DCUK6 Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 Had a server fail any log ins last week, the DEFAULT hive file was over 1.5GB. Its located here C:\Windows\System32\config How big is yours? One server has remote app on and the other allows remote desktop. The remote server is now at 250MB and i had to extract the DEFAULT hive from the windows server install disk on the remote app one as it was the only way, started at 256kb now at 10MB already. I've disabled redirected printers and installed a few directly onto the server. Both servers are fully updated as i've been reading about a bug in the early days of R2. Going to have to clear DEFAULT every couple of months it looks like. Luckily the Recovery regedit on the install disk has a DEFAULT profile that doesnt mess anything up when i use it.
kmount Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 Yeah, this happens with dodgy printer drivers on remoteapp/remote desktop servers.
Oaktech Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 Interesting - none of ours are over 200mb. Our RDS server are 2mb (2012) and 96mb (2008r2) and we are using redirected printers!
localzuk Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 On our RDS servers, these are 1.7Mb and 3.3Mb in size.
DCUK6 Posted June 10, 2015 Author Posted June 10, 2015 Strange isnt it, Going to see if the server with remote printers disables keeps growing before i start playing, wondering if it will eventually stop once its cached everything or does whatever it does.
kmount Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 We've seen this with Sharp printers and some Canon kit on some larger customer environments. It's quite easy to observe if you export chunks of the default hive and look at the sizes. Better printer drivers are normally the cure but even then certainly on some of the Sharp kit it likes to poison this part of the registry anyway because it can ... *sigh*
DCUK6 Posted June 10, 2015 Author Posted June 10, 2015 Probably is the photocopier. The only Sharp printer. Will have to see what driver version we are on. Sharp does keep popping up in my research
DCUK6 Posted June 10, 2015 Author Posted June 10, 2015 (edited) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2871131 Cheers, downloaded that patch before but it said it wasnt needed. Edit, just looked back and in my panic of trying to get the server back i have downloaded the 32 version. The 64 version has gone though, need to give it a restart later. Edited June 10, 2015 by DCUK6
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