Hi everyone,

Well, I want to know if enabling VSS snapshot on the Disks drives can handle ransomware attack, I mean if I have multiple Healthy VSS snapshots and my data is infected by ransomware, could I recover from one of healthy snapshots ?

Thank you.

User creates an excel document and saves it to their documents folder, the file name is correct on the users device but on the server share it's named as XXXXXX.tmp where X is random numbers. If the user closes the document now the server file remains as the .TMP file. If the user makes additional changes and clicks save a 2nd file with the correct file name and excel extension appears on the server share while the original .tmp file remains as well.

If I perform a manual sync or log off\log on sync centre reports that all files are in sync, even if there is just a .tmp file not the correct file + the .tmp file

If there is the correct file + a .tmp file users can open the file and make edits and save and the correct file is updated not the .tmp file. If a user saves a file, closes it there is only a .tmp file on server. If they reopen it and then save a new .tmp file is created on the server while their correct file is updated.

If a user saves then closes only the .tmp resides on the server while locally the correct file exists, if I delete the .tmp file then sync centre advises there is a conflict after 24 hours. If it is less than 24 hours then nothing is reported and only the user has a copy of the file. After 24 hours sync centre advises a file on the server was deleted, what do you want to do with the local copy. The options are to keep the local copy and save it to the server or delete the local copy as well.

This happens in both Windows 7 and Windows 10 and only occurs with Excel and with offline files enabled, word creates then renames the tmp file successfully. If redirected folders only then the file renames for Excel as well.

Looking for some help.  Trying to create a storage report in server 2016 fsrm and keep getting this error.  Tried an uninstalll & reinstall reboot, no luck.

Ran this and it didn't help.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2014/05/20/set-fsrm-storage-report-limits-using-powershell/

thank you.

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to know if it's possible to achieve the following:

We have a cname contonso.microsoft.com who points to Fileserver1. All the shares and GPO's use that cname.

Currently we need to move 1 of the shares to another server Fileserver2.

We created a DFS namespace \\microsoft.com\contonso who contains Fileserver1 and Fileserver2.

Could we redirect contonso.microsoft.com to the DFS directly?

Of course all the shares will be re-created on the DFS too.

Thank You

Hi all, ive been reading the following article: - https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2533009/information-about-microsoft-support-policy-for-a-dfs-r-and-dfs-n-deplo . And this outlines a scenario in which MS doesn't support the use of DFS-R and DFS-N for roaming profiles. 

Firstly, is this still valid for Server 2016, as it is a five year old article now? If it is still valid then I need to investigate other options for the scenario of:-

1) VDI users in two active site locations.

2) All VDI users have Roaming Profiles and also use Document Redirection.

3) Users profiles are as small as possible, due to policies in place to restrict their ability to do pretty much anything.

4) The Profiles share is separate to the Documents share, and this would be the same for Namespaces (i.e. there will be two separate shares/namespaces).

There will be around 200 users active in one site, and 100 active in the other. The WAN link between sites is 1Gbps, with latency around 1ms. We would like to be able to publish the Roaming Profile Namespace and also the Document Namespace, and use these in the updated GPO's for all users. 

We need to provide Active/Active site resilience to allow either 'set' of users to fail-over to the other site in a DR situation, and for their Desktops/settings/documents to be fully available. The VDI environment is using VMWare.

Thanks for any help.

Phil

Greetings,

I work for Microsoft Partner and i am in process of deploying DFS file server in customer side. I have some inquiries:

current setup:

Existing one file server (2012 R2) using normal sharing folder. Shared folders mapped manually on each user PC.

Scope:

install DFS on the same file server and install another DFS file server (2012 R2) for high availability.

My inquiry

I need to know steps needed to achieve the scope noting that existing file server have many shared folders using Server name UNC path. 

I search over the internet deeply i found many blogs taking about File server migration tool, robocopy, xcopy but i am confused of the steps in sequence.

'0X80070043' Errors

I am also element not found.

Any help would be appreciated.

We are trying to configure new file server mirrors with DFS + DFSR on them and our existing file servers in our three environments. Sandbox-Dev-Live. All are under the same domain. I was able to successfully create a namespace from the "new" sandbox-FS02, \\domain.net\sbox\, and had no issues getting replication up and running and all was looking sunny and easy.

In "dev", however, things are not so easy. When attempting to create the \\domain.net\dev namespace, I receive an error error on both dev-fs01 and dev-fs02. For the sake of simplicity here I'm leaving everything default. Not changing anything with shared folder location, details, or path. The shared folder does not exist before creation. Default path of C:\DFSRRoots\Dev is being used. "All Users have Read-Only Permissions" is checked. Domain based, with 2008 mode checked. 

The namespace in question has never been successfully created and there are no associated registry entries for the namespace on any DC.

The error in question is as follows:

"\\domain.net\dev: The namespace server \\dev-fs01 cannot be added. The specified server cannot perform the requested operation".

There is no associated EventViewer Log Error, on either file server or any domain controller within the domain.

I have done a lot of troubleshooting already in terms of network connectivity between the servers and the PDC, permissions, verifying NETLOGON shares, AD replication... out of ideas at this point. I can provide any (sanitized) information that is desired about the environment or the error.

I'm having a failover cluster with 2 servers. Both servers have 2 disks; 1 800GB for data and 1 20GB for logs. Of course these are GPT disks and I'm able to build a cluster and create a file server role.

I've used Storage Replica to replicate the 800GB disks. This works and I can host the file server role on both nodes in the cluster. I've created a share on the fileserver role and added some data to this share. No problems so far.

Now I want to copy more data to the fileserver role, but when doing to the replication will fail after having copied some GBs of data.

The event log of the cluster gives the following error:

Cluster resource '29382f4b-948c-4768-acc6-10fea296553a' of type 'Storage Replica' in clustered role 'SR Group 1' failed.
Based on the failure policies for the resource and role, the cluster service may try to bring the resource online on this node or move the group to another node of the cluster and then restart it.  Check the resource and group state using Failover Cluster Manager or the Get-ClusterResource Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

I can bring the disks online again and start the Storage Replica role, but I don't want it to fail.

In case someone wonders; I did run the "Validate Cluster..." wizard and I passed it.

Hi There,

I have a file server running on Windows 2008 R2. I have to install the role FSRM MANAGEMENT.

But when I try to install i find the error: the request to add or remove  on specified server failed. the system cannot find the specified file. I found in the logs the error that is given below :

log name: setup

sorce servicing

event id: 11

Event ID:      11
Task Category: (1)
Level:         Information
Keywords:      
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      SRVFC003.ENANA.NET
Description:
Update FSRM-Management of package FSRM-All failed to be turned on. Status: 0x80070002.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Servicing" Guid="{BD12F3B8-FC40-4A61-A307-B7A013A069C1}" />
    <EventID>11</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>0</Level>
    <Task>1</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-03-31T00:47:23.860591100Z" />
    <EventRecordID>371</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="5356" ThreadID="6652" />
    <Channel>Setup</Channel>
    <Computer>SRVFC003.ENANA.NET</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <UserData>
    <CbsUpdateChangeState xmlns="http://manifests.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/windows/setup_provider">
      <UpdateName>FSRM-Management</UpdateName>
      <PackageIdentifier>FSRM-All</PackageIdentifier>
      <ErrorCode>0x80070002</ErrorCode>
      <Client>DISM Package Manager Provider</Client>
    </CbsUpdateChangeState>
  </UserData>
</Event>

Is there any way to fix this issue? Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi All

I am using a 3rd party app PDFTK.exe to combine pdf files into one pdf file.  The app works without incident on a Server 2012 R2 system (app is running from the Sever on a workstation in a client/server environment) but does not work on the Server 2008 R2 system.  The difference between the two setups (in the PDFTK folder permissions) is the presence of the ALL APPLICATIONS PACKAGES group on the 2012 R2 server and the absence of this group in the 2008 R2 system.  Since the error message is logon failure when invoking the PDFTK app on the 2008 R2 system I am assuming this missing group (on the 2008 R2 system) is the culprit.  I have looked in vain for the procedure regarding the adding of this group but none of the procedures found has worked.  Is it the case that this group does not exist on Server 2008 R2 and my "logon failure" is not being caused by this "missing group"?  I should also add, the PDFTK app is being invoked from a vb.net program (same environment on both Servers)  One other note if I run the vb.net program directly on the Server 2008 R2 system PDFTK works without issue.  Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Respecfully,

Ideprize

Gordon Haas

Hello everybody,

I’ve reinstalled my windows 2016 1709 Server, now the files on my ntfs-volume with deduplication are not accessible.

The Server is a backup repository server, so I can’t access my backups in the moment.

Checkdisk has reported no errors, the folder structure is available, but all deduplicated files are inaccessible.

I’ve reinstalled the server with windows 2016 1607.

Does anyone know if the NTFS-dedup has changed from windows 2016 1607 to 1709?

I can’t find a 1709 iso-download in our volume-license-portal, so I can’t reinstall with 1709.

In the moment, I try to get access to the files by installing windows 2019 1809.

Any idea how to get a iso with windows Server 2016 1709? Or any Idea how to get access to the files again?

Thanks

Guido

We experienced a sudden drop in network share access in our environment today. Several of our users (100's) lost access to their day to day Data drive on their local office server. The issue was experienced across multiple office servers.

However the issue was sporadic and inconsistent, one user that couldn't access one share, the user next to them could but couldn't access the Data share on another office server.

We have multiple file servers each with multiple shares, our servers are running Server 2008 R2 and our workstations are Windows 7.

The issues was primarly experienced on the everyday 'Data' share, other shares on the same server were accessible. The folder was still accessible locally on the server and only appeared to be an issue for SMB connections.

We were able to identify a workaround by either restarting the client workstation which resolved the problem or by accessing the share using the FQDN instead of NETBIOS name.

We've troubleshooted name resolution and can confirm that Name resolution is working fine.

We've checked the Network provider order and this is also configured correctly on all file servers.

We've also ruled out the hotfix documented in KB2194664 as our servers and clients have a newer version of file mrxsmb10.sys and the hotfix is not applicable.

We performed a network capture on a file server that was receiving a connection attempt from a problem client and received the following results:

A successfull connection attempt to a share looks like this:

SMB2170 Tree Connect Request Tree: \\<SERVER>\IPC$
SMB2138 Tree Connect Response
SMB2222 Ioctl Request FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS, File: \<SERVER>\Users
SMB2222 Ioctl Request FSCTL_DFS_GET_REFERRALS, File: \<SERVER>\Users
TCP54 445→64647 [ACK] Seq=85 Ack=453 Win=256 Len=0
SMB2131 Ioctl Response, Error: STATUS_NOT_FOUND
SMB2172 Tree Connect Request Tree: \\<SERVER>\Users
SMB2138 Tree Connect Response

The connection attempt to the problem share looks like this:

We've raised a support ticket with Microsoft as this issue now has us completely at a loss and all current community suggestions for the 'The Network Name Cannot Be Found' error message have been thoroughly explored (name resolution, network provider order, KB2194664)

We'd appreciate any assistance anyone is able to offer

Kriss Milne | MCSE

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I have a shared folder with specific permissions and I just wanted to customize some subfolder's permission not to inherit from the parent folders.

I have already done that using advanced>uncheck "include Inheritable permission", then I added some specific users to the list. so the users now have full permissions on the folders and sub folders but when they want to edit the folders lets say creating new files  it says "you need permission to perform this action". Not sure why with full permission, it shows this error?

any help will be appreciated!

Hi everyone,

Well, I want to know if enabling VSS snapshot on the Disks drives can handle ransomware attack, I mean if I have multiple Healthy VSS snapshots and my data is infected by ransomware, could I recover from one of healthy snapshots ?

Thank you.

Hi, when using Get-DfsnFolderTarget remotely such as Invoke-Command -ComputerName Servername {Get-DfsnFolderTarget \\domain\dfs\share} the following error is returned:

Get-DfsnFolderTarget : Cannot get DFS folder properties on "\\domain\dfs\share"
    + CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (MSFT_DfsNamespaceFolderTarget:ROOT\Microsoft\...aceFolderTarget) [Get-DfsnFolderTarget], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Windows System Error 5,Get-DfsnFolderTarget

Get-DfsnFolderTarget : Access to a CIM resource was not available to the client.
    + CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (MSFT_DfsNamespaceFolderTarget:ROOT\Microsoft\...aceFolderTarget) [Get-DfsnFolderTarget], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MI RESULT 2,Get-DfsnFolderTarget

When using New-PSSession ServerName, Enter-PSSession, Get-DfsnFolderTarget \\domain\dfs\share I get the same result.

Running the command locally does return a result. It appears all DFS cmdlets give this error. Is this a double hop problem?

After an in-place upgrade from 2016 to 2019, dedup service refuses to start with the following error. I can still access data inside the drives, but dedup doesn't work and I get errors stating the same on the server management console for files and storage.

This is the only related event error:

Event 7024

The Data Deduplication Service service terminated with the following service-specific error: 
%%2153141004

I have the server patched to the latest. Is this a known issue?

Thanks!

Hello,

we are evaluating Windows Server 2016 Storage Replica to replace a 3rd party product. We used this evaluation example to get a head start and 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-replica/stretch-cluster-replication-using-shared-storage

but created a two node cluster only were both cluster nodes have its own set of iSCSI disks. We are also aware of the FAQ:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-replica/storage-replica-frequently-asked-questions

After a few tests I came to the conclusion each SR Group / SR Partnership has its own Log disk and it's not possible to assign more than one SR Group / SR Partnership to a single Cluster Role. Is this true? I assume the Log disk can become a performance bottleneck in this case.

We try to use Powershell to configure the SR Groups and SR Partnerships. One use-case is to add an additional disk to a SR Group. I learned I do have to remove the SR Partnership before I can modify the SR Groups. Nevertheless, when trying to add another disk I get a strange error:

New-SRGroup -ComputerName SR-Eval-01 -Name SR-Group-01 -VolumeName D:,E: -LogVolumeName L:
Set-SRGroup -ComputerName SR-Eval-01 -Name SR-Group-01 -AddVolumeName F:
Set-SRGroup : Unable to add volume for replication group SR-Group-01, detailed reason: The system cannot find the
file specified.
At Line:1 char:1
+ Set-SRGroup -ComputerName SR-Eval-01 -Name SR-Group-01 -AddVolumeName ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo         : ObjectNotFound: (MSFT_WvrAdminTask:root/Microsoft/...T_WvrAdminTask) [Set-SRGroup], CimException
+ FullQualifiedErrorId : Windows System Error 2, Set-SRGroup

I tried Clear-SRMetadata already, removed the iSCSI disks, created a set of new disks, and reinstalled the Storage-Replica feature already, but it made no difference.

It would be gread if someone could provide some help for my two issues.

Kind regards,

Jiriki 

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