Hello everyone,
I am facing a very weird issue with DFS-R. Recently I had to recreate two Replication Groups (Data Collection) in order to restore file replication after a disaster with one of the servers. Everything went well during the whole process and both servers are already in sync with each other. However, when I run a WMI query (Wmic /namespace:\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrreplicatedfolderinfo get replicationgroupname,replicatedfoldername,state) to see the status of the Replication Groups, I see duplicate values for a given RG with a status of '0' (Uninitialized). I have already checked everything I could... If I open the DFS Management console I don't see any duplicate Replication Groups there; the contents of the XML configuration files under "C:\System Volume Information\DFSR" & "E:\System Volume Information\DFSR" - being the latter one where the replicated data resides - are OK (no duplicate entries); and on registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\DFSR), I also only see what's really configured (again, no duplicate values).
I strongly suspect it's some sort of left over on the WMI repository that was not handled properly by DFS-R when the Replication Groups were re-created, but as I've never had to delete spefic instances from WMI, I am wondering whether someone out there has already faced the same issue or has any clues on how to get rid of these disturbing duplicate results being returned on "Wmic /namespace:\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrreplicatedfolderinfo get replicationgroupname,replicatedfoldername,state".
Just wanted to emphasize that replication is working fine between the two boxes (in both directions), the only issue being faced here is the duplicate thing.
Thanks in advance! :-)
I am facing a very weird issue with DFS-R. Recently I had to recreate two Replication Groups (Data Collection) in order to restore file replication after a disaster with one of the servers. Everything went well during the whole process and both servers are already in sync with each other. However, when I run a WMI query (Wmic /namespace:\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrreplicatedfolderinfo get replicationgroupname,replicatedfoldername,state) to see the status of the Replication Groups, I see duplicate values for a given RG with a status of '0' (Uninitialized). I have already checked everything I could... If I open the DFS Management console I don't see any duplicate Replication Groups there; the contents of the XML configuration files under "C:\System Volume Information\DFSR" & "E:\System Volume Information\DFSR" - being the latter one where the replicated data resides - are OK (no duplicate entries); and on registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\DFSR), I also only see what's really configured (again, no duplicate values).
I strongly suspect it's some sort of left over on the WMI repository that was not handled properly by DFS-R when the Replication Groups were re-created, but as I've never had to delete spefic instances from WMI, I am wondering whether someone out there has already faced the same issue or has any clues on how to get rid of these disturbing duplicate results being returned on "Wmic /namespace:\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrreplicatedfolderinfo get replicationgroupname,replicatedfoldername,state".
Just wanted to emphasize that replication is working fine between the two boxes (in both directions), the only issue being faced here is the duplicate thing.
Thanks in advance! :-)