Dear All,

I have windows 2012 R2 fle server clustered. All the disks are clustered disk

All the disks are in MBR format

One of the disk needs to be extended beyond 2 TB

I just want to know the best approach to convert the Clustered disk to GPT from MBR

I have heard gptgen , but not sure how reliable is it, also how can we use diskpart in this case

I want to retain data and convert into GPT if possible

Hi! Some kind of strange behavior occurred while using our 4-nodes S2D cluster.  After some connectivity problems (nic teaming bug or, maybe, something else) cluster shutted down, storage pool became "Unhealthy", Operational status "Read only", Reason - "Majority Disks unhealthy" with all Physical Disks "OK" and "Healthy" status. Storage Enclosures and Storage Subsystem are Healthy as well. December commulative update was installed, servers rebooted many times, Cluster and pool were shutted down and brought up again - all with no luck. Logs:

Get-StoragePool S2D | fl *


Usage                             : Other
OperationalStatus                 : Read-only
HealthStatus                      : Unhealthy
ProvisioningTypeDefault           : Fixed
SupportedProvisioningTypes        : Fixed
MediaTypeDefault                  : Unspecified
ReadOnlyReason                    : By Policy
RepairPolicy                      : Parallel
RetireMissingPhysicalDisks        : Never
WriteCacheSizeDefault             : Auto
Version                           : Windows Server 2016
FaultDomainAwarenessDefault       : StorageScaleUnit
ObjectId                          : {1}\\WSFC4-LEN\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_StoragePool.ObjectId="{b882b9f2-798d-436c-8de1-3b4f3e9f9498}:SP:{a251c59e-af1b-446a-b77e-756441ad082b}"
PassThroughClass                  :
PassThroughIds                    :
PassThroughNamespace              :
PassThroughServer                 :
UniqueId                          : {a251c59e-af1b-446a-b77e-756441ad082b}
AllocatedSize                     : 20195473096704
ClearOnDeallocate                 : False
EnclosureAwareDefault             : False
FriendlyName                      : S2D
IsClustered                       : True
IsPowerProtected                  : False
IsPrimordial                      : False
IsReadOnly                        : False
LogicalSectorSize                 : 4096
Name                              :
OtherOperationalStatusDescription :
OtherUsageDescription             :
PhysicalSectorSize                : 4096
ResiliencySettingNameDefault      : Mirror
Size                              : 22383222063104
SupportsDeduplication             : True
ThinProvisioningAlertThresholds   : {70}
WriteCacheSizeMax                 : 18446744073709551614
WriteCacheSizeMin                 : 0
PSComputerName                    :
CimClass                          : ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage:MSFT_StoragePool
CimInstanceProperties             : {ObjectId, PassThroughClass, PassThroughIds, PassThroughNamespace...}
CimSystemProperties               : Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimSystemProperties

Get-PhysicalDisk

FriendlyName         SerialNumber       CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage           Size
------------         ------------       ------- ----------------- ------------ -----           ----
Intel Raid 1 Volume  OS                 False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select   130 GB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDMEVB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDMHKB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDMKNB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDMK1B           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDM0BB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
ATA INTEL SSDSC2BX40 BTHC536304DC400VGN False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 372.5 GB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDMDBB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDMJBB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDM1BB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
ATA INTEL SSDSC2BX40 BTHC536502K0400VGN False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 372.5 GB
ATA INTEL SSDSC2BX40 BTHC536603VB400VGN False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 372.5 GB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDM2LB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
ATA INTEL SSDSC2BX40 BTHC536603WQ400VGN False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 372.5 GB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDMKPB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDMETB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDMGSB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
ATA INTEL SSDSC2BX40 BTHC536603UZ400VGN False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 372.5 GB
ATA INTEL SSDSC2BX40 BTHC53660476400VGN False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 372.5 GB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDM0MB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDMJ2B           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDM0HB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
ATA INTEL SSDSC2BX40 BTHC53660460400VGN False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 372.5 GB
HGST HUC101812CSS204 06VDM2NB           False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select  1.09 TB
ATA INTEL SSDSC2BX40 BTHC536306R6400VGN False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 372.5 GB

Get-VirtualDisk | fl *


Usage                             : Other
NameFormat                        :
OperationalStatus                 : Detached
HealthStatus                      : Unknown
ProvisioningType                  :
AllocationUnitSize                :
MediaType                         :
ParityLayout                      :
Access                            : Read/Write
UniqueIdFormat                    : Vendor Specific
DetachedReason                    : Majority Disks Unhealthy
WriteCacheSize                    : 1073741824
FaultDomainAwareness              :
ColumnIsolation                   :
ObjectId                          : {1}\\WSFC4-LEN\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_VirtualDisk.ObjectId="{b882b9f2-798d-436c-8de1-3b4f3e9f9498}:VD:{a251c59e-af1b-446a-b77e-756441ad082b}{3032d188-054f-4fba-b914-973b70d0c773}"
PassThroughClass                  :
PassThroughIds                    :
PassThroughNamespace              :
PassThroughServer                 :
UniqueId                          : 88D132304F05BA4FB914973B70D0C773
AllocatedSize                     : 10093173145600
FootprintOnPool                   : 20188493774848
FriendlyName                      : MIXED_FOR_VMs
Interleave                        :
IsDeduplicationEnabled            : False
IsEnclosureAware                  :
IsManualAttach                    : True
IsSnapshot                        : False
IsTiered                          : True
LogicalSectorSize                 : 4096
Name                              :
NumberOfAvailableCopies           :
NumberOfColumns                   :
NumberOfDataCopies                :
NumberOfGroups                    :
OtherOperationalStatusDescription :
OtherUsageDescription             :
PhysicalDiskRedundancy            :
PhysicalSectorSize                : 4096
ReadCacheSize                     : 0
RequestNoSinglePointOfFailure     : False
ResiliencySettingName             :
Size                              : 10093173145600
UniqueIdFormatDescription         :
PSComputerName                    :
CimClass                          : ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage:MSFT_VirtualDisk
CimInstanceProperties             : {ObjectId, PassThroughClass, PassThroughIds, PassThroughNamespace...}
CimSystemProperties               : Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimSystemProperties

Hi Guys,

When set permssion under dfs namesapce, is it the same with the NTFS permission?

Or it is special?

hey

Once I create mirrored, I get the error
"all disks holding extents for a given volume must have the same sector size and the sector size must be valid"

I checked the size of the sector using commands -  "fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo .." and they are the same, 
thank you for help.

arik

Hi,

I have a Windows 2008 R2 AD and client system. As far as I know, I know very little about Windows, I've set up everything correctly. When I log in to the client with my AD credentials I don't have any issues. But I'm trying to access and NFS export from a Linux system that is using the same AD server to authenticate users to access that export. I can mount the export just fine from a Linux system but when I try to mount it on the Windows 2008 R2 client I always get: Permission denied. I looked at a network trace and it appears to be failing doing a GETATTR right after the mount succeeds. The reply to the GETATTR says: denied and the guy looking at the error on the Linux system is saying that the GSS context for the GETATTR is empty. 

How would I troubleshoot this issue? The documentation on using "Client for NFS" with AD is either non-existent or I just can't seem to find it.

Thanks,

Rob

We have a small Work Folders implementation for a few clients.

Until recently, the function has been working great, no problems.

However, we have confirmed that two recent Windows10 patches leave Work Folders broken and completely unusable for clients who have either of the patches installed.

KB3185614 (security rollup for Win10 build 1511)

KB3189866 (security rollup for Win10 build 1607)

If a Win10 client has either of these updates applied, they cannot use Work Folders.  The client attempts to connect to the Work Folders Server and gets the error:

"there was a problem finding your Work Folders server", error code 0x80072f76.

Work Folders server is fully patched.

Removing the patch will allow the client to connect and use Work Folders successfully, but as we know Windows10 will just reinstall that patch again in a few days.  We are using the Microsoft "driver update" prevention tool for now to block the patch on affected machines.

We are opening a support case with Microsoft soon.

I'm looking to implement storage spaces direct to make some of our services highly available.

I'm curious about a few things.

1.) if we do storage spaces direct on the physical hardware then create vm's ontop of the storage pools and then enable storage spaces direct inside the vm's across the 4 volumes what type of performance decreases could one expect? 

2.) is this a viable option?

3.) are their any know iis issues with saving data on top of csvfs and storage spaces direct?

4.) same question but for sql.

5.) what would be recommended practices to accomplish something along these lines?

hardware:

dual e5-2690v4 14 cores 2.6ghz

512gb ddr4

2 1.6 nvme

5 10 tb hdd

2 400 gb os drives

2 dual port 50gbe mellanox connect-x3 ethernet cards

thanks.

Hi,

Setup is a little complicated, probably not supported, but I will see if there is a simple solution.

I am trying to setup a storage space on windows server 2016, it is a virtual machine, the SCSI adapter has been passed through, there are 3 disks for now with more to be added once this works... Now, the driver works, everything is registered, it is an LSI HBA.

When I get the physical disk attributes, each one has a unique id.

All 3 disks are shown in the disks section.

Only 1 disk is presented in the physical disk (primordial pool), there should be 3, I reset, converted, cleaned each disk. Why are they not being presented?

EDIT: Needed to Restart! How silly. Everything working decently. Performance, very nice. Will begin adding and testing.

User logs into PC, opens up a Excel file on a network drive, message appears saying " The documents is locked for editing by [current user]" and gives options of Open read only and cancel. 

Log onto WS2012R2 - Computer management - shared folders - open files, there is no open sessions with this user for this excel file.

Also;

Rebooted/re-logged the user PC (user don't use any other PC) 

Tired renaming the file - but its locked for editing

Can copy it but that is it

If you open the excel as read only that appears in the open files and you can close it but makes no differences. 

Am i missing something ? 

Hi,

I'm trying to get Work folders running in a small domain, however I'm stuck. 

I'm getting error 0x80c80003 on the client (Windows 10 Pro). No files have been created in the Work folders folder. 

Please advise on how to debug this problem. I haven't even found a way to turn on detailed logging on the server. 

Best

Barnabás Králik

Hello all,

I'm running Windows Server 2016 and have two vhdx files that were previously iSCSI targets under Windows 2012 R2.  Each virtual drive is located on its own physical drive.  I was able to successfully import and setup a target for only one of the two, 'Public'.  When I try to import the vhdx for 'Bulk', it doesn't even show the drive in the Open File dialog despite being able to see it in File Explorer.  If I try to give it the location manually, I get the error "The entered path is not valid for the selected server."

<Image removed because otherwise I get the error, "Body text cannot contain images or links until we are able to verify your account", despite being logged in with an account that I've had for years>

Figure 1 : Drive D: clearly exists, but does not appear in Import iSCSI Virtual Disk Wizard

<Image removed because otherwise I get the error, "Body text cannot contain images or links until we are able to verify your account", despite being logged in with an account that I've had for years>

Figure 2 : When I specify the path manually, it tells me the path is invalid.

Why would I be able to see and navigate the drive in explorer but not have it show up in the iSCSI Import Virtual Disk Wizard?

Any help would be appreciated,

Gary

I have a clustered 2-node 3U supermicro running Server 2016. There are 16 Direct Attached Storage drive slots, 14 are 4TB sas HDD, 2 are enterprise sas SSDs (boot drive is a satadom on each node).  I'd like one large volume for a general purpose file server.  

How should I provision the storage pool?  

I've played around with different allocations and everything seems to work fine - but I'd like to know the 'best' way.  Ideally, the SSDs are the caching tier for the rest of the HDDs and all data is mirrored (I'm thinking two-way, but three-way actually might even be better).

Error Message from WAP Server:

Web Application Proxy received a request with a nonvalid edge token.
The token is not valid because it could not be parsed.
Error: Edge Token validation failed. Failed to serialize JSON object. Exception: The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character, more than two padding characters, or an illegal character among the padding characters. . Token: eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIng1dCI6IjhuZzVlUnd3dmdVdnUtaGxqaTJkSy13aFhVbyJ9.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.fyZ43WhJYOStpWWjH8WmamzdNxjrv4QLuGfdmqSh_6h3DUPvY3uJpPGkXFdSlUtvwEC4PTKhJXgPqjRofIkgtOgX_aWo2ijd_HBWJCfYUk0IVeprHdEhC71J-U814PgEarKl-jb5siOBw-2LNLd7vZ0fHJDUfiTZOfgI49gkaGe8uEAmAgMJ_XlvyE0cCvSjdFFIzYOTTiwglbgWyx8VJKAvbkogTjQ4E4edqEMNzwbO1C-sb0LvHH4kft8ME5xhDE5OqVJ9h2HcN4xcCWk61C2PD5SbT_45qFa-Dtt-l-zM3x_Sfn7UH5SfsA0XZJJNEiOIW98gWjJYfkFPZq_G7Q
Received token: eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIng1dCI6IjhuZzVlUnd3dmdVdnUtaGxqaTJkSy13aFhVbyJ9.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.fyZ43WhJYOStpWWjH8WmamzdNxjrv4QLuGfdmqSh_6h3DUPvY3uJpPGkXFdSlUtvwEC4PTKhJXgPqjRofIkgtOgX_aWo2ijd_HBWJCfYUk0IVeprHdEhC71J-U814PgEarKl-jb5siOBw-2LNLd7vZ0fHJDUfiTZOfgI49gkaGe8uEAmAgMJ_XlvyE0cCvSjdFFIzYOTTiwglbgWyx8VJKAvbkogTjQ4E4edqEMNzwbO1C-sb0LvHH4kft8ME5xhDE5OqVJ9h2HcN4xcCWk61C2PD5SbT_45qFa-Dtt-l-zM3x_Sfn7UH5SfsA0XZJJNEiOIW98gWjJYfkFPZq_G7Q.

Details:
Transaction ID: {f9a02412-77a3-0001-efff-a3f9a377d201}
Session ID: {f9a02412-77a3-0001-efff-a3f9a377d201}
Published Application Name: Work Folders
Published Application ID: 1DA7581A-694B-3FF3-583D-B87562C4DD45
Published Application External URL: https://<domain>/
Published Backend URL: https://<domain>/
User: <Unknown>
User-Agent: MS_WorkFoldersClient
Device ID: <Not Applicable>
Token State: Invalid
Cookie State: NotFound
Client Request URL: https://<domain>/sync/1.0/capabilities
Backend Request URL: <Not Applicable>
Preauthentication Flow: PreAuthWindowsStoreApp
Backend Server Authentication Mode:
State Machine State: Idle
Response Code to Client: <Not Applicable>
Response Message to Client: <Not Applicable>
Client Certificate Issuer: <Not Found>
Response Code from Backend: <Not Applicable>
Frontend Response Location Header: <Not Applicable>
Backend Response Location Header: <Not Applicable>
Backend Request Http Verb: <Not Applicable>
Client Request Http Verb: GET

Environment:

ADFS installed on Windows 2012R2 Domain Controller fully patched with latest updates

WAP and WorkFolders installed on Windows 2016 member server, fully patched with latest updatesClient Machine(s) 1) Windows 10 Enterprise, fully patched 2) Windows 10 Enterprise with latest insider build (Feb 2017 preview)

Steps Taken to Build Environment:

I followed the TechNet article here to set this up https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn747202(v=ws.11).aspx

Notes:We are migrating from WAP/WorkFolders on Windows 2012R2 to Windows 2016. This worked on Windows 2012R2, but in the lab I cannot get this to work on Windows 2016. I have gone through the technet article numerous times, and always end up at this error. The Win10 client machines are domain joined, not workplace joined. I have gone through numerous forums, including this one (and the links within): https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/dc0b3fc7-3a72-48d2-a6bf-c6962dad968e/work-folders-adfs-web-app-something-missing?forum=winserver8gen

The ADFS cert is a publicly trusted cert, the workfolders cert is a self signed cert using the scripts from the TechNet article. ADFS is working as expected, so I think it's a problem with the WAP server. The above error occurs twice every 4 minutes on the WAP server.

It's all 1's and 0's in the end.

Happy  new  Year  to all, 

I am  trying to  find a  script, and  I am  thinking it  is a  logon  script  to collect  two  pieces  of  information ,  the  size  of the  hard drive  on a domain PC and  the  number  of space  used by  data files  on the PC.  Basically  I need to  know  if  users are  using the  file server  or  keeping  all the  data  on their domain PC. 

Possible  ?

-- Konrad Puchala

Hi,

Is it a supported solution to make a hyperconverged S2D cluster, and ALSO install the scale out file server role ?

So that the cluster can run VM's and ALSO act as a SOFS for other hyper-v servers.

/Anker

I have two domains with a one-way trust.  I have a common PKI setup in both domains. 

When I map a drive letter to a share and select "connect using different credentials" and enter my username/password for the remote domain, I am able to authenticate to the remote domain with no problems. The remote user gets authenticated and the drive is mapped. 

When I attempt to map a drive letter to a share and select "connect using different credentials" then select the "smart card" option and then enter my PIN and Username Hint for the remote domain, my localdomain/localusername combination is sent. 

Is this behavior of always sending your local domain\username "by design"?  Is there any registry keys (or GPO's) that would affect this behavior other than "allow user name hint", which is already enabled everywhere? 

server 2008r2 standard sp1 64 bit, 16 GB RAM, Intel xeon e3 v2 @3.10 GHz

40 GB OS partition, I have run disk clean up and ran all allowed DISM options on this unit, (only allows scanhealth) all others fail error 87,

have deleted and removed everything possible but winsxs continues to grow, down to 2GB left on OS partition, also cannot increase the partition. 

Any ideas to reduce this winsxs file size appreciated.

Thank you