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2012r2 Direct Access non-paged memory leak
Hi guys, any luck with resolving the mentioned problem? It seems that I have faced the same one on HP physical server running Windows 2012r2 and DA role, non-paged RAM leak on "NDnd" pointing to the "ndis.sys"
david0n unfortunately there's no fix as far as I'm aware of with Direct Access running on 2012 R2, it's fixed in 2016 and 2019. I am not in the position to upgrade ours right now, so I have my 2 servers on an automatic reboot schedule at 2am once a week (staggered as I have an HA pair), this has managed the leak so that the servers don't fail. It's not ideal, but it works for now until I can move all of our clients over to a newer version.
Good luck!
mattsutton1295- that's good to hear! Unrelated to this post I realize, but how did you handle transitioning over your clients? Were you able to get away with delivering the new certs & GPO settings/etc over the old DA connection or did you have to bring all the clients back into the corporate office to get reconfigured? That's the main reason I haven't done our upgrade - with this pandemic, having everybody bring in or ship their devices back to our office isn't feasible.
We had employees bring devices back to the closest office to their residence to get them on the corporate network. Not ideal, but I think it worked out that they scheduled the time vs something go wrong and then making them come in because their device can no longer connect.
