What does wbengine do when it says it compresses/compacts VHDX files over SMB?

November 14, 2019, 12:26 am

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I'm backing up some Windows Server 2019 using wbadmin to some Synology-NAS using SMB. Once in a while the logs created during those backups mention that one of the created VHDX files gets compressed/compacted. The server is using German language for these logs and those use a term which means "compressing" actually, so not sure which of both is really done, but I strongly guess it means "compacting".

Looking at the logs, that process is pretty fast for C:\ most likely, which only contains Windows itself and some installed applications. Most of the data is stored on D:\ instead and that data contains some databases, plain files available using network shares, a VM and stuff like that. So there's quite some amount of I/O on that volume.

Looking at the logs of the last time that was done for D:\, I recognized two interesting things: 1. that process took around an hour to succeed and 2. the logs start at 30 % and stopped at 69 %. I know that it took around an hour because without compressing/compacting the backup finishes mostly around 22:45 o'clock.

Von Volume "Daten(D:)" wird eine Sicherung erstellt. Kopiert: (100%).
Die virtuelle Festplatte für das Volume "Daten(D:)" wird komprimiert. Abgeschlossen: (30 %).
[...]
Die virtuelle Festplatte für das Volume "Daten(D:)" wird komprimiert. Abgeschlossen: (69 %).

Ende Datensicherung 13.11.2019 23:59:36,66

So what happens during that process, especially in case of storing to SMB?

From my understanding, one needs to first know which blocks of the VHDX are not used anymore. Because there's NTFS inside that image, I guess Windows simply knows that and doesn't need to scan the file in some expensive process? After knowing which blocks are not needed anymore, those can be freed to actually reduce the storage needed for the VHDX. If it would sit on NTFS itself, I guess this would be done by unallocating blocks from some sparse file or would it really write 0s to the not needed blocks? However, the VHDX is accessed using SMB with BTRFS underneath, so most likely doesn't know about any spare file. So it might move blocks from the end of the file to allocated, but free blocks and simply trims the file afterwards?

If large amounts of data really need to be copied, that would explain why the process takes pretty long and why 30 and 69 % are logged only, that being the copied range of data inside the VHDX maybe or even only copying the data itself and other operations before and after 30 and 69 % are pretty fast again.

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November 18, 2019, 11:25 am

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Hi IT Experts,

1.  Past few days our domain users (not specific user) complaining about their account locked out if the system is idle for few mins. I verified all the GPO's but there is no such GPO created except "Account Lock Out" if more than 5 times wrong password, so was manually unlock the account and advising users to spell check before entering the password, surprisingly yesterday it happens to one of our IT Security Admin user who is already into Administrator group.  It was more surprise to us while working on the system tried to connect to the one of the server via RDP using the same logged in account and received the error saying account is locked. 

Now, I'm sure that our users may not be entering the wrong password but it is getting locked for unknown reason.  Kindly advice what could be the reason and solution? 

2.  As staked above, I have enabled Block Inherit Policy to the IT security Group / OU but still the account lock out policy affect and getting locked, pls. advice what additional steps to configure 

Thanks in advance.

within daily Windows Server Backup --> short network reconnect

November 24, 2019, 1:07 am

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Hi all,

i have a fujitsu rx1330 server with Windows Server 2019 installed. The 2 gbit ports are connected to a switch. Network connection generally runs without any issues.

At 3:00 a.m i run a complete windows backup, with  all hdd's, all hyper-v VMs, baremetal.... to a iscsi mounted network drive.

For this Backup iam using the onboard windwos backup tool.

Within this backup i got every day a short network connection loss, that is a problem because one of the hyper-v VMs needs a permanent network connection 7x24.

I already updated the intel network adapter drivers to the newest version from July 2019 and VMQ i disabled.

Do you have any solution for this issue?

I wont use another commercial backup software for which i have to pay for it.

BR

Rebuild USN Change Journal

September 19, 2017, 7:23 am

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I am getting an error from Backup Exec when trying to backup one of my Windows 2008 R2 Servers that indicates that I need to rebuild the usn change journal database. I looked up the commands for accomplishing this and just had a couple of questions about executing these. First: Are these the right sequence of commands to run? -->

fsutil usn deletejournal /d c:
fsutil usn createjournal m=1000 a=100 c:

Second: I am assuming the best time to run these would be right before a full backup?

VSS Errors when running Windows Backup on Windows Server 2012 R2

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So this is strange issue that started occurring about a month ago, and I have been unable to find any useful resources online. This may or may not be related, but this started happening very soon after we migrate our VM disks to a new datastore on a new storage device in vmware. I have managed to get at least one successful backup weekly, but this is after many failed attempts with the same errors.

I originally thought this was a Backup Exec issue but after spending hours on the phone with them they declared that this is a Microsoft issue since the same problem occurred using Windows Server Backup as well.

Here are the errors occurring. This typically happens during the System State Backup or during the C: drive backup.

Source: VSS Event ID: 8193 Level: Error Logged: 9/20/2017 9:25:20 AM

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine IMultiInterfaceEventControl::GetSubscriptions.  hr = 0x80010108, The object invoked has disconnected from its clients.
.

Source: VSS Event ID: 12291 Level: Error Logged: 9/20/2017 9:25:20 AM

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error on creating/using the COM+ Writers publisher interface: BackupShutdown [0x80042302, A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error.
Check the Application event log for more information.
]. 

Source: VSS Event ID: 8193 Level: Error Logged: 9/20/2017 9:50:08 AM

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine IVssAsync::QueryStatus.  hr = 0x800706ba, The RPC server is unavailable.
. 

Operation:
   BackupComplete Event
   Executing Asynchronous Operation

Context:
   Current State: BackupComplete

Source: Backup Event ID: 517 Level: Error User: System

The backup operation that started at '‎2017‎-‎09‎-‎20T13:04:54.929785700Z' has failed with following error code '0x807800AF' (The Volume Shadow Copy Service backup complete operation failed. See the event logs for more details.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Has anyone ever seen or encountered these problems before? They are making backup up our server almost impossible. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

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Hello,

How can we make sure the Azure VM Application consistent backup . We have few windows and Linux VMs with databases and we want to take application consistent backup to avoid any data corruption during backup/restore.

Is it possible ?

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VSS System Writer missing on Windows Server 2008

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Hello guys,

Since Septembter 13th we have backups failing on one of our 2008 servers. The problem is that, for some reason, the VSS System Writer has disappeared.

I have tried everything, re-registering the writers, changed permissions on COM Security, etc. None of them worked... Has anyone gone through this before? I also noticed that some updates were installed on the server the same day that the last successful backup happened (Sept 13th), so I am wondering if this was broken by an update...

Any help will be really appreciated!! Thanks so much in advance for your time!!  :) 

Backup failed with VSS on EFI partitions

October 22, 2017, 7:45 pm

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Hi,

Here I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard server, using Netbackup software for the backup, which is a product of Symantec company.

The server roles as file server, problem now is the backup process always failed when processing on an EFI partition.

After consulted with the product vendor, they suggested to ask MS for help..

Here is the log:

- Type: VSS_CT_FILEGROUP [2]

- Is selectable: TRUE

- Is top level: TRUE

- Notify on backup complete: FALSE

- Paths affected by this component:

- \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\EFI\Microsoft\Boot<file:///\\%3f\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\EFI\Microsoft\Boot>

- Volumes affected by this component:

- \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\EFI\Microsoft\Boot<file:///\\%3f\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\EFI\Microsoft\Boot> [Does not exist]

Here is the BCD info:

C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit /enum all /v > c:\bcd.txt

Firmware Boot Manager
---------------------
identifier              {a5a30fa2-3d06-4e9f-b5f4-a01df9d1fcba}
displayorder            {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
                        {863b7733-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
                        {863b7732-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
                        {863b7731-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
                        {d344c614-8c42-11e5-80b9-806e6f6e6963}
timeout                 2

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier              {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device                  partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2
path                    \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
description             Windows Boot Manager
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
bootshutdowndisabled    Yes
default                 {863b7735-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
resumeobject            {863b7734-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
displayorder            {863b7735-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
toolsdisplayorder       {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout                 30

Firmware Application (101fffff)
-------------------------------
identifier              {863b7731-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
description             EFI Network

Firmware Application (101fffff)
-------------------------------
identifier              {863b7732-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
description             EFI SCSI Device

Firmware Application (101fffff)
-------------------------------
identifier              {863b7733-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
description             EFI SCSI Device

Firmware Application (101fffff)
-------------------------------
identifier              {d344c614-8c42-11e5-80b9-806e6f6e6963}
description             EFI SCSI Device

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {863b7735-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description             Windows Server 2012 R2
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
recoverysequence        {863b7736-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
recoveryenabled         Yes
isolatedcontext         Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice                partition=C:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {863b7734-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
nx                      OptOut

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {863b7736-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
device                  ramdisk=[\Device\HarddiskVolume1]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim,{863b7737-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
path                    \windows\system32\winload.efi
description             Windows Recovery Environment
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
displaymessage          Recovery
displaymessageoverride  Recovery
osdevice                ramdisk=[\Device\HarddiskVolume1]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim,{863b7737-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
systemroot              \windows
nx                      OptIn
bootmenupolicy          Standard
winpe                   Yes
custom:46000010         Yes

Resume from Hibernate
---------------------
identifier              {863b7734-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winresume.efi
description             Windows Resume Application
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {1afa9c49-16ab-4a5c-901b-212802da9460}
recoverysequence        {863b7736-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
recoveryenabled         Yes
isolatedcontext         Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
filedevice              partition=C:
filepath                \hiberfil.sys
debugoptionenabled      No

Windows Memory Tester
---------------------
identifier              {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
device                  partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2
path                    \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\memtest.efi
description             Windows Memory Diagnostic
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
badmemoryaccess         Yes

EMS Settings
------------
identifier              {0ce4991b-e6b3-4b16-b23c-5e0d9250e5d9}
bootems                 Yes

Debugger Settings
-----------------
identifier              {4636856e-540f-4170-a130-a84776f4c654}
debugtype               Serial
debugport               1
baudrate                115200

RAM Defects
-----------
identifier              {5189b25c-5558-4bf2-bca4-289b11bd29e2}

Global Settings
---------------
identifier              {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
inherit                 {4636856e-540f-4170-a130-a84776f4c654}
                        {0ce4991b-e6b3-4b16-b23c-5e0d9250e5d9}
                        {5189b25c-5558-4bf2-bca4-289b11bd29e2}

Boot Loader Settings
--------------------
identifier              {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
inherit                 {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
                        {7ff607e0-4395-11db-b0de-0800200c9a66}

Hypervisor Settings
-------------------
identifier              {7ff607e0-4395-11db-b0de-0800200c9a66}
hypervisordebugtype     Serial
hypervisordebugport     1
hypervisorbaudrate      115200

Resume Loader Settings
----------------------
identifier              {1afa9c49-16ab-4a5c-901b-212802da9460}
inherit                 {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}

Device options
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identifier              {863b7737-7876-11e5-8f71-e4e140fa16a9}
description             Windows Recovery
ramdisksdidevice        partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
ramdisksdipath          \Recovery\WindowsRE\boot.sdi

Please let me know if any other information you need to know.

Really thanks for any help.

Regards

John

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Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V WSB backup fails - Event 10178, 10172, 16010 (0x8000FFFF)

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I have one (Server 2012 R2) guest on Hyper-V in Server 2012 R2 host. System Reserved and C backup completes data transfer and all but Server(Online) fails to complete. 

"Failed to complete 0KB of 0KB"

WSB Error: The component Server2012(Online) was skipped during the snapshot and will not be available for recovery. Error: The writer experienced a transient error. If the backup process is retried, the error may not occur.

Log file: 

Writer Failures
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
Instance Id: {C1C2F8BB-2ACD-45C8-9B0E-D072A7B58F79}
Writer Name: Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer
Writer State: 5
Failure Result: 80042336
Application Result: 80004005
Application Message: (null)
   Component: EBABEA20-1601-4521-855E-A286593543D0
   Logical Path: (null)
   Component Result: 800423F3
   Component Message: 
       File Spec: C:\VHDX\Server2012\Virtual Machines\Server2012\Virtual Machines\\EBABEA20-1601-4521-855E-A286593543D0.xml Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\VHDX\\C.vhdx Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\VHDX\\data.vhdx Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\VHDX\C-AutoRecovery.avhdx Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\VHDX\Vorhoff2012\Virtual Machines\Server2012\Snapshots\FAE18FA3-3CE5-4E7A-AE13-691603A0B96A.xml Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\VHDX\data-AutoRecovery.avhdx Recursive: 0
*-----------------------------*


Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
   Component: EBABEA20-1601-4521-855E-A286593543D0
   Caption     : Online\Server2012
   Logical Path: 
   Error           : 80780175
   Error Message   : Component was skipped from volume shadow copy.

   Detailed Error  : 800423F3
   Detailed Error Message : The writer experienced a transient error.  If the backup process is retried,
the error may not reoccur.

Event Viewer:

Event 10178

Source: Hyper-V-VMMS

The description for Event ID 10178 from source Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event: 

Server2012
EBABEA20-1601-4521-855E-A286593543D0
%%2147943727
0x8007052F

The locale specific resource for the desired message is not present

Event 10172

Source: Hyper-V-VMMS

VSS writers inside virtual machine 'Server2012' failed to perform BackupComplete to its shadow copy (VSS snapshot) set: Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF). (Virtual machine ID EBEBBA20-1601-4521-856E-A286493543B0)

Event 16010

Source: Hyper-V-VMMS

The operation failed.

VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS shows all "State: [1] Stable Last error: No error" besides:

Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer'

   Writer Id: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}

   Writer Instance Id: {c1c2f8bb-2acd-45c8-9b0e-d072a7b58f79}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: Unexpected error

After running this script: http://www.nullskull.com/q/10115236/issue-with-windows-server-backup.aspx and turning VMMS service off and on, and then restart, backups appear to (or at least WSB says the Server2012(Online)) have completed BUT the data transferred says 0KB of 0KB! Then, the next backups say "failed" or "completed with warnings".

The question is: HOW DO I GET WSB TO WORK? 

Thanks in advance, everyone! I appreciate all replies very much.

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I'm struggling with a problem that i've yet to find a solution to.  I have a brand new Windows Server 2012 R2 installation.  I've created a scheduled local backup to a local Hard drive, not a network location.  The backup configures and schedules properly, but when the time arrives for it to run, it never runs.  If I check the Scheduled tasks, I see the backup task changes from ready to queued.  The backup job shows as not running, not failed, not anything.  Wbadmin just shows next backup as being tomorrow, with no successful backup and no failed backup.  Each day is the same thing.  If I run the backup manually, it will run successfully every time.  I have tried to search for similar problems and found a few similar threads, but none of the suggested solutions have done anything.  Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this?

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I want to take backup but my device is shutting down again and again. 

Also, Can I host and move my website to microsoft's cloud service? 

My blog website is vashishthakapoor.com. I will move other sites to microsoft only because this service is very fast

Backup All Share permision " 2008 r2" and restore on windows 2012 r2

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Dears,

please i have a file server " windows 2008 r2 " and i need to backup all shared permission and restore it on a new server " windows 2012 r2"

could you please help me?

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after restore WINDOWS folder facing issue.how to fix

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im using Server 2012 R2 .....due to some reason i restored WINDOWS folder using server backup & Restore utility..after restoring the folder when i restart window and give credentials and then should windows desktops shows but Black screen shown....so now what should i do.. how to fix....i am student and its my first post in this portal ...

Windows Backup 2012R2: there is not enough space on the disk where is a lot of space

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I am backing up about 260GB of data to a 1TB disk. 

For 2 weeks Backup has been reporting a error " there is not enough space" at the end of the backup proces.

This 1TB disk is completly empty. I also tried to send a backup over the network to QNAP but there is the some error.

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Confirmation on expectations for 3rd party backup/restore?

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Can someone confirm that it is reasonable to expect that when I use a 3rd party backup solution that I should be able to recover;

1. File & Folder permissions, either to original or alternate location? (To a system that is a member of the domain where the permissions are from)
2. File & Folder metadata, eg create date and modified dates.

I have tested with the built-in Windows backup and this is working and I do know from a few years ago my previous backup solution would as well.

Am I wrong to expect in this example, say you are retiring an old file server and want ot migrate all exist data to a new file server. You should be able to backup/restore an exact copy of that data along with all custom permissions and file time stamps to a new server?

Another example would be in a disaster recovery, where you have to restore all your data to a new file server.

Your comments and clarifications are appreciated.

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Hi all;

I'm using windows server backup to backup data on windows server 2012 R2, and was working fine until recently.

For a backup destination I tried  external usb brand new 1 TB disk, and a built-in SCSI disk as well.

Both source and destination are GPT formatted. The Process fails with the error 0x8004245F regardless if it is manually started or scheduled.  

Any idea?  Thanks in advance.

WinRE restores to wrong drives

December 23, 2019, 1:59 am

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I have a server with a 1TB SSD as the OS disk and a 1TB HDD as a data drive. I am using WBAdmin to backup the two drives to an external USB 4TB HDD. The command I am using is WBAdmin Start Backup -BackupTarget:F: -AllCritical -SystemState -Include:D: -Quiet and to restore to a new set of disks I am using the install disk and restore from an image.

My issus is that when I do a restore to a new set of disks the D: drive is restored to the SSD and the C: drive is restored to the HDD which is opposite of what I want and had from the backup. What determines which drive is restored to which? They are in an Intel 2600WT chassis and each drive is on a separate SATA controller. I put the new drives into the same slots the backed up drives were in.

WSB Full VSS failure - RPC Server is unavailable

December 23, 2019, 3:33 am

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I'm trying to solve a backup problem which started with Veritas Backup Exec failing to back up directories on a remote server. The BE error simply said that the directories could not be found yet I could browse to them in BE and Windows Explorer.

I then tried a full VSS backup in Windows Server Backup on the target server (2008 R2) and this also failed but there was no error in the WSB console, just the failed status. Looking in the Event Viewer I found two entries for the backup:

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System

- Provider [ Name] VSS

- EventID 8193 [ Qualifiers] 0

Level 2

Task 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2019-12-23T10:29:32.000000000Z

EventRecordID 3962947

Channel Application

Computer xxxx.xxxx.com

Security

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EventData

IVssAsync::QueryStatus

0x800706ba, The RPC server is unavailable.

Operation: BackupComplete Event Executing Asynchronous Operation Context: Current State: BackupComplete

2D20436F64653A2042554543584D4C4330303030353934302D2043616C6C3A2042554543584D4C4330303030353833392D205049443A202030303030393736342D205449443A202030303031303234342D20434D443A202022433A5C57696E646F77735C73797374656D33325C7762656E67696E652E657865222020202020202D20557365723A204E616D653A204E5420415554484F524954595C53595354454D2C205349443A532D312D352D313820

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Binary data:

In Words

0000: 6F43202D 203A6564 43455542 434C4D58
0008: 30303030 30343935 6143202D 203A6C6C
0010: 43455542 434C4D58 30303030 39333835
0018: 4950202D 20203A44 30303030 34363739
0020: 4954202D 20203A44 31303030 34343230
0028: 4D43202D 20203A44 5C3A4322 646E6957
0030: 5C73776F 74737973 32336D65 6562775C
0038: 6E69676E 78652E65 20202265 20202020
0040: 7355202D 203A7265 656D614E 544E203A
0048: 54554120 49524F48 535C5954 45545359
0050: 53202C4D 533A4449 352D312D 2038312D

In Bytes

0000: 2D 20 43 6F 64 65 3A 20 - Code:
0008: 42 55 45 43 58 4D 4C 43 BUECXMLC
0010: 30 30 30 30 35 39 34 30 00005940
0018: 2D 20 43 61 6C 6C 3A 20 - Call:
0020: 42 55 45 43 58 4D 4C 43 BUECXMLC
0028: 30 30 30 30 35 38 33 39 00005839
0030: 2D 20 50 49 44 3A 20 20 - PID:
0038: 30 30 30 30 39 37 36 34 00009764
0040: 2D 20 54 49 44 3A 20 20 - TID:
0048: 30 30 30 31 30 32 34 34 00010244
0050: 2D 20 43 4D 44 3A 20 20 - CMD:
0058: 22 43 3A 5C 57 69 6E 64 "C:\Wind
0060: 6F 77 73 5C 73 79 73 74 ows\syst
0068: 65 6D 33 32 5C 77 62 65 em32\wbe
0070: 6E 67 69 6E 65 2E 65 78 ngine.ex
0078: 65 22 20 20 20 20 20 20 e"
0080: 2D 20 55 73 65 72 3A 20 - User:
0088: 4E 61 6D 65 3A 20 4E 54 Name: NT
0090: 20 41 55 54 48 4F 52 49 AUTHORI
0098: 54 59 5C 53 59 53 54 45 TY\SYSTE
00a0: 4D 2C 20 53 49 44 3A 53 M, SID:S
00a8: 2D 31 2D 35 2D 31 38 20 -1-5-18

- System - Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Backup [ Guid] {1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D} EventID 517 Version 0 Level 2 Task 0 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x8000000000000000 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2019-12-23T10:29:37.528986500Z EventRecordID 3962948 Correlation - Execution [ ProcessID] 9764 [ ThreadID] 7852 Channel Application Computer xxxx.xxxx.com - Security [ UserID] S-1-5-18 - EventData BackupTime 2019-12-23T09:39:09.669986500Z ErrorCode 2155348143 ErrorMessage %%2155348143 I've checked a load of services: DCOM, VSS, RPC, RPC Endpoint Mapper, Virtual Disk... These are all running with only the VSS one set to Manual, the rest are all Automatic. Checking over the VSS Writers, all are Stable with No Error. Windows firewall is disabled and so is the ESET AV one. I've also tried this with the AV disabled - same problems. Looking through the registry keys for the services and all seems to be as it should. I seem to have hit a wall with this, every forum and question I've read so far lists a load of things to check which I've done and all seems okay, the only other "solution" suggested is to reinstall the OS which is not an option here. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Folder redirection successful but windows search option stops working

December 24, 2019, 1:48 am

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Hi IT experts,

after successfully configure the GPO for folder redirection for Desktop, My Documents & Download only, since then all the users complaining that windows search option doesn't show the recent opened or available MS office documents.  

Can you pls. suggest how to overcome this problem.

Thanks in advance

MAZ