Hi Everyone,

I am having difficulty troubleshooting what is causing my RPC Service to crash. Unfortunately Event viewer is not so helpful, it just tells me the service crashed and the pc has restarted. The event logs before or after that also does not help too much they appear to be normal logs, nothing indicating any errors.

also a lot of people indicate that its related to viruses etc, but I am 100% sure there is no viruses on this server. 

Is there a way we can troubleshoot or switch on some kind of logging that will be able to tell me what is causing the RPC to fail, or at least to see what the last application\service is to call on the RPC Service etc?

Kind Regards,

Stuart Wepener

Hello,

I am midway through updating my home server to Citrix XenServer from the original Windows Server 2008 R2 install.

I ran SysPrep on the server to OOBE with generalize checked then booted from the disk in a new XenServer VM. Windows setup threw an error saying it could not setup Windows for the current hardware. Now, even when the disk is back in the original box, setup runs on boot and says "Setup could not finish" and suggests a reboot. On reboot, setup launches again and throws the same error.

I have tried changing the setup.exe registry key from 1 to 3 with no success and I can't see any errors in the csv file outputted from setup.etl although I can post this if necessary.

I can still access the drive from my desktop PC and the windows partition seems to be fully intact.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jake

In response to the recent SSL 3.0 vulnerabilities, we have been locking down SSL settings on IIS servers.   As a result (not surprisingly) we are seeing more schannel errors in the event log. 

I understand that many of these are just "noise" and that schannel logging can be disabled via a registry setting, however we are wondering if the error codes will tell us which cypher they were attempting to use, so we can determine if our SSL settings are acceptable, or too restrictive. 

I found a reference that describes what the fatal alert codes mean  (i.e. 40 = TLS1_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE) - but I cannot find a reference code for the internal error states (1203, 1205, 1207).  Can anyone point me towards such a reference?

Alternatively, here is a sampling of the schannel errors - do any of them indicate a SSL configuration problem on the server side?

EVENT ID 36888

• The following fatal alert was generated: 40. The internal error state is 1207.
• The following fatal alert was generated: 40. The internal error state is 1205.
• The following fatal alert was generated: 10. The internal error state is 1203.
• The following fatal alert was generated: 20. The internal error state is 960.
  

EVENT ID 36874

• An TLS 1.2 connection request was received from a remote client application, but none of the cipher suites supported by the client application are supported by the server. The SSL connection request has failed.
• An TLS 1.1 connection request was received from a remote client application, but none of the cipher suites supported by the client application are supported by the server. The SSL connection request has failed
• An TLS 1.0 connection request was received from a remote client application, but none of the cipher suites supported by the client application are supported by the server. The SSL connection request has failed.
• An SSL connection request was received from a remote client application, but none of the cipher suites supported by the client application are supported by the server. The SSL connection request has failed.
  

EVENT ID 36887

• The following fatal alert was received: 46.
  
  

The results for September's TechNet Guru competition have been posted!

http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/10/19/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-september-2015.aspx

Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.

Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.

Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
 

BizTalk Technical Guru - September 2015

Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - September 2015

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• FIM 2010 & MIM2016: Virtualisation support byPeter Geelen - MSFT   
  Søren Granfeldt: "Another great article Peter"  
  Ed Price: "Great use of links for readers to dig deeper!"

Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - September 2015

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Azure Active Directory integration with Salesforce 'Sandbox' bySamir Farhat       
  JH: "Haven't worked with Salesforce yet, but the steps are explained in a good detail."   
  Ed Price: "Good job with the images, and the table is incredibly useful! I love having setting broken down like that in a clear way."
• Microsoft Azure Redis Cache - Implementation of a service to work cache data by João Sousa
  JH: "Short intro. Needs some more explanations and detailed code snippets."   
  Ed Price: "Fantastic topic! Great formatting on the code snippets!"
• Full Home Automation with Azure & Voice Assistance using Intel Galileo Gen 1 & Windows 10 by Rishabh Banga
  JH: "Is already present in the "Universal Windows Apps" section"   
  Ed Price: "Cool and fun topic! Good job on this. This one got judged in the "Universal Windows Apps" category instead. Please only submit each article into one category."
• Microsoft Azure - Create Cloud Service with specific .NET Framework by João Sousa
  JH: "Seems to be mostly the same as https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-dotnet-install-dotnet/" 
  Ed Price: "Great to have the images and code!"

Miscellaneous Technical Guru - September 2015

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Unity 3D Game Creation Using C# Script bySYED SHANU
  Richard Mueller: "Good images but the explanation wasn't clear to me. Also, check out the Wiki Guidelines Wiki for pointers."
  Durval Ramos: "This article awake curiosity, was well illustrated and has "See Also" section."
• Getting started with Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview byGaurav Kumar Arora
  Durval Ramos: "This article is interesting, but needed to be done to facilitate learning. e.g: TOC, images, samples,... A good start."
  Richard Mueller: "A new technology. Grammar needs work and the explanation can be improved."
• An idea to add SQL Like Functionality in LINQ by Gaurav Kumar Arora
  Durval Ramos: "This feature is very useful and has a code easier to understand "how to do", but need to add images and References."
  Richard Mueller: "A good idea. Short and sweet."

SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - September 2015

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• SharePoint site down "An application error occurred on the server" web.config error by Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
  Ashutosh Singh: "Needs tidy and more"
  TN: "This error can be caused by many reasons."

Small Basic Technical Guru - September 2015

SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - September 2015

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• SSRS: Join data from different SSRS data sources into data set by sergey vdovin
  PT: "At first I had mixed feelings about promoting these techniques as a best practice, given the level of complexity. However your approach to this challenging problem well executed and clearly explained. Thank you for posting this useful information."
  RB: "Not much information here, apart from link to github projects"
  OT:"I personally don´t see any greater benefit in writing a separate article and referring an already existing one without pointing out really new stuff. The old one is pretty good and although the author does not get much love updating this, he should in order to have the thing in one place."
  AN: "The content is not complete and the "Solution" section was written in another article. This article's very confused."

SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - September 2015

System Center Technical Guru - September 2015

Transact-SQL Technical Guru - September 2015

Universal Windows Apps Technical Guru - September 2015

Visual Basic Technical Guru - September 2015

Visual C# Technical Guru - September 2015

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• MVC Web API And AngularJS: Are You Genius Game bySYED SHANU
  Carmelo La Monica: "Interesting, i don't have experience on Asp.Net, but article very interesting, good image and code snippet."
  Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains a specific application. Love the fact that a lot of images is used and sample code is available to download which helps the readers. A bit of article formatting is needed."
• Little More Information On Casting and Type Checking in C# byIsham Mohamed
  Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains the topic of the article in detail. If we can have little bit of formatting in the article, then it will be perfect."
  Carmelo La Monica: "Sometime is a problem for casting Object, but with this article we can to understand how to convert correctly an object or variable. Congrats!"
• ASP.NET MVC HangFire - Execute Jobs in Background using SQLServer by João Sousa
  Jaliya Udagedara: "I would rather change the title of the article to “Configure Hangfire in an ASP.NET MVC Application”, because that is what explained in the article. Good job!"
  Carmelo La Monica: "Great content, and useful image and code snippet. Congratulations!"
• MVC Web API and Angular JS For Word Puzzle Game bySYED SHANU
  Carmelo La Monica: "Same comment for MVC Web API And AngularJS: Are You Genius Game. Congratulations!"
  Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains a specific application. Love the fact that a lot of images is used and sample code is available to download which helps the readers. A bit of article formatting is needed."

Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - September 2015

Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - September 2015

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - September 2015

Windows Server Technical Guru - September 2015

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I have a Windows server 2008 R2 box with SQL Server 2008 R2 installed.

About 2 months ago I believe, my supervisor noticed that the security event log was not logging any events.  in the log, there is an Audit Success with the details of The event logging service has shut down. 

I have performed the following steps.

in services, I set the Windows Event Log service to disabled, and then reboot the box.

I navigate to c:\windows\system32\winevt\logs, and I delete the security.evtx files from the folder.  I set the Windows Event Log service to Automatic and then reboot again. after the bootup and log in, I see not additional events, which should be fine I would guess. I reboot again just for fun.  after this boot up and login, I get the same message, The event logging service as shut down.

the source type is eventlog and the event ID is 1100.  I can not find anything useful out there except for one post that mentioned deleting the security.evtx log.  I have actually done this process twice.

any suggestions?

Ian

Hi.

From this information:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd197454(WS.10).aspx#BKMK_Hardware_Requirements

I understand Windows Server 2008 R2 supports creating a failover cluster with just one network between nodes, as opposed to Windows Server 2003.

There's a 2 nodes Windows 2008 R2 failover cluster which was created with 2 networks (private / public). I'm attempting to remove the private network (shown in console as "Internal"). First I attempt to change "Allow cluster network communications on this network" to "Do not allow cluster communication on this network", but I'm getting error:

"The operation has failed.

The cluster network is the only one configured for internal cluster communication between two or more active cluster nodes. The internal communication capability cannot be removed from the network.

Error code 0x800713ca"

Could you please advice on whether it's feasible to remove a failover cluster internal network and have it work with just one adapter? That other adapter is actually a team of 2, so there is redundancy.

Thanks

Hello,

I have two servers:

1st - windows 2008 server with domain controller on it

2nd - windows 2012R2

I'm trying to promote a server as the 2nd domain controller but I get this error message when I do that:

Verification of prerequisites for Active Directory preparation failed. Unable to perform Exchange schema conflict check for domain contoso.com
Exception: Access is denied.
Adprep could not retrieve data from the server dc01.contoso.COM through Windows Managment Instrumentation (WMI).
[User Action]
Check the log file ADPrep.log in the C:\Windows\debug\adprep\logs\20151019163506-test directory for possible cause of failure.

In log files I see this error message:

Adprep failed while performing Exchange schema check.

[Status/Consequence]

The Active Directory Domain Services schema is not upgraded.

[User Action]

Check the log file ADPrep.log in the C:\Windows\debug\adprep\logs\20151019163506-test directory for possible cause of failure.
[2015/10/19:16:35:06.177]
Adprep encountered a Win32 error.

Error code: 0x5 Error message: Access is denied.

Could you please help me to resolve this issue

Thank you in advance

Hello,

I'm looking for Server Manager (to manage my Windows 2008R2 servers) from my station witch is Windows 10

Does anyone know where to find it.

Thank's

Arnaud BAROUX - Theradiag

Hi,

when i open the server manager, Hyper-V console etc in Microsoft server 2008 r2 then the error occurred.

"Not enough storage available to complete this operation" please help.

I have one Windows 2012 R2 Server and one Windows 7 Client. I have created a share folder on the server and i have mapped the share on the client. I've run some bench with Diskspd ( http://aka.ms/diskspd ) : over SMB3 i have a rate of 1,5MB/s. If i disable SMB2 and SMB3  on the client (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2696547) and i use SMB1 i have a best rate 8,5MB/s. How is it possible ? What is the explanation ?

I use this parameters with DiskSpd : diskspd.exe -c1G -d300 -o10 -w0 -r -b8k -t1 -h -L z:\testfile.dat

Client and server are on the same subnet, i use 100Mbps switch.

I have the same result with FIO (Flexible I/O Tester).

Can you help me ?

Hello Experts!

I have a small domain that is currently setup like ABC.LAN. I need to rename it to a FQDN mycompany.biz

We are merging with a much larger company but they are only lots of small domains like mine in multiple locations and do not have an integrated forest/AD and it is our goal to have one forest with multiple sites.

I currently have the model network but it has been through a few migrations (starting at server 2003) and used to have an Exchange 2010 server that we did a cutover migration to a E3 Office 365 tenant now running AD FS/dirsync.

This was all done on server 2008 R2 but I have almost finished my migration to 2012 R2 in preparation for this.

I have read many articles and they say rename is fine as long as you don't have an Exchange server, my problem is that when I run the Active Directory topology diagramer it finds my old exchange 2010 server in the map. In my Users and computers the only thing in there (and ADSIedit) is the exchange user groups which I am assuming are there because there is still some kind of tie to my AD and the federated services for which my SSO is working with.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get all the data and how-to's to do this the right way whether it be migrate or domain rename. I would of course prefer a rename to save a lot of work but I am open to suggestions as to best practices.

I know already I can have multiple domains in my Office 365 tenant  so that should not be a problem.

Moderators, If I have started this in the wrong place please let me know and if you can please move it.

Thanks in advance.

Shane

I have a virtual DC that holds all 5 roles and it is currently set to sync it's time with the CMOS on the host. I am going to change it today so it syncs with pool.ntp.org. 

So far these are the steps i have.

net stop w32time

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist:"0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org 3.pool.ntp.org" /reliable:yes /update

net start w32time

Would this be correct? I have read some blogs that say you need to use commas to separate the peers. They also said to make sure each host in the vmware cluster is set to sync with an external NTP. Should i also run a resync on the FSMO DC after this also?

Hello,

I have a query. I can see patches installed on a w2k8r2 server in appwiz.cpl but there is no event id 19 in eventvwr.

Patches are being deployed via TEM.

Any idea ?

If you find this helpful, kindly mark as answer. If you have any queries, please post back as a reply. Will look forward to your feedback. Thanking You Soumyajyoti Biswas

Hi All,

I am trying to count user CALs required and here is my situation.

There are 2 domains in the organization, let us say 192.168.100.x and 192.168.200.x, with their domain controllers on Windows Servers.

In 192.168.200.x there are 3 PCs with IPs 192.168.200.15, 192.168.200.16, 192.168.200.17.

.15 and .16 are not registered in the AD, .17 is registered

Users are logging into their machines using local admin level accounts on .15, .16 and .17, then they use one for all users teamuser2 domain account (for 192.168.200.x) to map drives or use resources in 192.168.200.x and one for all users teamuser1 domain account (for 192.168.100.x) to map drives or use resources in 192.168.100.x.

The physical users are user1, user2 and user3. The users are registered in 192.168.100.x's Active Directory and not registered in 192.168.200.x.

My questions:

How many Windows Server user CALs do I need?

I think I need 6 CALs - 2 for each physical user to access both domains. Please, help to solve the puzzle.

Hi ,

 Schedule Task failing result code as “0XC000005” for multiple scheduled Jobs. Sometimes few jobs run  without any result code as “0XC000005” and sometime same jobs have  result code as “0XC000005”.  user is having local Admin permissions on the servers even on remote server also. Even for schedule task user is given explicit permission on batch files also. 

More than 10 schedule task are running and all are using same exe file ,does it can be issue for Schedule Task failing result code as “0XC000005” or any thing else . Please help .

thanks,

Sumit

I am trying to join a Windows 7 Pro system to my domain and I am getting the error:

I am running a Hyper-V Windows 2008 R2 DC with AD, DNS, and DHCP. When I ping the DC via netbios name I get a reply. If I tried to ping the DC via FQDN I can't ping it. If I try to ping the domain I can't ping it...please see below:

C:\Users\djgook>ping zeus

Pinging ZEUS [10.10.20.6] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 10.10.20.6: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 10.10.20.6: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 10.10.20.6: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 10.10.20.6: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 10.10.20.6:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\Users\djgook>ping zeus.tranceaddict.us
Ping request could not find host zeus.tranceaddict.us. Please check the name and
 try again.

C:\Users\djgook>ping tranceaddict.us
Ping request could not find host tranceaddict.us. Please check the name and try
again.

C:\Users\djgook>nslookup
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
Default Server:  UnKnown
Address:  10.10.20.6

> tranceaddict.us
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  10.10.20.6

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out
>

I've also gone int the IPV4 of the Windows 7 Pro system and change the prefer DNS to the IP of the DC/DNS but still getting the error. I'm guessing it's a DNS error but not sure where else to go. I am able to join other Windows 2008 server to the domain without any issues.

Hello,

I found a command to change the WINS on the servers:

rem 1. Connect to (OP WINS) configuration MCO
netsh interface ip set wins name="Local area connection 5" source=static addr=10.2.112.21
netsh interface ip add wins name="Local area connection 5" addr=10.6.58.79 index=2

My issue when trying to do it globally for all servers I could not find an easy to find the name of the connection to be updated... in my example it is "Local area connection 5" but it could be "Local area connection" or "Team #1" or Team #5" how to get the proper information to pass a global command?

Thanks,
DOm

System Center Operations Manager 2007 / System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 / Forefront Client Security / Forefront Identity Manager