DFSR Event ID:5014 Error:1726

For the last couple of months, I’ve been trying to successfully replicate 100GB of data using Windows Server 2008 DFSR from our corporate office site to our branch site for disaster recovery purposes.   The initial replication will work for a while and then I get the following 5014 error repeatedly in the event log. Restarting [...]

NTFS Rights Issue with UAC, logged on with Domain Admin Account

Error: “You don’t currently have permission to access this folder.  Click Continue to get access to this folder.” If you click continue the currently logged in user id will be granted security permissions to the folder.  This is not a good idea and the folder permissions will get messy quick if very many domain admin [...]

Windows Server 2008 DCPROMO

During DCPROMO in Windows Server 2008, If you select the option to install DNS, you might receive a message that indicates that a DNS delegation for the DNS server could not be created and that you should manually create a DNS delegation to the DNS server to ensure reliable name resolution. If you are installing [...]

Error message when you run the “Adprep /rodcprep” command in Windows Server 2008

“Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=Domain,DC=suffix” “Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=Subdomain,DC=Domain,DC=suffix” “Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=Domain,DC=suffix” Read: Error message when you run the “Adprep /rodcprep” command in Windows Server 2008: “Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=Contoso,DC=com” Note: I could not get [...]

DFSRDIAG (Distributed File System Replication Diag)

I’ve recently been tweaking my data replication schemes.  We’ve got multiple servers spread out all over and seems like we replicate date all over the place.   My most recent brilliant idea was to replicate our offline virtual machine images and software installation ISO files to all of our Hyper-V servers.  In working through some staging [...]

Microsoft’s Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT)

Microsoft had a couple releases this week to help support remote servers.  The first was the Hyper-V Remote Administration Tools that I blogged about earlier.  The second was the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) which only runs on Windows Vista SP1 and replaces the old AdminPAK.MSI that was used with Windows XP and Server 2003. [...]

Hyper-V-VMMS Event ID 14050

I recently upgraded to Hyper-V RC0 and noticed a 14050 error “Failed to register service principal name” in the event log after I added my Hyper-V server to my active directory domain.  Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin Source: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS Date: 3/27/2008 9:42:59 AM Event ID: 14050 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: User: SYSTEM Computer: LABVS2.pmo.pfcs.farm Description: Failed [...]

Hyper-V Remote Administration Tools

Microsoft released the Hyper-V Remote Management tools for Windows Vista earlier this week.  This is an important release to effectively managing a remote Hyper-V server now that in Hyper-V RC0 mouse movement is no longer being captured in a virtual machine connection when connected to a Hyper-V RC0 server via terminal services (Remote Desktop).  Microsoft reportedly blocked capturing [...]

Micosoft releases Hyper-V RC0

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the first release candidate (RC0) of Hyper-V, the virtualization functionality that is built into Windows Server 2008.   This updates the Beta version of Hyper-V that shipped with Server 2008 RTM earlier this year.  The final version of Hyper-V is due out in late August 2008. Read:Microsoft Reaches Virtualization Milestone With Release Candidate [...]

Hyper-V Questions

During the 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008: Part 3 webcast today, I got a couple of my virtualization questions answered.   Question: Is Server 2008 32 bit suppoted as a VM in Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 or VPC 2007? What about the VMAdditions? It seems that Server 2008 performance as a VM on VS 2005 [...]

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