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Server Migration Service error logs incomplete?
Hey Mike,
I have a 2008R2 fileserver that has hundreds of Administrator ownership problems. Sometimes when I take ownership it seems like I have no issues, and other times it seems to wipe the NTFS ACLs. Similar to what this guys mentions, so there are concerns on seizing ownership - https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/d5910f67-055f-4d05-a6f9-68f1d1a94dbe/file-permissions-lost-when-taking-ownership-of-a-folder?forum=winserverfiles
With robocopy, I could always look through the log and search for "denied". I use to get a few false positives, but it would always show me where my account was getting "access denied" to copy subfolders/files. With SMS, I think it does the scan and then only reports on files it has access to. I do not think it reports an error when it hits a folder it does not have permissions to copy. I just did a scan of a server that SMS thnks has 2.2 million files(probably has a lot more) and when I went to copy it only reported 126 errors(probably thousands). I was hoping SMS error report would show me my problems, but I might have to use AccessEnum for help figuring out where all my ownership issues exist and take ownership of each one.
Dan H @MikeZzo for any issues with WS2008 R2 sources, please make sure:
1. You have this hotfix installed and group memberships set: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-migration-service/known-issues#certain-files-do-not-inventory-or-transfer-error-5-access-is-denied
2. You have that source server 100% patched: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-migration-service/known-issues#certain-files-do-not-inventory-or-transfer-error-5-access-is-denied
Thanks Ned - That helped a lot. I did not have 100% of all updates applied. I still do not have KB4490481 applied because it download specifying it is for 2019 OS Build 17763.404
and when installing it says it is not applicable to my 2019 file servers(1809.17763.557). I checked and my servers do not have this update, but maybe it is included in something cumulative? I will retry the transfer here shortly and see if any of the other updates helped.