Brave_heart

I have had this situation for a couple of weeks now on my servers, both physical and VM. All are server 2012r2 and all are running BE 2014. i am regularly getting "The job failed with the following error: A failure occurred querying the Writer status. See the job log for details about the error." I have googled but can't find anyone with recent experience of this. I have checked the VSSADMIN stuff, restarted the relevant services, rebooted, stopped shadow copies and re enabled them, all to no avail. Any thoughts?

For about three weeks now i have been having major issues with some VM's run a web application - primarily my web/vle server and my exchange13 server. Simply, after a reboot, the IIS Worker Process goes crazy. it will settle down after a while - anything from 10 mins to an hour. In this time the processor gets almost maxed out and certainly runs at a high level. VM runs under HyperV, is a full SP'd 2012r2 machine which runs sophos as its AV. There is no other role that each server performs, i.e. the web server is a web server etc. However it is very annoying and slows web access right down, affecting my schoolbase online, web site, intranet and exchange OWA access. can anyone suggest what i might need to check or do to resolve this?

Thanks everyone for the advice - few things to try here.

Thanks for this. I will give PS a crack and see how we get on.

Yes, i looked at this but it seemed a bit pricey for my budgets. PS will probably work for me once i have gotten my head round it.

Thanks for this. Does it automatically create the user home folder or simply tell AD where it is?

I used to use a product called Ranger which had a lovely little feature that allowed bulk creation of users accounts. We have had to drop this product because RM no longer appear to want to support it. Does anyone know of or can recommend an alternative tool that will allow me the bulk creation of AD users using a CSV? There seems to be a lot of choice generally and I need something simple.