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System Writer Missing on Windows server 2008 R2 Std SP1

February 16, 2019, 3:57 am
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Hello All,

Could you please help me to resolve the issue?

I have applied all resolutions given in the articles but issue still unresolved state.

Windows6.1-KB2807849-x64 - Hotfix is already installed message.   

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<g class="gr_ gr_231 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling" data-gr-id="231" id="231">vssadmin</g> 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
   Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
   Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
   Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
   Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
   Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
   Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {5a75c2e9-d46d-49e8-835a-b6193ce9884c}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {80d86603-390e-4034-8816-b18cd1d521c1}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {69d7a48f-8207-4162-af63-cd09c697c599}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {9036ab29-2a88-4287-8262-f934adaffb79}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

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AD Certificate Services

February 18, 2019, 9:26 am
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Hi

I'm following https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/pki/2010/06/19/design-considerations-before-building-a-two-tier-pki-infrastructure/

A bit confused on points:

Certification Authority Planning:

1.d. d. Root CA: Determine if the CRL and AIA are published in Active Directory or a web site that can be accessed internally and externally.

1.i. Determine the AIA and CDP distribution points for each CA. This step is very critical because these locations are hard coded in each certificate issued by the CA, and will not get updated unless the certificate is renewed.

Are these not the same points?

Best practice is to publish to HTTP - so I will build a new IIS server for this independent of the Root and Sub CA servers.

I will then change my protocol order to HTTP - LDAP - File.

All publishing will be automatic?

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I need some help with Restrictions and MSI packaging on Windows Server 2008 R2

February 1, 2019, 12:24 pm
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Hi,

I work in a Primary School as an ICT Technician, we have a Windows Server 2008 R2. I wanted to install an MSI package of Google Chrome so I don't have to install on each machine. We are with Ergo and they want to charge nearly £200 for it. There must be a way I can do it myself, but how? Please could someone help with this!

Also I want to prevent users at level 1 to level 4 (but leave level 5 & 6 to be able to save to desktop) to not be able to save to their desktop, as the teachers all complain that their logins take so long. But once I login to them I see hundreds of files saved on the desktop so I want to prevent that from happening. 

Finally, I want to prevent users from changing their background/wallpaper of their login and have a set wallpaper of the Windows 7 theme.

I'd be really grateful if anyone could give me steps as to how I can make these changes. As I'm new to using servers as I was previously working with a cloud based school which had no server. Thank you.

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Windows Installer only works with MSI files directly

February 6, 2019, 3:19 pm
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I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 terminal server running and every time I try to install a program using its setup.exe program it fails to install stating "Windows Installer could not be accessed". But if I extract that file and run the MSI directly inside it works perfectly fine. The problem happens is some programs need the setup executable to run in order to install properly. I have tried alot the Windows Installer fixes already but I don't even think that's the problem as installing regular msi files works fine. This problem has really stumped me.

Heres a log I got after a failed attempt to install a program

=== Verbose logging started: 2/6/2019  15:36:46  Build type: SHIP UNICODE 5.00.7601.00  Calling process: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe ===
MSI (c) (50:B0) [15:36:46:603]: Resetting cached policy values
MSI (c) (50:B0) [15:36:46:603]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0
MSI (c) (50:B0) [15:36:46:603]: ******* RunEngine:
           ******* Product: {422206F8-67E6-45AA-8C2A-C0010789E1F9}
           ******* Action: 
           ******* CommandLine: **********
MSI (c) (50:B0) [15:36:46:603]: Client-side and UI is none or basic: Running entire install on the server.
MSI (c) (50:B0) [15:36:46:603]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (c) (50:B0) [15:36:46:712]: Cloaking enabled.
MSI (c) (50:B0) [15:36:46:712]: Attempting to enable all disabled privileges before calling Install on Server
MSI (c) (50:B0) [15:36:46:712]: Incrementing counter to disable shutdown. Counter after increment: 0
MSI (c) (50:B0) [15:36:46:712]: Decrementing counter to disable shutdown. If counter >= 0, shutdown will be denied.  Counter after decrement: -1
MSI (c) (50:B0) [15:36:46:712]: MainEngineThread is returning 1601
=== Verbose logging stopped: 2/6/2019  15:36:46 ===

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Unable to delete DNS records of demoted DCs

February 18, 2019, 7:18 am
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Hello, have an issue in a 2008 Forest/domain where a recently demoted 2016 DC is not able to be deleted in DNS. On <g class="gr_ gr_122 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" data-gr-id="122" id="122">deletion</g> the record comes back on hitting refresh. 

Dcdiag and <g class="gr_ gr_133 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling" data-gr-id="133" id="133">repadmin</g> do not seem to have any issues. Two 2016 DCs were introduced but they were not getting any <g class="gr_ gr_134 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling" data-gr-id="134" id="134">sysvol</g> or <g class="gr_ gr_135 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling" data-gr-id="135" id="135">netlogon</g> folders replicated so both of them were demoted. These 2 demoted DCs are no longer showing up in Domain Controllers OU in AD, I will need to promote them back once I have issue below addressed

Issue I am having is in DNS when I am trying to delete the DNS entries for these 2 demoted DCs (_ldap, _kerberos) on hitting refresh they come back and I am unable to delete any of their SRV records in DNS, this occurs on both of the existing 2012R2 DCs. The demoted DCs are not present under Name Servers any longer

Have you come across this scenario before?

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VPN Client: Register this connection's addresses in DNS

February 18, 2019, 6:21 am
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Hello!

One more question regarding vpn clients. When creating vpn connection profiles I add my organization's dns suffix:

The result: when  a client is connected to the company vpn server I can resolve the client's host name using nslookup - in other words, the company dns server "knows" the client (but nslookup - ptr does not work - only A record can be "seen"). But I do not see this host name (say Home-Laptop) in the DNS console! I even made the export of the forward zone to the txt file and was searching through it for the Home-Laptop but to no avail.  How come DNS server does resolve the name in nslookup but does not display this name in its GUI???

Thank you in advance,
Michael

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Service Accounts

February 18, 2019, 2:13 pm
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1. I am planning to use service account to create computer accounts. How would I go about doing it?

2. I am trying to create virtual machines in Citrix using PVS "Streamed Virtual Machine" we need a user account that would create computer accounts in AD. 

So, how would I go about creating one and what permissions are needed.



AA2913

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Failed to create, configure, or bring online physical disk resource (disk) "Cluster Disk 1".

February 9, 2019, 11:30 am
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Hello,


unfortunately we have the following problem with our HPE MSA (connected to two HPE ProLiant DL380p as Hyper-V node) with our HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen8 with one HPE SmartArray 421 controller each:


A logical drive was created using the HPE controller. Disk Partitioning for the Virtual Machine Volume and Disk as a Quorum Disk was done with disk partitioning of Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter and GPT.


I can set the drive to "online" in disk partitioning, but not in Failover Cluster Manager. I am currently receiving the following error messages:


cluster:


CLUSTER1.SEBO.local

started


09.02.2019 20:06:37

Completed


09.02.2019 20:06:38

Physical disk resource for Cluster Disk 1 is created.
Cluster Disk 1 resource goes online.
Failed to create, configure, or bring online physical disk resource (disk) "Cluster Disk 1".
Physical disk resource for Cluster Disk 2 is created.
Resource for "Cluster Disk 2" comes online.
Failed to create, configure, or bring online physical disk resource (disk) "Cluster Disk 2".
When adding storage to the cluster, the following errors occurred:
An error occurred while trying to bring the resource "Cluster Disk 1" online.

The cluster resource could not be brought online by the resource monitor

Failed to try to bring the Cluster Disk 2 resource online.

The cluster resource could not be brought online by the resource monitor.


How do we get both media online?


DL

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CPU utilization

February 25, 2019, 12:29 pm
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Hi,

I have created task scheduler for connection logger on my windows server 2008 R2.While task scheduler is running,CPU utilization get increases.

What is the reason behind it?

Thanks

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Connectionlogger - CPU utilization

February 25, 2019, 3:04 pm
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Hi techs,

I am running connectionlogger in my 2008 server with task scheduler. Just after it runs, cpu utilization increased to 70.%.can anybody help me in finding the root cause. 

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Windows Update Error 80244019

February 20, 2012, 8:25 am
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Hi Everyone,

My Boss has me redoing servers from scratch with new installs of Server 08 R2 .. one server keeps giving me trouble though ..

Everything works fine but now for some reason I keep getting the Windows Update error 80244019 ..

I have tried stoping and starting the services, I have run scans on it and everything checks out ..

Any thoughts or advice ??

thanks ..


I should also note that the server only has the remote users role installed on it .. nothing else ..
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multiple ESENT source events

February 25, 2019, 10:10 pm
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Windows Server 2008 R2

i get multiple source ESENT google search results does not point to anything to worry about. just double checking here if this

is "normal"?

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Update fails due to system-protected font

July 18, 2018, 3:44 am
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Hello,

My windows Server 2008 R2 has been failing to install the

2018-07 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4338818)

every day for many days (it was already failing the preview of it, which I then declined on WSUS).

The only apparent problem I see in the WindowsUpdate.log is this (in bold below):

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2018-07-17    07:41:08:522     856    169c    Report    ***********  Report: Initializing static reporting data  ***********
2018-07-17    07:41:08:522     856    169c    Report      * OS Version = 6.1.7601.1.0.196880
2018-07-17    07:41:08:522     856    169c    Report      * OS Product Type = 0x00000007
2018-07-17    07:41:08:678     856    169c    Report      * Computer Brand = Dell Inc.
2018-07-17    07:41:08:678     856    169c    Report      * Computer Model = PowerEdge R210 II
2018-07-17    07:41:08:678     856    169c    Report      * Bios Revision = 2.8.0
2018-07-17    07:41:08:678     856    169c    Report      * Bios Name = InsydeH2O Version 03.70.452.8.0
2018-07-17    07:41:08:678     856    169c    Report      * Bios Release Date = 2014-06-24T00:00:00
2018-07-17    07:41:08:678     856    169c    Report      * Locale ID = 1033
2018-07-17    07:41:08:694     856    3b0    Handler    Post-reboot status for package Package_for_RollupFix~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~7601.24180.1.8: 0x80070020.
2018-07-17    07:41:08:694     856    3b0    Handler    WARNING: Got extended error: "POQ    Operation    HardLinkFile    OperationData   \SystemRoot\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-font-truetype-tahoma_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.24145_none_8e5c4f96a47869ce\tahomabd.ttf, \??\C:\Windows\fonts\tahomabd.ttf"
2018-07-17    07:41:12:640     856    3b0    AU    ###########  AU: Initializing Automatic Updates  ###########
2018-07-17    07:41:12:687     856    3b0    AU      # WSUS server: http://whiskey
2018-07-17    07:41:12:687     856    3b0    AU      # Detection frequency: 22
2018-07-17    07:41:12:687     856    3b0    AU      # Approval type: Scheduled (User preference)
2018-07-17    07:41:12:687     856    3b0    AU      # Scheduled install day/time: Every day at 6:00
2018-07-17    07:41:12:687     856    3b0    AU      # Auto-install minor updates: Yes (User preference)
2018-07-17    07:41:12:687     856    3b0    AU      # Will interact with non-admins (Non-admins are elevated (Policy))
2018-07-17    07:41:12:750     856    3b0    AU    Setting AU scheduled install time to 2018-07-18 09:00:00
2018-07-17    07:41:12:750     856    3b0    AU    Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2018-07-17    07:41:12:750     856    3b0    AU    Initializing featured updates
2018-07-17    07:41:12:750     856    3b0    AU    Found 0 cached featured updates
2018-07-17    07:41:12:750     856    3b0    AU    Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2018-07-17    07:41:12:750     856    3b0    AU    Obtained Post reboot hr from Agent:80070020
2018-07-17    07:41:12:781     856    3b0    AU    WARNING: Post-reboot install failure, error = 0x80070020
2018-07-17    07:41:12:781     856    3b0    AU    AU setting pending client directive to 'Forced Reboot'
2018-07-17    07:41:12:796     856    3b0    AU    Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2018-07-17    07:41:12:796     856    3b0    AU    Triggering Offline detection (non-interactive)
2018-07-17    07:41:12:796     856    3b0    AU    Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2018-07-17    07:41:12:796     856    3b0    AU    AU finished delayed initialization

...

2018-07-17    07:44:49:528     856    104c    Report    REPORT EVENT: {3A6776D8-A21A-42AA-BED5-F975A6DE086E}    2018-07-17 07:41:12:640-0300    1   182    101    {1C930EAB-7B7E-4616-B5B5-D6E4A723BC71}    200    80070020    AutomaticUpdates    Failure    Content Install    Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: 2018-07 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4338818).
2018-07-17    07:44:49:528     856    104c    Report    REPORT EVENT: {34F70FF8-C07D-4190-AC13-E7B3CFAFEA9F}    2018-07-17 07:41:12:750-0300    1   202    102    {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}    0    0    AutomaticUpdates    Success    Content Install    Reboot completed.

That font (tahomabd.ttf) is a system-protected font, so I suppose the update fails as it cannot overwrite it.

I've found a similar issue that required a fix, but for Vista and Windows Server 2008 (not R2):

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/980248/some-font-files-that-are-marked-as-system-protected-cannot-be-updated

Any hints on how I can complete this update?

Thanks!

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Capture entire HDD to WDS server

February 22, 2019, 12:35 pm
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I am trying to set up WDS so I can image all my laptops off one sysprepped baseline. My baseline is a Latitude 5570, with a 250gb GPT drive split into several partitions, including 3 mounted drives- C:, d:; a:. C: is system, D: and A: are data drives. 

I am currently capturing the C: drive through PXe using a capture image on my WDS server. 

My question, I want to basically clone this configuration in its entirety when I image- programs, partitions, etc...then deploy with a prompt to set up the computer hostname. This is all in a non-active directory environment. Since WIM only captures one partition, what is the best way to accomplish this?

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Windows Backup

February 4, 2019, 3:13 am
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Hello!

Recently I asked about the free space on the volume to which the backups are being taken - https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e4bea301-7c97-402e-9dd7-2fe721272fc4/system-volume-information-consumes-600gb?forum=winservergen - now I can't understand the following:

To prevent Windows Backup from consuming all the space on my volume E: I have set theMaximum Shadow Copy Storage space: to 700GB (total volume space is 1TB):


- and I was hoping that Used space will not succeed the 700GB. Nevertheless Windows Backup keeps consuming the free space - now it takes ~750GB so

Q1: Which VSSadmin parameter corresponds to the Windows Backup'sUsed space - the Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: orMaximum Shadow Copy Storage space: ?

Q2:Windows Backup shows that Used space (750GB) > then the Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: ANDMaximum Shadow Copy Storage space: - is it normal?


Thank you in advance,
Michael

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ADCS High Availability

February 26, 2019, 3:23 am
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Planning for a 2 tier hierarchy.

A root CA and a subordinate CA.

Some older devices only support SHA1.

Can a single subordinate issuing CA issue SHA1 and SHA256? 

No - then I need 2 subordinate CAs.

  1. Can I cluster these 2 if they are using 2 different hash algorithms i.e. can I only have HA if I cluster ADCS servers that are the same?
  2. Is HA really needed for issuing CAs? (CDP and AIA will be published on a separate web cluster)
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How to cleanup the winsxs folder in 2008 r2

April 11, 2012, 10:32 pm
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I have searched throughout this site and still not found an answer to how to miminse the size of the winsxs folder.

regardless of if the files are actually there or hardlinks or etc, the fact is that somefiles somehwere on the drive are using all the free space and windows reports that it is taking up 18GB on a 30Gb drive. and we are constantly running out of free space and exchange stops working. This server is not used for anything but exchange and the logs and data are on other drives.

Now please direct me to a fix for this issue as the OS should not be consuming this much free space.

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unable to sync external NTP server in Ad environment.

February 21, 2019, 5:43 am
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Hi All,

can someone help me. there is a application in our production environment with multiple nodes in application cluster.

which has full dependency with w32tm service. if any of the server beyond 10sec from it's active node then, the application eliminate it from application cluster. 

I have followed following support article still we the peer list is showing my domain controller. it is not desplaying my NTP server: -time.child.root.com

env details:-

The servers all are installed with windows 2008 

All are part of Active directory Domain.

all are ESXI Vms not syncing Time from esxi group. 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/816042/how-to-configure-an-authoritative-time-server-in-windows-server

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C:\Windows\system32>w32tm /query /configuration

[Configuration]


EventLogFlags: 2 (Local)

AnnounceFlags: 5 (Local)

TimeJumpAuditOffset: 28800 (Local)

MinPollInterval: 10 (Local)

MaxPollInterval: 15 (Local)

MaxNegPhaseCorrection: 3600 (Local)

MaxPosPhaseCorrection: 3600 (Local)

MaxAllowedPhaseOffset: 300 (Local)


FrequencyCorrectRate: 4 (Local)

PollAdjustFactor: 5 (Local)

LargePhaseOffset: 50000000 (Local)

SpikeWatchPeriod: 900 (Local)

LocalClockDispersion: 10 (Local)

HoldPeriod: 5 (Local)

PhaseCorrectRate: 1 (Local)

UpdateInterval: 30000 (Local)



[TimeProviders]


NtpClient (Local)

DllName: C:\Windows\system32\w32time.dll (Local)

Enabled: 1 (Local)

InputProvider: 1 (Local)

CrossSiteSyncFlags: 2 (Policy)

AllowNonstandardModeCombinations: 1 (Local)

ResolvePeerBackoffMinutes: 15 (Policy)

ResolvePeerBackoffMaxTimes: 7 (Policy)

CompatibilityFlags: 2147483648 (Local)

EventLogFlags: 0 (Policy)

LargeSampleSkew: 3 (Local)

SpecialPollInterval: 3600 (Policy)

Type: NT5DS (Policy)


NtpServer (Local)

DllName: C:\Windows\system32\w32time.dll (Local)

Enabled: 1 (Local)

InputProvider: 0 (Local)

AllowNonstandardModeCombinations: 1 (Local)


VMICTimeProvider (Local)

DllName: C:\Windows\System32\vmictimeprovider.dll (Local)

Enabled: 1 (Local)

InputProvider: 1 (Local)


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C:\Windows\system32>w32tm /query /source

DC21.child.root.com


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C:\Windows\system32>w32tm /query /peers

#Peers: 1

Peer: DC21.child.root.com

State: Active

Time Remaining: 896.3444743s

Mode: 1 (Symmetric Active)

Stratum: 4 (secondary reference - syncd by (S)NTP)

PeerPoll Interval: 17 (out of valid range)

HostPoll Interval: 10 (1024s)



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C:\Windows\system32>w32tm /query /status

Leap Indicator: 0(no warning)

Stratum: 5 (secondary reference - syncd by (S)NTP)

Precision: -6 (15.625ms per tick)

Root Delay: 0.1250000s

Root Dispersion: 8.0002952s

ReferenceId: 0x0A780A15 (source IP:  10.120.10.21)

Last Successful Sync Time: 21/02/2019 12:54:18

Source: DC21.child.root.com

Poll Interval: 10 (1024s)


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C:\Windows\system32>w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist:"0.time.

child.root.com"

The command completed successfully.


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C:\Windows\system32>w32tm /query /status

Leap Indicator: 0(no warning)

Stratum: 5 (secondary reference - syncd by (S)NTP)

Precision: -6 (15.625ms per tick)

Root Delay: 0.1250000s

Root Dispersion: 8.0002952s

ReferenceId: 0x0A780A15 (source IP:  10.120.10.21)

Last Successful Sync Time: 21/02/2019 12:54:18

Source: DC21.child.root.com

Poll Interval: 10 (1024s)

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File server getting error: event id 2019

February 22, 2019, 6:50 am
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Hello

I am facing a issue on my file server. Even id is 2019 and message is showing 'The Server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the pool was empty'. When I checked my vm memory and hyperv. It is look like a OK. Can you please tell me why I happend. thanks

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Virtual disk service failed to intialize error in Disk part.

February 26, 2019, 9:56 am
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Hi,

I am getting an error " unable to connect to virtual disk service" while connecting to disk management.

Tried diskpart, getting Virtual disk service failed to intialize error in Disk part errror.

VDS service is running fine, able to stop and start the service.

please do the needful

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