Hi Everyone,

I'm having this issue and spend huge amount of time to search around but cannot explain why FSRM reports a big diffeent on used space compare to Windows Folder Properties.

As you can see following, Windows reports 513 GB but FSRM says662 GB

Based on my research, the difference is due to Windows block size and small file. Yes, we have around 150.000 small files 2KB, 10KB,20KB, etc. Our default block size on disk is 4KB.

Let say average each small files waste 2KB, the waste space on disk is 150.000 x2KB=300 MB only.

Where is approx 150 GB difference here?

How can we explain this. Can someone please help? Thanks

ps: I'm using Windows 2008R2, 4KB block as mentioned. No compression.

Hello Everyone,

I hope someone can help us with this one. We have a customer with a 2-Node cluster in a SuperMicro CiB. The issue we are facing is that with Windows Enterprise edition we are unable to use a virtual disk on a CiB as a Witness disk without making it a cluster resource on Windows 2012 R2. We are able to successfully create a virtual disk, but it wont let me use it until I add it as a CSV. The issue is that if I add it as a CSV, then I cannot use as a Witness.

But, I can do the same when I am using the Windows 2012 R2 Storage Server. I can create a virtual disk and it shows up as available, which I can use as a witness disk. Is there a difference in the way Enterprise Edition works in this context?

I will try to post the snapshots, but it basically is that the virtual disk shows up as offline under the Failover Cluster Manager > Disks. It wont come online until I add it to the CSV. Any help in understanding this will be greatly appreciated.

Change: Sorry guys, not Enterprise edition, but Datacenter edition.

Hi 

I am setting up DFS Replication on Windows Server 2012 . I have given Accounts access to Performance log users group as well but still Im getting this error on the health report .



When I check the performance counter on the server locally by running this powershell . I can see performance data is avaialable . 

wmic path Win32_PerfFormattedData_Dfsr_DFSReplicatedFolders

Can anyone guide on this please.

Thanks

Mumtaz 

Hi There,

Massive shot in the dark here but I am struggling with a pretty major issue atm.  We have a production file server that is hosted on the following:

Dell MD 3220i -> iSCSI -> Server 2008 R2 Hyper-v Cluster -> Passthrough Disk -> Server 2012 R2 File Server VM

Essentially 3 times now, roughly a month or so apart.  The file server stops accepting connections.  During this time, the server is perfectly accessible through rdp or with a simple ping.  I can browse the files on the server directly but no-one appears to be able to access the shares over SMB.  A reboot of the server fixes the issue.  

As per a KB article I removed nod antivirus from the server to rule out a conflicting filter mode driver after the second fault.  Sadly yesterday it happened again.

The only relevant errors in the servers log files are:

SMB Server Event ID 551
SMB Session Authentication Failure

Client Name: \\192.168.105.79
Client Address: 192.168.105.79:50774
User Name: HHS\H6-08$
Session ID: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Status: Insufficient server resources exist to complete the request. (0xC0000205)

Guidance:

You should expect this error when attempting to connect to shares using incorrect credentials.

This error does not always indicate a problem with authorization, but mainly authentication. It is more common with non-Windows clients.

This error can occur when using incorrect usernames and passwords with NTLM, mismatched LmCompatibility settings between client and server, duplicate Kerberos service principal names, incorrect Kerberos ticket-granting service tickets, or Guest accounts without Guest access enabled

and

SMB Server event ID 1020
File system operation has taken longer than expected.

Client Name: \\192.168.105.97
Client Address: 192.168.105.97:49571
User Name: HHS\12J.Champion
Session ID: 0x2C07B40004A5
Share Name: \\*\Subjects
File Name:
Command: 5
Duration (in milliseconds): 176784
Warning Threshold (in milliseconds): 120000

Guidance:

The underlying file system has taken too long to respond to an operation. This typically indicates a problem with the storage and not SMB.

I have checked the underlying disk/iscsi/network hyper-v cluster for any other errors or issues, but as far as I can tell everything is fine. 

Is it possible that something else is left over from the NOD antivirus installation?  

Looking for suggestions on how to troubleshoot this further.

Thanks

Hey

So I have a server running Windows Server 2012 R2, I got 5 clients connected to it.

On the server I have a second volume of 4TB which is made for client storage. So I'll like it if every Client got his own storage of let's say 500GB on this volume. Now a maybe this is a more difficult extra question:

So let's say I finished the first question, every client got his own storage of 500 gb on the server(which I don't know how to do it), now I like to have the Documents, Pictures, Videos, etc. etc. "automaticly" stored on the server instead of the local space of the client. I actually like the whole local storage of the client to be disabled and the whole "music, documents, pictures, videos" thing to be saved on the server. How in do I make that possible:P?

I hope I made myself clear and i'll really appreciate it if you can help me out I've been looking like the whole internet for this.

Thanks in advance,

Marc.

In this configuration, how do I make sure that the iSCSI traffic takes the SAN route?

Hi All,

Background:

Forest/Domain A (W2K8R2)

Forest/Domain B (W2K8R2)

Forest A and B are trusted.

Users in Forest A map some drives (DFS shares) via GPO.

Now, some users need to connect via RDP to a specific server W2k8R2 in Forest B and use own drive resources.

The users are able to connect to the remote server and the local mapping drives are reconnected to RDP session.

When the users try to open the specific drive an error occurred:

Windows cannot access \\TSCLIENT\Drive\folder  

You do not have permission to acces \\tsclient\drive\folder.

If I try to map the original resource locally in RDP session, all works fine (\\FQDN\share\...)

Any ideas?

Than you in advance.

Simone

Simone

Currently, our primary file server is a physical machine with file storage on a SAN.  We're using DFSR to sync (two-way) files with a branch office.  We'd like to virtualize the primary file server without re-trigging a DFSR initialization.  (There are so many files that between bandwidth and whatnot, just scanning and validating that the files match takes about a week.)

Is this possible?

Note - I don't care about getting an exact P-to-V of the file server OS; in fact I'd almost prefer to install a fresh one.  The concern is converting the existing files to a VHDX without confusing the DFSR database.

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

I am trying to Move one folder +Contents from one drive to another. 

ROBOCOPY E:\Users\Laviathin\Pictures\"Art"\Manga G:\Will\"My Pictures"\Manga  /MOVE /FP /ETA /LOG:MANGA.TXT

I want to to Move the MANGA Dir to the destination!

What am i missing?

Hi,

Anyone please advice me about file share with failover cluster on WS2008 R2 or later.

I have a data about 9TB for  1700 users roaming profile. Anyone please advice me about server sizing of failover cluster. 

Thank you in advance

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

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

                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

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

               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.

Trying to get Windows 7 clients to search a network file share using the search index on the file server, but doesnt seem to be working.

My setup is: Windows Storage Server Standard 2008 (not R2), Windows 7 Standard workstation with mapped network drive pointing to file share on Storage Server. File Server role is installed on server as well as Windows Search Service, but when I run a test search on the server, I get entirely different results from running a test search on the Windows 7 client.

I've heard of setting the file share to enable "Offline Mode" on the client workstation to allow the workstation to index the share, but I cant have every workstation downloading and indexing a copy of our file share (hundreds of gigabytes). I tried adding the mapped network drive to the Windows 7 Document Library, but I get the error message saying that the location cant be added because it's not indexed. Suggestions?

Shaun

Our Work Folders deployment has just stopped working.

Once the user has logged in to ADFS they get the following error message "The sync server needs the user's current user name and password (0x80c80300)"

At the same time we see the following error in the file servers SyncShare event log:

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System><Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-SyncShare" Guid="{9E6153AD-A829-4B70-B997-8E463A7A111C}" /><EventID>1013</EventID><Version>0</Version><Level>2</Level><Task>0</Task><Opcode>0</Opcode><Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-12-03T14:48:32.922225100Z" /><EventRecordID>1178</EventRecordID><Correlation /><Execution ProcessID="1988" ThreadID="2800" /><Channel>Microsoft-Windows-SyncShare/Operational</Channel><Computer>fileserver.domain.com</Computer><Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /></System>
- <EventData><Data Name="User">eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIng1dCI6ImVoZWxJMUFwWm9HT2VZdXU5NGZZb21tamUzayJ9.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.eCefzniju5qjqxIDdC2KCefkiNBNoGV-B1zg8EsnygUyV0LilPpANpv5uH75JJ9ekv9BN0vz7m6QezHEN4dYc5Z-6UJCzm7Wz6s1yNqVz-Sq5_wf_RrrHkxntcLXT2LHyyLN6ZxJy8uOF4vLw_fLsDzrNHkpaKUoevLAvNLI503IAiKDijKmQ0Qa2hZGsDT57yhKLGtjMXdqwx6FpFpP6vxA9qoUlR1E-tlt0ezTSD8j36djV9VbFpTlfeiH26D0n92T4exQCJkPdVzR42G7KbYyo9Acu0GGf7dnameWMQV9lT-Jtb7hH9xNReuVSVzqgtstsSDJR0mCsKJfLrdKVw</Data><Data Name="Error">0X80C80021 - ECS_E_SYNC_ADFS_UNAUTHORIZED</Data></EventData></Event>

I have attempted re creating the setup using several blog posts including: http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2014/03/03/deploying-work-folders-with-ad-fs-and-web-application-proxy-wap.aspx.  Including deleting all WAP rules, deleting and recreating the Relaying Party Trust and obtaining new certificates for the file server.

ADFS and WAP are working correctly for our Office 365 federations and on-premise SharePoint, Exchange and other web applications

If I turn ADFS authentication off on the Work Folders server I can successfully connect and setup work folders on a domain joined computer, however as soon as ADFS authentication is enabled I get the above error. 

I would like to have a weekly report showing me what large file have been added to a drive in the previous 7 days - is this possible? I am aware of the FSRM reports that run but I'd rather not have to compare reports for differences.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Hello Everyone !

We are running a Windows 2012R2 File Server on site A. The server has deduplication enabled on the share and we do replicate the content of this share to a Windows 2012R2 Server on site B. Both servers are connected via a VPN over WAN.

The constellation is just done to have a offsite backup of the data from site A at site B.

My question is what kind of data will be transferred from site A to site B over the WAN:

1. quantity as optimized by deduplication + RDC
2. quantity as deduplication is not running + RDC

RDC is doing compression already to reduce band width but I would like to know if the replication process is able to utilize the optimization done by deduplication additional so the real transferred data volume over the WAN is “compressed” by RDC + deduplication.

Looking forward to some help.

Issue description:

Exactly the same as:

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Situation:

Server A B & C

A &B are hubs, C is a spoke
Server A & B = windows 2008 SP2, Server C = windows 2003 R2


After fiddling around today with all three servers I have finally managed t create a nice hub and spoke system. In the future, I will add 12 additional spoke servers.

While running tests from server A (win2k8) the DFS management report started giving me errors that the following performance data was not available:

"The DFS Replication service is unable to access the performance counter  RTD-APPSRV01\DFS Replicated  Folders(ivr\voice-{B9C0BB92-0088-46F4-96E2-66A066D6E3BD})\File Installs  Succeeded on NLRTD-APPSRV01. Performance data is unavailable. Error ID:  0x800007d5."


The error in the diagnostic report says go to http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=300956 and follow the instructions.

I go to the KB article, try to find the perfc009.da_ files on the windows 2008 ISO I have lying around. Not to be found anywhere on the disc :(
So I read another article that says the perfD009.dat file is actually the original copy of the perfC file.

So I copy the perfD file over the perfC file, return the registry performance counters back to 1846 and 1847 (as desribed), reboot but still no avail.

So I figured, let's see what 0x800007d5 actually means...

Turns out that 0x800007d5 means "No data to return" which isn't really helpfull in this case.

I tried the lodctr /R command, nothing

Checked perfmon on both servers and both of them are able to give me the data. So the counters are there!

Finally I tried to see if I could find the GUID somewhere in the registry, but that unfortunately is not the case.


Replication is working, but I really really want the diagnostic reports before I can continue to expand this scenario to 13 spokes and 2 hub servers.

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However the registry permissions did not fix the problem.

I can access the counters fine through perfmon.

The only thing I can see that might be the cause is the servername in the report. It is not correct.

For instance in the example above the reference server isRTD-APPSRV01. Using this example, the report actually only shows the following (first two letters of server name is missing).

"The DFS Replication service is unable to access the performance counter D-APPSRV01\DFS Replicated  Folders(ivr\voice-{B9C0BB92-0088-46F4-96E2-66A066D6E3BD})\File Installs  Succeeded on NLRTD-APPSRV01. Performance data is unavailable. Error ID:  0x800007d5."

Replication is definitely working. Just unable to run a report.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

When I try to optimize a volume on a server running Windows Server 2012 (R1). I receive the below error. This volume is an ISCSI target to our Compellent SAN. Other Servers don't have an issue with volumes created on the same SAN and I have already ran ChkDsk and it returned no errors. Oddly enough I can run a "Defrag T: /D" but a "Defrag T: /O" returns"Incorrect Function. (0x80070001)" (Incidentally an "Optimze-Volume T -Defrag" also works) 

Any Ideas? I'm stumped!

Command:

Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter T -Verbose

Error:

Hello,

I have a 'folder' share on my Windows Server 2008 Standard R2.  Within the shared folder, are several subfolders (each for my users).  NTFS/share permissions are set at the 'shared' folder level with subfolders inheriting the permissions.  However, some of the subfolders are set NOT to inherit permissions and have explicit permissions set on them.

Problem/Issue:

The user folders with explicit permissions (not inheriting) are ONLY visible to Users who have explicit permissions to that folder in Windows Explorer.  This was not the case in Windows Server 2003 because in W2003, all folder within the shared folder are visible regardless of the permissions.

How can I get this behavior to also apply to W2008?

Thank you