We moved from 2003 servers to 2008 servers a few months ago, recently we noticed that replication between server1 & server2 is not working, as the initial copy from the primary to the secondary semed ok, but nothing has replicated since. When you run the health diagnostics in DFS it appears to indicate no issue and all is ok, but nothing is actually replicating from 1 to 2.

when i run dfsrsdiag backlog on either server says there's nothing in backlog. I have a feeling it might have never worked since the initail copy, but found another utility which shows me the below, what does this mean? replciation should be one way server1 to server2

UPDATE:

Dfsradmin Membership List /RGname:Rep_group_namef/attr:MemName,RFName,IsPrimary

Both servers show No to Primary, is this absolutely required? as other servsr with DFS shares have this option of no for all mebers but they are replicating OK

Hi all,

I'm thinking of setting up a storage pool on Windows Server 2012 Essentials, but reading across the internet there are some things I want to (double) check.

My plan is to start with 2 3TB drives (2 way mirroring) and expand afterwards if necessary. My main questions are for when I run out of space.

1) I had hoped when my 2 disks got full, I could just add 1 more disk and let the system take care of the rest, but I read that's not the case and I'll have to add 2 disks instead of 1 ?

2) Let's say I do that and I have added 2 disks after a while (resulting in 4 disks in total). The next time I run out of space will I be able to just add 2 more or will I then have to add 4 more ? (so from 4 to 6 or do I have to go from 4 to 8 disks)
I would have assumed 2, but this text here made me doubt:
quote:
"When it comes to mirror spaces, you have to take into account both the number of columns and the number of data copies. For example, a two-way mirror created with four physical disks would look like Figure 10. NumberOfDataCopies equals 2, and NumberOfColumns equals 2. The number of disks needed to extend this virtual disk can be found using the following formula:
NumberOfDataCopies * NumberOfColumns

2 * 2 = 4"

However I would be starting for 2 disks originally, so maybe it's not an issue and I can add 2 disks the second time I expand (from 4 to 6 disks) ?

3) Let's say I want to replace an existing pair of disks with bigger ones (for example the 2 3TB disks). Can I then just remove 1 3TB disk and replace it with a 4TB disk, wait for the pool to synchronize to the next disk and then pull the second 3TB disk and also replace it with a 4TB disk ? Will that work without issues ?

4) Can I use my storage pool to store my client backups and preferably also server backups ?

Thank you in advance for any advice,

 Jorn

I'm having strange results when searching in Windows.

For example i have a textfile called werkplek.txt When i search for werkplek it won't find the file. But when i search for werkple it does find the file.

Same goes for "klankbord". Those are both dutch words. Can anyone maybe explain why this happens? In Outlook 2010 we have the same issues.

Can anyone help me with this one? Thanks in advance.

Hi every one

I have 2 windows server 2008 R2 as file server in my network and now I have a problem with my users access:

when one of my users opens a file from file servers and at the same time another user opens the same file on file server it doesn't show any error about being read only or another user is working on it or its being opened by another users or some thing like that , bout users can edit the same file at the same time and the latest edits will be save on the file and other edits will be lost

If any one has any solution or experience about this problem please share it with me

thank you

I just got a pair of new 3TB disks that I wanted to put on my Windows 2003 server enterprise x64 system, SP2, all updates installed.

When I first tried to convert to dynamic, I got the error "The operation did not complete" as described in this KB article

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826823

It says there is a patch, but there is not one for x64, just x86 and ia64

I found another technet discussion here:  https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/cb62238c-b3d0-4989-b45a-ae6de6701a7b?stoAI=10

However its best suggestion is to use a product from AOMIE, but I tried that and it didn't even recognize the disk.  It also suggests that one needs a better version of diskpart.exe and to try to the 32 bit version.  Anyone have any experience with that?

I also tried creating moving the disk to Windows 7 x64, making it dynamic there, but when I move the disk back to 2K3 it does not recognize it, and goes back to a 2TB partition.  I also saw something about needing a 512 block size for 2K3, but W7 does not allow anything smaller than 1K.

Hi all,

I have created a script to move home folders using Robocopy, on a Win 2008 R2 64bit server.  All our file servers are Win 2k8 R2 64bit.

The approach I have to move them effectively is as follows:

1)  Create \\FileServerB\ServerB$\User1 (this is the destination)
2)  Set Permissions on the above folder
3)  Run Robocopy \\FileServerA\ServerA$\User1\\FileServerB\ServerB$\User1 /MIR /COPY:DATOU /MOVE /R:1 /W:1 /MT:128 /LOG+MyLog.log

It does a pretty good job in copying the files and folders (and subfolders), however, while I assume the source folder will be deleted, it actually behaves like this:

1)  If the source folder does not have subfolders, itself will be deleted after being copied.
2)  If the source folder contains subfolders, only files will be deleted.  So in the end it leaves the original empty folder structure in the source.

Is this the expected behaviour of the /MOVE switch??   I try not to add anRD \\FileServerA\ServerA$\User1 /s /q statement after that, in case if something goes wrong with that Robocopy instance, the source will not be deleted.

So what is the correct syntax/approach to achieve a clean and "robust" move of folders?


Thanks ahead.

Hello

Is there any way that i can restrict users not to save extensionless files through FSRM

Regards

Ausaf Ahmad

I'm very confused about DFSR and FRS when it turns to different windows server version.

If I have a DC with FRS, then once it migrated to DFSR, could it demote back to FRS?

If I have a domain in 2003 functional level, once I promote it to 2008 functional level, would the FRS migrate to DFSR automatically? Or should I do the migration manually?

I notice that in my 2008 R2 server(in a domain with 2003 functional level), both DFSR and FRS are started.Is it mean that the DC is using DFSR & FRS at the same time? If not, why are the two services both started?

Besides, I noticed in this wiki page,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Replication_Service , it was announced that "In Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2008, DFS Replication is available as well as the File Replication Service." 

Does it mean that a 2k3 R2 DC is able to migrate from FRS to DFSR?

But in this blog:http://blogs.technet.com/b/qzaidi/archive/2012/01/16/quickly-explained-migrate-your-sysvol-replication-from-frs-to-dfsr.aspx

It tells that if you want to make a migration, "Your Domain Functional Level (DFL) must be set to Windows Server 2008 or higher i.e. no Windows Server 2003 or older domain controllers". But how could a 2k3 R2 DC keep in a domain with 2k8 domain functional level??????

hi

i have a san and 2 file server

i want to know what is microsoft solution for these servers to work Active/Active in cluster with a shared storage

i read some document about the DFS and network load balancing but i do not understand how can done this

for example if  user1 connect to server 1 and open file.txt from there

and at the same time user2 connect to server 2 and open same file(file.txt) from that server

and both of the users modify the file and save this

what will be happen?does some section of the modified file lost?

i do not want to lost any thing

please help me to select the best solution

We have multiple servers setup for one-way DFS-R as part of our disaster recovery redundancy (also have daily tape backups as well).

Does the staging quota for the server that is a read-only receiving member need an optimally configured staging quota, or is the default 4GB OK?  We've set our DFS environment up based on the recommended 36-48 largest files dictating the staging quota for the sending member.  However, there's not much documentation out there with regards to an environment where it's a one-way topology...

Thanks in advance,

Karson

Made some DFS folders Re-Writable after being Read-Only & now can't access DFSRprivate folder on those members.Using a domain admin account. Issue only occurs on member-shares that were read only previously.

Error:access denied

Hi,

We have a request from client to remove power users and builtin users permissions from 'Windows' and sub directories on Windows 2003 server, but when I try to remove it says 'Access is denied'. I have tried using local admin account and domain admin account with same error for both, please advice...

Hello, If I am posting in the wrong place I apologize.  I've already posted windows server general with no responses.  My problem is below and before you read it please note: This event occurs EACH hour AND I do not have DFS setup or enabled so I can't use the reg hack I found online.  Anyone have ANY Sort of clue as to what this could be? If I could get a starting point that would be extremely helpful.

Hello, I am having the same issue with a few variations.  I am getting Event 12317 and it occurs 1 time per hour.  So I get about 24 of these a day (including during the evening).  I am not using DFS so there is no reg key to disable for this issue.  I have a Windows 2008 Server R2 Standard 64bit OS which is a file server.  It does have the Hyper V role installed with 2 virtual machines.  I have found a lot of questions surrounding this event but I haven't found one that includes the same environment variables or frequency which I have.  Any ideas outside of opening up a Microsoft Support Ticket.  I am using SEP 11.0.6005.562 on this server and on my clients. 

Log Name:      Application
Source:        SRMSVC
Date:          4/6/2011 4:43:18 PM
Event ID:      12317
Task Category: None
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:     fileserver.domain.local
Description:
File Server Resource Manager failed to enumerate share paths or DFS paths.  Mappings from local file paths to share and DFS paths may be incomplete or temporarily unavailable.  FSRM will retry the operation at a later time.

Context:
   Domain: [Domain]

Error-specific details:
   Error: DfsMapCacheAdd(Domain), 0x8007054b, The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="SRMSVC" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="32772">12317</EventID>
    <Level>3</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-04-06T23:43:18.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>32319</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>fileserver.domain.local</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>

Context:
   Domain: [Domain]

Error-specific details:
   Error: DfsMapCacheAdd(Domain), 0x8007054b, The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.
</Data>
    <Binary>2D20436F64653A20504D43414348454330303030303830322D2043616C6C3A20504D43414348454330303030303732362D205049443A202030303030323236382D205449443A202030303030323433322D20434D443A2020433A5C57696E646F77735C73797374656D33325C737663686F7374202D6B2073726D7376637320202D20557365723A204E616D653A204E5420415554484F524954595C53595354454D2C205349443A532D312D352D313820</Binary>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Hi,

I was looking at, for training purposes to create iSCSI system on WIndows Storage Server,

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/video/how-to-setup-iscsi-on-windows-server-2008-11-mins

The video refers to Windows Storage server 2003.

I have Technet Standard subscription and the download options are:

Windows storage 2008, basic(3.3 GB) which I installed but it does not have option to create iSCSI

Windows Storage Server 2008R2 embedded, iSCSI which is executable, 900MB and when I run it on above server does not do anything.

I wonder if you may guide me to proper software,

Hi,

very strange problem here. We aren't able to connect to several NAS on the same subnet from our virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 machines which are running on Hyper-V 2008 R2 Cluster. We always get error message0x80070035 network path not found.

When we try to connect to NAS from physical Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 machine it works like a charm. It seems to be that only our hyper-v machines are having this problem.

After some searching on the web we found a hotfix but it is already included to SP1 and won't help here. All other suggestions on the web like enabling Computer Browser service or changing NetBios Settings didn't help yet. We also checked firewall settings on both virtual and physical machines and found no differences.

We are using SCFEP 2012 on virtual and physical machines and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Datacenter as OS.

Any suggestions would be very appreciated!

Thank you very much,

André

Hello All,

I'm trying to copy a folder to another location on Server 2008 R2 and every time I do it tells me that I require permission from domain/administrator and then will not proceed. The thing is that I am logged onto that server as domain/administrator so this makes no sense to me. I have taken ownership and ensured that domain/administrator has full control security permissions and the folder is not shared. I have also tried disabling UAC on that server.

Can anybody help me figure out a way to copy this folder? The data in it is critical and cannot be redone. Help would be greatly appreciated!

I am doing some testing with Windows Server 2008 R2 with NTFS permissions.  I have a d: (multiple folders and sub-folders) drive with an existing ntfs permissions.  I want to make a backup of the settings using icacls so I can restore when needed.

So, here is what I am doing and the issue:

1.  Open an elevated cmd prompt.

2.  Run "icacls d:\ /save ntfsDdrive.txt /t /c" without the quotes.  No issues.

3.  Run "icacls d:\ /restore ntfsDdrive.txt" without the quotes and I get the following:

d:\D:PAI(A;OICI;FA;;;SY)(A;OICI;FA;;;BA)(A;OICI;0x1200a9;;;S-1-5-21-1229272821-2
025429265-725345543-3701)(A;CI;0x1200a9;;;BU)S:AI: The filename, directory name,
 or volume label syntax is incorrect.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files

Any assistance is appreciated.

We have quotas set up on a Windows 2008 file server using FSRM.  Windows 7 clients with mapped drives to the shares are not displaying the quota size 'usage', rather they are showing the entire volume size usage.  I have been banging my head against google for several days now and can not find a solution.  Everything I find are cases involving windows XP clients and all seem to point to a limitation with XP and SMB 1.0...and quotas being set on the root of a share rather than subfolders with a share.  I have tested applying a quota in both scenerios....neither will display the quota size to the mapped client drive.

Windows 7 is supposed to be SMB 2.0 and NOT have this limitation with displaying quota sizes on mapped network shares.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Well I've reached the end of my rope with this one. Our replication server worked fine for months with no issues. All of a sudden it stopped working. We tried everything we could think of, disabling/enabling the replication server, deleting/readding the replication group, making sure one was set to primary, reinstalling DFS, deleting the System Volume Information\DFSR folder ect. Nothing is working.

What is really wierd is that it only fails on our D: drive, meaning that if we setup replication on a folder within the C: drive, it works perfect! If we setup the replication folder on our D: drive, it does not work. The problem only affects 1 of our servers. Replication works perfectly on all other servers, and on the affected server if the replication folder is setup on another drive. On the affected server, the debug log shows the error:

20121210 15:21:05.293 1940 SRTR   957 [WARN] SERVER_EstablishSession Failed to establish a replicated folder session. connId:{CC5E21CC-29A0-410E-8108-B98936753A7A} csId:{7D55E528-165E-4EA8-A009-F907BF9E1838} Error:
+ [Error:9028(0x2344) UpstreamTransport::EstablishSession upstreamtransport.cpp:808 1940 C The content set was not found]
+ [Error:9028(0x2344) OutConnection::EstablishSession outconnection.cpp:532 1940 C The content set was not found]
+ [Error:9028(0x2344) OutConnection::EstablishSession outconnection.cpp:476 1940 C The content set was not found]

Other servers report:

+ [Error:9027(0x2343) DownstreamTransport::EstablishSession downstreamtransport.cpp:4179 7628 C A failure was reported by the remote partner]
+ [Error:9028(0x2344) DownstreamTransport::EstablishSession downstreamtransport.cpp:4179 7628 C The content set was not found]

We also noticed that the System Volume Information\DFSR folder does not get recreated for the D: drive, but does get recreated on the C: drive on the same server. We've troubleshooted as far as we can and are stuck. The problem seems to only occur with a replicated folder on the D: drive. I saw a KB that looked similar, but it seemed to HyperV/snapshot related.

I will say that I think this started after we did a clean install of Server 2008 R2 several months ago, but used the same data (D:) drive but we can't be sure becuase we didn't notice it until now becuase this server was replicating only for backup purposes.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!