Hello,

I have 2 file server in my company:

MainFS001 - Main Office, which has FolderA and FolderB shared for users.

BranchFS001 - Branch Office, which has FolderC and FolderD shared for users.

DFS is configured on MainFS001 as \\domain.com\files$, and it has Folders A | B | C and D.

So, if I am at any of both sites, I can access \\domain.com\files$ normally, then access any of the four shared folders.

But what happen, for example, if I am at Main Office and the connectivity between the offices goes down? I suppose that I will be able to reach \\domain.com\files$ from Main Office but without access on folders C and D. 

And from Branch Office, I suppose that I will be not able to access the DFS name, consequently not able to access any folder. Or I will be able to access the DFS but without any foldere access.

How this exactly works in case of vpn site-to-site goes down?

Thanks,

I have a virtual file server in my environment that has a drive filling up.  My usual process is to run WinDirStat to see what can be cleaned up before provisioning more storage. 

To my dismay - I found out that data dedupe is turned on for this volume!!  I can't actually see which users (this is a home directory share) are actually consuming the most data.  Is there anyway to tell when this was turned on and by who?  Is this ever auto enabled?

When I look in the server manager I see that there are "Deduplication Savings"; however, file explorer shows the disk at 80% capacity with "chunk store" taking up the majority of the actual space within a hidden System Volume Information folder.

I cloned the file server.  Next I disabled dedupe on the drive within server manager.  Next I ran the powershell comand:

Start-DedupJob -Volume"E:" -Type Unoptimization

This command causes the server to blue screen.

Any suggestions?

JLC

I got one wired issue in our domain with multi site. Users got issues accessing the \domain.com\corpdata share intermittently. its freeze and noticed hapanning everywhere at the same time too.

So just install Wireshark on my laptop and start the capture and noticed having issue around 2.40-45 PM I have the capture saved. but try to identify with my limited knowledge but still couldn't figure this out.

error attached

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Can someone help me to identify the root cause. 

As

Hello everyone,

I am having a problem here. I changed the domain admin password and now I cannot create or delete folders in  a DFS namespace.

Y restarted the DFS services and still can't add or delete folders.

Best regards

Environment:

2012 R2 hypervisor, three VMs (SBS 2011, 2012 R2, 2008 R2 respectively).
All VHDs and VMs stored on HV's D: drive.
Arcserve Backup 17.5 SP1

Background:

SBS 2011 server blue-screened, seems to be due to corruption in/with VHD for system drive. Boot order was lost, now fixed and server is running normally.

Issue:

SBS server seems to be experiencing issues with VSS writers & event 51s for errors during paging operations. Backups failing as a result. Arcserve leverages Windows VSS writers to take snapshots which are then backed up.

Steps taken so far:

Usual VSS troubleshooting - restart associated services, restart server, re-register DLLs.
CHKDSK /R & SFC /SCANNOW on affected server.
Shut down server, removed and re-attached VHDs.

Events/logs:

DISKPART> list vol

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0     E                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media
  Volume 1         System Rese  NTFS   Partition    100 MB  Healthy    System
  Volume 2     C                NTFS   Partition     99 GB  Healthy    Boot
  Volume 3     D   Data         NTFS   Partition    449 GB  Healthy

PS C:\Windows\system32> vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Waiting for responses.
These may be delayed if a shadow copy is being prepared.

Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
   Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
   Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
   Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
   Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
   Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
   Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {0fd2f208-866a-4633-b2a2-7509c646dbc0}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'SharePoint Services Writer'
   Writer Id: {da452614-4858-5e53-a512-38aab25c61ad}
   Writer Instance Id: {84b03184-534f-4715-a379-bf082a56c336}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {54ef1739-2650-4e34-9c40-100ba005f7ca}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
   Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
   Writer Instance Id: {a5b29068-d666-4d71-a870-e008fd9422bf}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'FSRM Writer'
   Writer Id: {12ce4370-5bb7-4c58-a76a-e5d5097e3674}
   Writer Instance Id: {171f9fe1-ba82-4c03-b26c-14b8118dcfcb}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {866b92e2-bfe3-4d41-80a7-5c0d9195cb25}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
   Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
   Writer Instance Id: {166b7390-bc7a-4b41-8cec-23995a4c973c}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'MSSearch Service Writer'
   Writer Id: {cd3f2362-8bef-46c7-9181-d62844cdc0b2}
   Writer Instance Id: {b3d7ddf7-38d6-4d3c-9bf2-b0ba11ff48c4}
   State: [10] Failed
   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {1812c8f8-af21-44ab-a38d-ef7f5b89acc6}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {65e8d950-69af-4f63-bed0-0875ccc9f22e}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'TS Gateway Writer'
   Writer Id: {368753ec-572e-4fc7-b4b9-ccd9bdc624cb}
   Writer Instance Id: {3cf3256a-5a12-4fe0-989a-25f4c3b892e9}
   State: [10] Failed
   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
   Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
   Writer Instance Id: {de5764c6-6181-465f-a7b2-46a1266adfd8}
   State: [10] Failed
   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'Dhcp Jet Writer'
   Writer Id: {be9ac81e-3619-421f-920f-4c6fea9e93ad}
   Writer Instance Id: {517b3010-6b88-4dc0-b609-753bb57a2147}
   State: [10] Failed
   Last error: Non-retryable error

Writer name: 'NTDS'
   Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
   Writer Instance Id: {fd4ae2b1-2821-4f53-997e-f75d65969b79}
   State: [10] Failed
   Last error: Non-retryable error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Instance Id: {5ded8fd7-7860-43aa-89a4-6c9dd7cbf98c}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Certificate Authority'
   Writer Id: {6f5b15b5-da24-4d88-b737-63063e3a1f86}
   Writer Instance Id: {023b1fcb-ab11-482a-bea6-40c35c1cf28c}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
   Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
   Writer Instance Id: {548d95cd-84a9-499c-95e7-d5b7a29e1c57}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'NPS VSS Writer'
   Writer Id: {35e81631-13e1-48db-97fc-d5bc721bb18a}
   Writer Instance Id: {b26bf05e-f738-4614-9f66-7a0ca282d6f1}
   State: [10] Failed
   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {1e102557-f63a-4b1f-aa1c-73032fa4eccb}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Microsoft Exchange Writer'
   Writer Id: {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
   Writer Instance Id: {8d5311e4-cb6f-4a40-8f2c-a97c4b75deef}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Errors on HV:
*  AE0603 2018-08-02 22:14:56 Failed to create VSS shadow copy for the VM on the Hyper-V host machine. (Hyper-V Host Machine=[HV], VM=[SBS])
* Checkpoint operation for '[SBS]' failed. (Virtual machine ID 4D9E428E-8CDB-42E1-9443-0538DB6681C0)
* Could not create backup checkpoint for virtual machine '[SBS]': The shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process the specified operation. (0x8004230F). (Virtual machine ID 4D9E428E-8CDB-42E1-9443-0538DB6681C0)
* VSS writers inside virtual machine '[SBS]' failed to perform BackupComplete to its shadow copy (VSS snapshot) set: A function call was made when the object was in an incorrect state for that function (0x80042301). (Virtual machine ID 4D9E428E-8CDB-42E1-9443-0538DB6681C0)

Errors on VM:
System
* An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 during a paging operation.
* An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\DR3 during a paging operation.
* The shadow copies of volume F: were aborted during detection because a critical control file could not be opened.
* The shadow copies of volume H: were aborted during detection because a critical control file could not be opened.

Application:
* Not all the shadow volumes arrived in the guest operating system. [vmicvss, 19]
* Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider {74600e39-7dc5-4567-a03b-f091d6c7b092}. Routine details PreFinalCommitSnapshots({8c1560b1-750c-41c3-9e5c-61e076c925d7}, 3) [hr = 0x800705b4, This operation returned because the timeout period expired.]. [VSS, 12293] Operation: Executing Asynchronous Operation Context: Current State: DoSnapshotSet
* Volume Shadow Copy Service warning: ESENT ERROR {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757} NTDS (ditto for Dhcp Jet Writer and Certificate Authority): -2404.  hr = 0x00000000, The operation completed successfully.

Operation:
   OnAbort event
   Aborting Writer

Context:
   Execution Context: Jet Writer
   Writer Class Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
   Writer Name: NTDS (ditto for Dhcp Jet Writer and Certificate Authority)
   Writer Class Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
   Writer Name: NTDS (ditto for Dhcp Jet Writer and Certificate Authority)
   Writer Instance ID: {fd4ae2b1-2821-4f53-997e-f75d65969b79}

Any help would be much appreciated! Need to get this server backed up so that I can sleep soundly again :)

Per link, it says that IDMU is deprecated in Win Server 2016 and up. Is there a simple alternative solution to map Unix ID's with Windows ID's so that I can share my files across both SMB and NFS? Without a mapping store, file permissions would not correctly be honored between users unix users and windows users.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/activedirectoryua/2016/02/09/identity-management-for-unix-idmu-is-deprecated-in-windows-server/

According to the blog post (and several other sources), it mentions that the UID/GID entries will still exist moving froward. But there's no mention of how to setup up the mapping alternatives. It also alludes to possibly using the UID/GID attributes with NFS Server for ID mapping, but I'm trying to find steps on performing this. 

"For example, you may require the RFC 2307 attributes in combination with Network File System (NFS) Server (which does not require NIS Server role to be installed on Windows Server) to map the identity."

Any help for steps on performing this would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Support,

I want o assign change permission & I want to remove delete write permission from users on shared folder. 

Example: I have one domain controller and file server. I want to give the change write to users on folder & files.

Good afternoon all,

I've some files where can't take the ownership of. I've tried every and searched allot of technet and the rest of google.

When is ue:

Takeown /f *.* /r /a /d y

i get like 4 succes messages and 16 INFO: Access is denied.

I need to copy/cut the files to new storage, can someone help me please??

Hi,

Home folder was working fine but when I changed my DNS ip to 8.8.8.8 to get the internet home folder disappeared and I changed to 172.18.10.39 (DNS Server) the internet is gone and I cant able to view the home foler.  Please help me

server IP - 172.18.10.39

DNS (Server) - 172.18.10.39

Client Ip- 172.18.10.39

DNS - ( I want to connect to internet and my server, when I make server DNS its not connecting to internet, please help) 

Hi,

I have created a namespace in my Domain \\domain\files, which points to a replicated share on 3 fileservers (in our 3 sites). Now, when a client executes net use x: \\domain\files, it connects to a "random" server it seems to me.

The 3 locations are recognized correctly in the DFS management for the 3 servers.

How can I diagnose further why that happens? What additional data do you need from me?

I want the behavior that all clients connect to their local file server (unless it's unavailable, then its ok to use another one).

Thanks!

VJP IT

Hi,

Is there a cmd or powershell cmdlet for the below option? I used takeown /R but it does not take ownership on all subfolders. However, if I try with GUI, I get no error message and it completes successfully.  I have 100 of users folders to delete. Please help.

 "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects"

Thanks,

Umesh.S.K

Hi,

I have 2008R2,2016 DC in my infrastructure and my clients windows 2003 and 2003R2,2008R2, Windows7 and above.

soon 2008R2 DC will be decommissioned. Due to application dependence still we are retaining 2003 and 2003 R2 servers.

I have a query in disabling SMB1 for my above mentioned clients and servers. Does it recommended to disable SMB1.

If I disable the SMB1 will my users face any issue in accessing the share folders on legacy servers.

Please assist.

I'm having some serious issues in trying to resolve a search indexing issue on a dedicated Windows server 2016 file server.

The server is a Hyper-V VM in our DC and it's sole purpose is to act as a file server to replace the customers old on premises 2008R2 server which will soon be completely phased out.

The problem we are facing is the search index does not appear to index all files properly. On the old server with the same (general data) directory selected for indexing, around 300.000 files are indexed. On the new server only about 100.000 files are indexed.

This also reflects itself in the search results. Even when just looking for an extension such as *.pdf, a vast difference in results is present when comparing the search results of both servers. When searching specifically in a directory for which the old server is showing results and the new one isn't, I can see it containing 4 pdf files and the search just comes up blanc.

I've already rebuildt the search index several times, used both sfc and dism repair options (no results). I've also resolved Search service error 3104 by assigning DCOM permissions to system and remove "ready for archiving" properties to see if this changes anything and still nothing seems to work.

This problem has persisted right from the start for a server which was installed from scratch and has no 3rd party software on it other then Adobe reader, which was installed to try and resolve PDF indexing issues.

I really hope someone has any idea how to resolve this, before I have to reinstall the server.

I am getting this error both on a Network Drive AND seeing it on a USB connected drive.

On the Network Drive, the command I am using is....

.... and all works well apart from 3 Folders failing "Access is Denied" on the Time-Stamping process.

These folders are : My Music, My Pictures & My Videos  - yet these folders are "seemingly" NOT in my Documents folder.... clearly some sort of problem due to them being Windows Folders (they are under my User name, without the "My" Prefix). 

Error Message Screenshot to follow (when Account verified by TechNet).

is there any way to STOP users their Personal laptops to Windows Server 2012 
at the moment any user can browse to the Network share and as login with their username. 
This includes NON-Windows computers such as Mac & Linux

I have set up a replication group and folder between two 2012R2 servers.  Replication works fine until I reboot one of them.  Then I get Error 1202  in the Events log with this message:

The DFS Replication service failed to contact domain controller  to access configuration information. Replication is stopped. The service will try again during the next configuration polling cycle, which will occur in 60 minutes. This event can be caused by TCP/IP connectivity, firewall, Active Directory Domain Services, or DNS issues.
 
Additional Information:
Error: 160 (One or more arguments are not correct.)

I cannot tell which argument is not correct. 

I am also puzzled why I was able to set up the replication initially, and it works fine, if the two systems can't talk to the domain controller.

I am not sure there is a shutdown timeout and that I am falling in to the 'Dirty shutdown' scenario because I can't find the events 1006 or 1008 indicating DFS stopping/stopped events.  This is Windows Server 2012, so the hotfix for 2008 to change the DFS recovery should be applied.  And, this is NOT a very active folder so, I expect there is nothing replicating at the time I issue a reboot. 

And, when I try the wmic command to resume replication I get an error.

And, I get these messages after reboot.

20180806 16:09:10.500 2572 SYSM  3830 Migration::SysVolMigration::Connect [MIG] Trying to connect to Local or any writable Dc AD
20180806 16:09:10.500 2572 CFAD   311 Config::AdConnection::Connect Binding to dcAddr:\\my.dc.ip.address dcDnsName:\\my.dc.dns.name
20180806 16:09:10.500 2572 CFAD   143 Config::AdConnection::BindToAd Trying to connect. hostName:my.dc.dns.name
20180806 16:09:10.500 2572 CFAD   162 Config::AdConnection::BindToAd Bound. hostName:my.dns.host.name
20180806 16:09:10.500 2572 CFAD   199 Config::AdConnection::BindToDc Try to bind. hostName:\\my.dc.domain.name domainName:<null>
20180806 16:09:10.500 2572 CFAD  3373 [ERROR] Config::DsSession::Bind Failed to DsBind(). dc:\\my.dc.domain.name domainName:<null> Error:5
20180806 16:09:10.500 2572 CFAD   215 Config::AdConnection::BindToDc (Ignored) Failed to bind. hostName:\\my.dc.domain.name domainName:<null> Error:[Error:5(0x5) Config::DsSession::Bind ad.cpp:streetAddress Access is denied.]
20180806 16:09:10.500 2572 CFAD   199 Config::AdConnection::BindToDc Try to bind. hostName:\\my.dc.IP.address  domainName:<null>
20180806 16:09:10.500 2572 CFAD  3373 [ERROR] Config::DsSession::Bind Failed to DsBind(). dc:\\my.dc.IP.address domainName:<null> Error:87
20180806 16:09:10.500 2572 CFAD   215 Config::AdConnection::BindToDc (Ignored) Failed to bind. hostName:\\my.dc.IP.address domainName:<null> Error:[Error:87(0x57) Config::DsSession::Bind ad.cpp:street address The parameter is incorrect.]
20180806 16:09:10.500 2572 W2CH   779 [WARN] ConfigurationHelper::PollAdConfigNow Failed to get migration status. Error:
+    [Error:160(0xa0) Migration::SysVolMigration::IsLocalComputerLongHornLevelDc migration.cpp:StreetAddress One or more arguments are not correct.]
+    [Error:160(0xa0) Migration::SysVolMigration::Connect migration.cpp:StreetAddress One or more arguments are not correct.]
+    [Error:160(0xa0) Config::AdConfig::ConnectToLocalDc ad.cpp:StreetAddress One or more arguments are not correct.]

So, Why am I able to create the DFSR group, and it works until reboot, then it breaks?  If there is an AD parameter wrong, which is it, and why does it not find that when I create the replication group?

i am currently configuring a server that will only house replicated folder from other servers, i would like to setup a folder that will store file that have been deleted from other folders and would store files that have been deleted from the servers and keep the in case the need arises to restore the files without having to rely on the files getting backed up and then having to go through the backups to find the file to restore.

i have been using DFS and have the replication setup but can find any information on moving files that have been deleted to a separate folder, firstly is this possible? and if so cam someone point me in the direction of finding the information i need to set it up?

Chris Mottershead

We are copying all our shares to a different drive on Windows Server 2012 R2.

Once this is done, we will be making the drive the same letter of the previous drive. During this process, the old drive letter will be unavailable and this will cause all shares to disconnect and remove all quotas we currently have in place is FSRM.

I have found out how to import all the shares.

Is there a was i can do a backup and restore of fsrm quotas and file screens? (note...this not for the templates)
I was using powershell Get-FSRMQuota, which allows me to view the quotas but not to export them, and if i am able to export them, then how do i import afterwars

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