone has come across a method of allowing a drive mapping to be rerouted to any other port, that is the only hope I have short of changing to an alternate OS for the Office Server and even then I cant be sure until I try if it would help.  I read somewhere about the possibility of routing through a proxy but again, the problem would still be that the requests for mapping are expected on port 445 on the server and they will not get through even to the proxy since the originating ISP is the one blocking the port from the User's system. 

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated  I have posted this question now for several years with no one yet providing a working solution.  Hope burns Eternal though :)


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Storage Tiering not automatically tiering

December 6, 2013, 6:34 am
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Hello

We have setup a Server 2012 R2 Server with a storage space consisting of a Hard Drive and an SSD. We have setup storage tiering (When you open the Virtual Disk it says that Storage tiers are enabled and that there is capacity under SSD).

When we run the powershell command "Get-FileStorageTier" no files are listed. If we manually pin a file to the SSD  storage tier and run get-filestoragetier it then shows the file we pinned.

Should files that are automatically tiered show up when running get-filestoragetier? Is there any way to interrogate what files are currently on what tier?

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Server question

April 11, 2014, 9:23 am
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I'm basically very new to this & even think I'm posting this under the wrong section.. So lately with school I did that one thing called peer to peer networking, it looks quite interesting..

My laptop HDD died & I will be buying a SSD, but I'm someone that needs space.. I have a working computer (Windows vista) that I don't really use & it has 900GB free space. Is there a chance I use it as some sort of private cloud, like the dropbox system but so I can only access it through my home? Will it be a peer to peer network, or are there better options for me?

Please if any forum moderator sees this, could you move my topic to the right section? Thanks in advance.

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Wierd DFS Issue

April 3, 2014, 10:10 am
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Hello,

I have a weird DFS issue I am having trouble fixing. Currently users at one of our site uses 1 file server which has DFS namespace enabled but is not replicating however if the users map to it via IP or Namespace or UNC they are sometimes able to see the file and sometimes they just see the DFSRoot folder.

Any idea what could be causing this issue? The files aren't replicating and its the same location.

Thanks

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nfsstat and nfsadmin missing

April 11, 2014, 11:49 am
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Where do I find nfsstat or nfsadmin? I can't find the executables for that on my Windows Server 2012 installation. What resource pack or whatever do they come from?
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DFS Replication not getting all files

April 11, 2014, 12:05 pm
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Hi,

I have three DFS servers running W2K R2.  One of the servers started corrupting files and replicating them to the other servers.  I removed the server from DFS and deleted the contents of it's DFS folders.  I restored the files to one of the remainng DFS servers and let it replicate to the other server.  This worked great.  I then added the server that was removed from DFS back as a Member Server and let it replicate.  The health check shows no errors and no backlog but the file and folder count doesn't matched.  The first two DFS servers match but the third I added back in is missing about 11,000 files.  I confirmed that they are not set as temporary files.  If I rename the file on one of the two up-to-date servers the file will replicate to the third server.  How can I force the out-of-date server to get the remaining 11,000 files?

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Having to re-enable sharing on 2008R2 server after each reboot.

April 11, 2014, 12:26 pm
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I have a 2008R2 EE server that has some foder shares located on a drive. We have an application that uses those shares but evertime the server reboots I have to go in and manually re-enable the sharing for the shares to reappear. Has anyone seen this before? Network seems to be good, nothing good in event logs. Need help please! Thanks.

Salvador Diaz III

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Shared folder allowing two different versions of the exact same file

April 11, 2014, 2:07 pm
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Greetings,

I have a very strange issue that has recently developed.  We had recently instituted folder redirection to a share on a server for Documents.  Everything with the redirection worked as planned.  I had an odd issue come up today where a user was working on two different computers and modified a file in their Documents folder on one computer.  When the user went to the other computer, the changes they had made to the file were not there.  The user went back to the original computer and could see the changes.

I checked the Document path and both computers were pointed to the same exact folder.  The file name was exactly the same as well.  The only difference was that the file size and modified date were different on both computers.  I have never seen this before and am kind of perplexed as to how it happened.  If anyone could provide some insight, that would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeremy

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Windows Server 2012R2 Work folders - why are users suspended

April 11, 2014, 2:55 pm
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I can't seem to enable my users that I have assigned to work folders in Windows Server 2012R2. Every time I create a new work folder and add a user they are suspended by default. When I try to right click and resume user it says can't enable a user in a suspended group. The user is enabled in AD so no issues there, how do I get the user enabled and what do I need to look at in AD for this?

Thanks,

Jake

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Can APIPA supports File Sharing?

April 11, 2014, 9:15 pm
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I know that when my DHCP server goes down,all the DHCP clients will have APIPA address with IP range of 169.254.x.x.

My doubt is, after all the clients are assigned to APIPA address,can all the clients can do file sharing among them?. What are all the services that will work and don't work on APIPA?

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DFSR SYSVOL Migration in stuck

April 4, 2014, 3:26 am
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I Have problems with Sysvol DFSr migration

Environment have two writable Domain Controllers with 2008R2. Forest and Domain Level are 2008R2

Events:

Event 8020
Error: 5 (Access is denied.)

Event 8029
DFSR Migration was unable to transition to the 'ELIMINATED' state for Domain Controller xxxxx. DFSR will retry the next time it polls the Active Directory. To force an immediate retry, execute the command 'dfsrdiag /pollad'.

DFSRMIG.EXE /GETMIGRATIONSTATE

The following Domain Controllers are not in sync with Global state ('Eliminated'):

Domain Controller (Local Migration State) - DC Type

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DC1 ('Eliminating') - Primary DC

DC2 ('Eliminating') - Writable DC

Migration has not yet reached a consistent state on all Domain Controllers.

State information might be stale due to AD latency.

                          

Checked things

Checked ”Manage Auditing and Security Log” rights

Defalt Domain Controller policy have setting “Manage auditing and security log” Domain_name\Exchange Enterprise Servers, Administrators, Domain_name\Exchange 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2567421

From “Domain_Name/System/File Replication Service/Domain System Volume (SYSVOL share)” structure “Protect object from accidental deletion” setting have been removed

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Active_Directory/Q_28269847.html

Removed server objects from “Domain_Name/System/File Replication Service/Domain System Volume (SYSVOL share)” structure”

Removed IPv6 from use

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/90faf580-2336-4ca9-8901-bd14f12373a4/dfs-replication-issues-rpc-wmi-and-service-essentially-locked-up-for-dfsr?forum=winserverfiles

Temporary stopped virusprotection from DC

Replication working okay with C:\Windows\SYSVOL_DFSR, shares etcc.

C:\Windows\SYSVOL_DFSR

Manually removed  content from C:\Windows\SYSVOL (structure get back with empty folders)

From registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\DFSR\Parameters\SysVols\Migrating SysVols

Local State is 7

Is Primary is 0

Rebooted, started DFS replication service, check AD replications, no firewalls between DC (in same subnet)

Is there some registry, AD path or File path where I can check why I get error Access Denied?

Thanks from advices

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VSS error on Windows 2008R2 Enterprise

April 12, 2014, 7:55 pm
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I have a Windows 2008R2 Enterprise server giving us the following errors.

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error creating the Shadow Copy Provider COM class with CLSID {65ee1dba-8ff4-4a58-ac1c-3470ee2f376a} [0x80070422, The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

].

Operation:

   Obtain a callable interface for this provider

   Check If Volume Is Supported by Provider

   Add a Volume to a Shadow Copy Set

Context:

   Provider ID: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}

   Class ID: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}

   Snapshot Context: 4194304

   Execution Context: Coordinator

   Provider ID: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}

   Volume Name: \\?\Volume{b0d361f8-c19d-11e3-95df-806e6f6e6963}\

   Execution Context: Coordinator

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Volume Shadow Copy Service information: The COM Server with CLSID {65ee1dba-8ff4-4a58-ac1c-3470ee2f376a} and name SW_PROV cannot be started. [0x80070422, The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

]

Operation:

   Obtain a callable interface for this provider

   Check If Volume Is Supported by Provider

   Add a Volume to a Shadow Copy Set

Context:

   Provider ID: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}

   Class ID: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}

   Snapshot Context: 4194304

   Execution Context: Coordinator

   Provider ID: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}

   Volume Name: \\?\Volume{b0d361f8-c19d-11e3-95df-806e6f6e6963}\

   Execution Context: Coordinator

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Automatically rename files in a folder weekly?

April 13, 2014, 5:05 am
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I have a folder of jpeg images. I'm creating a GPO to apply a file in that folder named wallpaper as the default background for all users. Once a week, I'd like that wallpaper file to be renamed wallpaper1 and for a file named wallpaper2 to be renamed to wallpaper. That way their background automatically changes every week. 

Is it possible to automate this with a batch file, vbs file, GPO or 3rd party program?
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DFS hiding replicated folder

April 10, 2014, 9:04 am
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I enabled hidden system files, and they appeared. Seems like DFS marks them with this attribute to prevent accidental deletion? I did run the following commandattrib -r -h -s [path to the folder] to no avail.

I have 2 servers replicating to each other. With all of the data residing on Server1, which replicates to Server2. Server1 is Server 2008; Server2 is Server 2008 R2.

Thanks in advance!

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Office files being saved to network share without owner

April 13, 2014, 2:46 pm
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I upgraded to Server 2012 R2 (from 2008 R2) and upgraded to Office 2013 (from Office 2010).  Since the upgrade, Office files saved to Network DFS shares are being saved without an owner.  The files are on the shares but cannot be accessed and are not listed when viewed via the share.  The files are be viewed directly on the file server.  To gain access the ownership must be changed.

This does not happen when folders or files are created from other applications.  Folders can be created from clients via the share.  Files can be created from the clients using Notepad and WordPad.  Office documents can be copied to the share from the clients local drive, but if these files are accessed and changed using either Office 2010 or Office 2013 and saved back to the share they are saved without an owner.

The Share Permissions are Authenticated Users has Full Control.

The NTFS Permissions on a typical folder is:

The Administrators and SYSTEM group has Full Control to This folder, subfolders and files.

The CREATOR OWNER group has Full Control to Subfolders and files.

The Authenticated Users group has Modify to This folder, and subfolders and files.

Once ownership is taken the files has the Permissions inherited from the folder.

Before the upgrade this was not an issue.  The domain was upgrade doing a clean install of all servers and clients and a fresh install of the applications.  The only thing rolled from the old environment to the new was the data.

I also posted this issue to the office forum.

Thanks you for any help you can provide.

George M.

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disable write-caching policy on storage pools or virtual hard disk

April 13, 2014, 5:50 pm
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I have read 10  hardware read.

I have created two volumes

once called OS which the Windows 2012 R2 is installed with Hyper-v

the other Volume I have created a  6.45TB has no date and I have disabled write-caching on the disk

under server manager, file and storage services, volumes, storage pools.
have created a new Storage Pool called Pool which is 6.45TB Capacity
I have created a new Virtual Disks Layout Simple, with Fixed Provisioning for 500GB capacity.

I would like to switch Write-caching on the new created disk3

is there powershell command to remove the Write-caching from virtual disk?

PJ Moka

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Re-Organizing Network Drive Folders: confused on how to retain permissions

March 31, 2014, 6:33 pm
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We are reorganizing our network drive into 5 new folders. I need to lock down the 5 folders to only let uses have "read" permission to the top level folder and they need to keep their current folder permissions. I can use Robocopy to copy the data and ICACLS if need be, but I suspect there is an easier way as just moving the data through Explorer is quick but permissions aren't working out well. 

Currently:

\\server\common is where everything is stored (about 500 GB and 100 folders)

Moving to:

\\server\common\folder1  folder2 folder3 etc.

I need to give the users only READ permission on the new folder1 folder2 and they can retain the current permissions that they have the folders.

Windows 2k8 R2, NTFS only set, everything is on the same drive. 

And any suggestions on how to best fix broken links with Excel on files that get moved? I see the app LinkFixer. 

This could be a big mess. Any suggestions are appreciated. 

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FRSM - Expiration Question

April 1, 2014, 3:12 am
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Hi,

I was just looking into the FRSM file expiration task, and was wondering is it possible to expire old files and move them to a different drive but retain the file structure?

Or does this task just dump them in the specified directory?

Thanks

Phil

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FSRM Email Notifications for Users

April 1, 2014, 6:59 am
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I have configured the FSRM options with the correct SMTP server and default administrator recipients - that works! Email test is successful.

However, the email notifications for users is not sending the users email? what am I missing?

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Server 2012 R2 Migration FRS to DFS

April 3, 2014, 10:23 am
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Are any of the migration documents still valid for server 2012? 
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