Hi,
We have a server 2012 essentials install which has lost its devices tab in the dashboard. Its not disabled (or visible) in the dashboard safe mode area so we are unable to re-enable it. Any suggestions to get it back please as its a pretty important part of essentials and without we're a bit stuck.
Thanks
[I did intend to start this post with a screenshot of the above error when I initiate the transfer from Windows Explorer, but apparently 'Body text cannot contain images or links until we are able to verify your account.' so I will just have to do some typing,
viz the error dialog says:
'An unexpected error is keeping you from copying the file. If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to search for help with this problem.
Error 0x800705AA: Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.'
I get this error pretty much 100% of the time from one particular PC when trying to copy a folder of 10 2GB files to a server with both mirror and parity storage spaces.
I recently purchased a Thecus W5000 running Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials. Absent any guidance either way I decided to set up a storage pool across the three 3TB WD Red drives that I have installed in it and to allocate 1.5TB of that space to a
mirror storage space and the remainder to a parity storage space. Having read some faily dire things about storage spaces, but wanting the resilience provided by those two types of storage space, I decided to run some benchmarking tests before finalising anything.
To that end I only went as far through the Essentials setup as creating a handful of user accounts before setting up the storage spaces and sharing both of them, with all authenticated users permitted full control. My benchmarking consists of a Take Command
batch file timing three large directory copies - one with 10 2GB files, one with 10240 10K files and another with a multi-level directory with a variety of files of differing sizes. The first two are completely artificial and the latter is a real world example
but all are roughly 20GB total size.
To test various aspects of this I copied the three structures to and then from a partition created on the internal disk (the W5000 has a 500GB SSHD) and to the two storage space partitions. I also created a version of the batch file for use internally which
did something similar between the internal disk and the two storage space partitions, and another as a control that tested the same process between the two Windows PCs. The internal test ran to successful completion, as did the PC to PC copy and the external
one from my Windows 8.1 64-bit system (i5 3570K, 16GB RAM, 1TB HD) but when I ran it from my Windows 7 Pro 64-bit gaming rig (i7 2600K, 8GB RAM, 1TB HD) I got a number of failures with this error from Take Command:
TCC: (Sys) C:\Program Files\bat\thecus_test_pass.btm [31] Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.
(where line 31 of that batch file is a copy command from local D: to the parity space on the Thecus).
The error occurs only when copying large files (the 2GB ones already mentioned but some of those in the real world structure that are about 750MB in size) from the Win7 system to the Thecus and only when doing so to the storage space volumes - ie. copying to
the internal disk works fine, copying from all volumes works fine, copying internally within the Thecus works fine, copying between the Win8 and Win7 machines works fine and initiating the copy as a pull from the server between the same two disks also works
fine. One aspect of this that surprised me somewhat was just how quickly the copy fails when initiated from Windows Explorer - checking out the details section of the copy dialog I see roughly ten seconds of setting up and then within five seconds after the
first file transfer is shown as starting the error dialog pops up (as per the image no longer at the top of this post).
There are no entries in the event log on either machine related to this error and I've had the System Information window of the Sysinternals Process Explorer up and running on both machines whilst testing this, and it shows nothing surprising on either side.
I've also run with an xperf base active and I can't see anything pertinent in the output from either system.
Frankly, I am at a loss and have no idea what other troubleshooting steps I should try. The vast majority of the existing advice for this error message seems to relate to Windows 2003 and memory pools - which both the fact that this works from one PC but not
the other and the SysInfo/xperf output seems to suggest is not the issue. The other thing I've seen mentioned is IRPStackSize, but again if that was the problem I would expect the failure to occur where ever I initiated the large file transfer from.
I ran the "Set up Anywhere Access" Wizard and reached the point where I obtained a certificate request. I selected the option to continue the wizard once I receive the certificate. I have purchased the certificate and received it. However now when I try to continue the set up process I receive this message.
"A trusted SSL Certificate request is in progress...
Your trusted Certificate Provider is in the process of issuing the SSL Certificate for your domain name. This needs to be completed before you can finish configuring Anywhere Access.
Please come back later to finish configuring Anywhere Access."
I'm curious how I'm supposed to finish installing the certificate when the wizard that I'm suppose to use to install the certificate says to try again later. I manually loaded the certificate into the Certificate Snap-in and assigned it to the Default Web Site in IIS but I'm still unable to continue in the wizard.
Vincent Sprague
Just a basic question here for BPA re: DNS settings on server and workstations.
During server installation DNS server role was auto installed, I presume as a subset of ADUC. We have a small law firm with a single server and 17 users. I have made no forward or reverse lookup entries in DNS. The pri and sec DNS settings on the servers lan adapter are set to Time Warner provided dns addresses. The workstations are set to the local server IP address for primary DNS. Is this an acceptable scenario?
Today I looked at my dashboard and all the users I created, all the devices that had been connected are gone. They all just missing. User can still login to the domain from any computer but all the share rights are wrong now. All the users are still there n the Access Director User and Groups Policy manager but again not in Dashboard. Additionally I can't create user from the Dashboard.
What can I do to fix this? Why did this happen?
I have a client with a Windows Server 2012 Essentials that is displaying incorrect alerts for the client computers.
As you can see in the screenshot below, the computer COHA014 has had successful nightly backups every night. Yet, the Alert Viewer on the actual computer is showing a red flag error and warning that the computer has not had a successful backup in more than 197 days. That same red appears in the server Dashboard, yet the Alert Viewer on the server for that computer shows nothing.
Furthermore, neither Alert Viewers show that there are pending updates, yet the server Dashboard does and they were being installed on the computer at the moment I took the screenshot.
Lastly, the Alert Viewer on the server shows no alerts at all for computer COHA014. However, the Dashboard is clearly displaying red flags in its Update Status and Alerts columns. The same is also true of the previous computer where you see the Warning flag under Alerts, opening the Alert Viewer shows no alerts, even after a Refresh.
So the server won't display alerts that exist and the client displays alerts that don't exist.
-- Henri
Hello Folks.
I setup a Vlan on my Sisco Access point and I want to share internet for my users. The problem is that my Access point can't see TMG and users can't connect to the Internet.
Access point can ping other servers but can't ping TMG. How can I Tshoot this problem?
Tnx.
Hello Folks.
I want to install an application on Windows remotely and via command line, For example, I need a tool like Psexec or WMIC but I don't like the user understand it. Any idea?
KevenD.
Hi All,
I have basically two questions which I hope someone can help me with. My server backup is running a scheduled Backup of almost everything on my Windows Essentials 2012 server except the client-backup-folder (It's to big for me to backup and i hope that restoring the server and clients at the same time is never going to happen). My backups are being done on a Iscsi drive created on a separate Win2008 Server. Everything look ok, and the backups are being created as expected.
Now for my question: Initially, I have made a backup to a network share for 2 days. Later-on I discovered this was not covering my needs so i switched to a separate backup-disk (because network shares only support 1 backup that is overridden). However this backup on the backup location is still listed in the backup list, and is taking up a large amount of disk-space (It's a full blown backup of the target server). I would like to delete this backup from the backup catalog to free up the space. Does anyone know how to do this? I've read some articles like (http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2009/06/22/backup-version-and-space-management-in-windows-server-backup.aspx) and they state that you can simply delete the folder <ComputerBackup> folder from the \\<RemoteServer>\<SharedFolderPath>\WindowsImageBackup\<ComputerBackedUp> path. Windows Backup should then (on the next backup run) cleanup the backup catalog. Has anyone done this before ? Is it safe to do so ? The last thing I would want is to end up with an inconsistent set of backups (given that backups are incremental).
Related to this question I also wonder how the cleanup process of Server backups is done. I have specified how the client backups are handled in the dashboard (x days, y weeks, z months), but I suspect that server backups are managed differently in W2012E. I first hoped that my problem above would have disappeared automatically when the oldest backup is deleted (which is my network share backup). But now after 14 days of running, all 14 backups are still kept. I read somewhere that it just keeps on making backups until the destination disk is full ? Is this correct? I see very little growth on my dest. disk because it uses incremental's so it would take a while before this process of cleaning-up is started I think. Is there a way to change this? Or is this just 'as designed'? Is there a way to instruct the Server backup how to cleanup ?
I hope my question is clear. I see a lot of confusion surrounding this topic of Server backup cleanups so I hope someone can answer this question for once and for all.
So basically it comes down to: can you delete a single (network) backup, and how do I change the cleanup process of a server backup.
Thanks!
Martin
I have two servers (Essentials 2012 and Exchange 2013) behind a firewall. port 443 is routed to essentials.
I have set up arrconfig following TechNet jj200172 (in fact I followed this link closely for the entire setup).
Our client has a single external static ip & two certificates (godaddy) . I’ll call them arr.help.ca and mail.help.ca
On the lan, I has split dns so that Outlook trying to reach "http mail.help.ca" gets the local ip. In fact all is working fine on the Lan.
From the WAN "https arr.help.ca" present the essentials web page, with desktop and shared folders working fine, but...
From the Wan "https mail.help.ca/owa" presents the owa logon page, but also the browser warning that the cert is incorrect.
The problem is the cert presented is arr.help.ca, not mail.help.ca
The cert chain is fine (i.e. the godadddy intermediate cert is trusted),
both certs are not expired,
the cert subjects are correct.
Any idea's on how to troubleshoot this?
Hello,
I just setup Remote Web Access on my WHS 2011 server at home. When I use my Android phone (Sprint service which is outside my LAN) I can access the https://name.homeserver.com just fine. I get the login page and can access the folders and files and download files just fine.
But, outside my LAN of course, on my laptop using a friends wireless, or my phone tethered to my laptop for internet service I get an error in Chrome below (also similar message with IE):
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from name.homeserver.com (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards).
NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED
I'm working on a new setup with MPS 2012 Premium and Server 2012 R2 Essentials and was wondering if I can use the standard Essentials connector to join and manage a new MPS 2012 Premium server? I've done this same setup with MPS 2011 Premium connected to a Server 2011 Essentials server without issue but this is a 1st setup using MultiPoint Server 2012 Premium.
Thanks for any input and suggestions.
Ken
Scenario: I currently have an SBS 2011 environment with two sites. The business has rapidly grown since I first installed the SBS at the main site. I have setup a new office with a separate AD site. At secondary office I have a DC and a file server (all bound to the same domain as the SBS).
My question is, can I setup the file server with Windows Server Essentials experience without it messing up the SBS schema? I know the WSEE is supported on an existing single domain environment but not sure if it will mess up anything on the SBS AD environment since we are using the builtin exchange.
regards,
LJAC
I am trying to reconnect a Win 7 Pro computer to a new Essentials 2012R2 and when it asks me to set it up for just me or multiple users a message pops up saying it has stopped responding. It sets up a profile of _clientsetup_$ and it shows up in dashboard as an offline device. This computer was hooked up to an Essentials 2012R2 previously. Tried uninstalling the connector software, removing the computer from the domain, renaming the computer and re-installing the connector software from the http://(server)/connect. Even tried backing up the existing profiles and creating a new clean one and went through the above procedure with the same results. I set up 4 others with no issues and it would be the bosses computer that fails. I am a newbie so any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
We have a setup with Server 2012 Essentials and 10 workstations. We have setup Anywhere Access and is working fine. We have one system (Windows 7 Pro) on the network running AADS Server (use to be called XP Unlimited). This allows several users to logon to that PC remotely at once as well as someone local using it. This PC needs to be changed from the default 3389 port due to the new AADS Server version requiring it. When ever we change the listening port we cannot remote desktop into this PC. It is available in Remote Web Access Portal but just sits trying to connect. We have allowed the new connection in the Windows Firewall and even turned the firewall off as a test with no luck.
My question is, can we change the default 3389 port connection that the Server redirects you to for one PC on the network? If not how do you change in the Server to look at another local port for RDP once in the portal?
Thanks, Jason