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Hi folks, after doing some digging through Ned Pyle's excellent DFSR blogs, I took an educated guess that our XML cache was corrupt. I did the following: 1. cmd: dfsrdiag pollad 2. cmd: net stop dfsr 3. Renamed: dfsr config xml in the sysvol folder to .old 4. cmd: net start dfsr 5. Waited about 5 minutes and ran a dfsr health report - status had changed to normal and files were replicating Now I get to thank [insert random diety/god that doesn't offend you here] that it's the October break so it can work through the backlog. They are only deleted files so it should be relatively quick as it does a 'Present 0/1' check.

Hi folks, Hoping someone can help. We use DFSR and recently I asked teaching staff to perform a cleanup of files. Normally, I get a rather tepid response and a few files are deleted. This time however, staff deleted around 150gb worth of data and DFSR went into a serious sulk. I've run DFSRDIAG and on one of the two servers in the mesh one of them shows 'unitialized' as its status. The other server has 4.5 MILLION files in its backlog. Is this just a situation (as is often with DFSR) of 'wait and see' or is there something more serious going on? Running 2008 R2 for the DFSR servers, latest service packs, all hotfixes for DFSR applied and the event log isn't helpful as there are only sharing violations for a few files showing. Any help would be appreciated as NO data is being replicated from the affected server. Thanks!

Steve, not sure if there was anyone else attached to the server at 2:30am!!! However, I think DFSR might be the culprit here. If DFSR is the problem then I'll need to stop it before I perform the copy - which will create on heckuva a backlog!!! Thoughts?

Thanks Dana for your reply. Yes, I think I prefer powershell at this point. I tried doing a script around robocopy and richcopy but got nowhere. So my script is this, which may have a silly error in it as I wrote it at 2:30am. $listPath = "d:\temp\csvs\test.csv" $oldhome = "D:\DFSRoots\Public\User Shared Folders\" $newhome = "D:\DFSRoots\Public\Users\Senior School\Pupils\test1\" $list = import-csv $listPath foreach($user in $list) { $path = Join-Path $oldhome -childpath $user.username move-item $path $newhome } I get this error: Move-Item : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. At C:\Users\administrator.EA\Desktop\move_home_folders.ps1:8 char:15 + move-item <<<< $path $newhome + CategoryInfo : WriteError: (D:\DFSRoots\Public\User Shared Folders\: DirectoryInfo) [Move-Item], IOExcep tion + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MoveDirectoryItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.MoveItemCommand

Hi folks, I'm no scripting guru so please bear with me on this. I have an urgent need to relocate users home directories from one location to another. Currently our \\UNCPath\user shared folders\ area contains both pupils and staff folders which is a nono and isn't the best practice. I need to move all the pupils home folders to a new location \\UNCPath\pupils\ I've generated a username_year_group_x.csv file containing a single column samaccountname for all users from each year group and I want to feed it into a script and use those usernames to move the corresponding folders to their new location. I know how to change the home folders from AD for all users but I just can't figure how to move the actual data! Hope someone can help me!

Hi all, having a bit of bother with SCCM's power management. We run SCCM's enforced power management policy across our Win7 network which works great to put PCs into hibernation when not in use. However we are having problems with a few PCs that once they go to sleep, the network card doesn't wake back up. It requires a complete shutdown of the PC in order to get connected to the DCs and File Server properly. We've even gone as far as turning off the power save mode on the NIC itself on these particular PCs. PCs affected are a mix of Dell360s and Dell790s. My question is this, is there a way to implement SCCM's power management without shutting power off to the network card? Would enabling WoL do this?

More info. There's no an error that is the Event Viewer->Application log. It's generating an Event ID 1000, faulting ntdll.dll Faulting an access violation in pass2.exe and crashing. We've done an sfc /scannow and the file is file. If anyone has any thoughts it would appreciated. All answers valued and all leads pursued! :-)

Hi AngryT -> answers inline below. 1. What version of PASS are you on? 2.5.1.6 - I know there's a version update, it doesn't address this issue and I want to resolve it before updating. 2. Have you run ProcMon as well as NetMon? No, I haven't - that's a good point, hopefully it will show more than pass2.exe closing. Thanks for your help.

Hi to everyone at Edugeek. First post, long time lurker - thanks to all for this wonderful resource. I'm having a very frustrating problem with some users of the PASS MIS system. Immediately after a successful log in to PASS it closes. No error messages, no logs, netmon shows nothing special (just closed tcp sessions). The problem is only occuring on Win7 workstations, for whatever reason I am unable to replicate it on XP SP3. Our PASS environment on the server is the following: PASS Application installed on a W2K8 R2 Standard virtual server SQL 2008 R2 installed on a W2K8 R2 Standard virtual server Server does not run to capacity on drive space, processor or memory Our PASS environment on the client is the following: Windows 7 some clients have SQL Tools 2005 installed, some clients have SQL Tools 2008 installed XP SP3 all clients on this platform run with SQL Tools 2005 installed Simple shortcut on desktop to PASS2.exe on PASS application server I originally believed this to be a network issue but now users spread throughout both campuses are experiencing this issue. One that is completely on fibre. The networking issue (if it is this) could be on the server side but as there are 7 other virtuals I would expect to see problems ocurring on other servers, with other applications or something in the event logs. There is nothing that points to a problem. Any help would be much appreciated as this is quickly becoming (has become actually) a business critical issue. Many thanks, William P