Hey everybody,

last day we did made a new change on one of our systems. We moved one of our fileservers from WS2012 to WS2019. 

The change upon itself is quite as easy, migrated all shares, files and such stuff.

On this system we also had workfolders running before.

In the latest changes (2012->2016) we had no issues with workfolders so far, but in this case we noticed serveral issues:

The first issue is, that the clients thought that it's the same server (other name, but same workfolders URL) so we had alot of these issues:

Http request failed. User: smith@domain; Device: domain-W10-021; DeviceOS: Windows 10.0; Request: Get-UserConfig; Error code: (0x80070003) The system cannot find the path specified.

This could be corrected on the clients with setting up workfolders on theses devicve or screw up the config with a little script:

rem set service to disabled & stop it
sc config workfolderssvc start=disabled
sc stop workfolderssvc

rem delete sync files
rd /s /q %localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\WorkFolders\Metadata\

rem set service to manual & start it
sc config workfolderssvc start=demand
sc start workfolderssvc

But the main thing i noticed is, that the information about the synced devices of the users are fully missing.

Or healthy systems (WS2016) are looking like this:

Do you have any ideas why this happens? Is anyone else facing these kinds of issues?

Hi,

Bit of background. There were 2 server in a DFS setup, one in each site. The server in the DR site had some issues and was eventually shut down (for months) and then forcibly removed from DFS (namespace, replication etc. from the PR DFS console).

That's fine and the single working server is going well.

However, that single working server has about 100GB in the System Volume information folder, which is about 3.5GB in staging for each of the DFS share's and a bit in each conflict and deleted.

This is not going down, having removed the partner server.

I need a way to manually delete this stuff, because it's stuck there and 100GB is too much disk to lose. But all documentation says to never touch anything in here.

Any ideas what I can do? The decommissioned server isn't coming back - so I just want to clear the DFSR Private Staging / Conflict and Deleted folders.

Thanks

James

Hi Experts,

Need urgent help on the error mentioned in title. I am getting error "DFS: Delegation information for the namespace cannot be queried. The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted." when trying to connect in DFS Management console.

Users are not facing any issue while accessing data via DFS. We cannot administer DFS anymore due to this error.

Thanks,

Shashi

We have a Windows Server 2019 file server (virtual) running in a Windows 2019 domain as a member server.  All the users have domain joined Windows 10 Pro PCs (most 1803 a few 1903) running Office 2019.  We have a Word Template running macros that allows users to fill in a form in the template with some sensitive client accounts data so when they click a button in the document it saves the document in a folder that the users only have Write access to and then saves a copy of the form with the sensitive data removed into a Pending folder that the users have Full access to.  Only the SYSTEM, Server Admin user, Accounts Manager, I (as the IT Admin) have Full access to the Secure folder.  Once the Accounts Manage has processed the form she clicks a button in the document and runs a Macro that moves the Secure documents to a storage location and the Pending copy of the file is deleted.  All worked perfectly right up to the point I added some new users.  When they use the template the macro works as expected and the documents are created in the Secure and the Pending folders.  However no-one can access the file in the Secure folder.  Even when logged onto the server as the Domain Admin user I cannot view the Owner through the Security tab when looking at the file's properties, the message is "You must have Read permission to view the properties of this object".  We can take ownership and then the file is accessible but this is weird.  All other users create the files and the ownership of those files shows as the user that created it but the file has inherited the permissions of the Secure folder, so the Accounts Manager, SYSTEM, Server Admin users and I all have Full access.

As the users do NOT have anything other than Write permission to the Secure folder I cannot log in as the new user to see what permissions the file shows as they are unable to open the folder.  I've tried logging into the server and trying the Effective Permissions tab but as I don't even have READ permission I cannot do anything without taking ownership first....not even view Effective Permissions!  If I take ownership the problem is immediately solved.  

The new users are in all the same Security and Distribution groups as the pre-existing users are yet it's only the two new users that have this problem.

I temporarily granted one user Full Access to the Secure folder.  The files they created showed them as the user but with no permissions assigned to the object...



Anyone got any suggestions of where to look to fix this?

Phil Tyler

I have a HP 3par system via File Persona. I need to add mapped network drives to my Windows Server 2016 from at least 50TB. I'm using SMB protocol.

Someone told me the maximum size Win Server 2016 accept is 32TB. I'm currently looking for information but haven't found anything from HP or Microsoft.

Could someone confirm this for me please?

Hi there

I have a folder where one person is in control of the content. They need other users to be able to modify existing files but not to be able to create new files. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

In my environment we have a file server that stores the roaming profiles for all of the students on campus. The server is a Dell PowerEdge R540 running Windows Server 2019. There were 2 SSDs combined with RAID 1 for the O/S. Then the remaining 4 HDs were combined to create one volume totaling in about 5 TB to store all of the student data. This is not setup with RAID. Every single day the storage volume becomes unavailable and we have to restart the server for it to appear again/become accessible. When this happens you double-click on the drive and the wheel just spins.

Has anyone experienced this issue running Windows Server 2019? This is all brand new equipment and hard drives.

We've had some varied issues with some workstations on 1903 not allowing sync to take place. Some of these workstations came with 1903 out of the box new and some were upgraded from 1809 to 1903. The error I have been seeing is "Sync failed. Work Folders path: ...; Error: (0x80c80314) The Work Folders path has to be encrypted. You might have an application holding the Work Folders folder open or the folder might be compressed. Close File Explorer and any open files or apps, and check the folder Advanced properties to ensure that the folder is not compressed."

I've verified that the folder is not compressed and not opened. At first it seemed to be impacting all of the 1903 workstations we had but then it seemed like some of them had the issue cleared up. Looking at it further, I found that some just needed credentials updated.

I verified on the ones still having an issue, that we can use EFS to encrypt another folder successfully.

My test VM upgrades with Work Folders enabled and is updated to 1903 without issue other than reauth'ing Work Folders.

Hello All,

SETUP:

In our organisation we installed 2 node,  2-way mirror, all NVme S2D. On top of S2D we have SOFS role, and we have second "Compute" cluster witch saves all VHD's on that share.  Vhd are stored on Volume01, general share is on Volume02, Backup Volume03 (all with dedicated SOFS role).

Problem that we face was not noticed until we migrated all of our VM from old cluster to new one. So now our problem is even worse than before.

PROBLEM:

When we copy files on any of our shares "some" files "cannot" be deleted. We delete files and they lose all Security (no owner or any other security)  but files are still visible on storage but we cannot do anything with them. For first we thought it is security rights issue but then we tried to "Take offline" one of Cluster volumes and bring it online. And problematic files disappear.

Problem still persist and we cannot take our volume offline and online just for deleting files !!  ...files that wont be deleted are in most cases .iso, .exe, but there was some .pdf and so on. What is Interesting, we were doing some test for user folder redirection (documents, desktop, pictures), and if user puts same file (that won t be deleted) inside redirected folder user can delete it and there is no problem.  But if you access same file outside user machine a try to delete it ... \\sofs01\volume02\share\folder_redirection\user\desktop\file.zip   (and i give myself ownership or without same problem) after i click delete file disappears for second or two and appears again, but file is unusable. Can t do nothing with it.  User can't see it in it's shared folder cannot copy new file with same name or extansion i that folder either, while i can still see file on \\sofs01\volume02\share\folder_redirection\user\desktop\file.zip path outside users pc.  So we turn of and on volume and file is no more. 

Some details of S2D:

 Get-ClusterS2D | FL

CacheMetadataReserveBytes : 34359738368
CacheModeHDD              : ReadWrite
CacheModeSSD              : WriteOnly
CachePageSizeKBytes       : 16
CacheState                : Disabled
Name                      : HCLSS2D01
ScmUse                    : Cache
State                     : Enabled

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

 Get-VirtualDisk

FriendlyName              ResiliencySettingName FaultDomainRedundancy OperationalStatus HealthStatus  Size FootprintOnPool StorageEfficiency
------------              --------------------- --------------------- ----------------- ------------  ---- --------------- -----------------
Volume02                  Mirror                1                     OK               Healthy       4 TB            8 TB            49,99%
Volume03                  Mirror                1                     OK               Healthy       2 TB            4 TB            49,98%
Volume01                  Mirror                1                     OK               Healthy      10 TB           20 TB            50,00%
ClusterPerformanceHistory Mirror                1                     OK                Healthy      16 GB          34 GB            47,06%

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

Get-StoragePool -FriendlyName "S2D on HCLSS2D01" | FL


ObjectId                          : {1}\\HCLSS2D01\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_StoragePool.ObjectId="{2c461cff-2d46-4283-8baf-f08f9ebe9d51}:S
                                    P:{e2e70bb7-158f-4273-88a6-528eef21e90e}"
PassThroughClass                  :
PassThroughIds                    :
PassThroughNamespace              :
PassThroughServer                 :
UniqueId                          : {e2e70bb7-158f-4273-88a6-528eef21e90e}
AllocatedSize                     : 35235911696384
ClearOnDeallocate                 : False
EnclosureAwareDefault             : False
FaultDomainAwarenessDefault       : StorageScaleUnit
FriendlyName                      : S2D on HCLSS2D01
HealthStatus                      : Healthy
IsClustered                       : True
IsPowerProtected                  : True
IsPrimordial                      : False
IsReadOnly                        : False
LogicalSectorSize                 : 4096
MediaTypeDefault                  : Unspecified
Name                              :
OperationalStatus                 : OK
OtherOperationalStatusDescription :
OtherUsageDescription             : Reserved for S2D
PhysicalSectorSize                : 4096
ProvisioningTypeDefault           : Fixed
ReadOnlyReason                    : None
RepairPolicy                      : Parallel
ResiliencySettingNameDefault      : Mirror
RetireMissingPhysicalDisks        : Never
Size                              : 102385846321152
SupportedProvisioningTypes        : Fixed
SupportsDeduplication             : True
ThinProvisioningAlertThresholds   : {70}
Usage                             : Other
Version                           : Windows Server 2019
WriteCacheSizeDefault             : Auto
WriteCacheSizeMax                 : 18446744073709551614
WriteCacheSizeMin                 : 0
PSComputerName                    :

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

All disks healthy and operational status OK.

Please Help, we are out of ideas and this problem only happends on brand new high availability S2D. 

Thanks all helpers  in advance :)

Hi

We have a 2008r2 server in our Test DMZ Domain onprem environment which hosts a public facing website, the website auth is controlled through folder permissions and has Security Groups from our Production Domain added in so users can authenticate with their regular accounts. This is all working fine currently.

For example the domains look like this:

• domain.com (prod)
• test.domain.com (test)
• dmz.test.domain.com (test DMZ)

We are looking at replacing this server with a 2016 server in the same Test DMZ Domain but in Azure. When adjusting folder permissions I am able to select the Production Domain under Locations however it is unable to find any Users or Groups from the Production Domain. 

Initially I thought this would be firewall related as it appears to be timing out when doing the search, however as a test I tried adding a Production group onto the first onprem Server which already has Production groups on the folder and it's unable to find any Security Groups the same as the new server.

Is there something I'm missing here? How can the first server have Production groups on the Folder permissions if I'm unable to add the same group on the same server to a different server? I've tried adding the group with PROD\ before and @prod.com after the group name but no dice.

Are these lookups done on LDAP 389 to one of the Production DC's? Or are they passed to the Test DMZ DC and then back up the Production through its own channels?

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers

I need more info on ways to troubleshoot this to fix this from happening. It happens at random times

EventViewer gives me the following info:

• (Level) Warning - (Source) Search - (Event ID) 1008 -  (Task Category) Search

The windows Search Service is starting up and attempting to remove the old search index {Reason:Index Corruption}.

Hello,

Whe I maped drive, and assign permission to Domain suers. It does not work.

I have to add everyone permission to that folder.  What did I lose? or It is to grant Everyone first and then Domain users

get permission to share the folder?

brgds

Liu Wei

Hi,

I have two brand new server 2016 standards.Running Windows 10 1809 at this time.

One server hosts a VERY basic intranet site where people on the shop floor can (among other things) open PDF files of blueprints from a folder on the intranet share (menu link is the folder name)

A collègue recently brought to my attention that when they try to access these blue prints, they get a prompt "Do you allow this website to open an application on your computer" (Windows Explorer) (translating from French may be inexact)

This is very annoying for them and I need to stop this prompt.

I've tried creating gpo to put my intranet server in the intranet zone, I'm not sure if this is an IE issue or a UAC issue.  I thought I had UAC turned off actually but I see it is now on the highest setting on my own computer, did the GPO settings for this change at some point with a Windows version or when I moved from Server 2012 to 2016?

What do you think I need to do to stop this prompt? 

Hello

I have created an FSRM file group comprising a single full file name e.g. dog.pub - no wildcards (in case that matters for the purposes of this question).

I have set it to Active screening and created a template that uses the file group.

If I create a new File Screen, tell it use the template or right-click the template to create a new file screen and specify C:\ or C:\Windows the screen is created but the screening type is changed to Passive. I can edit the file screen and set the Screening type to Active, but after clicking OK it reverts to Passive.

I must be missing something here. How can I prevent filename.pub being saved to the C:\ drive or the Windows folder using FSRM?

Thank you.

My company uses windows server 2012 without active directory. On the server's C drive we have a folder named "Shared Space". Inside this folder there are various subfolders for different departments, e.g Marketing Folder, Management folder, Procurement folder etc. 

We want users to be able to access all folders except some folders, like "Management folder". If they try to access it then we want the system to ask a username and password. What is the simplest way to achieve this?
 

Marcin 

Hello everybody,

we have a Windows Server 2019 file server with the fulltext indexing service installed. It indexes office files and pdf files just fine, but apparently there is no IFilter installed for .msg files - that extension does not appear in the list for extensions to be indexed. The file names of .msg files get indexed, but not its contents.

What must I do to have the indexing service index the contents of mail messages inside .msg files containing email messages stored from Outlook 2019/365 please?

Best Regards, Stefan Falk

Team,

We are stuck with an issue for multiple users.

When they are trying to open excel files from file server, it gives an error message that "someone else is working on it right now. Please try again later ".

It started all of a sudden and now its very irritating. We can see that there are some TechNet threads based on this which says modifying a registry entry in user pc will resolve the issue temporarily and Microsoft is trying for a permanent fix.

Is this issue permanently resolved? Why this issue suddenly started ? Is this because of any particular patch installation in client machines or server ?

Your assistance will be a great help in resolving the problem.

Thank you.

SJ

Hi All,

I would like to seek for your assistance on what will be my steps to build a successful DFSR for my 2 different offices, end state is that i have 2 file server, FS1 and FS2 that has DSFR and replication is running to our 100mbps leased line. Below are the steps on my mind.

 - both server are still in Site A physically.

Step 1. Configure File Server 1 DFS namespace and include all my existing files (Is this correct, or should i add the FS2 already upon creating the namespace)

Step 2. Create DSFR and add my FS1.(is this correct i will create DFSR with 1 server only first?)

Step 3. Preseed all files to FS2 from FS1 using robocopy.(What are the steps that DFSR consider the robocopy as preseed)

Step 4. once done on preseeding, Ship the physical server FS2 to my second site.

Step 5. Add the FS2 to the DFSR ( This is the part i am worrying, since FS2 is not the updated one, i'm worrying that FS2 might overwrite the updated files on FS1.)

If possible can you please help me on the step by step. Thank you all.

Dear All,
I need some suggestion to fix a problem with an NTFS file system running on virtual (vmware) Windows Server 2012 R2.
The NTFS filesystem is a 14 TB dynamic spanned volume across two VMDK.
This is used as a network share with a File and Sorage Services role.

Opening the Server Manager > File and Sorage Services section, I saw a warning in the Volumes list: it says "Offline Scan and Repair needed".
So, I ran a chkdsk on that drive in read only mode, and it said that no error was found.
Anyway I have scheduled an offline (on boot) "chkdsk /r /f" for that volume on the weekend (out of office hours) and it started at 20:30 PM.
The scanning percentage reached the 15% soon and after that it stucked for two days.
Then I had to force a restart vefore the office hours to allow people to work with that file share.
At reboot, I ran again a chkdsk in read only mode and this is the result:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk e:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is xxxxxxxx.

WARNING!  F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...


  12030720 file records processed.

File verification completed.


  2310713 large file records processed.


  0 bad file records processed.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...


  12846754 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.


  0 unindexed files scanned.


  0 unindexed files recovered.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.


  408018 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...


  41705376 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.
The master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute is incorrect.
The Volume Bitmap is incorrect.
Windows has checked the file system and found problems.
Please run chkdsk /scan to find the problems and queue them for repair.

  14680057 MB total disk space.
  12271633 MB in 9302276 files.
   2597588 KB in 408019 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
  12709287 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
   2393476 MB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
3758094847 total allocation units on disk.
 612729885 allocation units available on disk.

Now the problem is that the volume is important and can't go down again for days without fixing the problem, so I need tho fix it while it is online or at lease reduce the downtime.

There is a way to achieve this, even with a commercial software?

Thanks