I have setup quotas in File Server Resources Manager, when I test sending emails, it works ok I get email  from FSRM, but users doesn't get email when they reach quota even when they are on 100%. When I check Source Template Limit for each user I can see that system sends email, but users not getting any email.

All users have email set in User Properties in AD.

What can be wrong?

I never left an open problem....I search, dig and ask, until it's solved....

Hallo everybody,

I've configured DFSR replication between a Windows Server 2008 and a Windows Server 2012 to a static RPC port following this guide:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/07/16/configuring-dfsr-to-a-static-port-the-rest-of-the-story.aspx
The servers are located in different network segments divided by a firewall. I opened port 55555 for DFS replication.

The replication itself works fine and the health report (-> DFS Management -> Create Diagnostic Report ) reports no errors for the w2k8 box. But the same report says "Cannot retrieve report. The RPC server is unavailable" for the w2k12 box.
While the report is generated I can see with a packet sniffer that packets send to random high ports are blocked by the firewall. This doesn't happen for the w2k8 box and shouldn't happen when the RPC port used for DFSR ist configured to 55555 (static).  It's somewhat irritating, that the health report shows errors while DFS replication is working fine.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Kind Regards
Christoph

I have been having an issue with drive space not being reclaimed after files are deleted or removed. I am running windows server 2012 r2 and the volume having the issue is on a storage space pool. The pool consists of 4 2TB drives setup with parity. The volume is fixed, not thin.

Every time I delete or move a file, the free space does not change. I have tried restarting, running defragment and optimize, running powershell optimize-volume with defrag and slabconsolidate.

If I run a slabconsolidate on the volume it returns an error:

Optimize-Volume : A general error occurred that is not covered by a more specific error code.
At line:1 char:1
+ Optimize-Volume d -SlabConsolidate
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (MSFT_Volume (Ob...4-8464-4773...):ROOT/Microsoft/...age/MSFT_Volume) [Opt
   imize-Volume], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x89000020,Optimize-Volume

If I run dir /p on the volume, it shows what the free space should be, but it is not the free space reflected everywhere else. I cannot copy anything to the volume greater than the space it thinks is free.

Anyone have suggestions on what could be the problem?

Hi Guys,

Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 has this new feature where it displays folders in which you have ownership of as "Documents" or "Start Menu" for Folder Redirection.

This only renames it when browsing it through Windows Explorer (explorer.exe).  If you browse the folders through a command prompt using DIR, it will display the correct name... %username%.

I think Microsoft did this to make it more user friendly, but HOW DO I TURN IT OFF its annoying!

I wrote this program in visual basic that takes ownership of a folder, Grants Administrators, SYSTEM and %username% full control.  It grabs %username% from the folder name as ususally with redirection the folder in which the data is redirected to = %username%.  After setting the permissions correctly the program then gives ownership BACK to the user.

Anyway upon running my little application... look what explorer did.  I had Ownership of the folder for a split second before the application gave ownership back.  Because of this when I opened up the folder Explorer populated many of the folders as "Application Data" when they should be displayed as %username%.

Even though the user now has ownership of the folders now, it still displays them as Application Data!  If I log into the file server as another user account, it displays them correctly.  Explorer is caching this meta data under the users profile somewhere.

There is NO information on this on the internet.  Can someone at Microsoft give me some information to turn this functionality of explorer.exe off or tell me where this meta data is stored so I can blow it away without having to re-create the entire profile?

I have recently upgraded a clients servers to Windows Server 2012 & since doing so have lost the ability to scan to folder.

Both servers are domain controllers and previously on a 2008 domain controller I would have had to make the following change to allow scan to folder:
 Administrative Tools
 Server Manager
 Features
 Group Policy Manager
 Forest: ...
 Default Domain Policy
Computer configuration
 Policies
 Windows Settings
 Security Settings
 Local Policies
 Security Options
 Microsoft Network Server: Digitally Sign Communications (Always)
 - Define This Policy
 - Disabled

However I have applied this to the Windows 2012 server but am still unable to scan, possibly due to added layers of security in server 2012. The error on the scanner is Authentication with the destination has failed check settings.
I have also tried the following at the server:
Policies -> Security Policies
Change Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level to: Send LM & NTLM - Use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated.
Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) clients and uncheck the require 128 bit.
Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) servers and uncheck the require 128 bit
I have created a user account on the server for the ricoh and set this in the settiings of the Ricoh and verified everything is correct.

Are there any other things I have missed?

Hi all,

I have a Windows 2012 R2 Standard server running DFSR. It is up to date, all hotfixes have been installed, there is no antivirus running on it, and I've tweaked WaitToKillServiceTimeout to 600000. When I do a soft reboot or soft shutdown, when the server comes back up it gives -

"The DFS Replication service has detected an unexpected shutdown on volume F:. This can occur if the service terminated abnormally (due to a power loss, for example) or an error occurred on the volume. The service has automatically initiated a recovery process. The service will rebuild the database if it determines it cannot reliably recover. No user action is required. "

This is happening every time I reboot. Fortunately this server isn't in full production yet, but this issue will need to be resolved before I can put it in production. Does anybody have any suggestion? Thanks in advance.

Jarod

We have a 3-node 2012 Cluster that is currently non-production.  We are using MPIO, the default Microsoft DSM, CSVs, Failover Clustering, an EMC VNX5400, and FCoE. 

The LUN is instantly recognized by the Windows Hosts.  Initialization seems to be fine.  Formatting (to create a CSV) causes disk management to freeze and eventually the host will crash.

Every time chkdsk runs I get the error index $0 for file 25.  This is a large file server so we really cannot bring the server down often.  A couple weeks ago the power company scheduled a power outage to replace equipment so we brought everything down except this file server.  I connected it to a generator and let the chkdsk run.  It ran for about 5 hours and showed deleting file 25 for about an hour then writing file 25 for about 2 hours then continued to run with no more errors.  After it finished I shut down the server and waited for the power to be restored.  Brought the server online everything seemed fine.  I have been receiving several errors "Ntfs(55) - The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable.  Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume Internal Storage Array.

Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
dual 2.27Ghz Xeon Processors
Dell R510 server 
PERC RAID array 18.1 TB 
RAID 6

I have a Hyper-V host machine connected to a two-node Scale-Out File Server.

I'm playing around with the Interleave size when creating the Storage Spaces.  Any suggestions for Interleave sizes?  I know the default is 256KB, but I'm wondering if increasing the interleave size (and thus the stripe size) would improve performance for Hyper-V VM performance, especially write performance.  With many of our file servers running as VMs, I'm focused on getting the best file transfer performance as possible from a client to a file server VM.

Thanks.

Hello everyone,

A warning appears in the system log:
===
Log Name:      System
Source:        disk
Date:          2/20/2013 1:00:28 PM
Event ID:      153
Task Category: None
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      STRANGE.aqa.com.ru
Description:
The IO operation at logical block address af7ff for Disk 7 was retried.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="disk" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="32772">153</EventID>
    <Level>3</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-02-20T09:00:28.199176700Z" />
    <EventRecordID>12669</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>STRANGE.aqa.com.ru</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>\Device\Harddisk7\DR142</Data>
    <Data>af7ff</Data>
    <Data>7</Data>
    <Binary>0F01040003002C00000000009900048000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000020828</Binary>
  </EventData>
</Event>

===
This warning occurred in several seconds after the Windows Server Backup start. Our backup job finishes successfully. That server is in provisioning without a heavy workload, and we have not experienced any problem yet. But we do not want to face any problems due to this error in the production environment.
All disks of the server are managed by the LSI MegaRAID controller, which doesn’t report any errors in the disk system.

it is Windows Server 2012 with the latest updates.

Attempting to do a nightly run of robocopy while we transfer over to a new file server. We've a load of extra files with an offline attribute on the destination, which are files archived by Enterprise Vault which we moved in advance, and so these must not be touched.

If I do robocopy source destination /MIR /XA:O, all these files still get deleted. Shouldn't the exclude switch apply to files on the destination as well as the source?

Hello all! I just moved into a new place and am preparing to setup my network. I have around 2-3 desktops 2-3 laptops, 1 tablet and 1 phone. Then of course there will be guests as well.

I am trying to decide on a couple of things, should I use Windows Server OS or just a normal Windows 7 PC with file-sharing and such set up?

If I use Windows Server should I use Active Directory?

Which would be the better option for Windows Server is I do use it? I have access to Server 2008 and Server 2012. Personally I don't like Windows 8 and from what I understand Server 2012 is similar in its design but if it's really much better I'll learn it.

Sorry for so many questions but this is the first time that I've lived on my own and am able to do anything I want instead of having to worry about parents/room-mates and their PCs.

Thanks in advance!

-Mike

Dear professional guys :

I have to rebuild my File Server (Win2008R2) because of hardware issues.    But I am not sure which kind of permission will lost after re-build it.  

This server only have 1 share folder named 'sharefile' and its share permission is simple (only domain user can read) but we had deployed its NTFS permission before.   I know we can backup its ntfs permission by icacls (it is really a great tool).  But I just confused which kind of permission will lost ??   Whether domain user permission will be kept as before ?  

I don't think NTFS permission information was saved in OS, it seems saved in file/folder properties.    

Do you have any good opinion ?    

I searched many docs and books but really can't find any useful information. 

Thanks in advance. 

Frank

When I perform "vshadow -ap d: f: e: h:" displays an error text: VSS_E_MISSING_DISK
Returned HRESULT = 0x800423f8

In Windows Logs, There are two error:
1、Event 12362,VSS
   An expected hidden volume arrival did not complete because this LUN was not detected.
    LUN ID   {1ad243aa-d6d9-4537-82f6-a1e2884e1b7a}
    Bus Type  0x0000000000000009
    Version  16
    Identifier Count 1
 Identifier  0
 CodeSet  "VDSStorageIdCodeSetBinary" (1)
 Type  "VDSStorageIdTypeFCPHName" (3)
 Byte Count 16
 
   Operation:
   Exposing Volumes
   Locating shadow-copy LUNs
   PostSnapshot Event
   Executing Asynchronous Operation

Context:
   Current State: DoSnapshotSet

2、Event 7011,Service Control Manager
   A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the VSS service.

question: 1、What is A timeout（30000 milliseconds) means？From which interface to which the interface?
          2、What a scene to be wrong about "Event 12362"?

Hi Everybody!

I am trying audit access to a specific folder in a shared folder.

On the machine filesystem auditing has been enabled in like below:

The folder itself has the following permissions ('List folder / read data' is the important one).

This generates event 4663 if the folder is opened from the local machine, this is great.

The problem is, if the folder is opened from a remote machine, no event is logged.

Does anyone know why this could be occurring?  Is there some setting that also needs to be enabled?

Thanks

User is given All Rights to that folder and sub-folders in that folder.

When user tries to delete some files it is not allowing to do so. Kindly help us in this issue.

I've tried gpupdate /force command and I've restarted the system but it is not working out....

If we restart or use that command, for that moment it is working fine otherwise it is not working out ..

pls help me in this issue......

Hi,

I am using Storage Pools and we have quite some Volumes on them. 

I am noticing an warning to do an online check of a Volume on 2 volumes where dedup is activated. 

If I do the check, all is fine for about 10-30 minutes, and it's flagged again to be checked. It never sais it needs any repair. 

The odd thing is, other volumes without DEDUP don't show this behaviour. 
What could cause this error?

- Disk Space is enough available. 

- Logs don't tell a lot. We have quite some entries with low disc space, but as there are volumes with DPM on this machine, it's referencing DPM Volumes with low disc space warnings. (Info - no DEDUP activated on DPM Volumes as it's not supported). 

So basically why are deduped volumes (successful deduped with over 40 %), always in a state that needs a check?

Thanks

Patrick

We have a Server 2008 domain setup with Roaming Profiles for the users.  I allow Windows to create the folders when the user first logs in.  The Roaming Profiles work great and the users can access their network user folder, but the Administrator does not have access to the user folders.  I get the message "You don't currently have permission to access this folder." when logged in as Administrator and accessing the user folders.  If I look at the folder properties it has "Unable to display current owner." listed as the owner.  I have tried to take ownership of the folder and then give it back to the user, but then the user is unable to access it.  I then have to delete the folder and let Windows recreate it then the user can access it again but not the Administrator.  Administrator has Full Control and is the Owner of the "Users" folder that the users are in. 

So far I have only setup 5 of the 50 users and have not setup a backup yet, but I'm afraid this is going to cause problems with the backup as well.

Thanks for your time!

Hi all,

I have an issue that the "Date Accessed" attribute is often resetting to all the files in a folder if i open single file as this folder is from File server mapped as Drive to me. This is happening to all the users whoever connect to that fileserver and i see same issue from RDP as well. is there any option to check which is resetting the "Date Accessed" attribute to all the files. The Date Access attribute is simillar to Date accessed and Date modified. We need to fix this issue as it is related to security concern for us. The file server is windows 2008 R2 and the client machines are windows 7.

Side note: I can see that there is no software, antivirus, offline sycn is causing this issue.

Thank you,

Sampath

P.Sampath

HI

I think I found a bug. On a fresh windows 2012 Server with installed updates and installed FileServer Resource Manager, the MMC crash after click on "Configure Options..."

FX:{f8abd46c-1297-4474-9cdf-831ebb245f49}

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

   at Microsoft.Storage.SrmMmc.ClassificationGlobalSchedulePage.LoadFsrmClassificationWmiObject()
   at Microsoft.Storage.SrmMmc.ClassificationGlobalSchedulePage.InitializeSrmSpecific(RemoteManager remoteManager, HostFlags hostFlags)
   at Microsoft.Storage.SrmMmc.SrmSettingsPropertySheet.InitializeSrmSpecific(RemoteManager remoteManager, HostFlags hostFlags)
   at Microsoft.Storage.SrmMmc.SrmSnapInRootNode.OnConfigureSrm(Object sender, SyncActionEventArgs eventArgs)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.ScopeNode.DoAction(Int32 actionId, IRequestStatus requestStatus)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.NodeSyncManager.ProcessRequest(NodeRequestInfo info, IRequestStatus requestStatus)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.SnapIn.ProcessRequest(Request request)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Internal.SnapInClient.Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Internal.IMessageClient.ProcessRequest(Request request)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Internal.IMessageClient.ProcessRequest(Request request)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Executive.RequestStatus.BeginRequest(IMessageClient messageClient, RequestInfo requestInfo)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Executive.SnapInRequestOperation.ProcessRequest()
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Executive.Operation.OnThreadTransfer(SimpleOperationCallback callback)

Is this reproducible?

I have to test this on a Windows 2012 Server without any update...