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SBS 2011 Store.exe allocating too much memory despite cache adjustment

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I have a client who is using the trial version (on a new HP ML350 G6 with 12GB RAM allocated to the VM) for their office of six.  They like the product, except it will get very slow for several minutes a few times per day.  When store.exe has a reasonable amount of memory allocated (usually for a while after a restart) the problem does not happen.  Right now, it has almost 5GB allocated.

I have read several articles online regarding adjustment of the msExchESEParamCacheSizeMax.  There are conflicting numbers out there about the actual size of the cache blocks, so I am not actually sure I am limiting yet having it set to 50,000.  I have reduced this number by about half each time, having done this maybe four times now (I think I started at 500,000 when I errantly thought the blocks were 4KB each - I am still not sure what they are [have seen both 8KB and 32KB mentioned in support docs])

The server does have Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Standard on it, using their latest version whose patch level (1435) is supposed to be SBS 2011 compatible.  I can pretty well guess they might be part of the issue, but I still should be able to limit the cache independently.

Please advise.  Thanks, Tom.


SBS 2011 Static Default Gateway address set to blank every 3 - 5minutes

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I have an SBS 2011 server which has run OK for about 2 years suddenly the IP address for the Default Gateway gets changed to a blank address about every 3-5 minutes dropping the Internet and DNS from the server. Re-entering it manually or with NETSH gets it running again for another 3-5 minutes then it gets changed to blank again.

It is NOT the blank Gateway after re-boot problem as this happens all the time the server is running. Have changed network cards, router and done all the various winsock, tcp/ip , ipv4, ipv6 resets etc.

Any ideas to what the problem might be?

Ray

SBS2011 Recovered from Missing SYSVOL and NETLOGON; looking for original cause - not restore related

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Call from client that they couldn't login to their shares. Connected to the server and found SYSVOL and NETLOGON missing. This has happened 3 times on this server 2014-01-06, 2014-03-26, and 2014-06-04. Although I have documentation and can restore quickly, preventing is out primary goal.

What are the situation is which tis might happen and possible event log items that can give us a warning that this may take place.

Best offsite cloud backup for SBS2011

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Hello, does anyone have any experience with cloud backup? I have used iBackup for a little bit, but their software sucks and doesn't work very well with SBS. Time for a change - any advice appreciated. 

 

Cheers, 

Greg. 

Receive connector failed to create

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I am trying to create an SMTP receive connector on SBS2008 std, using the wizard (on Hub Transport). This is to connect an office printer (192.168.16.129) with emailing to the local network. Unfortunately I am not able to created this connector. All attempts give the following error before finish:

Summary: 1 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed.
Elapsed time: 00:00:00

Test Connector
Failed
Error:
Active Directory operation failed on SERVER1.mydomain.local. This error is not retriable. Additional information: The parameter is incorrect.
Active directory response: 00000057: LdapErr: DSID-0C090C26, comment: Error in attribute conversion operation, data 0, v1772
The requested attribute does not exist.
Exchange Management Shell command attempted:
new-ReceiveConnector -Name 'Test Connector' -Usage 'Custom' -Bindings '192.168.16.2:25' -RemoteIPRanges '192.168.16.129' -Server 'SERVER1'
Elapsed Time: 00:00:00

I just can't figure out this failure. I will be greatful for your assistance.

Regards

Jack

SBS2011 randomly hangs for 15-20 mins

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Got a bit of an odd one here. I've got a HP DL180 running SBS2011 that will run happily for days, then out of the blue it will hang. When it hangs, I cant log in through RDP, nor by walking up the the server and logging in via the console. Everyone looses access to the network shares, exchange, etc, however it will still respond to ping, thats about the only thing it will do.

When I check the logs after it comes back up, theres nothing unusual there at all.

Ilo is also unresponsive. That comes and goes tho. It will work sometimes, but so far, I havent been able to get in while the server was frozen. I'm not sure if thats any way related, or if thats a seperate issue. But I thought I would mention it just in case.

So the iLo problem and console not working got me thinking it was a hardware problem. When I have been able to get into iLo, the logs show nothing recorded for the times the server locked up. I phoned HP for their advice, they had me run a whole heap of tests which generated a diagnostic report. HP guy went through the report and came back to tell me there were no problems anywhere. (I beg to differ...)

Anyway, normally when it locks the only way to get it back it to do a hard reset. We usually have to do that pretty quickly because people need it running to do their work. But it went again yesterday afternoon, just before everyone was going home, so they were a little delayed in telling us it had hung. Then because everyone was done for the day, I spent a little longer than usual trying to get in via iLo and/or RDP than I normally would, and after about 15-20 it suddenly let me RDP in. Everything was back to normal. I had one of the guys on site try to access the console again, and it was working too.

A check of the event logs once again showed nothing of use for the period the server was frozen. But interestingly, it was still logging like nothing was wrong. There were no gaps in the log.

So the fact that, given time, it will recover itself now has me leaning more towards it being a software problem rather than a hardware problem (so that would make iLo being not responsive a seperate issue, I would assume).

Another thing I should probably mention. This server is running trend worry free business... the one that has issues with SBS and causes the network to drop out. But from what I've read, that issue causes the server to not respond to ping, and I've installed the patch to fix that problem anyway. Just thought I'd mention it anyway.

So my question is, where do I go from here? It appears totally random, I cant pinpoint any possible cause. And now im even unsure as to whether its a hardware or software problem.

Happy to provide more details if needed.

Thanks.

Manual Run the psconfig command

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I have installed SP1 update for share point on SBS 2011 and ever since the Volume Shadow has failed

I have found that I need to manually run thePSConfig.exe, I have run this and it "Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products"

Can someone help!

Thanks in advanced.

Virtualised PC in SBS 2003 R2 Premium domain - MAC address question

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Hello

Consider a normal PC running Windows 7 Pro joined to an SBS 2003 domain. This PC has been converted to a VM using Disk2VHD. The physical machine has been turned off and the VM started no problems. It's running on Windows Server 2012 R2.

Windows Server 2012 Virtual Machine Manager has assigned a dynamic MAC address to this VM. Can you foresee any problems here. Should the VM be given the same static MAC address as the real NIC in the physical machine or can it remain dynamic? Any other issues?

Please advise


Unable to install IE11 update (over IE9) on Windows Small Business Server 2011 R2 (Build 7601:SP1)

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I have installed all the latest Windows and Microsoft Updates but am unable to install IE11 optional update. I have tried all different tips and forums to install recommended KBs, also tried to uninstall IE9 (it fails to uninstall using Control Panel/View Installed Updates/Uninstall IE Option) but fails immediately with "An error has occurred. Not all the updates where successfully uninstalled."... and nothing works thus far. I get 9c59 error when trying to install IE11 update. I also downloaded the System Update Readiness Tool but did not find any problems in the update or anything in the logs. Please help!

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Fully patched SBS failiing PCI scan for MS10-070

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I have a fully patched SBS 2011 server that is failing our PCI compliancy scan due to MS10-070. I am not sure how to clear this issue as it appears I have applied all patches to date. All help is appreciated.

Exchange Account Profile Limits

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Is there a limit to the number of profiles that can connect to 1 account? I have about 16 users connecting to a customer-service account. Have connection issues all day. Seems that one person has to sign out for a new connection to be established. Wondering if there is a limit? Any advice or guidance will be very helpful.

SBS 2011 backup fails: error code 2147942432

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I am using an SBS2011 and it has been running fine for more than a year. Backups have never been a problem. Recently though, there has developed an issue. The server console gives me a warning that something is wrong with the backup. When I start the backup from the console, it crashes the console every time (console has to restart), and no backup is done. When I go to the Windows server backup, I can start my regular scheduled backup, but it fails with an error message

"error code 2147942432" and that "the file cannot be accessed becasue it is in use by another process". As far as I can tell, the only thing that changed is that I activated IIS7 for an intranet (accessible from the outside) and I istalled "Dokuwiki".

I did run a chkdsk and it ran through without reporting any issues.

Any suggestions?

can't connect to desktops with microsoft remote desktop workspace using Internet Explorer 11 (SBS 2003

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Hello,

We are running SBS 2003 standard and have upgraded our PC's to Win 7 Ultimate from Win XP Pro.  We have IE11 on the PC's and can't see desktops after connecting to emote desktop workspace web interface.  Users can log in but when they click on their PC in the list, the screen goes blank as if they connected but IE11 can't display the interface.  Any idea what could be the problem?

We had no problems connecting using IE7 or IE8.

Any help is appreciated.

John G.


John Grace

SBS 2011 STANDARD Exchange 2010 Migration to Office 365

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Hello guys.

I need your urgent assistant.

I am migrating an Exchange 2010 on an sbs 2011 server to Office 365.

I got an SSL certificate from Startcom or rather instantssl.

While doing a Cut over migration on office365, it cannot apparently discover the migration endpoint.

I have used the outlook connectivity tool on textconnectivity,microsoft,com and i get errors.

the errors are

1. autodiscover test failed

and using this website

Attempting to test potential Autodiscover URL https://xxxxxx.com:443/Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml 

when i brows the above url on my sbs 2011 i get an error 404

what i need to resolve this as soon as possible

SBS2011 - cannot use buildin SQL Management studio to connect SQL 2008 R2 Server with Microsoft##SSEE

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Dear sir,

    I have installed a SBS2011 server with all as default setting.  After installation, in SQL Configuration manager, there are 3 instances there:

- Protocol for Microsoft@@SSEE

- Protocol for SBSMonitoring

- Protocol for Sharepoint

    When I open "Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio",  in the server field, I type : ServerName\Sharepoint or ServerName\SBSMonitoring, it can connect DB properly.

    However, when I type Servername\Microsoft##SSEE, it shows error:

Cannot connect to ServerName\Microsoft##SSEE.

Additional Information: A network-related or instance-specific error occured while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (Provider:SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) (Microsoft SQL Server)

I have tried to read some article by typing below statement, but it still cannot connect.

np://./pipe/mssql$microsoft##SSEE/sql/query/

Error occur:

Additional Information: A network-related or instance-specific error occured while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connectionss. (provider: Named piped provider, error: 40-could not open a connection to sql server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 161)

Any advise.

 

SBS 2011 Std running very slowly, numerous errors in event logs most woried about DNS errors

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Hi All,

I have a SBS 2011 which has a large number of errors in the event logs, any help would be gratefully excepted

Event 5586 (SharePoint Foundation) of severity 'Error' occurred 21 more time(s) and was suppressed in the event log  D 2159

The DNS server has encountered a critical error from the Active Directory. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly. The extended error debug information (which may be empty) is "". The event data contains the error.   EventID 4015

The DNS server could not bind a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) socket to fe80::7699:9c6c:4265:fcd9. The event data is the error code. Restart the DNS server or reboot your computer.   EventID 407

The DNS server could not open socket for address fe80::7699:9c6c:4265:fcd9. Verify that this is a valid IP address for the server computer. If it is NOT valid use the Interfaces dialog under Server Properties in the DNS Manager to remove it from the list of IP interfaces. Then stop and restart the DNS server. (If this was the only IP interface on this machine and the DNS server may not have started as a result of this error. In that case remove the DNS\Parameters\ ListenAddress value in the services section of the registry and restart.) If this is a valid IP address for this machine, make sure that no other application (e.g. another DNS server) is running that would attempt to use the DNS port.   EventID 408

The DNS server could not bind a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) socket to 192.168.1.2. The event data is the error code. Restart the DNS server or reboot your computer. EventID 407

The DNS server could not open socket for address 192.168.1.2. Verify that this is a valid IP address for the server computer. If it is NOT valid use the Interfaces dialog under Server Properties in the DNS Manager to remove it from the list of IP interfaces. Then stop and restart the DNS server. (If this was the only IP interface on this machine and the DNS server may not have started as a result of this error. In that case remove the DNS\Parameters\ ListenAddress value in the services section of the registry and restart.) If this is a valid IP address for this machine, make sure that no other application (e.g. another DNS server) is running that would attempt to use the DNS port.    EventID 408

The DNS server could not bind a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket to address fe80::7699:9c6c:4265:fcd9. The event data is the error code. An IP address of 0.0.0.0 can indicate a valid "any address" configuration in which all configured IP addresses on the computer are available for use. Restart the DNS server or reboot the computer. EventID 404

The DNS server is waiting for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to signal that the initial synchronization of the directory has been completed. The DNS server service cannot start until the initial synchronization is complete because critical DNS data might not yet be replicated onto this domain controller. If events in the AD DS event log indicate that there is a problem with DNS name resolution, consider adding the IP address of another DNS server for this domain to the DNS server list in the Internet Protocol properties of this computer. This event will be logged every two minutes until AD DS has signaled that the initial synchronization has successfully completed. EventID 4013

The DNS server has encountered a critical error from the Active Directory. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly. The extended error debug information (which may be empty) is "". The event data contains the error. EventID 4015

Dynamic registration or deregistration of one or more DNS records failed with the following error: No DNS servers configured for local system. EventID 5782

Active Directory Certificate Services domainname-SERVER-CA can not open the certificate store at CN=NTAuthCertificates,CN=Public Key Services,CN=Services in the Active Directory's configuration container. EventID 94

Process MSEXCHANGEADTOPOLOGYSERVICE.EXE (PID=1864). Topology discovery failed due to LDAP_SERVER_DOWN error. This event can occur if one or more domain controllers in local or all domains become unreachable because of network problems. Use the Ping or PathPing command line tools to test network connectivity to local domain controllers. Run the Dcdiag command line tool to test domain controller health. EventID 2104

Process MSEXCHANGEADTOPOLOGYSERVICE.EXE (PID=1864). Error 0x8007267c occurred when DNS was queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used to locate a domain controller for domain mcavoyconstruct.local

The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.mcavoyconstruct.local

For information about correcting this problem, Type in the command line:

hh tcpip.chm::/sag_DNS_tro_dcLocator_messageA.htm  EventID 2122

HELP ? WHERE DO I START??

Desktop heap allocation failed

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Searching these forums got me across several similar problems, but hardly ever a solution, so here's another attempt.

SBS 2008 Premium, some SQL db's and IIS sites. Backup by Backup Exec, but from a media server.
Last 5 months a total of 10 times event 243 is logged, resulting in various VSS errors, failing Application Pools and appcmd.exe failing for some reason.
Only a reboot of the server solves the problem temporarily.

Where to start? No tools are available for monitoring (besides debugging tools), exclusion of components is hard, since this is our production server.

Any advise is welcome.

Kind Regards,
Erwin

Approximately 364 MSIcxxxx.LOG files created in c:\windows\temp directory at 7:06am every morning.

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I am running SBS 2011 Standard sp1 on a Dell T310 server.

After noticing that something was consuming a lot of disk space I was able to track down that approximately 364 MSIc...LOG (Ex: MSIc7e21.log, MSIc7e22.LOG, etc.) files were being created every day at approximately 7:06am in the c:\windows\temp directory.

This first started on 5/6/2014.

Just as an FYI, we track all changes on the server and on 5/5/2014 we successfully installed patch KB2964358 after serveral prior attempts on prior days failed.

Has anyone else encountered this issue or have any information or thoughts about what is causing this problem?

Thanks

Howard

SBS 2011 & Exchange 2010 (Event ID 103) Search Issues

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I have a customer that is having issues with a continuous stream of Event ID 103 "MSExchange Search Indexer" Issues. The details of the event are as follows: 

The Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer service failed to initialize due to the following error: (HResult)(-2147467262).

I have tried to do the following:

  • Run Troubleshoot-CI
[PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts>.\Troubleshoot-CI.ps1
Get-EventLog : No matches found
At C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts\CITSLibrary.ps1:622 char:40+         $msftesqlCrashes = get-eventlog <<<<  -computername $Server -after $StartTime -logname "Application" -source
$msftesqlServiceName | where {$_.eventId -eq $msftesqlCrashEventId}+ CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (:) [Get-EventLog], ArgumentException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : GetEventLogNoEntriesFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetEventLogCommand


Name                                                               IsDeadLocked CatalogStatusArray
----                                                               ------------ ------------------
JKW-SBS                                                                    True {Mailbox Database\JKW-SBS}
  • Run Test-exchangesearch
[PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts>test-exchangesearch

Database     Server       Mailbox      ResultFound SearchTime Error
                                                   InSeconds
--------     ------       -------      ----------- ---------- -----
Mailbox D... JKW-SBS      SystemMai... False       -1         Time out for test thread.
  • Tried to manually Rebuild the Text Index
  • Tried to run the Repair-ExchangeSearchRymLinks
[PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts>.\Repair-ExchangeSearchSymlinks.ps1
Attempting to repair symbolic links
Stopping msftesql-exchange and msexchangesearch services
WARNING: Waiting for service 'Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer (msexchangesearch)' to finish stopping...
Installing symbolic links
Starting msftesql-exchange and msexchangesearch services
Symbolic links restored.
Please run test-exchangesearch to verify installation.
  • Get-MailboxDatabase
[PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts>Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -Server $env:ComputerName | Fo
rmat-Table Name,Status,ContentIndex* -Auto

Name                      Status ContentIndexState ContentIndexErrorMessage
----                      ------ ----------------- ------------------------
Mailbox Database\JKW-SBS Mounted           Healthy
  • GetSearchIndexForDatabase.ps1 

[PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts>.\GetSearchIndexForDatabase.ps1 "Mailbox Database" Database Name :Mailbox Database Index Directory: Search Index Does Not Exist for This Database


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