Hi,

I currently have a problem with my SOFS servers. I'm using 3 Dell Poweredge R720's with Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA cards inside to connect 3 DataOn 1640 JBOD's. I have installed all the latest (1 December 2014) windows updates, drivers and firmware in place.

When I connect both SAS cables to the HBA card Windows hangs at the boot screen (already waited 3 days to see if it just needed some time). As soon as I disconnect one of the SAS cables, the booting continues.

It doesn't matter which cable is connected, when they're connected seperately the server boots, when they're connected at the same time, the server hangs at boot time. This happens on all 3 servers. Any way to debug the bootproccess? ntbtlog.txt doesn't really tell me anything usefull...

Thanks in advance! 

Hello,

Since upgrading our DFS member servers (one is a physical DC, other is a VM dedicated to DFS role only) to 2012 R2 I keep getting caught in a weird replication problem. I finally found out when the problem starts, it's the change of Folder access permissions, e.g. removing or adding a user account or group and I don't get it why exactly contents of such folder end up completely mismatched between DFS member servers.

To start from beginning, an example

Both DFS servers have a dedicated NTFS volume Y: with only 1 folder in it named Folder1 which is shared and added as Folder target on both DFS member servers. Replication group exists for that Folder1 and data is in perfect sync. New/altered content is properly replicated to other members server in no time (<1s), everything works perfectly well.

Now, Folder 1 contains a dozen sub-folders with permission inheritance enabled, data de-duplication is enabled as well as FSRM file screening to avoid temporary files, thumbs.db and other junk of that sort. Let's say Subfolder1 requires admin to change permissions so certain group of users get a read-only access to files stored inside while others can retain modification permission to put new files or so.

The moment I do that change it triggers a problem with DFS-R and I end up with proper copy of that sub-folder on DFS1 (physical server acting as DC) and maybe around 5-10% of content on DFS2 ... why is that so that a simple permission change operation breaks the DFS-R every time? When that happens the DFS2 never gets those missing files, just like it didn't know it should have those.

DFS Health Report shows file count mismatch and regular File Sharing Violations from some opened files, but there is no mention of why the darn DFS2 is missing 90% of files in certain sub-folders ... it's so annoying ...

I found only 1 workaround for this problem so far, that is to manually pull out all files from affected sub-folder and get them out of shared Folder1 (simple cut and paste to new temporary folder on same volume works) on DFS1, so DFS2 clears that problematic Subfolder1, and then manually dropping the files back in place on DFS1, later all is good on both servers ... pretty weird if you ask me.

I don't recall seeing this problem on "slow" 2008 R2 DFS-R ... Also I tested if maybe FSRM screening rules or data de-duplication has anything to do with problem, but they don't.

Does anybody else see this behavior between 2012 R2 DFS members?

I am fighting a memory issue on my 2012 R2 Domain Controllers.  The RAM consumption continually increases until there is either no RAM left or the server is rebooted.  

Using Poolmon I was able to potentially narrow the issue down to VNet.  I was then able to determine this is associated with SRV.sys drive.  A little research shows me this may be due to SMB traffic.  My DCs also host the DFS namespaces.  So, I run DFS BPA and see the report of "Srv.sys is not set to start on demand".

It seems that if Srv.sys is always running and not set to on demand it may not be giving RAM back to the system.  

My questions is, if I set this to on demand are the any potential issues with DFS or anything else I could run into?

Is this a known issue?  I did not have this issue on my 2008 R2 DCs.

I am trying to restore the contents of ConflictsAndDeleted folder to a desired location withRestore-DfsrPreservedFiles cmdlet but the command breaks after restoring only a 7-level folder tree up to a file within the seventh folder with "Access to Path denied" error.

The path to the file is just 201 characters long so it is not a path too long issue.

Could someone be of help here please.

BPK

Hi Everyone,

I'm having this issue and spend huge amount of time to search around but cannot explain why FSRM reports a big diffeent on used space compare to Windows Folder Properties.

As you can see following, Windows reports 513 GB but FSRM says662 GB

Based on my research, the difference is due to Windows block size and small file. Yes, we have around 150.000 small files 2KB, 10KB,20KB, etc. Our default block size on disk is 4KB.

Let say average each small files waste 2KB, the waste space on disk is 150.000 x2KB=300 MB only.

Where is approx 150 GB difference here?

How can we explain this. Can someone please help? Thanks

ps: I'm using Windows 2008R2, 4KB block as mentioned. No compression.

Hello Everyone,

I hope someone can help us with this one. We have a customer with a 2-Node cluster in a SuperMicro CiB. The issue we are facing is that with Windows Enterprise edition we are unable to use a virtual disk on a CiB as a Witness disk without making it a cluster resource on Windows 2012 R2. We are able to successfully create a virtual disk, but it wont let me use it until I add it as a CSV. The issue is that if I add it as a CSV, then I cannot use as a Witness.

But, I can do the same when I am using the Windows 2012 R2 Storage Server. I can create a virtual disk and it shows up as available, which I can use as a witness disk. Is there a difference in the way Enterprise Edition works in this context?

I will try to post the snapshots, but it basically is that the virtual disk shows up as offline under the Failover Cluster Manager > Disks. It wont come online until I add it to the CSV. Any help in understanding this will be greatly appreciated.

Change: Sorry guys, not Enterprise edition, but Datacenter edition.

Hi 

I am setting up DFS Replication on Windows Server 2012 . I have given Accounts access to Performance log users group as well but still Im getting this error on the health report .



When I check the performance counter on the server locally by running this powershell . I can see performance data is avaialable . 

wmic path Win32_PerfFormattedData_Dfsr_DFSReplicatedFolders

Can anyone guide on this please.

Thanks

Mumtaz 

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

Hey

So I have a server running Windows Server 2012 R2, I got 5 clients connected to it.

On the server I have a second volume of 4TB which is made for client storage. So I'll like it if every Client got his own storage of let's say 500GB on this volume. Now a maybe this is a more difficult extra question:

So let's say I finished the first question, every client got his own storage of 500 gb on the server(which I don't know how to do it), now I like to have the Documents, Pictures, Videos, etc. etc. "automaticly" stored on the server instead of the local space of the client. I actually like the whole local storage of the client to be disabled and the whole "music, documents, pictures, videos" thing to be saved on the server. How in do I make that possible:P?

I hope I made myself clear and i'll really appreciate it if you can help me out I've been looking like the whole internet for this.

Thanks in advance,

Marc.

In this configuration, how do I make sure that the iSCSI traffic takes the SAN route?

Hi All,

Background:

Forest/Domain A (W2K8R2)

Forest/Domain B (W2K8R2)

Forest A and B are trusted.

Users in Forest A map some drives (DFS shares) via GPO.

Now, some users need to connect via RDP to a specific server W2k8R2 in Forest B and use own drive resources.

The users are able to connect to the remote server and the local mapping drives are reconnected to RDP session.

When the users try to open the specific drive an error occurred:

Windows cannot access \\TSCLIENT\Drive\folder  

You do not have permission to acces \\tsclient\drive\folder.

If I try to map the original resource locally in RDP session, all works fine (\\FQDN\share\...)

Any ideas?

Than you in advance.

Simone

Simone

Currently, our primary file server is a physical machine with file storage on a SAN.  We're using DFSR to sync (two-way) files with a branch office.  We'd like to virtualize the primary file server without re-trigging a DFSR initialization.  (There are so many files that between bandwidth and whatnot, just scanning and validating that the files match takes about a week.)

Is this possible?

Note - I don't care about getting an exact P-to-V of the file server OS; in fact I'd almost prefer to install a fresh one.  The concern is converting the existing files to a VHDX without confusing the DFSR database.

Hi,

I am planning to copy all the share folders along with data to the new server ( server2) and decommission the old one (server1)

The other server is also on the same domain as server1. i want to use robocopy as it would copy with permissions.( so that i don't have to recreate the permission levels for the share folders in the new server)

Source : 10.0.90.12\D:\Share  ( share folder has many subfolders and files)

Destination : it's also the same D drive .Have to create the same shares ( folder names). \\10.0.90.18\D:\Share

What command do i need to use ?

Please suggest

Thansk in advance

I am trying to Move one folder +Contents from one drive to another. 

ROBOCOPY E:\Users\Laviathin\Pictures\"Art"\Manga G:\Will\"My Pictures"\Manga  /MOVE /FP /ETA /LOG:MANGA.TXT

I want to to Move the MANGA Dir to the destination!

What am i missing?

Hi,

Anyone please advice me about file share with failover cluster on WS2008 R2 or later.

I have a data about 9TB for  1700 users roaming profile. Anyone please advice me about server sizing of failover cluster. 

Thank you in advance

Hi,

Old client: Windows Server 2003 SP2

New client: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

File server: Windows Server 2012 R2 with 2014 November Rollup

Copying a folder with a large number of files from a file share using Windows Server 2003 is about twice as fast than copying the same folder from the same file server using Windows Server 2008 R2. Robocopy statistics:

Windows Server 2003:
C:\>robocopy \\server\share C:\temp\test /MIR /NP /NJH /NFL /NDL /NP

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

                Total    Copied   Skipped  Mismatch    FAILED    Extras
     Dirs :       209       208         1         0         0         0
    Files :      7500      7500         0         0         0         0
    Bytes :  405.53 m  405.53 m         0         0         0         0
    Times :   0:01:04   0:01:03                       0:00:00   0:00:01

    Speed :             6722641 Bytes/sec.
    Speed :             384.672 MegaBytes/min.

    Ended : Thu Nov 20 22:00:16 2014

Windows Server 2008 R2:
C:\>robocopy \\server\share C:\temp\test /MIR /NP /NJH /NFL /NDL /NP

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

               Total    Copied   Skipped  Mismatch    FAILED    Extras
    Dirs :       209       208         1         0         0         0
   Files :      7500      7500         0         0         0         0
   Bytes :  405.53 m  405.53 m         0         0         0         0
   Times :   0:02:13   0:02:11                       0:00:00   0:00:01

   Speed :             3224473 Bytes/sec.
   Speed :             184.505 MegaBytes/min.

   Ended : Thu Nov 20 22:03:18 2014

I found some tips suggesting to disable SMB Signing on the Windows Server 2008 R2 client, but that didn`t make any difference (I modified the local security policy, not the Default Domain Policy as suggested in the article I found).

Any ideas why there is such a huge difference?

An application accessing the file share is behaving much slower on Windows Server 2008 R2 compared to Windows Server 2003 due to this issue.

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?

Trying to get Windows 7 clients to search a network file share using the search index on the file server, but doesnt seem to be working.

My setup is: Windows Storage Server Standard 2008 (not R2), Windows 7 Standard workstation with mapped network drive pointing to file share on Storage Server. File Server role is installed on server as well as Windows Search Service, but when I run a test search on the server, I get entirely different results from running a test search on the Windows 7 client.

I've heard of setting the file share to enable "Offline Mode" on the client workstation to allow the workstation to index the share, but I cant have every workstation downloading and indexing a copy of our file share (hundreds of gigabytes). I tried adding the mapped network drive to the Windows 7 Document Library, but I get the error message saying that the location cant be added because it's not indexed. Suggestions?

Shaun

Our Work Folders deployment has just stopped working.

Once the user has logged in to ADFS they get the following error message "The sync server needs the user's current user name and password (0x80c80300)"

At the same time we see the following error in the file servers SyncShare event log:

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System><Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-SyncShare" Guid="{9E6153AD-A829-4B70-B997-8E463A7A111C}" /><EventID>1013</EventID><Version>0</Version><Level>2</Level><Task>0</Task><Opcode>0</Opcode><Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-12-03T14:48:32.922225100Z" /><EventRecordID>1178</EventRecordID><Correlation /><Execution ProcessID="1988" ThreadID="2800" /><Channel>Microsoft-Windows-SyncShare/Operational</Channel><Computer>fileserver.domain.com</Computer><Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /></System>
- <EventData><Data Name="User">eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIng1dCI6ImVoZWxJMUFwWm9HT2VZdXU5NGZZb21tamUzayJ9.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.eCefzniju5qjqxIDdC2KCefkiNBNoGV-B1zg8EsnygUyV0LilPpANpv5uH75JJ9ekv9BN0vz7m6QezHEN4dYc5Z-6UJCzm7Wz6s1yNqVz-Sq5_wf_RrrHkxntcLXT2LHyyLN6ZxJy8uOF4vLw_fLsDzrNHkpaKUoevLAvNLI503IAiKDijKmQ0Qa2hZGsDT57yhKLGtjMXdqwx6FpFpP6vxA9qoUlR1E-tlt0ezTSD8j36djV9VbFpTlfeiH26D0n92T4exQCJkPdVzR42G7KbYyo9Acu0GGf7dnameWMQV9lT-Jtb7hH9xNReuVSVzqgtstsSDJR0mCsKJfLrdKVw</Data><Data Name="Error">0X80C80021 - ECS_E_SYNC_ADFS_UNAUTHORIZED</Data></EventData></Event>

I have attempted re creating the setup using several blog posts including: http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2014/03/03/deploying-work-folders-with-ad-fs-and-web-application-proxy-wap.aspx.  Including deleting all WAP rules, deleting and recreating the Relaying Party Trust and obtaining new certificates for the file server.

ADFS and WAP are working correctly for our Office 365 federations and on-premise SharePoint, Exchange and other web applications

If I turn ADFS authentication off on the Work Folders server I can successfully connect and setup work folders on a domain joined computer, however as soon as ADFS authentication is enabled I get the above error. 

I would like to have a weekly report showing me what large file have been added to a drive in the previous 7 days - is this possible? I am aware of the FSRM reports that run but I'd rather not have to compare reports for differences.

Any help greatly appreciated!