Hey guys

We recently switch our folder redirection to a DFS server and now we have users experiencing "Trying to Connect to domain.local

and I don't think its an error more just a visual message but is there anything we can do to disable or fix the issue? We have Windows 7 Clients w/ Office 2010 and Windows 8 Clients w/ Office 2013 both experiencing it when the Click on "Open" or"Save in the application.

Hi.

We have a 2-node WS2012 cluster that has a file server role with couple shares configured.

We're however constantly getting spammed by the following errors in the eventlog:

1) event 1002, source: SmbServer, message: "RKF failure - SRV2 failed to get acknowledgement from Resume Key filter for persistent handle request."

2) SCOM has an alert opened with this description: "SMB client failed to resume Continuously Available (CA) handle as Resume Key Filter is not acknowledging the handle." Per the alert knowledge, we've inspected ResumeKeyFilter eventlog, but it contains only informational message and warnings and none of those are from the time the alert was created.

Hello all,

I recently-ish (~7 months) migrated our domain over from Roaming User Profiles (RUP) to RUP + Folder Redirection (USV).  Everything works fantastically, except two small issues. Warning: Long post ahead, but I try to cover all bases from the get-go.

Issue #1: %Username%

It seems that when copying an existing user with a configured roaming profile path (e.g. \\server\Users$\%username%\profile), the new user's profile path exactly matches the user it was copied from. This was not the behavior when using only RUP - it always changed the profile path to include the new user's name.

I have USV configured so that a user's redirected folders and roaming profiles are combined to one spot on the network for consolidation of information and ease of management. For example, each users redirected folders are set for "Create a folder for each user under the root path" to \\server\Users$\ and their roaming profile paths are \\server\Users$\%username%\profile. The \profile suffix is so that when the profile is created, it is placed at the same level as all the other redirected folders.

The interesting thing is that it appears the issue has something to do with the \profile suffix.  In creating some test users, if I take that \profile off the end of the path, the %username% variable works fine - even in the same \Users$ folder I normally use (so it isn't a permissions thing).

Issue #2: Permissions

When a user is first created or is migrated to USV, they have Full Control on their root folder and all subfolders. However, the entries are all set to "This folder only".  In normal operation when creating their own folders and files, they encounter no issues. Unfortunately, if data is copied/moved into their profile from another user (which happens frequently for various reasons - data recovery, profile migration, copying files from another account, etc), they do not have any rights to it.

The workaround is to make sure to go into the user's root folder after creation, tick off inheritance, change 'This folder only' to 'This folder, subfolders and files', and tick 'Replace all child object permissions...'. However, even with an internal KB, this is hard for most of my team to remember. I find I either need to go in after them to change these settings or, if I am unable to, we have seen some users able to log in but then get 'Access Denied' to everything in their profile (which, understandably, freaks them out).

Here are the relevant steps on how I set up a new Users$ share:

1. Create folder -> Click Change Permissions -> Untick 'Include inheritable permissions...' -> clickAdd.
2. Edit Users "Special" ACL and change Apply To: to "This folder only" and change Name to regional security group.
   
3. Edit Users "Read & execute" ACL and changeApply To:"This folder only" and change Name to regional security group.
   
4. Sharing tab -> Click Advanced Sharing -> Tick "Share this folder" and give it Users$.
5. Permissions button -> Allow Full Control to Regional security group and Domain Admins.

I am sure this issue stems from how permissions on the Users$ share are configured, but I set it this way so that users couldn't get into each others' folders. I don't want to enable ABE as that would only be 'security by obscurity' - they could still get there if typing the path manually, and we have plenty of users savvy enough to do that. I have tried setting them up without the "This folder only" change, but they each get Full Control to all profiles. Is there a better way?

Conclusion

Obviously these aren't huge issues as they both have workarounds, but they do introduce two more avenues of complexity and human error which we have already suffered from more than once since switching over to USV.

I was hoping someone else had encountered these issue and knew of a fix aside from creating two entirely separate shares for RUP and Folder Redirection as that would increase complexity and reduce manageability.

Our domain functional level is Windows Server 2003 (we still have some older 2k3 DCs), but all file servers with this set are 2008 or 2008 R2. Most clients are running Win7, though we still have about 20 XPs floating around until March.

I look forward to and appreciate any input. Thank you very much!

I have 3 file servers n two different domains:
FileS01 and FileS02 in domainA (FileS01 / FileS02: Windows 2003R2)
FilesS03 in domainB (FileS03: Windows 2003R2)

Should I migrate to a new corporate server to be FileS01 (Windows 2012) also call and be in the domainA.

As you advise me to do it?

Thanks

I was trying to create a simple partition on a Windows Server 2008r2 server.  The server has four current partions already, OEM, recovery, O/S, and File storage.  I went through the steps, selecting the size of the new drive, I chose "Z" as the drive letter, since this will be used for archiving, it will be an NTFS drive, and chose quick format.  When I clicked on "Finish, I got this message: 

The operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk(s) to dynamic disk(s).  If you convert the disk to dynamic you will not be able to start installed Operating Systems from any volume on the disk except the current boot volume.

The hard drive the extra space is located on is a simple drive.  I've seen where Windows 7 does not allow more than four partitions, but I would assume a server would allow more than that.

I am scared to click "OK."  Can anyone tell me why this message would come up?

Hi,

I purchased a recovery USB from Lenovo for my ThinkPad (out of warranty, had to pay). They sent me a Microsoft branded USB stick preloaded with Windows 8. It is formatted as UDF and served its purpose in restoring my ThinkPad. When inserted into a PC it shows as being a DVD rather than a USB drive. Instead of just binning the drive or leaving it in a drawer, I figured I'd just format it and use it as a "normal" USB stick. However, Windows 8.1 turns round and says "Windows can't format this type of disk. Insert a different disk and try again". I have checked if it is read only in the registry and the StorageDevicePolicies>WriteProtect DWORD is set to 0 as well as Diskpart showing it as readonly: no.

I have taken the casing off the USB to see if there was an onboard write protect switch and there isn't but windows says it can't right to it as it is write protected.

I'm stuck as to how to format this drive. Tried using the dd command in Ubuntu, Disk Utility in OS X and command line in Windows (as well as the obligatory Right-Click > Format). I have also resorted to booting in safe mode with a command line and trying to format from there but it says it cannot gain access to the drive. Clearing the attributes in Diskpart says it doesn't work on removable media.

Any suggestions on where I can proceed from here would be most welcome.

Kind Regards,

Mike

Hi,

I am looking at migrating our existing physical file servers to virtual servers on Hyper-V.

Essentially on our physical boxes we created a 2 drive mirror for the OS, and lumped everything else together into a RAID5/6 array and created a single volume from this and started using it!

This does have its issues... for example AV scans and chkdsk...

I was wondering if anyone had any insight or best practices on how they lay their virtual file servers out?

I know historically Hyper-V had a 2040GB size limit of VHD, but now with VHDX that has disappeared...

We use DFS so having multiple targets or VHD's is not a problem as we can abstract this in the DFS namespace...

Any thoughts?

Hi,

I have a 2 node Server 2012 Failover Cluster running File Server, can I use deduplication on the volumes clustered, they use NTFS?

Looking at this reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/hh769303(v=vs.85).aspx I'm unclear from the following statement:

"Deduplication is not supported on:

...Cluster shared volumes (CSV) (but it does support clustered configuration with NTFS volumes)"

Thanks

We have a requirement to change the domain membership of a file server but permissions of files stored on the server must be retained with matching groups on the destination domain.

I realise there are several 3rd party utilities which would achieve this but these are cost prohibitive and so are not a viable option.

The main problem is that there are multiple terrabytes of data, millions of files and hundreds of groups to account for.

I know it's asking a lot but was wondering if anyone had any experience of doing something like this without using 3rd party software (which I know would make things a lot easier). I'm obviously not looking for a step by step guide, just an idea of an approach to take.

Thanks

Hi all;

Please look at the following figures:

As you can see on the second figure. I cannot create a partition on it. Can anyone explain why?

Thanks

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Hi,

I am doing a large Robocopy for a customer of mine that is reading from a DVD source and copying across the WAN, potentially running for multiple months.  The RoboCopy is running as a scheduled task on Windows 2008 R2 (target) and copying from a Windows 2000 source.  I have kicked the process off twice, and each time it appears to function for a day or so and then begins to seemingly get stuck in a loop in which it is perpetually failing due to an attempt to append double backslashes "\\" to the file path.  I have been researching potential causes of the issue online and have come up empty.  Any assistance with this would be GREATLY appreciated.

Batch Script Robocopy Commands - 150 commands total, each using the same switches (note that /MT is not being used since it negates /NP and I have to verify the copy success with logfiles of a manageable size)

C:\Windows\System32\Robocopy.exe \\hqsa0400\ArchiveXtender\VolumeName F:\VolumeName /E /Z /R:15 /W:60 /NFL /NDL /NP /LOG:E:\JukeboxRobocopy\JukeboxOSM_Copy_VolumeName.log

Example of Errors:

2014/02/05 15:49:05 ERROR 123 (0x0000007B) Creating Destination Directory F:\VolumeName\20060130\\105413\
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Thanks

pf

I am building a storage cluster and use Storage Spaces.  I will be using the cluster along with my Hyper-V cluster. About how much memory should I have in each of my storage cluster nodes?

thanks

Rob Nunley

Hallo,

ich have already searched my way through google and those related threads in here but with no success. I have created a powershell-script which is stored on a fileserver in our head office. We have 7 branch offices, 1 server each branch office accesses the script via an UNC-Path and an administrative share. I created a scheduled task on one of those branch office servers and made a successful testrun. Then i exported the task and imported it on the other 6 machines.

now here comes the crux of the matter: the scheduled task fails on 4 of those 7 machines despite the fact that all about it is the same. Reimporting or even recreating the task manually didn't help. Running the script interactively on the Powershell CLI works, with 2 different user accounts (my admin-account and a special service user). but when I launch the task manually with my admin account the tasks fails, but not with the service user logged in.

Here some additional general information:

• The scheduled task runs independently from User logon with a domain-based service-user which has local admin-rights on all 8 machines, my admin account is also local admin
  
• all servers run 2008R2 with identical patch level on an ESX-Host.
• The Powershell-script is called by the task as follows: Program: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe;Arguments: -ExecutionPolicy remotesigned -NonInteractive -command \\server\D$\Scripts\script.ps1
• the Powershell eventlog has no errors or warnings at all, the informational entries say nothing about any problems

I hope i made my issue understandable enough. Any help is highly appreciated! :-)

Hi all

One folder on our server has been encrypted and I have been asked to change the administrator password which has now stopped all access to the files within the folder.  If I try to open one of the files inside the folder I just get "access denied". I have put the password back to what it was before it makes no difference. 

"Encrypt Contents To Secure Data" cannot be unticked because it says I do not have access to do so.

The contents of the folder are very important and I need to access them asap.

We have server 2008 R2 

I know nothing about encryption and so any help in as simple terms as possible would be highly useful in helping me recover these files.

I have Googled the problem but there does not seem to be a definitive fix and so I thought I would start my own post.

Thanks again!

Hi,

I'm having a little difficulty restoring file replication between two of our servers. I'd appreciate some thoughts...

Background information:
We have got two replication groups (with two servers in each totalling 4 different servers. E.g. Group 1 - Server A <-> Server B & Group 2 - Server C <-> Server D.

We haven't made any major infrastructure changes or configuration changes recently but group 2 has simply stopped working. This is what I've tried so far:

Deleting and starting again
Connectivity checks:
pings by IP resolve
pings by name resolve to IPv6 (I wasn't aware we were using IPv6 in our infrastructure)
nslookup resolves and lists all IP's inc. IPv6

RPC ping resolves ok, output: RPCping completed 1 calls in 1ms 1000 T/s or 1.000ms/T

All windows firewalls are off and the replication is within the same LAN and the other group is working fine.

Portqry on ports TCP 139 come back as not listening and 445 TCP is listening.

The error I'm seeing in the Event log are:
Event ID: 5002
The DFS Replication service encountered an error communicating with partner Server-A for replication group Rep1.
Partner address: (This is correct)
Optional data shows a wins of: Server-A
Partner IP Address is listed as IPv6

The service will retry the connection periodically.
Additional info:
Error 1825 (A security package specific error occurred.)
Connection ID: X
Replication Group ID: Y

DCDIAG is coming back clear on the DC and repadmin /showreps is also clear.

Browsing across the network to these machines works ok.

Earlier this week, I recreated the replication group and did manage to get one half working but I couldn't get the replication working both ways. I tried recreating the group again from scratch and I'm now getting:

"Some servers cannot be contacted. Do you want to use them anyway? The server's OS version cannot be retrieved. Access is denied"

Can anyone possibly shed some light on what else I could try please?

Thanks in advance

Mark

Hi

There is some information about how data deduplication can impact server performace during the mechanism is running.

But does anyone know if Microsoft provided the document about how data deduplication impact the performance of access to the deduplicated files and folders?

I would like to implement this mechanism but not sure how it will affect the user access to data.

Hello,

I have setup DFSR replication and it did work fine for smaller files, not it tries to replicate bigger file and all I can see in event viewer is every 5 mins events 5014 (Error 1726, The remote procedure call failed).

DFSR log contains information below pointing to some sort of locking on staging file which I can not figure out since file is not locked by anything as far as I can see

20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 DOWN  1312 WrapRpcInitializeFileTransferAsync RpcInitializeFileTransferAsync completed successfully. rpcAsyncState:000000AB6AEFD8E0 context:0000000000000000
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 DOWN  1370 WrapRpcInitializeFileTransferAsync 0
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX   757 Rdc::SeedFile::Initialize RDC signatureLevels:4, uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 fileName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO fileSize(approx):4297375744 csId:{B5F1802A-24DD-4CEE-A569-06B64B854060} enableSim=1
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX   831 Rdc::SeedFile::Initialize Level is 4
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 STAG  1215 Staging::LockedFiles::Lock Successfully locked file UID: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 GVSN: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 state: Partial (refCount==1)
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX  3806 Rdc::FrsSignatureIndexFile::Open Opening FrsSignatureIndexFile OK for write Levels=1..4 uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX   890 Rdc::SeedFile::Initialize Using staged file. uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 fileName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO csId:{B5F1802A-24DD-4CEE-A569-06B64B854060} candidateUid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 candidateGvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 candidateFileName:11-{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11-{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11-Partial.frx
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX   903 Rdc::SeedFile::Initialize enableSimilarity=1, simData=362F3B31-101C0133-24131408-371E3F00,5D55C45F-BE348085-910BF4C3-E7D71787
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCC    91 RdcCache::Find 0x1000000000029 Windows 2012 R2.ISO
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCC   232 RdcCache::MatchSuffix Nothing found for \\.\D:\serverops\software\DfsrPrivate\ConflictAndDeleted\Windows 2012 R2.ISO*
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCC   284 RdcCache::MatchPaths 0x1000000000029 Windows 2012 R2.ISO (root: 0x1000000000029)
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX  3806 Rdc::FrsSignatureIndexFile::Open Opening FrsSignatureIndexFile OK for read Levels=1..4 uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX  2430 Rdc::SeedFile::OpenSeedSigDB Using seed file for uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 fileName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO csId:{B5F1802A-24DD-4CEE-A569-06B64B854060} seedType:<partialDownload> depth:4
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 STAG  1215 Staging::LockedFiles::Lock Successfully locked file UID: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 GVSN: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 state: Downloading (refCount==1)
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 STAG  2812 [WARN] Staging::LockDeleteFile [Error:9060(0x2364) Staging::LockDeleteFile staging.cpp:2811 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 STAG  1263 Staging::LockedFiles::Unlock Unlocked file UID: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 GVSN: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 state: Downloading (refCount==0)
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 STAG  4116 [WARN] Staging::OpenForWrite (Ignore) Failed to create stage file for GVSN {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11: [Error:9060(0x2364) Staging::LockDeleteFile staging.cpp:2811 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 DOWN  1125 RpcFinalizeContext Closing context:736245008960
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 INCO  4402 InConnection::TransportRdcGet Update syncInfoHistory
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 INCO  6535 InConnection::LogTransferActivity Failed to receive RDCGET updateName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} csId:{B5F1802A-24DD-4CEE-A569-06B64B854060} stagedSize:0
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 ASYN  1388 AsyncUnbufferedFileReader::Close Async READ Statistics:
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 STAG  1263 Staging::LockedFiles::Unlock Unlocked file UID: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 GVSN: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 state: Partial (refCount==0)
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 MEET  2276 Meet::Download Download Succeeded : false updateName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} csName:software csId:{B5F1802A-24DD-4CEE-A569-06B64B854060}
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 MEET  1860 Meet::InstallStep Done installing file updateName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} csName:software
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 INCO  2659 InConnection::ProcessErrorStatus remoteError:0 Error:9060(0x2364) The staging file is locked by another thread.
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 MEET  1416 Meet::Install -> WAIT Error processing update. updateName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} csName:software csId:{B5F1802A-24DD-4CEE-A569-06B64B854060} code:9060 Error:+	[Error:9060(0x2364) Meet::InstallStep meet.cpp:1879 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) Meet::Download meet.cpp:2296 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) InConnection::TransportRdcGet inconnection.cpp:4423 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) DownstreamTransport::RdcGet downstreamtransport.cpp:5265 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) RpcFinalizeContext downstreamtransport.cpp:1147 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) Rdc::SyncClientState::Download rdc.cpp:2703 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) Rdc::TargetFile::Initialize rdc.cpp:1837 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) DownloadWriter::Initialize meet.cpp:892 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) Staging::OpenForWrite staging.cpp:4127 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) Staging::LockDeleteFile staging.cpp:2811 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPMG   315 UpdateWorker::ConsumeUpdates Update contentInfoHistory
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPMG   405 UpdateWorker::ConsumeUpdates Update idUpdateInfoHistory
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPDI  1147 UpdateTaskQueue::OnTaskCompleted Removing from executed list task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940 queuePtr:000000AB6A239680 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC}
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPDI  1977 UpdateDistributionTask::OnPreCompletedTask task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} currentActiveUpdateTasks:1
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPDI  1159 UpdateTaskQueue::OnTaskCompleted Rescheduling task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940 queuePtr:000000AB6A239680 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} timeoutMs:0
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPDI   816 UpdateTaskQueue::InsertIntoReady Insert task into ready queue task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940 queuePtr:000000AB6A239680 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC}
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPDI  2040 UpdateDistributionTask::OnPostCompletedTask task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} currentActiveUpdateTasks:0
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 TASK   581 Task::Schedule task:000000AB6A210FE0 state:INACTIVE timerHandle:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF UpdateDistributionTask
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPMG   168 UpdateWorker::Run UnregisterNormalUpdate task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940
20140207 13:31:38.800 2172 UPDI  1773 UpdateDistributionTask::Step Schedule update tasks currentActiveUpdateTasks:0
20140207 13:31:38.800 2172 UPDI  1074 UpdateTaskQueue::ScheduleNextReadyTask Scheduling task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940 queuePtr:000000AB6A239680 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC}
20140207 13:31:38.800 2172 TASK   581 Task::Schedule task:000000AB6A22D940 state:INACTIVE timerHandle:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF UpdateWorker task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940

Hi all,

I recently installed Windows Server 2012 essentials on my home server and I'm trying to use my 3x 2TB RAID 5 array as data storage. 
I installed Windows Server on it's own 500GB HD and during the installation I provided my RAID controller driver.
Unfortunately, when I look in the installation partition manager, I don't see my RAID 5 as a whole but as 1x 2TB and 1X 1.6TB (which should be 1x 4TB).
If I don't provide my RAID controller driver during the installation, I'm seeing my 3x 2TB all separately installation partition manager.

Any thoughts of what i'm doing wrong OR what I could try.

Thanks.