Hello,

I am trying to transfer folders/shares from one file server to another. The source server is running Server 2012 and the destination server is running Server 2012 R2. When running Send-SMIGServerData and Receive-SMIGServerData on the servers, it sits on"Opening Connection" and eventually times out after the 5 minutes. Is there some sort of issue with 2012 and 2012 R2?

Just a little background info. I was able to successfully migrate shares to the source server (2012) a year ago, so I am confident that is not the issue. I just tried running the transfer from a Server 2003 box to the destination server (2012 R2) just to test and it made the connection, it just didn't work because the versions were different which was expected. But it at least made a connection.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Mike

Hi Everyone

I'm trying to make work the following scenario. I have installed a Workfolder Sync Server and publishing an url like workfolder.company.com through a linux reverse proxy.
The sync of the workfolder is working internally and exernally like expected.

I now want to use client certificates for doing the authentication on the reverse proxy.
The reverse proxy is configured for that and i have a certificate on the client.

If i access https://workfolder.company.com in IE, it authenticates correctly with the cert and let me through to the sync server.

If i now try to sync the workfolder from outside, i'm getting the followig error:

0x80072f0c: Für die Clientauthentifizierung ist ein Zertifikat erforderlich
(sorry, only have the message in german, but it means... For Client Authentication a certificate is needed)

The certificate is present in the Personal Cert Store of the machine.

Any ideas on that? Someone doing something similar?
And yes... i know... i could of course use WAP and ADFS for all that stuff and it would (probably) work, but hey... its a smb customer and i just want to use the sync for domain computers, and i don't want to install and operate ADFS / WAP for that, if i don't have to.

Thanks 

Hi All,

I have a folder, lets call it "Folder1".

"Folder 1" is a group folder at a branch office for employees of a department. They can create additional folders/ files under "Folder 1" as they need.

I have set replication of "Folder 1" back to our main file server at HQ. (for backup purposes). I now would like to create a namespace for "Folder 1" for redundancy. I would like the path to be \\domain\Folder 1

However, I am unable to create the namespace as \\domain\Folder 1 it always goes to \\domain\Folder 1\Folder 1

The file structure is

E:\

   Data

        Folder 1 (Dept 1)

        Folder 2 (Dept 2)

        Folder 3 (Dept 3)

There are also other directories under Data which do not need a namespace or replication. How can I accomplish just getting \\domain\Folder 1

Thanks!!!

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

I was experimenting with Windows Server 2012 R2 ability to use a SSD drive in a storage pool for write-back cache.

The storage pool consists of one 1.5TB disk and one 120 GB SSD drive. After a server reboot the pool shows an error status with a caution symbol on the SSD drive.

In the health screen of the properties on the SSD drive it shows Health status: Warning and Operational status: Split.

The status of the 1.5tb disk shows Health status: Healthy and Operational Status: OK.

I can't find any reference to a Operational status: Split.

Does anyone know what the "split" status indicates and how or if it can be corrected?

PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-physicaldisk

FriendlyName        CanPool             OperationalStatus   HealthStatus        Usage                              Size
------------        -------             -----------------   ------------        -----                              ----
PhysicalDisk2       False               Split               Warning             Auto-Select                      111 GB
PhysicalDisk0       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     1.36 TB
PhysicalDisk3       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     1.82 TB
PhysicalDisk1       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     2.73 TB
PhysicalDisk4       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     2.73 TB
PhysicalDisk5       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     1.41 TB

PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-storagepool

FriendlyName            OperationalStatus       HealthStatus            IsPrimordial            IsReadOnly
------------            -----------------       ------------            ------------            ----------
Pool-1                  Degraded                Warning                 False                   False
Primordial              OK                      Healthy                 True                    False


PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-storagepool pool-1

FriendlyName            OperationalStatus       HealthStatus            IsPrimordial            IsReadOnly
------------            -----------------       ------------            ------------            ----------
Pool-1                  Degraded                Warning                 False                   False


PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-storagepool pool-1 |get-physicaldisk

FriendlyName        CanPool             OperationalStatus   HealthStatus        Usage                              Size
------------        -------             -----------------   ------------        -----                              ----
PhysicalDisk2       False               Split               Warning             Auto-Select                      111 GB
PhysicalDisk0       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     1.36 TB

I have a client running a Windows Server 2008 Standard machine that serves as a terminal server.

Every time that this machine is restarted, the values in this registry key are lost, with the exception of "RDPNP"

When this happens, users are unable to connect to their mapped drives, so Currently as a workaround i have exported the correct registry key to the desktop so it can be imported after a restart occurs.

I am at a bit of a loss on what could be causing this issue, i would appreciate any suggestions on where to look next.

Thanks!

Currently I'm testing the Advantages and Disadvantages of Storage Pools in my Home-Environment. The test server looks like this:

Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter ("Student-Edition")
2*400 GB HDD
4*1000 GB HDD
2*3000 GB HDD

First, I wanted to test a "replacement" Case: I created a storage Pool of 2*1 + 2*3 added some data to a (mirrored) virtual hard disk, and disconnected one 1 TB drive. The Pool gets reported as unhealty, and with a second Disk i was able to do the regular replacement (Attach new Physical Disk, Remove old & Rebuild)

Now I wanted to test the case, how I can rebuild full functionality, when no proper replacement-disk is available:

Therefore I created another Pool of some Harddisks, added some data (arround 200 GB), disconnected one drive and tried various ways to get back to health - nothing worked:

Using the UI it's impossible to do anything at all. After selecting "remove" on the disconnected drive, it simple keeps telling me, that there is no proper replacement disk found.

Then I followed some instructions i found elsewhere on technet:

1. mark the missing disks as "retired":
 Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName <PhysicalDiskxxx> -Usage Retired

2. rebuild each of your virtual disks:

Repair-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName <Virtual Diskxxx>

3. Once everything is finished, try to remove the disk from the pool again:

 Remove-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName <PhysicalDiskxxx>

1+2 worked fine, and I noted the disconnected disks usage dropping from ~ 30GB to 256MB

All virtual Disks reporting a "health" state now.

However, it was not possible to remove the disk: The ui told me, that it's gonna rebuild after clicking "remove" - but simply nothing happened - not after several hours (virtual Drives are "thin", so not much data to move).

Using the Powershell it keeps telling me, that theres an Issue with the "FriendlyName" Property:

I noted, that the Disk was prior shown as "PhysicalDisk-14" - but that did not change anyting.

So I followed another approach, using the following command:

It looked promising, but finally failed with "Not enough available capacity" - which is ofc. not true. (Only assigned around 1000 GB to the virtual disks, of which I used around 200)

So, the question is: How do i remove a (disconnected, retired) disk from a storage pool that has enough capacity left WITHOUT replacing the Disk immediately?

Hi All,

Looking for some general advice or documentation on recommend approaches to file storage.  If you were in our position how would you approach adding more rubustness into our setup?

We currently run a single 2012 R2 VM with around 6TB of user files and data.  We deduplicate the volume and use quota's.

We need a solution that provides better redundancy that a single VM.  If that VM goes offline how do we maintain user access to the files.

We use DFS to publish file shares to users and machines.

Solutions I have researched with potential draw backs:

1. Create a guest VM cluster and use a Continuosly Available File Share (not SOFS)
    - This would leave us without support for de-duplication. (we get around 50% savings atm and space is tight)
2. Create a second VM and add it as secondary DFS folder targets, configure replication between the two servers
    -  Is this the prefered enterprise approach to share avialability?  How will hosting user shares (documents etc...) cope in a replication environment.

Note: we have run a physical clustered file server in the past with great results except for the ~5 mins downtime when failover occurs.

Any thoughts on where I should be focusing my efforts?

Thanks

Hi,

We have Windows Server 2003 R2 in our environment and we use EMC Networker 7.4 to take backup of these servers. We take the system state backup of these servers with the help of a feature in Networker called VSS Save sets.

Now randomly in certain servers this VSS backup fails while the file system backup (like C:\. D:\) occurs successfully. While investigating the VSS backup failure issue we observed that VSS backup fails when the System writer (by issuing "VssAdmin list writers" command) is in waiting for completion state. VSS backups are successful on those systems where system writer is in stable state. I have googled a lot to resolve this issue and applied all the relevent solution by applying pathes related to VSS, registering dlls etc but the issue still persists. If we reboot the server then it solves the issue for time being but after few days it surfaces again. I have also tried to stop/restart the MS Software Shadow Copy Provider service on the affected server but the System writer still remains in Waiting for Completion state.

Please find the the output of the Vssadmin list writers command of one of such affected server below:

Writer name: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {664fe3b7-c464-440b-8f1f-20558c21d777}
   State: [5] Waiting for completion
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
   Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
   Writer Instance Id: {89102b4b-3cf9-4a7e-9927-d6d8bd5c6eff}
   State: [5] Waiting for completion
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'MSDEWriter'
   Writer Id: {f8544ac1-0611-4fa5-b04b-f7ee00b03277}
   Writer Instance Id: {3bd4a708-343a-4ea6-aa57-2b349494f0cb}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {ffb82a13-eb75-4cf3-a317-e33d6ca5bc3f}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Event Log Writer'
   Writer Id: {eee8c692-67ed-4250-8d86-390603070d00}
   Writer Instance Id: {d4212250-fc73-4921-af15-70d74a5a2874}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {fe90b4c1-d40d-425b-8813-15792b68bb46}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Cluster Service Writer'
   Writer Id: {41e12264-35d8-479b-8e5c-9b23d1dad37e}
   Writer Instance Id: {7658584d-5860-429c-926f-fb50fb17f432}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {9cb1708b-74d8-43fa-b870-01b487ac14b1}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {0b48b192-8372-4a95-bf07-0b9edd0ddced}
   State: [5] Waiting for completion
   Last error: No error

Please tell me how can I make the System writer into stable state without restarting the server.

Regards

Kunal Bhadra

Hi all,

Basic Disk of 2 TB format NTFS running under MS Cluster and we want to change the format into GPT and extend that particular disk .Is there any work around for the same which will help us to extend disk without affecting cluster functionality

Thanks,

Gag

hiii

         i was not able copy my files from my desktop to the server.i am having the right's then also i was not able to copy.can any one help me.

We have slow performance issue on the file server.

30 workstations including all  users desktop , document and appdata is using GPO folder redirectly policy to file server.

existing hardware spec as below:

Dell T300

CPU: E6305 1.86Ghz

RAM: 4GB

Storage: 7200rpm SATA RAID 1+0 2*4TB.

OS: Windows 2008 SP2

If we purchase E5-2430 spec new server like PowerEdge R520 8GB RAM, RAID 1+0  can fix the problem?

Any advise I can calculator the new file server loading is suitable for our environment?

BTW I'm try to fine tune the 2008 SP2 file server performance , any monitor tools I can use?

Thanks.

I added a new member server to the DFSR. All folders are now replicating with the primary server. The primary server's replicated folders are all shared folders with unique user share permissions. I see the NTFS permissions were replicated to the new member, but the share permisions were not replicated. How can I also replicate or copy over the share permissions to the new server without recreating all of the share permissions?

The new member is a 2012 server.

thanks for your assistance.

Hello

We are using Dell MD3200i as a SAN connected to our Windows 2012 server through iSCSI.

One of our VM is on the SAN volume, there was a power outage in our building and after power backup i found that i cannot access SAN volume drive F, it says incorrect function.

i tried to run chkdsk and it says file system as NTFS but when i check it in Disk management it says RAW.

What to do in order to access that Drive?

Pragnesh

Hi,

I've a server with 4 NIC connection to a DELL MD32xx which have 8 NIC.

My question is how many path do I need to create under iSCSI connection.

Do I need to create a path from each Server NIC to each MD32xx NIC, which will make 32 connection (and doesn't make sense).

If not, how should I proceed, I've looked at many example and none seem to cover that kind of situation, they just directly connect the server NIC to the MD32xx NIC instead of going through switch for redundancy.

Thank

ML

Unable to install Windows Server 2012 Feature -  [Tools] File Server Resource Manager Tools.

Installs, however when I restart the server error messages appears saying feature unable to install, windows reverting changes.

In the Setup event logs have the following information message "Update FSRM-Infrastructure of package FSRM-All failed to be turned on. Status: 0x800f0922"

Does anyone have any idea's on why this Feature can not be installed ??

Scott

Hi There,

Massive shot in the dark here but I am struggling with a pretty major issue atm.  We have a production file server that is hosted on the following:

Dell MD 3220i -> iSCSI -> Server 2008 R2 Hyper-v Cluster -> Passthrough Disk -> Server 2012 R2 File Server VM

Essentially 3 times now, roughly a month or so apart.  The file server stops accepting connections.  During this time, the server is perfectly accessible through rdp or with a simple ping.  I can browse the files on the server directly but no-one appears to be able to access the shares over SMB.  A reboot of the server fixes the issue.  

As per a KB article I removed nod antivirus from the server to rule out a conflicting filter mode driver after the second fault.  Sadly yesterday it happened again.

The only relevant errors in the servers log files are:

SMB Server Event ID 551
SMB Session Authentication Failure

Client Name: \\192.168.105.79
Client Address: 192.168.105.79:50774
User Name: HHS\H6-08$
Session ID: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Status: Insufficient server resources exist to complete the request. (0xC0000205)

Guidance:

You should expect this error when attempting to connect to shares using incorrect credentials.

This error does not always indicate a problem with authorization, but mainly authentication. It is more common with non-Windows clients.

This error can occur when using incorrect usernames and passwords with NTLM, mismatched LmCompatibility settings between client and server, duplicate Kerberos service principal names, incorrect Kerberos ticket-granting service tickets, or Guest accounts without Guest access enabled

and

SMB Server event ID 1020
File system operation has taken longer than expected.

Client Name: \\192.168.105.97
Client Address: 192.168.105.97:49571
User Name: HHS\12J.Champion
Session ID: 0x2C07B40004A5
Share Name: \\*\Subjects
File Name: 
Command: 5
Duration (in milliseconds): 176784
Warning Threshold (in milliseconds): 120000

Guidance:

The underlying file system has taken too long to respond to an operation. This typically indicates a problem with the storage and not SMB.

I have checked the underlying disk/iscsi/network hyper-v cluster for any other errors or issues, but as far as I can tell everything is fine. 

Is it possible that something else is left over from the NOD antivirus installation?  

Looking for suggestions on how to troubleshoot this further.

Thanks

Brand new installation.

FriendlyName        CanPool             OperationalStatus   HealthStatus        Usage                  Size
------------        -------             -----------------   ------------        -----                              ----
PhysicalDisk0       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                    59.63 GB
PhysicalDisk1       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                   465.76 GB
PhysicalDisk2       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                     1.82 TB
PhysicalDisk3       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                   931.51 GB
PhysicalDisk4       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                   930.75 GB
PhysicalDisk5       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                   930.75 GB
PhysicalDisk6       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                   930.75 GB
PhysicalDisk7       False               OK                  Healthy             Auto-Select                   930.75 GB

Created a Pool of 4x1GB drives (Drives 4,5,6,7)

FriendlyName            OperationalStatus       HealthStatus            IsPrimordial            IsReadOnly
------------            -----------------       ------------            ------------            ----------
Data                          OK                      Healthy                 False                   False

Created a Virtual Disk

FriendlyName        ResiliencySettingNa OperationalStatus   HealthStatus        IsManualAttach                     Size
                    me
------------        ------------------- -----------------   ------------        --------------                     ----
StorageA            Mirror              Degraded            Warning             True                               3 TB

PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-virtualdisk -FriendlyName "StorageA" | fl *

Usage                             : Other
NameFormat                        :
OperationalStatus                 : Degraded
HealthStatus                      : Warning
ProvisioningType                  : Thin
ParityLayout                      :
Access                            : Read/Write
UniqueIdFormat                    : Vendor Specific
DetachedReason                    : None
ObjectId                          : {6af478ea-131c-11e2-93f4-001517e565bd}
PassThroughClass                  :
PassThroughIds                    :
PassThroughNamespace              :
PassThroughServer                 :
UniqueId                          : EA78F46A1C13E21193F4001517E565BD
AllocatedSize                     : 696321572864
FootprintOnPool                   : 1392643145728
FriendlyName                      : StorageA
Interleave                        : 262144
IsDeduplicationEnabled            : False
IsEnclosureAware                  : False
IsManualAttach                    : True
IsSnapshot                        : False
LogicalSectorSize                 : 512
Name                              :
NumberOfAvailableCopies           : 0
NumberOfColumns                   : 2
NumberOfDataCopies                : 2
OtherOperationalStatusDescription :
OtherUsageDescription             :
PhysicalDiskRedundancy            : 1
PhysicalSectorSize                : 4096
RequestNoSinglePointOfFailure     : True
ResiliencySettingName             : Mirror
Size                              : 3298534883328
UniqueIdFormatDescription         :
PSComputerName                    :
CimClass                          : ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage:MSFT_VirtualDisk
CimInstanceProperties             : {ObjectId, PassThroughClass, PassThroughIds, PassThroughNamespace...
CimSystemProperties               : Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimSystemProperties

The volume on the disk is instead healthy:

DriveLetter       FileSystemLabel  FileSystem       DriveType        HealthStatus        SizeRemaining             Size
-----------       ---------------  ----------       ---------        ------------        -------------             ----
<deleted volumes>
H                 StorageA Disk    ReFS             Fixed            Healthy                   2.38 TB             3 TB

Repair from PowerShell does not do anything.

Repair from GUI shows Repairing 0% for an instant then stops.

I have check and tested the drives with a SMART utility and they are all fine.

Can anybody help ?

Thanks

Lucio