Hey,

I'm making photo's of cars for a company and we got a server running locally. I make photo's with my iPhone and i used to use dropbox for auto syncing pictures with the dropbox cloud and access from my pc.

Since dropbox is too slow and we got a server running with big amounts of storage i want my iPhone to sync with my server instead of my dropbox. i already got a shared folder and a network drive for this.

Thanks in advance.

Marc

Hey,

I've got a server running at my company and on the computer at the company i've got a network drive.

How can i make it possible to access this drive from my home?

Hi,

I can't figure out why am I getting you do not have permission to access .... contact your network administrator. The drive shows as shared in server manager - file and storage services - shares yet when I try to access the folders in the drive from any computer on my network I get that error. I am very new to this so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

James

 I was advised to go on here - from https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/03e97939-aaa5-4da7-9385-9e86de0d99b9/error-setfsrmquotatemplate-0x80070057-the-parameter-is-incorrect?forum=winserverpowershell

Problem:

When I try to create new or modify settings for FSRM Quota Template, for example:

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#Create action
$Action= New-FsrmAction -Type Command -Command "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe"

#Create thresholds
$Threshold = New-FsrmQuotaThreshold -Percentage 80 -action $Action
$Threshold2 = New-FsrmQuotaThreshold -Percentage 95 -action $Action

#Create quota
Set-FsrmQuotaTemplate -name "Test" -size 1073741824 -Threshold $Threshold,$Threshold2
-------------------------------

Receive next errors:

I have turned on Folder Redirection on one of my customers' servers, and now, when creating a new file in the redirected Documents folder I get an error saying the path doesn't exist.  Yet it does exist.  Further more, if I open Windows Explorer and go to that folder, then right-click, choose create new Word Document, for example, I get a dialog box with the following message:

"An expected error is keeping you from creating the file.  If you continue to receive this error, you can sue the error code to search for help with this problem. Error 0x80070003: The system cannot find the path specified". 

Which is weird, because I'm in the folder I'm trying to create the file. 

Another application, Olympus Transcription software, tells me I don't have permission to the folder.  Yet, I do have full access permissions to the folder, and when I look at the Effective Permissions, it tells me I have "Full Access".

I have:

• Tried disabling the anti-virus;
• removed the antivirus;
• created a new share for the redirected folders, including having tried "Everyone", "Domain Users", "Users" etc as having not just "read", but "Write" and "Full Access" permissions at the share level (as per knowledge base articles, plus just trying what seemed logical);
• removed, reinstated and reset all permissions on the redirected folders - on the folders themsevles (as per knowledge base articles, plus just trying what seemed logical);
• Created a brand-new redirected folders group policy object (as per knowledge base articles).

The problem appears to happen for most, if not all users, and for all redirected folders, that is, also for the Desktop for example, as well as Documents.

There is also a related Event Log entry, but doesn't tell me any more than I already know:

  Failed to apply policy and redirect folder "Desktop" to "\\sbs\FolderRedirections\hbourke\Desktop".
    Redirection options=0x9231.
   The following error occurred: "Failed to redirect because the destination directory "\\sbs\   FolderRedirections\hbourke\Desktop" is offline".
 Error details: "The network path was not found.
".

I'm almost at my wits end...  Help!! Please!!

Dear experts,

in eventlog I find the following information for one of my deduplicated volumes:

Volume: F: (\\?\Volume{9794e270-fb08-487e-979b-8a08fa9ca311}\)
Error code: 0x0
Error message:
Savings rate: 24
Saved space: 853327714684
Volume used space: 2681869406208
Volume free space: 66771247104
Optimized file count: 1199618
In-policy file count: 1188049
Job processed space (bytes): 0
Job elapsed time (seconds): 2
Job throughput (MB/second): 0

Some things look strange to me: 
- The savings rate is only 24% which looks odd because I get about 40% on other file shares with similar characteristics.
- The "Optimized file count" is higher than the "in-policy" file count.
- The volume has about 3.5 million files but only 1.1 million files are "in-policy".

My understanding of "in-policy" files is that all files are in-policy which are older than 3 days (if not configured different, which is not the case) and which are not contained in an excluded folder (nothing configured here) and which have no excluded file extension (nothing configured here apart from the default). Right?

I'm sure that only a small fraction of the files on this volume are younger than three days, so something seems to be wrong there, but I have no idea how to find the cause of the problem.
Is there any way to identify the files (full path) which are considered to be not "in-policy"?
How can I find out if the optimization process really looks at all files - and doesn't skip a million?

Thanks!

Regards
Christoph

On trying to activate a remote desktop licensing server at https://activate.microsoft.com I receive the following message in a modal dialogue box.

Remote desktop services is unable to process your request.  The License Server ID provided is not valid for the Microsoft Clearing House.  Please re-check your entry and try again.

The License server ID is cut and pasted from the RD licensing manager so there is no typographical error.  Any ideas how to get around this?

Hi,

I would like to use robocopy to copy files based on a modified date but I am unsure what the correct syntax should be, I don't want it copying the wrong way. this is what I would like my commands to do:

copy only files from d:\data that were modified after 16/01/2015 18:00 to D:\Tempdata (whilst keeping folder structure in tact)

copy all files from T:\Data that were modified before 16/01/2015 18:00 to d:\data (overwriting them without a prompt, and logging any failures to a log.txt file).

this is easy stuff for someone in the know I'm sure, we had some severe corruption over the weekend and we know our backup on the T drive is the most healthy one, we assume that if the file has been modified since 16/01/2015 18:00 then those files are fine. we are also missing files so we want to ensure those missing files come back from the T drive.

really appreciate your help, thanks

Steve

Hi,

I have been hosting a DFS mapping on Windows 2003 servers these past years. The DFS mapping is only used to combine several shares on site file servers into one share /  mapping.

So S: what the user sees is \\domain.company.tld\TopShare

and TopShare has several directories called <sitename> each linked to \\SiteServer.domain.company.tld\FileShare

No replication is involved.

I now want to move everything to our new 2012R2 DCs. Can I simply add DFS to those DCs, add them to the existing DFS structure and remove the old 2k3 DCs?

Or do I need to do something extra, because the whole DFS structure has changed a few times after Win2k3 ?
In that case, WHAT do I need to do extra? There is probably a good KB article about this but just searching for DFS etc gives WAY to much hits. :-(

I'm not sure if I should ask this in the server forum or the regular Windows forum, so I'll just ask -- if this is best asked elsewhere I'll move it.

I'm sure that most of you are familiar with the behavior described in this Microsoft KB article: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/310316/

This behavior, as I understand it, is valid for anything pre-Vista or Server 2008. When a file is moved from a folder with one set of permissions to another with a different set, whether dragged and dropped or cut and paste, the file does NOT inherit the new permissions, as long as it's on the same volume, as the file is not actually moving, per se.

I get this. I also get that as of Vista and Server 2008, and by extension 7 and 2012, the behavior has been altered so that they do inherit permissions. At least, I think so. I struggle to find documentation that explicitly says that.

Anyway, we have a file share (hosted on Server 2012 R2) at a job site where they recently decided to go with a folder structure that has, at the top level, some very specific defined permissions on a number of folders. Everything under top level folder inherits its permissions. And when the job moved to this folder, all of its existing files were dumped into this structure.

As expected with Windows 7 and Server 2012, when the files were moved, they took on the new permissions. And when files are moved from one folder set to another, permissions get inherited. Except, this doesn't happen with two people. Their computers are behaving like Windows XP when it comes to copying files. One is on Windows 7 x64 and the other still on Windows 7 x86.

They are using the cut and paste method and I have remoted in and witnessed this XP-like behavior. Nobody else so far is exhibiting this behavior. Everything I'm reading says that this shouldn't be happening, and the registry keys that I've been able to find that alter this behavior don't work in Windows 7.

Sorry for the wall of text, but that's the gist of it. Can anyone even give me an idea of where to start looking?

I'm working on a script I can push out to a few dozen Windows Server 2012/2012R2 servers to enable FSRM File Screens that will write an alert to the event log when they detect a particular filename being written to disk.

$a = gwmi win32_logicaldisk -filter DriveType=3|Select-ExpandPropertyDeviceIDInstall-WindowsFeature-Name FS-Resource-Manager-IncludeManagementToolsNew-FsrmFileGroup-Name"CryptoWall File Monitor"-IncludePattern@("*DECRYPT*")

$Notification =New-FsrmAction-TypeEvent-EventTypeWarning-Body"Alert text here"-RunlimitInterval30foreach($i in $a){New-FsrmFileScreen-Path"$i"-IncludeGroup"CryptoWall File Monitor"-Notification $Notification}

Now, the script itself works fine, with one tiny issue: when it runs, the first filescreen (usually on C:) has the correct settings:

Active:FalseDescription:IncludeGroup:{CryptoWallFileMonitor}MatchesTemplate:FalseNotification:{MSFT_FSRMAction}Path: C:\Template:PSComputerName:

But subsequent screens do not (note the Active : True output below)

Active:TrueDescription:IncludeGroup:{CryptoWallFileMonitor}MatchesTemplate:FalseNotification:{MSFT_FSRMAction}Path: D:\Template:PSComputerName:

The "Active" attribute is supposed to be set explicitly by using the -Active flag when running the New-FSRMFileScreen cmdlet, which I'm pretty confident I'm not somehow inserting into subsequent iterations of the loop.

This is an issue, because we do actually want the files to be written to disk in the event of a Cryptowall infection on an endpoint. The malware generally writes files into the affected directories with "helpful" instructions on how to pay a ransom, and this is meant warn us as soon as possible that something is going on. If the file screen actively blocks the files from being written to disk, it becomes more difficult to identify affected files after the fact.

So is this a bug, or did I make a mistake?

Hi All,

The company i work for are having issues with shared network drives essentially we've run out of usable drive letters... so we are looking at a way of scripting mapped network locations to provide for personalised mappings for individuals..

I have been unable to find any way of doing this scripting upon logon so any help would be appreciated...

Thomas

Hi ,

We use DFS on Windows Server 2008 R2, Every once in a while (around 15 days) the DFS Server looses connectivity to the DC. After few minutes is resumes the connection back. What causes this in the first place? My DC looks healthy and passes all the tests.

Below are the DFS Debug logs at the time connection was lost:

20140214 01:03:29.618 10088 CFAD   311 Config::AdConnection::Connect Binding to dcAddr:\\172.16.5.14 dcDnsName:\\abc.domain.com
20140214 01:03:29.618 10088 CFAD   143 Config::AdConnection::BindToAd Trying to connect. hostName:abc.domain.com
20140214 01:03:29.618 10088 CFAD  3195 [ERROR] Config::AdSession::Bind Failed to ldap_bind_s(). authLevel:1158 Error:Local Error
20140214 01:03:29.618 10088 CFAD   173 [ERROR] Config::AdConnection::BindToAd Failed to bind to AD. Error:[Error:8341(0x2095) Config::AdSession::Bind ad.cpp:3201 10088 W A directory service error has occurred.]
20140214 01:03:29.618 10088 CFAD   143 Config::AdConnection::BindToAd Trying to connect. hostName:172.16.5.14
20140214 01:03:29.618 10088 CFAD   162 Config::AdConnection::BindToAd Bound. hostName:172.16.5.14
20140214 01:03:29.618 10088 CFAD   199 Config::AdConnection::BindToDc Try to bind. hostName:\\abc.domain.com domainName:<null>
20140214 01:03:29.633 10088 CFAD  3371 [ERROR] Config::DsSession::Bind Failed to DsBind(). dc:\\abc.domain.com domainName:<null> Error:5
20140214 01:03:29.633 10088 CFAD   215 Config::AdConnection::BindToDc (Ignored) Failed to bind. hostName:\\abc.domain.com domainName:<null> Error:[Error:5(0x5) Config::DsSession::Bind ad.cpp:3378 10088 W Access is denied.]
20140214 01:03:29.633 10088 CFAD   199 Config::AdConnection::BindToDc Try to bind. hostName:\\172.16.5.14 domainName:<null>
20140214 01:03:29.633 10088 CFAD  3371 [ERROR] Config::DsSession::Bind Failed to DsBind(). dc:\\172.16.5.14 domainName:<null> Error:87
20140214 01:03:29.633 10088 CFAD   215 Config::AdConnection::BindToDc (Ignored) Failed to bind. hostName:\\172.16.5.14 domainName:<null> Error:[Error:87(0x57) Config::DsSession::Bind ad.cpp:3378 10088 W The parameter is incorrect.]
20140214 01:03:29.633 10088 SCFS   150 [WARN] ServiceConfig::DsPollIsDue Failed to enable lightweight polling. Error:
+ [Error:160(0xa0) Config::AdConfig::ConnectToLocalDc ad.cpp:8399 10088 W One or more arguments are not correct.]
+ [Error:160(0xa0) Config::AdConfig::Connect ad.cpp:8147 10088 W One or more arguments are not correct.]
+ [Error:160(0xa0) Config::AdConnection::Connect adconnection.cpp:377 10088 W One or more arguments are not correct.]
+ [Error:160(0xa0) Config::AdConnection::BindToDc adconnection.cpp:226 10088 W One or more arguments are not correct.]  

Darshan

I have a problem exporting a DFSR Clone on our W2012 Server.

The server was setup as Core and had the DFS roles installed, but didn't have the RSAT tools installed (I don't know why DFS requires you to install management tools this way instead of including them in the role).

I cannot install the RSAT tools because features on demand simply doesn't let you once your server is patched up. The source parameters just don't work (we've had calls with MS about this before).

The export-dfsrclone command does not have any "-Computer" option to run it remotely.

Implicit remoting in powershell allows me to import the module but running the commands still runs them on the machine they are imported from and not the local DFSR server.

How can I run export-dfsrclone on my source DFSR file server? Are there any other means of remotely running the cmdlet that I haven't explored, or other ways of creating the clone?

Having issues with Windows 2008 R2 FSRM Quota Management.  We have everyones Home drives setup with a quota.  We have different quotas for different people and the Quota % Used is not matching what is in there Home drive.  One user went as far to delete all but 4GB on his drive with a 150GB Quota and its still showing at 91% used.

Been like this for weeks(user Claims).

Any thoughts

Thanks for any assistance.

Hey there,

I had setup a user folder quota for all company users under the User Home folder with 1GB limit. However, there is something wrong with it recently. It didn't show up all users who are in 1GB limit template under the Quota managent, and some new users didn't apply the template automatically. Is there any logs I can check it out what happened, or anyway I can fix this issue? Thanks in advance.

Hello

I also have DFS Replication issue. I set up DFSR on Windows Server 2012 R2, which replicated data with Branch Server with Win Server 2008 R2. Everything was working fine  when I initially set up DFSR but now Replication stopped And when I manually to replicating data by clicking on "replication now, and getting following error

Do you have any idea what I am missing? and I also tried Raymond solution but did not work.

Thanks!

OK, so I had the following setup:

• 4 4TB Hard drives
• Single Virtual Disk set as "Fixed" to the maximum size and 2-Way mirror

Seeing that I was approaching a point where the disk would fill up, I acquired 2 more 4TB drives.  My initial naive thought was to add those additional hard drives to the pool, then go ahead and expand the virtual disk?

Not so lucky.  When trying to expand the disk, it did not show any available space for expansion.

Great.  OK.  Well, I might as well remove those new disks from the pool so I can use them another way?

Not so lucky.  Now the Storage Spaces tells me that I cannot remove a disk from the pool without adding another disk as large in size.  I've also tried to manually mark the disks as "Retired", but that just ended up putting the virtual disk into degraded status and in such a way as repairing them did not seem to work.

So I added the new drives back into the pool, and was able to get back to a non-degraded status.

So as it stands, those 2 new disks are doing nothing but sitting there, unused, as part of a pool where the virtual disk cannot be expanded to use them.

Help!

Hi,

We are having windows 2008 R2 File server as our file server.

Our files are suddenly changed the extension to xxx.docx.rlspiam, yyy.xlsx.rlspiam which is not readable any more. We have tried full scan fore front security to identify any virus but nothing we found. Looks, all these files affected by virus and unfortunately our yesterday backup was failed.

Is there any way to retrieve these files? Thanks in advance for great help.

MD