Hi,

We have a file server running on windows server 2008 R2. Now we are planning to implement DFS and move all data on the file server to a new windows server 2012 R2.

i thought of doing this by adding DFS role on the server1 and adding the replicating partner as server2 and after all the replication occurs, decommission server1.

Both are in a domain environment. Domain forest level and forest functional level are windows server 2008 R2. Would there be any issues by doing the above.

Please suggest

hi,

I'm on windows 8.1 enterprise.  All of a sudden in windows explorter when I try to access drives on my network I get "file and print sharing resource is online but isn't responding to connection attempts"..  This formerly did not have any issues.

I did a restore to a point where I know it did work...but it still does not connect to network drives.

Please advise,thanks James

AJ Anning

Hi,

I am planning to copy all the share folders along with data to the new server ( server2) and decommission the old one (server1)

The other server is also on the same domain as server1. i want to use robocopy as it would copy with permissions.( so that i don't have to recreate the permission levels for the share folders in the new server)

Source : 10.0.90.12\D:\Share  ( share folder has many subfolders and files)

Destination : it's also the same D drive .Have to create the same shares ( folder names). \\10.0.90.18\D:\Share

What command do i need to use ?

Please suggest

Thansk in advance

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Hi Everyone,

We have recently built a Windows Server 2012 R2 server and installed the File Services role with just the DFS Namespace and DFS Replication features. Although everything looks to be working fine, I am a little concerned why we keep getting the following repeating message, I see no indication that the service is crashing or failing but every 30 minutes we get the following information alert in the system.

The DFS Namespaces service has successfully initialized the shared folder that hosts the namespace root. Shared folder: ournamespace

The server also has the AD DS, DNS & DHCP roles installed as well, all operating fine. The server is patched up to within the past few months as well.

Cheers,
Leigh

Hi Guys,

I have file server which is completely in a bad state in terms of permissions, Even domain admin does not have access to the folders or shares due to permissions issues.

Please can you help me how I can migrate the server to the new environment with brand new folder structure and permissions but matter of fact that we need the existing permissions export.

Any help would be ideal.

Kind Regards,

Ali

Ali Hussaini

hello

One subfolder have name as domain account name, like mikesmith...I want to right click on folder and choose example "reset ntfs". this "reset ntfs" is menu under right click which call script. this script need to disable inheritance, grant modify access to this user AUTOMATICALLY (from name of folder) and full to admin, auditing bla bla and rest all child object...

Is that possible?

Hi Guys,

We have recently deployed a remote app via windows server 2012 r2, we have set it to redirect drives which look like a really good feature.

But when the users go into the redirected drives through the remote app not all the files are displayed it only displays around 50 files but there is actually around 700 files in the folder. It seems to be happening on a number of the redirected drives but if you map the drive on the server then there is no issue, but this fix doesn't really solve the problem as we have over 100 users using multiple drives. So would mean us having to go round every PC and mapping multiple drives for each user which could be very time consuming.

I'm really stumped on this one, would really appreciate any advise.

Thanks

Hi All,

After Scrubbing full job a have report that Data Deduplication service found 8 corruption(s)

In details log i found only Informational records about:

Data Deduplication service detected a corrupted item (Missing file - Data, 0xA3, 0x40000, 0x0, container file) in Deduplication Chunk Store on volume F:\. See the event details for more information.

But there is no file name or path, just:

How determine what file corrupted and how to fix this?

Thank you!

Best Wishes, Andrew Golubenkoff

Hello there,

we have multiple Win95 / Win 98 machines still running, used for CNC machines. There cannot be upgraded.

Is there a step by step manual how to enable these machines to connect to a share on our SBS 2011 server? The Win95+98 machines are not joined in the domain, just in a workgroup.

Thanks in advance, Marcus

Hi All

Can you do me a favor please, thanks.

I developed a program to enumerate all domain and computers at the local network. This program works normally except

one Windows 2012 R2 windows, and  WNetOpenEnum always return 1208, the corresponding extended error information

is :

Extended error id : 2107;

description : The device is not connected;

Provider : Microsoft Windows Network;

Can you please give me some suggestion , thanks.

Thanks

Regards

Hi,

Old client: Windows Server 2003 SP2

New client: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

File server: Windows Server 2012 R2 with 2014 November Rollup

Copying a folder with a large number of files from a file share using Windows Server 2003 is about twice as fast than copying the same folder from the same file server using Windows Server 2008 R2. Robocopy statistics:

Windows Server 2003:
C:\>robocopy \\server\share C:\temp\test /MIR /NP /NJH /NFL /NDL /NP

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                Total    Copied   Skipped  Mismatch    FAILED    Extras
     Dirs :       209       208         1         0         0         0
    Files :      7500      7500         0         0         0         0
    Bytes :  405.53 m  405.53 m         0         0         0         0
    Times :   0:01:04   0:01:03                       0:00:00   0:00:01

    Speed :             6722641 Bytes/sec.
    Speed :             384.672 MegaBytes/min.

    Ended : Thu Nov 20 22:00:16 2014

Windows Server 2008 R2:
C:\>robocopy \\server\share C:\temp\test /MIR /NP /NJH /NFL /NDL /NP

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               Total    Copied   Skipped  Mismatch    FAILED    Extras
    Dirs :       209       208         1         0         0         0
   Files :      7500      7500         0         0         0         0
   Bytes :  405.53 m  405.53 m         0         0         0         0
   Times :   0:02:13   0:02:11                       0:00:00   0:00:01

   Speed :             3224473 Bytes/sec.
   Speed :             184.505 MegaBytes/min.

   Ended : Thu Nov 20 22:03:18 2014

I found some tips suggesting to disable SMB Signing on the Windows Server 2008 R2 client, but that didn`t make any difference (I modified the local security policy, not the Default Domain Policy as suggested in the article I found).

Any ideas why there is such a huge difference?

An application accessing the file share is behaving much slower on Windows Server 2008 R2 compared to Windows Server 2003 due to this issue.

Hello all,

Hopefully this is in the right section! :) Last monday we had a serious issue on our main production server. We're running Windows Server 2008 R2 (virtualised through Hyper-V 2008 R2), with iSCSI connections to our PS6000 and PS6100 Dell EqualLogic storage. For some reason that night the server lost connection to an iSCSI disk that contains all the .exe files for SAP causing the program to crash. I'm currently out of ideas and was hoping to get some input from others here =D.

Windows Server 2008R2 SP1 with the latest Windows updates installed.
iSCSI initiator driver version 6.1.7601.18386
EqualLogic firmware: V7.0.9 (R400081)
EqualLogic HIT tools on the server: 4.7.1
CommVault backup was running at that time (always scheduled for the time frame)

ID 29 1:53:26: Target rejected an iSCSI PDU sent by the initiator. Dump data contains the rejected PDU.
<EventData><Data>\Device\RaidPort0</Data><Binary>0000C00001000000000000001D0000C00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003F800400000000300000000000000000FFFFFFFF0000000000006803000067FF0000681F000000000000000000000000690071006E002E0032003000300031002D00300035002E0063006F006D002E0065007100750061006C006C006F006700690063003A0030002D003800610030003900300036002D006200340032003100650063003900300035002D0036003200380030003000300066003100650037006500340065006300340064002D006E006C006F006F0073007000720064002D00</Binary></EventData>

ID 32 1:53:26: Initiator received an asynchronous logout message. The target name is given in the dump data.ID 23 1:53:26:All paths have failed. \Device\MPIODisk3 will be removed.ID 16 1:53:26:A fail-over on \Device\MPIODisk3 occurred.ID 15 1:57:26:The device, \Device\Harddisk4\DR4, is not ready for access yet.ID 12293 1:57:27: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}. Routine details IVssSnapshotProvider::QueryVolumesSupportedForSnapshots(ProviderId,8388617,...) [hr = 0x80042302, A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error. Check the Application event log for more information.

What caused our SAP process to stop working:

ID 1000 1:57:47: Faulting application name: disp+work.EXE, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x53594b41

Any help to put me into the right direction would be greatly appreciated! 

Kind regards,
Dennis Lans

Hello,

I'm afraid, i will greatly appreciate any help on this one.

I'm working on it since 2 days without success (I read many thread without help).

So the fact:

I have 2 AD (2008 R2) on site 1 and 2 AD (2008 R2) on site 2.
I have also 2 files servers (2008) on site 1 and 2 files servers (2008 R2) on site 2.

The files servers run DFS system.
DFS Namespace is host on all AD.
DFS Replication and share are on all files servers.

After update all my servers. I got a big problem.

Communication between files servers and AD of site 2 isn't working properly now.
By this fact, DFSR is not working anymore between site 1 (all seem fine on this site) and site 2.

DFSR on site 2, pop this events all time:

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Event 1202 - Source DFSR

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.)

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Event 1055 - Source GroupPolicy

The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not resolve the computer name. This could be caused by one of more of the following:
a) Name Resolution failure on the current domain controller.
b) Active Directory Replication Latency (an account created on another domain controller has not replicated to the current domain controller).

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When i check C:\Windows\debug\Dfsr01000.log

20141128 11:10:46.731 1568 CFAD   311 Config::AdConnection::Connect Binding to dcAddr:\\10.98.131.178 dcDnsName:\\strmdc11.m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net
20141128 11:10:46.731 1568 CFAD   143 Config::AdConnection::BindToAd Trying to connect. hostName:strmdc11.m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net
20141128 11:10:46.731 1568 CFAD   162 Config::AdConnection::BindToAd Bound. hostName:strmdc11.m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net
20141128 11:10:46.731 1568 CFAD   199 Config::AdConnection::BindToDc Try to bind. hostName:\\strmdc11.m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net domainName:<null>
20141128 11:11:07.744 1568 CFAD  3371 [ERROR] Config::DsSession::Bind Failed to DsBind(). dc:\\strmdc11.m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net domainName:<null> Error:1722
20141128 11:11:07.744 1568 CFAD   215 Config::AdConnection::BindToDc (Ignored) Failed to bind. hostName:\\strmdc11.m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net domainName:<null> Error:[Error:1722(0x6ba) Config::DsSession::Bind ad.cpp:3378 1568 W The RPC server is unavailable.]
20141128 11:11:07.744 1568 CFAD   199 Config::AdConnection::BindToDc Try to bind. hostName:\\10.98.131.178 domainName:<null>
20141128 11:11:07.744 1568 CFAD  3371 [ERROR] Config::DsSession::Bind Failed to DsBind(). dc:\\10.98.131.178 domainName:<null> Error:87
20141128 11:11:07.744 1568 CFAD   215 Config::AdConnection::BindToDc (Ignored) Failed to bind. hostName:\\10.98.131.178 domainName:<null> Error:[Error:87(0x57) Config::DsSession::Bind ad.cpp:3378 1568 W The parameter is incorrect.]
20141128 11:11:07.744 1568 SCFS   150 [WARN] ServiceConfig::DsPollIsDue Failed to enable lightweight polling. Error:
+    [Error:160(0xa0) Config::AdConfig::ConnectToLocalDc ad.cpp:8399 1568 W One or more arguments are not correct.]
+    [Error:160(0xa0) Config::AdConfig::Connect ad.cpp:8147 1568 W One or more arguments are not correct.]
+    [Error:160(0xa0) Config::AdConnection::Connect adconnection.cpp:377 1568 W One or more arguments are not correct.]
+    [Error:160(0xa0) Config::AdConnection::BindToDc adconnection.cpp:226 1568 W One or more arguments are not correct.]
20141128 11:11:34.280 2156 SRTR   660 SERVER_EstablishConnection Replication group not found. connId:{34D20D20-54F9-4CDD-91A7-498ED802E40B} rgId:{484434EE-17D1-493A-84FE-2AEF7F696990}
20141128 11:11:34.280 2156 SRTR   841 [WARN] SERVER_EstablishConnection Failed to establish an outbound connection. connId:{34D20D20-54F9-4CDD-91A7-498ED802E40B} rgId:{484434EE-17D1-493A-84FE-2AEF7F696990} rgName: Error:[Error:9026(0x2342) SERVER_EstablishConnection servertransport.cpp:662 2156 C The connection is invalid]
20141128 11:11:36.558 2156 SRTR   660 SERVER_EstablishConnection Replication group not found. connId:{BE0E6769-B99B-4F16-83D6-DFDF635CF0E8} rgId:{A134B92B-3851-4690-A46F-BC103B9D74B9}
20141128 11:11:36.558 2156 SRTR   841 [WARN] SERVER_EstablishConnection Failed to establish an outbound connection. connId:{BE0E6769-B99B-4F16-83D6-DFDF635CF0E8} rgId:{A134B92B-3851-4690-A46F-BC103B9D74B9} rgName: Error:[Error:9026(0x2342) SERVER_EstablishConnection servertransport.cpp:662 2156 C The connection is invalid]
20141128 11:11:38.508 2156 SRTR   660 SERVER_EstablishConnection Replication group not found. connId:{411142A7-E0DE-43C5-92BD-7A72EAB63EA0} rgId:{684825B6-8BD3-4FD2-9DDF-3BF8368BFCB3}
20141128 11:11:38.508 2156 SRTR   841 [WARN] SERVER_EstablishConnection Failed to establish an outbound connection. connId:{411142A7-E0DE-43C5-92BD-7A72EAB63EA0} rgId:{684825B6-8BD3-4FD2-9DDF-3BF8368BFCB3} rgName: Error:[Error:9026(0x2342) SERVER_EstablishConnection servertransport.cpp:662 2156 C The connection is invalid]
20141128 11:11:44.467 2156 SRTR   660 SERVER_EstablishConnection Replication group not found. connId:{954E8C2E-2985-4BE5-8776-0751B6426918} rgId:{C7C06C94-36E2-4224-B811-A9970616C6F0}
20141128 11:11:44.467 2156 SRTR   841 [WARN] SERVER_EstablishConnection Failed to establish an outbound connection. connId:{954E8C2E-2985-4BE5-8776-0751B6426918} rgId:{C7C06C94-36E2-4224-B811-A9970616C6F0} rgName: Error:[Error:9026(0x2342) SERVER_EstablishConnection servertransport.cpp:662 2156 C The connection is invalid]

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>dfsrdiag dumpadcfg /verbose
[INFO] Computer Name: FILERST13
[INFO] Computer DNS: filerst13.m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net
[INFO] Domain Name: m1
[INFO] Domain DNS: m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net
[INFO] Site Name: Montsouris
[ERROR] Failed to connect to AD for: m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net Err: 1355 (0x54b
)

[INFO] Execution Time: 0 seconds
Operation Failed

>dfsrdiag pollad /verbose
[INFO] Computer Name: FILERST13
[INFO] Computer DNS: filerst13.m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net
[INFO] Domain Name: m1
[INFO] Domain DNS: m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net
[INFO] Site Name: Montsouris
[INFO] Connected to WMI services on computer: filerst13.m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net
[INFO] Invoke PollDsNow() method on filerst13.m1.streaming.win.p.fti.net
[ERROR] PollDsNow method executed unsuccessfully. ReturnValue: 12 (0xc)
[ERROR] Failed to execute PollAD command Err: -2147217407 (0x80041001)

[INFO] Execution Time: 76 seconds
Operation Failed

On ADs site 2, dcdiag /e don't reveal any issue.

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I tried to install hotfix ref on this thread (without help) -> https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7d486eb5-6b03-471c-a4dc-65826e712fc3/dfsr-replication-event-id-1202-the-dfs-replication-service-failed-to-contact-domain-controller?forum=winserverfiles

I don't have issue with DNS (nslookup work fine).
Firewall are disable on all servers.

My problem looks a bit like here (but he don't speak about 2008 R2 - old article) -> blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2011/04/08/restrictions-for-unauthenticated-rpc-clients-the-group-policy-that-punches-your-domain-in-the-face.asp

Any help will be greatly appreciate.

Hi All

I have 2 server with win 2012 r2, i am installing the Dfs on those.

the issue is on step, when  i am adding target folder, it give error..What can i do to solve this?

Best Regards, Stanley

All,

I have an existing Storage Spaces pool on a Windows Server 2012 R2.  All drives are HDD, and the pool is divided into three volumes (1 mirror, 2 parity).  I am considering adding some SSD's for the performance increase by implementing tiered storage. However, while I have found quite a few guides detailing how to set up tiered Storage Spaces from scratch, I haven't been able to find one that describes how to add tiering to an existing pool.

My questions:

1.  Can you add an SSD tier to an existing Storage Spaces Pool?  If so, how?

2.  Is it destructive to existing data?  I will abandon the plan if it isn't transparent to existing data.

Thanks in advance!