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windows 2003 DFSR event:2104

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Hi

I am having problem with dfsr in windows 2003r2 64 bit I also follow http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979295#work

To work around this issue, manually perform a tombstone operation on the oldID_RECORD record and creates a new global version sequence number. To do this, follow these steps:”

What is a tombstone operation? I assume is this going through the dfsr.log?

I also could not find the event id 2212 on the upstream server like the kb suggest.

This is the log from the downstream server

Event Type:        Error

Event Source:    DFSR

Event Category:               None

Event ID:             2104

Date:                    6/02/2014

Time:                    8:34:03 AM

User:                    N/A

Computer:          ESTDC1

Description:

The DFS Replication service failed to recover from an internal database error on volume E:. Replication has been stopped for all replicated folders on this volume.

 

Additional Information:

Error: 9214 (Internal database error (-1078))

Volume: 8873471E-D257-11DE-B1D9-806E6F6E6963

Database: E:\System Volume Information\DFSR

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


Event ID 1000 in Windows 2003 Server SP2 Backup Failure while trying to schedule backup job

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Hi,

After run below mentioned two commands, I am able to schedule on backup Job but when I am trying to add another backup job then the same error is coming. Plz. reply with the solutions.

Cacls.exe C:\Windows\Tasks /E /G "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM":F

Cacls.exe C:\Windows\Tasks /E /G BUILTIN\Administrators:F

Server is not access through UNC path

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i need one help from you..plz help me.
Issue:-I have a Wndows 2008 R2 Standard Server.I join my company 23rd, September 2013.
This Windows 2008 R2 Server is a file server, there are 11 shared folder in this.
Earlier when we access server by \\192.168.1.100 (My Server IP) 
it was ask for username and password prompt.After 0ne month of joining 
my boss told me to install Active Directory on this file server 
but after one month AD creating problem and server hanged and speed slow issue.
So i uninstalled AD on this and when i restart the pc Server wallpaper changed and 
now server is not accessing from the client pc after a lot search i found 
now SSDP and UPnP service was disable,so i enable this and enable 
network discovery setting and now server is accessible only when i add entry on client pc 
credential manager otherwise it give error logon failure: the user has not been granted 
the request logon type at this computer and not prompt username and password 
i want it back.when someone access from \\servername or \\serverip it prompt for 
username and password.Now i am to manually make in entry in every client pc credential manager then only i can access server.If i make entry through \\ipaddress then only client access through \\ipaddress only.if i make an credential manager entry on client with \\servername then access only through \\servername not \\ipaddress.I don't know after uninstalled AD which service is stop or policy not work.I don't have any idea.I want that when client access server \\ipaddress or \\servername it will always prompt enter network credential prompt to client.Please please help me in this issue i shall be highly highly oblize to you.I am now tired to find solution on web please help me...

Change server domain retaining permissions

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We have a requirement to change the domain membership of a file server but permissions of files stored on the server must be retained with matching groups on the destination domain.

I realise there are several 3rd party utilities which would achieve this but these are cost prohibitive and so are not a viable option.

The main problem is that there are multiple terrabytes of data, millions of files and hundreds of groups to account for.

I know it's asking a lot but was wondering if anyone had any experience of doing something like this without using 3rd party software (which I know would make things a lot easier). I'm obviously not looking for a step by step guide, just an idea of an approach to take.

Thanks

Cannot create a partion on an unpartitioned drive...

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Hi all;

Please look at the following figures:

As you can see on the second figure. I cannot create a partition on it. Can anyone explain why?

Thanks


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Disk Partition Issue

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I was trying to create a simple partition on a Windows Server 2008r2 server.  The server has four current partions already, OEM, recovery, O/S, and File storage.  I went through the steps, selecting the size of the new drive, I chose "Z" as the drive letter, since this will be used for archiving, it will be an NTFS drive, and chose quick format.  When I clicked on "Finish, I got this message: 

The operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk(s) to dynamic disk(s).  If you convert the disk to dynamic you will not be able to start installed Operating Systems from any volume on the disk except the current boot volume.

The hard drive the extra space is located on is a simple drive.  I've seen where Windows 7 does not allow more than four partitions, but I would assume a server would allow more than that.

I am scared to click "OK."  Can anyone tell me why this message would come up?

Two USV issues: %username% & permissions

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Hello all,

I recently-ish (~7 months) migrated our domain over from Roaming User Profiles (RUP) to RUP + Folder Redirection (USV).  Everything works fantastically, except two small issues. Warning: Long post ahead, but I try to cover all bases from the get-go.

Issue #1: %Username%

It seems that when copying an existing user with a configured roaming profile path (e.g. \\server\Users$\%username%\profile), the new user's profile path exactly matches the user it was copied from. This was not the behavior when using only RUP - it always changed the profile path to include the new user's name.

I have USV configured so that a user's redirected folders and roaming profiles are combined to one spot on the network for consolidation of information and ease of management. For example, each users redirected folders are set for "Create a folder for each user under the root path" to \\server\Users$\ and their roaming profile paths are \\server\Users$\%username%\profile. The \profile suffix is so that when the profile is created, it is placed at the same level as all the other redirected folders.

The interesting thing is that it appears the issue has something to do with the \profile suffix.  In creating some test users, if I take that \profile off the end of the path, the %username% variable works fine - even in the same \Users$ folder I normally use (so it isn't a permissions thing).

Issue #2: Permissions

When a user is first created or is migrated to USV, they have Full Control on their root folder and all subfolders. However, the entries are all set to "This folder only".  In normal operation when creating their own folders and files, they encounter no issues. Unfortunately, if data is copied/moved into their profile from another user (which happens frequently for various reasons - data recovery, profile migration, copying files from another account, etc), they do not have any rights to it.

The workaround is to make sure to go into the user's root folder after creation, tick off inheritance, change 'This folder only' to 'This folder, subfolders and files', and tick 'Replace all child object permissions...'. However, even with an internal KB, this is hard for most of my team to remember. I find I either need to go in after them to change these settings or, if I am unable to, we have seen some users able to log in but then get 'Access Denied' to everything in their profile (which, understandably, freaks them out).

Here are the relevant steps on how I set up a new Users$ share:

  1. Create folder -> Click Change Permissions -> Untick 'Include inheritable permissions...' -> clickAdd.
  2. Edit Users "Special" ACL and change Apply To: to "This folder only" and change Name to regional security group.
  3. Edit Users "Read & execute" ACL and changeApply To:"This folder only" and change Name to regional security group.
  4. Sharing tab -> Click Advanced Sharing -> Tick "Share this folder" and give it Users$.
  5. Permissions button -> Allow Full Control to Regional security group and Domain Admins.

I am sure this issue stems from how permissions on the Users$ share are configured, but I set it this way so that users couldn't get into each others' folders. I don't want to enable ABE as that would only be 'security by obscurity' - they could still get there if typing the path manually, and we have plenty of users savvy enough to do that. I have tried setting them up without the "This folder only" change, but they each get Full Control to all profiles. Is there a better way?

Conclusion

Obviously these aren't huge issues as they both have workarounds, but they do introduce two more avenues of complexity and human error which we have already suffered from more than once since switching over to USV.

I was hoping someone else had encountered these issue and knew of a fix aside from creating two entirely separate shares for RUP and Folder Redirection as that would increase complexity and reduce manageability.

Our domain functional level is Windows Server 2003 (we still have some older 2k3 DCs), but all file servers with this set are 2008 or 2008 R2. Most clients are running Win7, though we still have about 20 XPs floating around until March.

I look forward to and appreciate any input. Thank you very much!

best practice migrate file server

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I have 3 file servers n two different domains:
FileS01 and FileS02 in domainA (FileS01 / FileS02: Windows 2003R2)
FilesS03 in domainB (FileS03: Windows 2003R2)

Should I migrate to a new corporate server to be FileS01 (Windows 2012) also call and be in the domainA.

As you advise me to do it?

Thanks



UDF USB Read Only

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Hi,

I purchased a recovery USB from Lenovo for my ThinkPad (out of warranty, had to pay). They sent me a Microsoft branded USB stick preloaded with Windows 8. It is formatted as UDF and served its purpose in restoring my ThinkPad. When inserted into a PC it shows as being a DVD rather than a USB drive. Instead of just binning the drive or leaving it in a drawer, I figured I'd just format it and use it as a "normal" USB stick. However, Windows 8.1 turns round and says "Windows can't format this type of disk. Insert a different disk and try again". I have checked if it is read only in the registry and the StorageDevicePolicies>WriteProtect DWORD is set to 0 as well as Diskpart showing it as readonly: no.

I have taken the casing off the USB to see if there was an onboard write protect switch and there isn't but windows says it can't right to it as it is write protected.

I'm stuck as to how to format this drive. Tried using the dd command in Ubuntu, Disk Utility in OS X and command line in Windows (as well as the obligatory Right-Click > Format). I have also resorted to booting in safe mode with a command line and trying to format from there but it says it cannot gain access to the drive. Clearing the attributes in Diskpart says it doesn't work on removable media.

Any suggestions on where I can proceed from here would be most welcome.

Kind Regards,

Mike

Server 2008 R2 Robocopy Failure with Double Backslash "\\" in file path

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Hi,

I am doing a large Robocopy for a customer of mine that is reading from a DVD source and copying across the WAN, potentially running for multiple months.  The RoboCopy is running as a scheduled task on Windows 2008 R2 (target) and copying from a Windows 2000 source.  I have kicked the process off twice, and each time it appears to function for a day or so and then begins to seemingly get stuck in a loop in which it is perpetually failing due to an attempt to append double backslashes "\\" to the file path.  I have been researching potential causes of the issue online and have come up empty.  Any assistance with this would be GREATLY appreciated.

Batch Script Robocopy Commands - 150 commands total, each using the same switches (note that /MT is not being used since it negates /NP and I have to verify the copy success with logfiles of a manageable size)

C:\Windows\System32\Robocopy.exe \\hqsa0400\ArchiveXtender\VolumeName F:\VolumeName /E /Z /R:15 /W:60 /NFL /NDL /NP /LOG:E:\JukeboxRobocopy\JukeboxOSM_Copy_VolumeName.log

Example of Errors:

2014/02/05 15:49:05 ERROR 123 (0x0000007B) Creating Destination Directory F:\VolumeName\20060130\\105413\
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

2014/02/05 15:52:05 ERROR 161 (0x000000A1) Scanning Source Directory \\hqsa0400\ArchiveXtender\VolumeName\20060130\\105513\
The specified path is invalid.Waiting 60 seconds... Retrying...

Thanks



Any recommendations on virtual file servers?

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Hi,

I am looking at migrating our existing physical file servers to virtual servers on Hyper-V.

Essentially on our physical boxes we created a 2 drive mirror for the OS, and lumped everything else together into a RAID5/6 array and created a single volume from this and started using it!

This does have its issues... for example AV scans and chkdsk...

I was wondering if anyone had any insight or best practices on how they lay their virtual file servers out?

I know historically Hyper-V had a 2040GB size limit of VHD, but now with VHDX that has disappeared...

We use DFS so having multiple targets or VHD's is not a problem as we can abstract this in the DFS namespace...

Any thoughts?

Storage Nodes

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I am building a storage cluster and use Storage Spaces.  I will be using the cluster along with my Hyper-V cluster. About how much memory should I have in each of my storage cluster nodes?

thanks


Rob Nunley

2008 R2 Scheduled Task returning 0x1

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Hallo,

ich have already searched my way through google and those related threads in here but with no success. I have created a powershell-script which is stored on a fileserver in our head office. We have 7 branch offices, 1 server each branch office accesses the script via an UNC-Path and an administrative share. I created a scheduled task on one of those branch office servers and made a successful testrun. Then i exported the task and imported it on the other 6 machines.

now here comes the crux of the matter: the scheduled task fails on 4 of those 7 machines despite the fact that all about it is the same. Reimporting or even recreating the task manually didn't help. Running the script interactively on the Powershell CLI works, with 2 different user accounts (my admin-account and a special service user). but when I launch the task manually with my admin account the tasks fails, but not with the service user logged in.

Here some additional general information:

  • The scheduled task runs independently from User logon with a domain-based service-user which has local admin-rights on all 8 machines, my admin account is also local admin
  • all servers run 2008R2 with identical patch level on an ESX-Host.
  • The Powershell-script is called by the task as follows: Program: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe;Arguments: -ExecutionPolicy remotesigned -NonInteractive -command \\server\D$\Scripts\script.ps1
  • the Powershell eventlog has no errors or warnings at all, the informational entries say nothing about any problems

I hope i made my issue understandable enough. Any help is highly appreciated! :-)

DFS Replication suddenly stopped working

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Hi,

I'm having a little difficulty restoring file replication between two of our servers. I'd appreciate some thoughts...

Background information:
We have got two replication groups (with two servers in each totalling 4 different servers. E.g. Group 1 - Server A <-> Server B & Group 2 - Server C <-> Server D.

We haven't made any major infrastructure changes or configuration changes recently but group 2 has simply stopped working. This is what I've tried so far:

Deleting and starting again
Connectivity checks:
pings by IP resolve
pings by name resolve to IPv6 (I wasn't aware we were using IPv6 in our infrastructure)
nslookup resolves and lists all IP's inc. IPv6

RPC ping resolves ok, output: RPCping completed 1 calls in 1ms 1000 T/s or 1.000ms/T

All windows firewalls are off and the replication is within the same LAN and the other group is working fine.

Portqry on ports TCP 139 come back as not listening and 445 TCP is listening.

The error I'm seeing in the Event log are:
Event ID: 5002
The DFS Replication service encountered an error communicating with partner Server-A for replication group Rep1.
Partner address: (This is correct)
Optional data shows a wins of: Server-A
Partner IP Address is listed as IPv6

The service will retry the connection periodically.
Additional info:
Error 1825 (A security package specific error occurred.)
Connection ID: X
Replication Group ID: Y


DCDIAG is coming back clear on the DC and repadmin /showreps is also clear.


Browsing across the network to these machines works ok.

Earlier this week, I recreated the replication group and did manage to get one half working but I couldn't get the replication working both ways. I tried recreating the group again from scratch and I'm now getting:

"Some servers cannot be contacted. Do you want to use them anyway? The server's OS version cannot be retrieved. Access is denied"

Can anyone possibly shed some light on what else I could try please?

Thanks in advance


Mark

Windows 2012R2 Data Deduplication performance

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Hi

There is some information about how data deduplication can impact server performace during the mechanism is running.

But does anyone know if Microsoft provided the document about how data deduplication impact the performance of access to the deduplicated files and folders?

I would like to implement this mechanism but not sure how it will affect the user access to data.


DFSR refuses to replicate content, fails with "The staging file is locked by another thread"

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Hello,

I have setup DFSR replication and it did work fine for smaller files, not it tries to replicate bigger file and all I can see in event viewer is every 5 mins events 5014 (Error 1726, The remote procedure call failed).

DFSR log contains information below pointing to some sort of locking on staging file which I can not figure out since file is not locked by anything as far as I can see

20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 DOWN  1312 WrapRpcInitializeFileTransferAsync RpcInitializeFileTransferAsync completed successfully. rpcAsyncState:000000AB6AEFD8E0 context:0000000000000000
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 DOWN  1370 WrapRpcInitializeFileTransferAsync 0
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX   757 Rdc::SeedFile::Initialize RDC signatureLevels:4, uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 fileName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO fileSize(approx):4297375744 csId:{B5F1802A-24DD-4CEE-A569-06B64B854060} enableSim=1
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX   831 Rdc::SeedFile::Initialize Level is 4
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 STAG  1215 Staging::LockedFiles::Lock Successfully locked file UID: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 GVSN: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 state: Partial (refCount==1)
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX  3806 Rdc::FrsSignatureIndexFile::Open Opening FrsSignatureIndexFile OK for write Levels=1..4 uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX   890 Rdc::SeedFile::Initialize Using staged file. uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 fileName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO csId:{B5F1802A-24DD-4CEE-A569-06B64B854060} candidateUid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 candidateGvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 candidateFileName:11-{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11-{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11-Partial.frx
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX   903 Rdc::SeedFile::Initialize enableSimilarity=1, simData=362F3B31-101C0133-24131408-371E3F00,5D55C45F-BE348085-910BF4C3-E7D71787
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCC    91 RdcCache::Find 0x1000000000029 Windows 2012 R2.ISO
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCC   232 RdcCache::MatchSuffix Nothing found for \\.\D:\serverops\software\DfsrPrivate\ConflictAndDeleted\Windows 2012 R2.ISO*
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCC   284 RdcCache::MatchPaths 0x1000000000029 Windows 2012 R2.ISO (root: 0x1000000000029)
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX  3806 Rdc::FrsSignatureIndexFile::Open Opening FrsSignatureIndexFile OK for read Levels=1..4 uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 RDCX  2430 Rdc::SeedFile::OpenSeedSigDB Using seed file for uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 fileName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO csId:{B5F1802A-24DD-4CEE-A569-06B64B854060} seedType:<partialDownload> depth:4
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 STAG  1215 Staging::LockedFiles::Lock Successfully locked file UID: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 GVSN: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 state: Downloading (refCount==1)
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 STAG  2812 [WARN] Staging::LockDeleteFile [Error:9060(0x2364) Staging::LockDeleteFile staging.cpp:2811 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 STAG  1263 Staging::LockedFiles::Unlock Unlocked file UID: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 GVSN: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 state: Downloading (refCount==0)
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 STAG  4116 [WARN] Staging::OpenForWrite (Ignore) Failed to create stage file for GVSN {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11: [Error:9060(0x2364) Staging::LockDeleteFile staging.cpp:2811 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]
20140207 13:31:38.753 3028 DOWN  1125 RpcFinalizeContext Closing context:736245008960
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 INCO  4402 InConnection::TransportRdcGet Update syncInfoHistory
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 INCO  6535 InConnection::LogTransferActivity Failed to receive RDCGET updateName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} csId:{B5F1802A-24DD-4CEE-A569-06B64B854060} stagedSize:0
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 ASYN  1388 AsyncUnbufferedFileReader::Close Async READ Statistics:
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 STAG  1263 Staging::LockedFiles::Unlock Unlocked file UID: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 GVSN: {4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 state: Partial (refCount==0)
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 MEET  2276 Meet::Download Download Succeeded : false updateName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} csName:software csId:{B5F1802A-24DD-4CEE-A569-06B64B854060}
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 MEET  1860 Meet::InstallStep Done installing file updateName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} csName:software
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 INCO  2659 InConnection::ProcessErrorStatus remoteError:0 Error:9060(0x2364) The staging file is locked by another thread.
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 MEET  1416 Meet::Install -> WAIT Error processing update. updateName:Windows 2012 R2.ISO uid:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 gvsn:{4E42ACD2-9163-4A16-A6E0-5F2407FBEDDE}-v11 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} csName:software csId:{B5F1802A-24DD-4CEE-A569-06B64B854060} code:9060 Error:+	[Error:9060(0x2364) Meet::InstallStep meet.cpp:1879 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) Meet::Download meet.cpp:2296 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) InConnection::TransportRdcGet inconnection.cpp:4423 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) DownstreamTransport::RdcGet downstreamtransport.cpp:5265 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) RpcFinalizeContext downstreamtransport.cpp:1147 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) Rdc::SyncClientState::Download rdc.cpp:2703 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) Rdc::TargetFile::Initialize rdc.cpp:1837 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) DownloadWriter::Initialize meet.cpp:892 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) Staging::OpenForWrite staging.cpp:4127 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]+	[Error:9060(0x2364) Staging::LockDeleteFile staging.cpp:2811 3028 C The staging file is locked by another thread.]
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPMG   315 UpdateWorker::ConsumeUpdates Update contentInfoHistory
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPMG   405 UpdateWorker::ConsumeUpdates Update idUpdateInfoHistory
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPDI  1147 UpdateTaskQueue::OnTaskCompleted Removing from executed list task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940 queuePtr:000000AB6A239680 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC}
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPDI  1977 UpdateDistributionTask::OnPreCompletedTask task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} currentActiveUpdateTasks:1
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPDI  1159 UpdateTaskQueue::OnTaskCompleted Rescheduling task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940 queuePtr:000000AB6A239680 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} timeoutMs:0
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPDI   816 UpdateTaskQueue::InsertIntoReady Insert task into ready queue task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940 queuePtr:000000AB6A239680 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC}
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPDI  2040 UpdateDistributionTask::OnPostCompletedTask task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC} currentActiveUpdateTasks:0
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 TASK   581 Task::Schedule task:000000AB6A210FE0 state:INACTIVE timerHandle:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF UpdateDistributionTask
20140207 13:31:38.800 3028 UPMG   168 UpdateWorker::Run UnregisterNormalUpdate task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940
20140207 13:31:38.800 2172 UPDI  1773 UpdateDistributionTask::Step Schedule update tasks currentActiveUpdateTasks:0
20140207 13:31:38.800 2172 UPDI  1074 UpdateTaskQueue::ScheduleNextReadyTask Scheduling task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940 queuePtr:000000AB6A239680 connId:{D52FA30C-8BB4-48A4-8209-A4CAF6F51EDC}
20140207 13:31:38.800 2172 TASK   581 Task::Schedule task:000000AB6A22D940 state:INACTIVE timerHandle:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF UpdateWorker task:321 taskPtr:000000AB6A22D940

new comp.,/windows8,can't install lexmark5200 series printer

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just bought new hp computer with windows 8 and I have a x5200 series all in one printer(x5270 to be exact) I even used the installation disc and it's in my downloads, but it says it's working properly, then it's tells me driver not working yet I can't find out what updated if any will solve this.  Frankly having not bought a newer computer would solve it all theres more junk in here than good

Tiered Storage Spaces with LSI RAID Controller 9260-8i (no JBOD) - Performance Drop

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Hello

I have a Lab-Server with a LSI-Raid-Controller 9260-8i and 2x 256GB SSDs / 6x 600GB HDDs. First I configured the LSI-Raid-Controller with a RAID 1 (2x 600GB HDD) and installedWindows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V Role on this RAID 1. This works just fine. Then I configured the LSI-Raid-Controller with additional 6x "Raid 0 Drive Groups" where each Drive Group has one single physical drive in it. And then I created 6 virtual drives out of these 6 Drive Groups. So far so good: my Windows Server 2012 R2 now sees 6 new Harddrives (4x 600GB HDD and 2x 256GB SSD). I then created a Storage Pool out of these 6 drives (with PowerShell /assign MediaType SSD/HDD) and on top of the Storage Pool a "Tiered Storage Space" with Mirror Layout (2x 256GB SSDs mirrored and 2x2x 600GBs  HDD mirrored). This gives me a Tiered Storage Space of about 1.3TB. On this Storage Space I created a Virtual Drive of 1.3TB capacity. Success!! It seems to work fine.... Even I do not have a Storage-Controller supporting JBOD directly, I was able to create a Tiered Storage Space!!Now where's the problem? Fine-Tuning the LSI-Raid-Controller Settings and the resultingDisk Performance....

1) LSI-Raid-Controller: Virtual Drive Properties: What should I choose? Read Policy (Ahead or no) / Write Policy (Write Back with BBU or Write Through) / IO Policy (Direct IO or cached IO) / Disk Cache Policy (enable or disabled or unchanged) / Stripe Size (256 KB or ??). Do these settings conflict with the Windows Server Storage Space Layout?

2) Windows Server Disk Management (under "Disk XY"):  Write Cache Policy? (activate Write Cache on this Device) 

3) Windows Server Device Manager (under "Drives" - Microsoft Storage Space Device):  Write Cache Policy? (activate Write Cache on this Device)

4) Performance - Results with Crystal Disk Mark: the inital Results after setting up the Storage were quite good (Seq R: 550 MB/s and W: 590 MB/s //  512K R: 490MB/s and W: 618 MB/s // 4K R: 18MB/s and W: 37 MB/s  //  4KQD32 R:270 MB/s and W:37 MB/S) But 2 months later the values dropped to: Seq R: 290 MB/s and W: 170 MB/s //  512K R: 120MB/s and W: 239 MB/s // 4K R: 1.5MB/s and W: 31 MB/s  //  4KQD32 R: 9 MB/s and W: 71 MB/S). Huge loss of performance - SSD full? 

5) Since this is a Hyper-V Server I put some VMs on it. The Performance within the VMs has also dropped accordingly. Are there anybest practices when placing VHDX-Files on  a Tired Storage Space? I could of course assign one or two VHDX-Files directly to the SSD Tier, but actually I don't want that because that would use too much SSD-Space.

Any Experts on this Subject?

Mark






Slow transfer speeds server to server

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we have about 6 servers in our environment all with gigabit Ethernet cards connected to a  cisco 3650 which has the ports set to 1000 full. On the servers the only option for 1000 full is auto neg.  3 servers are running server 2008 r2.  1 functions as our primary dc, and antivirus server, one as our backup dc and as our netvault backup server, and the 3rd is our sql 2012 server.

When we try to do file transfers from one server to the others we see a speed of around 10-15MB/Sec.  I can start up 7 or 8 file transfers from the same point to another point and see the same speed on each one. of around 10-15MB/Sec.

we initially reached out to cisco thinking the slow speeds were due to the switch since it was affecting multiple devices, however they found that the tcp window the server is showing to the switch is low and that the transfer speeds at the switch were as fast as it should be for gig full.  We at this point updated the bios, network card firmware and drivers to the latest release and saw little to no improvement in transfer speeds.

Can someone please give me some advice.  We are almost to the point of contacting the pay per case support at Microsoft.

DFS - disconnected drives

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We’re seeing an intermittent issue with DFS namespaces.

First, some background information.  We are using a domain-based DFS namespace in order to provide access to all of the company’s file shares.  TheDFS namespace has several folder targets that point to the physical file server locations.  DFS-R is also in use, but each folder target only has one active target (all active targets are to the same file server – this is to ensure users do not access or write to the 2nd server due to the write conflict issues this can cause).  TheDFS namespace is running in 2008 level, meaning the domain is at 2008 native mode.  There are 2 Windows 2008 R2 domain controllers, 1 physical and 1 virtual (all in the same datacenter) and both are namespace servers.  I have checked AD and DNS and have found no problems at all with the configuration (DCDiag is clean, DNS has no extraneous root DNS servers from upgrades, etc).

The problem that we’re intermittently seeing is that users are unable to browse the DFS namespace.  They will log in, have their network drives map to the namespace, and a few hours later will have all drives go to the disconnected state.  During this time, the user will get an error saying that the network location is unavailable if he/she tries to access one of their file shares.  Similarly, if the user tries to browse the namespace manually by going to \\domain.com\namespace, the folder targets initially do not show up (aka they get a blank screen).  If the user waits long enough, the targets eventually show up & the network drives begin to work again as soon as it does.
This problem seems more network related – we had a poorly configured STP topology that was introducing topology changes regularly which we have since cleaned up, and while this issue is happening less frequently now it is still occurring on occasion.  I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this type of problem, and if so how did you solve it?

Any suggestions are appreciated.
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