Hello,

I hope I have placed this in the correct forums here on TechNet. I have a corrupt CAB file and am looking on ways to correct it. We use WINRAR to open CAB files. When I attempt to open it via WINRAR I am being told "The archive is either in unknown format or damaged." I have multiple CAB files generating this error, but not all of them.

Does Microsoft have a tool, or does anyone have any experience on the best way to repair these CAB files? These CAB files contain archived emails we are using with our Enterprise Vault system.

Thanks for any assistance!

Mayson

Our server has the indexing service installed, which so far doesn't seem to search within non Microsoft documents.

Will "Windows Search Service" being installed on the 2008 server overcome this?

If so, on Windows 2008 R2 server can i uninstall the indexing service to install the "Windows Search Service" without causing other issues?

Thanks

kw

On Windows Server 2012 R2, I have setup an iSCSI target and have allowed the following list of Initiators to connect:

IPAddress: 192.168.0.102 (iSCSI Initiator)
IPAddress: 192.168.0.109 (iSCSI Target)

No IQN has been listed, only IPAddress.

On the initiator, I make a quick connect to 192.168.0.109 (the target) but while I get a response right away, I get nothing to connect to. The Quick Connect windows says: "No Targets available for Login using Quick Connect."

If I telnet to 192.168.0.109 port 3260, I get through right away so I know the target is reachable.

Then I try to connect from the target (from 192.168.0.109 to 192.168.0.109) itself and I get a connection right away. Everything works.

So, why can't the iSCSI Initiator from 192.168.0.102 get a connection?

I have tried to add the IQN from the initiator to the target and retried the connect and now the initiator can connect. Something is weird here. Why is IPAddress not enough to connect remotely when it is enough to connect locally?

Then I thought perhaps the listed IQN is allowed from the listed IPAddress'es so I connected from a third pc (192.168.0.101) and it connected just fine (assuming the same IQN as 192.168.0.102 used).

What purpose does IPAdress have? It only seems to work locally.

One specific detail. There are 2 netcards in all pc's, one for 192.168.0.x and one for 192.168.34.x. Perhaps this is the issue so I specicied 192.168.0.102 as source IP on the Discover Portal setup for the initiator, but that changed nothing. Either that source IP isn't passed along correctly or the target throws the source IP away and uses the target IP instead. Bug?

At any rate, specifying IPAddress has no value whatsoever.

It seems the only way to secure the iscsi target is to use the firewall for port 3260.

Hi,

I`m trying to publish Work Folders using Web Application Proxy based on this guide.

When trying to set up Work Folders on Windows 8.1 clients (1 domain-join, 1 in workgroup) I get the following error:

 [Window Title]
Work Folders

[Main Instruction]
There was a problem finding your Work Folders server

[Content]
Make sure that you have the correct Work Folders URL. If this problem persists, email your organization's tech support.

[^] Hide details  [Close]

[Expanded Information]
The sync server needs the user's current user name and password.
 (‪0x80c80300‬)

In the Web Application Proxy/Admin event log on the Web Application Proxy server I see the following logged at the time of the failed Work Folders configuration attempt:

Web Application Proxy received a request with a nonvalid edge token. The token is not valid because it could not be parsed.
Error: Edge Token validation failed. Failed to serialize JSON object. Exception: The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character, more than two padding characters, or an illegal character among the padding characters. . Token: eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIng1dCI6IlBsLU52VDhVRmNVaExURlNaWDhDdjh4UlRMbyJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJodHRwczovL1dpbmRvd3MtU2VydmVyLVdvcmstRm9sZGVycy9WMSIsImlzcyI6Imh0dHA6Ly9zdHMubGFiLmNyYXlvbi5jb20vYWRmcy9zZXJ2aWNlcy90cnVzdCIsImlhdCI6MTM4ODYyODgyNywiZXhwIjoxMzg4NjMyNDI3LCJ1cG4iOiJhZG1famFucmluZ0BjcmF5b25sYWIubm8iLCJ1bmlxdWVfbmFtZSI6ImFkbV9qYW5yaW5nIiwiZ2l2ZW5fbmFtZSI6ImFkbV9qYW5yaW5nIiwiaXNyZWdpc3RlcmVkdXNlciI6InRydWUiLCJkZXZpY2VpZCI6ImVmMTdiNmY5LTZkODctNDMwNS1iNjEwLTU0MzQwZTlmMWZkYSIsImF1dGhtZXRob2QiOiJodHRwOi8vc2NoZW1hcy5taWNyb3NvZnQuY29tL3dzLzIwMDgvMDYvaWRlbnRpdHkvYXV0aGVudGljYXRpb25tZXRob2Qvd2luZG93cyIsImF1dGhfdGltZSI6IjIwMTQtMDEtMDJUMDE6NTA6NDQuMzQyWiIsInZlciI6IjEuMCIsImFwcGlkIjoiMTY4RjNFRTQtNjNGQy00NzIzLUE2MUEtNjQ3M0Y2Q0I1MTVDIn0.ksBY9ESYGdOvtciexoM_0ow4Rds3bCer0wuJZmtP-c2JXjXIgVzWGu-F1Tg8zNuB1k9b9FzDq9ulUNjw6_KKsnuWKNpYl4HF3ahlLbjppoe_vIg48_l6Gkswk4NQUQ4xqZjlA_huB0FOPkrUfx_-oeZ5jYy7kk26TwyqGAx63Fa5EowJozlC3hkQrfEdVU_7hTM0cZnHcI9jcj5Ga5rjoA472aM82ZYA5JvzdYIzEPGOEVsP9DvPm_z-PUMMbnAsdKk77ZJtoz1q6_IKDOAiQhEIONS2d11m6lhcqQNt8aX43yi74ToCDhEuM2I3Ij97fJbh669kWQmOQqZ5xHxnDQ
Received token: eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIng1dCI6IlBsLU52VDhVRmNVaExURlNaWDhDdjh4UlRMbyJ9.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.ksBY9ESYGdOvtciexoM_0ow4Rds3bCer0wuJZmtP-c2JXjXIgVzWGu-F1Tg8zNuB1k9b9FzDq9ulUNjw6_KKsnuWKNpYl4HF3ahlLbjppoe_vIg48_l6Gkswk4NQUQ4xqZjlA_huB0FOPkrUfx_-oeZ5jYy7kk26TwyqGAx63Fa5EowJozlC3hkQrfEdVU_7hTM0cZnHcI9jcj5Ga5rjoA472aM82ZYA5JvzdYIzEPGOEVsP9DvPm_z-PUMMbnAsdKk77ZJtoz1q6_IKDOAiQhEIONS2d11m6lhcqQNt8aX43yi74ToCDhEuM2I3Ij97fJbh669kWQmOQqZ5xHxnDQ

Details:
Transaction ID: {5a8eb154-06f4-0001-b1c3-8e5af406cf01}
Session ID: {5a8eb154-06f4-0001-b1c3-8e5af406cf01}
Published Application Name: WorkFoldersDiscovery
Published Application ID: EC64138D-1A34-CCF6-D02B-274FDB20D556
Published Application External URL: https://workfolders.contoso.com/
Published Backend URL: https://workfolders.contoso.com/
User: <Unknown>
User-Agent: MS_WorkFoldersClient
Device ID: <Not Applicable>
Token State: Invalid
Cookie State: NotFound
Client Request URL: https://workfolders.contoso.com/sync/1.0/discover/serverurl
Backend Request URL: <Not Applicable>
Preauthentication Flow: PreAuthWindowsStoreApp
Backend Server Authentication Mode:
State Machine State: Idle
Response Code to Client: <Not Applicable>
Response Message to Client: <Not Applicable>
Client Certificate Issuer: <Not Found>

For testing purposes I put workfolders.contoso.com in the hosts file of the test-clients, pointing to the IP of the Web Application Proxy. If I remove the hosts file entry, I can configure Work Folders without any issues. Thus Work Folders on the file server as well as authentication on the AD FS server is working fine.

Any idea what might be the problem?

I have two member servers. One is a primary running 2008 SP2. The other is a clustered file share on WS2012 R2. The non-primary is set to read-only.

I can't access many folders locally on the read-only server. I've verified permissions. I've tried with a local admin and a domain admin account. None of them are being allowed access despite permissions allowing it.

1. I can access them on the primary.

2. I can access them if I go in through a share on the read-only member  (\\servername\shares\sharehere\)

3. I can access them if I go in through the administrative share (\\servername\d$\sharehere) on the read-only member

Any ideas? I can't seem to find any differences between folders I can access and those I can't. This is causing issues creating duplicate shares between the members; mostly in that I can't.

Windows server 2008Rs SP1 reports inconsistent size of RAID5 array after adding a 4th member disk to the array.

Server Manager console shows Disk 1 Dynamic, Invalid.

Can anyone please point me in the direction of making these inconsistencies match. thank you.

=================================================================
DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          465 GB     9 MB
  Disk 1    Invalid        5589 GB      0 B   *    *

DISKPART> detail disk

IRSS
Disk ID: {FCF77508-0A65-4A35-B217-5C9C5641D439}
Type   : RAID
Status : Invalid
Path   : 0
Target : 1
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#RAID(P00T01L00)
Current Read-only State : Yes
Read-only  : Yes
Boot Disk  : No
Pagefile Disk  : No
Hibernation File Disk  : No
Crashdump Disk  : No
Clustered Disk  : No

There are no volumes.

DISKPART> list partition

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    Dynamic Reserved  1024 KB    17 KB
  Partition 2    Reserved           127 MB  1041 KB
  Partition 3    Dynamic Data      3725 GB   128 MB

======================================================================================
DPM protection Disks shows drive as Disk failed or disk not found.
Name          Status            NtDiskId Total Capaci Unallocated  Type
                                                   ty        Space
----          ------            -------- ------------ ------------ ----
IRSS          Healthy                  1      3726 GB         0 GB Dynamic

=====================================================================
MSINFO32.EXE

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

Description    Disk drive
Manufacturer    (Standard disk drives)
Model    IRSS
Bytes/Sector    512
Media Loaded    Yes
Media Type    Fixed hard disk
Partitions    2
SCSI Bus    0
SCSI Logical Unit    0
SCSI Port    0
SCSI Target ID    1
Sectors/Track    63
Size    5.46 TB (6,001,180,738,560 bytes)
Total Cylinders    729,602
Total Sectors    11,721,056,130
Total Tracks    186,048,510
Tracks/Cylinder    255
Partition    Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size    1.00 MB (1,048,576 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset    17,408 bytes
Partition    Disk #1, Partition #1
Partition Size    3.64 TB (4,000,658,192,896 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset    134,235,136 bytes

ISSUE:

The Restore Previous versions feature on my file server stopped working some time in the recent past.  If I look at the Previous Version for a file or folder the items are listed and they show a valid file size.  However, when I restore a previous version of a file it is completely filled with nulls.  I have tried local restores on the server and remote restores.  The results are the same; I get a file that is the correct size but completely filled with nulls.  The Server is Windows 2008 R2 64.  I have searched for any reports of similar issues to no avail.   I'm looking for any ideas on how to resolve the issue preferably while maintaning archived files.

Have you ever got a RAW file system problem with your Seagate external hard disk? In fact, a couple days ago, I encountered this problem and always was asked to format before accessing anything inside. However, last week, I had transferred many videos, files and pictures of my favorite animated satires to this hard disk and had not found time to upload them to my online storage. I really don’t want to search and gather these stuffs one by one again. Do you have any way for me to rescue them back from this drive? Do I have to format this disk to fix that RAW problem? Any answer here could be greatly appreciated! 

I need some clarification on dynamic disks.  I'll break it down to a few questions:

Can dynamic disks be used with an MBR partition style?  How many partitions can be created this way?

Can a dynamic disk be a boot or system partition?  If so can it be extended to a spanned or stripe volume?

Thanks for your help.

Michael T. Glenn

The requested security information is either unavailable or can't be displayed.

Why am I getting this message on some folders security tab when I try to check the security permissions through UNC\DFS?

If I log onto the server its fine.  I can view the security permissions
no problem.  I've ran a check disk and checked the share permissions.

I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2.

Any ideas?

Spooter

Hi,

We have DFS running with name space in Windows 2008 R2 server environment and now we decided to move on Windows 2012 R2 server. I am planning to add Windows 2012 R2 server to existing name space and create replication group for each share folders. once data is completely replicated then remove the Windows 2008 R2 server from name space and make Windows 2012 R2 server as Primary DFS Root server. I need suggestion and clarification on below.

1. During replication, users will be able to access the data?

2. Is my migration plan is correct or do we have any other plan which is good than above?

p.s: The data needs to replicated from one site to different site with same network different subnets. Any help much appreciated.

Thanks!

Karthik

Thanks, Karthikeyan R

Greetings,

I'm having some trouble with my Windows Storage Pool and my VirtualDisk running on a Windows Server 2012 R2 installation. It consists of 8x Western Digital RE-4 2TB drives + 2x Western Digital Black Edition 2TB drives and have been configured in a single-disk parity setup and the virtual disk is running fixed provisioning (max size) and is formatted with ReFS.

It's been running solid for months besides some awful write-speeds at times, it seems like the write performance running ReFS compared to NTFS is not that good.

I was recommended to add SSD's for journalling in order to boost write-performance. Sadly I seemed to screw up this part, you need to due this through PowerShell and it needs to be done before creating the virtualdisk. I managed to add my SSD to the Storage Pool and then remove it.

This seem to have caused some awkward issues, I'm not quite sure of why as the virtualdisk is "fixed" so adding the SSD to the Storage Pool shouldn't really do anything, right? But after I did this my virtual disk have been stuck in "Warning: In Service" and it seems to be stuck? It's been 4-5 days and it's still the same and the performance is currently horrible. Moving 40GB of data off the virtual disk took me about 20 hours or so. Launching files under 1mb of the virtual disk takes several minutes etc.. It's pretty much useless.

The GUI is not providing any useful information about what's going on. What does "Warning: In Service" actually imply? How am I supposed to know how long this is supposed to take? Running Get-Virtualdisk in PowerShell does not provide any useful information either. I did try to do a repair through the Server Manager GUI but it goes to about 21% within 2-3 hours but drops back down to 10%. I have had the repair running for days but it wont go past 21% without dropping back down again.

Running repair through PowerShell yields the same results, but if I detach the virtual disk and then try to repair through PowerShell (the GUI wont let me do repair on detached virtual disks) it will just run for a split second and then close.

After doing some "Googeling" I've seen people mentioning that the repair is not able to finish unless I have at least the same amount of free space in the Storage Pool as the largest drive in my Storage Pool is housing so I added a 4TB drive as due to me running fixed provisioning I had used all the space in the pool but the repair is still not able to go past 21%.

As am running "fixed provisioning" I guess adding a extra drive to the pool doesn't do much difference as it's not available for the virtual disk? So I went ahead and deleted 3 TB of data on the virtual disk so now I've got about 4 TB free space on the virtual disk so there should be plenty of room for Windows Server 2012 R2 to re-build the parity or whatever it's trying to do but it's still the same, the repair wont move past 21% and the virtual disk is still stuck in "Warning: In Service" mode and the performance keeps being horrible so taking a backup will take forever at these speeds...

Am I missing something here? All the drives in the pool is working fine. I have verified using various bootable tools so why is this happening and what can I do to get the virtual disk running at full state again? Why doesn't the GUI prompt you with any kind of usable information?

Best regards, Thomas Andre

Hi ,how can I get a list of all laptops or users with folder direction enabled or offline files enabled, be it sccm or poerwshell . i have struggled for a week

tchocr

We recently implemented folder redirection at the County and it has worked very smoothly with a minimum of problems. However, we have one individual that has an issue I haven't been able to work through.

Each time the user logs on, it's as if it's the first time they've logged in using folder redirection.  They are an officer, so they have a lot of pictures and reports, so their files are in the neighborhood of 14gb.  From login to desktop takes over an hour each time.  The files are on the server.  I've had them log in on another computer, but it doesn't recognize their files.

Their computer is Windows 8.1.  We have many other 8.1's that work fine.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

In Windows Explorer the UNC long path construction errors out as:
Windows cannot access \\?\UNC\server\share
(Error: 0x80004005)

Background: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx

To specify an extended-length path, use the "\\?\" prefix. For example, "\\?\D:\very long path".

The "\\?\" prefix can also be used with paths constructed according to the universal naming convention (UNC). To specify such a path using UNC, use the "\\?\UNC\" prefix. For example, "\\?\UNC\server\share", where"server" is the name of the computer and "share" is the name of the shared folder.

What am I missing here? The UNC prefix never worked for me.

Hi,

Wondered if anyone could offer an opinion on an issue we are seeing with cross forest access to folders that have inheritance disabled.

We have a two way forest trust set up and SID filtering turned off.

UserA has an account in Domain A and has been ADMT transferred to Domain B with SID history.

UserA is a member of DomainA\GlobalGroup1 and DomainA\GlobalGroup2

File Server A is located in Domain A and is providing file share services.

The following NTFS permissions have been set. (The Share is Everyone Full Control):

Folder1 (DomainA\GlobalGroup1 / RW)

      Folder 1a (DomainA\GlobalGroup1 / RW)

      Folder 1b - Inheritance Turned Off (DomainA\GlobalGroup2 / RW)

When UserA logs onto workstation using domain A credentials they can r/w all folders. When user logs onto workstation using Domain B they cannot list or R/W 'Folder 1b'. They can list /R/W 'Folder 1' and 'Folder 1a.'

Clearly SID filtering / history is working etc. If I re-enabled inheritance on Folder 1B they can then access it fine.

Would anyone be able to advise what may be going wrong with this scenario.

Thanks,

Mark N.