Indexing Service on Windows Server 2008 R2

November 26, 2018, 7:50 pm

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Hello,

My company has a legacy vb.net application hosted on Windows Server 2003. The application makes use of Indexing Service to search for the documents/files(.pdf, .doc, .docx). After migrating the same application to Windows Server 2008 R2, the application successfully searches and lists all the .pdf, .doc files except that it is unable to fetch the "DocTitle" attribute for just the .pdf files. Searching the files based on its title("DocTitle") turns out to be very important as the user relies on it.

I have tried installing Adobe PDF IFilter but in vain.

Any help on this issue would be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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sharing folder

November 26, 2018, 10:52 pm

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allow permission for read, write and save but deny delete for group members

DFS Server Replication Issue

November 26, 2018, 10:54 pm

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Hi 

We have 2 DFS server on different site: DFS01 and DFS02 (windows server 2012 R2)

Replication has stopped with below error:

DFS01 Error: 

 

The DFS Replication service has been repeatedly prevented from replicating a file due to consistent sharing violations encountered on the file. The service failed to stage a file for replication due to a sharing violation. 

Additional Information: 
File Path: 
Replicated Folder Root: E:\Folder
File ID: {1EA4CD42-7FB9-4CDF-BE9F-F4BEAF31902F}-v3878875 
Replicated Folder Name: Folder
Replicated Folder ID: 45C57474-9497-40E6-8F92-B1681CD081CA 
Replication Group Name: Repl-Folder
Replication Group ID: 8CD65923-1774-4F3A-9507-B52559183367 
Member ID: 2174D4D6-DD03-4C08-9F9A-607B822002F5

Event ID: 4304

DFS02 Error:

    

The DFS Replication service encountered an error communicating with partner DFS01 for replication group Repl-Folder. 

Partner DNS address: dfs01

Optional data if available: 
Partner WINS Address: DFS01 
Partner IP Address: xx.xx.xx.xx 

The service will retry the connection periodically. 

Additional Information: 
Error: 1726 (The remote procedure call failed.) 
Connection ID: A0CD6F5E-4994-42D9-BA45-419F0148BC2E 
Replication Group ID: 8CD65923-1774-4F3A-9507-B52559183367

Event ID: 5002

Please assist me to resolve the issue.

ReFS with deduplication bug or possible issue

November 22, 2018, 3:57 am

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I have a camera server recording multitude of security camera feeds to a local drive. It has been running Windows 2016 with no issues but the 8TB drive started to get to about 75% full, so I figured I would test Windows 2019 with ReFS and deduplication.

Had to move the data to temporary drive, upgraded the OS to Windows Server 2019 Datacentre release version (Version 10.0.17763.134) and formatted the drive with ReFS (REFS Version: 3.4) and turned on deduplication. Moved the main data folder back to it and started the deduplication job. The initial job ran for about 2 days and got very minimal saved space:

PS C:\Windows\system32> get-dedupstatus

FreeSpace    SavedSpace   OptimizedFiles     InPolicyFiles      Volume
---------    ----------   --------------     -------------      ------
2.38 TB      75.73 GB     4271               4329               E:

I noticed there was another folder that I had not moved, so I moved that one to the drive also. The optimization ran over that and the result was strange:

PS C:\Windows\system32> get-dedupstatus

FreeSpace    SavedSpace   OptimizedFiles     InPolicyFiles      Volume
---------    ----------   --------------     -------------      ------
2.15 TB      0 B          4565               4555               E:

So the optimized files number was larger than inPolicyFiles but the optimization kept running and getting worse. So after another 2 days I was out of space:

PS C:\Windows\system32> get-dedupstatus

FreeSpace    SavedSpace   OptimizedFiles     InPolicyFiles      Volume
---------    ----------   --------------     -------------      ------
9.98 GB      0 B          5739               4555               E:

The number of inPolicy Files did not change, and the number of files on the drive did not change as I had not yet started the camera software, just number of OptimizedFiles kept growing. Not sure how it got over 1200 files more to be optimized than there were files on the drive. So I stopped the deduplication of the volume but the space did not free up again, so I started another job:

Start-DedupJob -Volume "E:" -Type Unoptimization

And this appears to have started to free up space now. After 12 hours I had already got back over 2 TB:

PS C:\Windows\system32> get-dedupstatus

FreeSpace    SavedSpace   OptimizedFiles     InPolicyFiles      Volume
---------    ----------   --------------     -------------      ------
2.28 TB      0 B          5739               4555               E:

So my question is, if this is a bug in the ReFS deduplication? Or is this some other issue? Shouldn't the optimization just leave the file alone if it cannot gain anything from optimizing and where do those extra number of optimized files come from when they do not exist on the drive?

Server 2016 File Ownership - How to keep it as "Administrators"

November 21, 2018, 10:40 am

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1. I have a server where a service runs as a user and creates files.
   This account is under the Administrators Group (local).
   
2. Later, other users under the local Administrators Group (local) need to modify, delete these files, but they can't because the user in step 1 still has ownership.
   
3. I think with older servers (2008 R2) we were able to make sure no matter what the owner always remained "Administrators".
   
4. How do I accomplish this in Server 2016?

S2D mixed with iSCSI SAN

November 21, 2018, 3:59 am

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Good morning,

We currently have a traditional Window  Server 2016 3-node Hyper-V Cluster with an iSCSI SAN. We are planning to purchase two additional nodes capable of support Storage Spaces Direct. We plan to storage migrate from the SAN to S2D. Can we add the two new nodes to the existing cluster, also giving them access to the SAN and then enable S2D on the two nodes? That would allow us to live migrate to the new servers in the cluster and then Storage migrate from the SAN to the S2D storage. We have taken a similar approach in the past with two SAN's,

Thanks

Linus

File is locked for editing by another user

November 21, 2018, 12:57 am

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Hello,

I have shared folder on file server which is used by many users.

If I try to open some Office or Excel file which is already opened by another user, I get message"<filename> is locked for editing by <user>" but in this message the <user> is not correct.

So the information that file is locked is correct.

But the information about user who locked the file is NOT correct.

What is the reason for that ?

Where can I check why exactly this user is written ?

Thanks.

User name does not match

November 20, 2018, 12:57 pm

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Hi

We have Windows 2008 domain. Our file server is NetApp.

When a user tried to open a file on the file server, the user got the message something like "The file is opened by user A. You can only Read the file, you can not modify the file."

But in the file open files window on the file server, it showed user B who was opening the file. Actually user A's account has been disabled. User B is right person who was opening the file at that moment.

How come the user got the incorrect information about who was opening the file?

Please help!

Thanks in advance!

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DFSR - Intial Sync over write

November 26, 2018, 12:43 am

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I have a replication pair that was working but is only working in one direction

I have users point to both folders.

I have a large back log.The server that isn't sending, is saying its still waiting for initial sync.

Can I configure one of these as the primary without risking the data being wiped during the initial sync.

Thanks,

Grant "SYSTEM" (Domain Computers) access to share

November 20, 2018, 2:29 am

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Hi,

I need to have a hidden network share where all Domain Computers have modify access to.

I have a service that's running in SYSTEM context and it needs to write log files in that location.

I have such a share.
I have granted "SYSTEM" full Share Permissions and also in the Security tab.

However, my clients still can't access this share.

Am I missing something?
I'm not sure if this is the correct approach.

I don't really want to grant "Authenticated Users" modify permissions because this includes User Objects as well as Computer Objects.

iSCSI Initiator dive not formatting

November 19, 2018, 12:18 pm

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I have created a volume on our Dell EQ.  I've added the target IP in the windows iSCSI Initiator.  The initiator connected and the volume is visible after clicking Auto Configure.  From windows I can see the disk from Windows Management console however when I try to create a new volume ReFS or NTFS I get "Failed to format volume - Invalid Parameter Activity ID: {b0e18171-777e-45ab-99a4-80c10c7a9e89}

I am not sure where to troubleshoot.

Thank you,

S2D and IP bindings

November 17, 2018, 4:41 am

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Does S2D require IPv4/IPv6 bindings and IP addresses set on its NICs? Or can it work solely at L2 ?

Run SET-FSRMFileGroup as scheduled task

November 13, 2018, 1:02 pm

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All,
I’m trying to run a simple bit of Powershell to automate a task. Here’s the Powershell.

$safe_list = Get-Content C:\Scripts\Malware\Safelist.txt
$block_list = Get-Content C:\Scripts\Malware\Blocklist.txt
Set-FsrmFileGroup -Name "Anti-Ransomware File Groups" -IncludePattern ($block_list) -ExcludePattern ($safe_list)

Nothing clever there, right? So here’s my problem. If I launch Powershell on the server2012R2 as administrator, it prompts for UAC and runs, no problem. The problem comes when I try to run the script as a scheduled task. Even run as NT_Authority\System and “Run with highest privledge”s ticked, the command

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

With parameters

-Execution-policy Unrestricted -file C:\Scripts\CryptoBlocker\SetFSRMGroup.ps1

fails to actually run (it gives every impression of running but terminates with a code of 2147942401 (0x80070001) and doesn’t update the FileGroup). Now, I’m not sure if this is because of UAC or that the SYSTEM account doesn’t have authority to the location that FSRM stores its file groups (I’ve also tried this as the local machine administrator and NT_Authority\LOCAL SERVICE accounts with the same results). I’ve done a quick trawl of the registry to see if FSRM stores the file groups there but it seems not.

Now, if I can’t get this to run as a scheduled task, then this is of no practicable use to me; running it manually is not a path I’m going down (nor is disabling UAC). I'd assume that having provided the Powershell Command-lets MS would expect this sort of thing to be scripted. Any insights?

Pete

Scale-Out File server Snapshot issue

November 27, 2018, 2:27 am

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Hi,

I have Configured a Failover cluster with two nodes running Server 2012 R2 that point to a common Scale-out File server storage location running 2012 R2. I have also enable the Fille server VSS Agent in roles. When try to take Snapshot of Scale Out file server I end up with error often.

Below are the random error I face when I run "Add volume \\scaleout\server" from diskshadow,

1. Error text: VSS_E_SNAPSHOT_SET_IN_PROGRESS

2. The provider does not support volume shadow copies for this volume in this context.

You must either change the context or add a different volume.

Note that changing the context might cause existing volumes in the shadow copy set to become unsupported.

I have installed all the hot fix to keep OS up to date. Please let me know what I am missing?

Turn off opportunistic locking on Windows Server 2012r2

February 15, 2016, 2:22 pm

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I have an application that requires opportunistic locking to be turned off.  I find several articles for previous versions of Windows Server but not one for W2K12r2.  I have looked at the info form the articles but it does not match to what I see in the w2k12r2 server's registry.  

Is there an article that explains turning off opportunistic locking on w2k12r2?

Thanks

Bret

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(Error 0x80070035) Network Path Was Not Found

November 27, 2018, 1:24 pm

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Hi All, I am getting a "Error code: 0x80070035 The network path was not found" message while accessing a SMB share from Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 2008 R2 systems.  We are able to access it successfully from Windows 7 and 10  systems.  I have looked at the other posts related to this topic on Technet and having tried all suggestions , i am still not able to access.

I have also read this Microsoft KB but it doesn't say how to enable SMBv1 and 2  for Windows 2012 R2 or 2008 R2 smb-clients. It instead talks about smb-servers .  Is it the same procedure then for client & server 2012R2/2008R2 both  ?

Things i have verified 

-Not a network issue or ACL issue. The file-server is in the same subnet

-Not a DNS issue. I am able to nslookup and ping the File-server name.

- It is not a permissions issue. The share is open to Everyone.

- No antivirus is running.

-On Windows 10 systems i had to enable SMBv1 support and only then i was able to access that share.

-On Windows 2012 R2 and 20082 systems, i have verified SMB1 and SMB2 are running/enabled by running the following commands:

Get-WindowsOptionalFeature–Online –FeatureName SMB1Protocol

Get-WindowsOptionalFeature–Online –FeatureName SMB2Protocol

sc.exe config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/mrxsmb20/nsi
sc.exe config mrxsmb10 start= auto

sc.exe config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/mrxsmb20/nsi
sc.exe config mrxsmb20 start= auto

I also rebooted our servers after running the above sc.exe commands.

What else can someone recommend?  Thanks in advance

File Server Migration from Server 2008 to Server 2016

November 21, 2018, 6:33 am

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Hi,

Is there a better way to migrate File Server from 2008 R2 to Server 2016 and keeping NTFS and shares permission and the structure same?

I am not sure if the robocopy would do what I need?

ROBOCOPY "\\2008\E$" "\\Server2016\E$" /MIR /SEC /LOG:C:\logfile

Has anyone migrated from Server 2008 to Server 2016?

Thanks,

How to disable / decrease MPIO cache

November 6, 2018, 8:27 am

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Hi, 

Testing out a new backup repository.

I have a QNAP nas with 12disks. It's currently connected to my aruba switch via 2x1Gbit links. My backup server is physical with 4x10k raid5, Win2012r2. The backup server also is also connected to the same switch with 2x1Gb links.

QNAP is a iscsi target, and MPIO has been enabled on the backup server.

When I copy a 50GB test file from backup to QNAP, the progress bar shows the speed of 350MB/s, which is impossible. After progress bar shows that the file is copied (after ~3mins), a good portion of the file is still in the memory of the backup server and both two nics are still transferring ~1Gbps for about two minutes after the file was supposed to be copied over. You can see the memory consumption first rising by 20GB, and then slowly lowering back to normal. In the receiving end the QNAP shows transfer speed of 200MB/s during whole time. 

Is there a some kind of built-in caching in MPIO? Is there way to disable, or significantly lower the amount of cache?

E: In devmgmt -> disk drives -> QNAP iSCSI Storage Multi-Path disk Device -> policies "Enable write caching on the device" is not checked.

Faster SAN Performance Using Drive Letter

November 19, 2018, 12:37 pm

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On Windows Server 2012 R2 (and reproduced on 2016), we see significantly faster performance from our SANs (both Compellent and SolidFire) when accessing files through a drive letter.  For example:

1. Move-ClusterGroup to attach the storage
2. Run WinDirStat against 43,484 directories under C:\BuildCluster\STORAGE\RootFolder: 1m 38s
   

Versus:

1. Move-ClusterGroup to attach the storage
2. Set-WmiInstance to assign a drive letter to C:\BuildCluster\STORAGE
3. Run WinDirStat against 43,484 directories under Q:\RootFolder: 21s

Why would assigning a drive letter make file performance that much faster?  We'd actually prefer NOT to have to use a drive letter, but we can't argue against the performance gains.

LMCompatibilityLevel Mismatch

November 27, 2018, 2:44 pm

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help desk put out a GPO that set LMCompatibilityLevel to 5.  My our servers the regkey is missing on 2012R2 and 2016 servers.  This means the LMCompatibilityLevel for my servers is 3 correct?  where does it get 3 from if the regkey is not there?  Also this would NOT be a mismatch correct?