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Re: Google fiber being blocked??
The same result here using Rogers in Canada, trying to get today's released Server Insider ISO. I also had this problem a few days ago when attempting to download the latest Canary client ISO for testing, and that's still broken also. I also tried downloading using a remote machine on a different ISP, and a brand new Insider account, the same error on there. For those looking to reproduce, the error is generated after the language is chosen (getskuinformationbyproductedition api), everything looks fine until then. If you look at the response where the error is generated in the browser dev tools (Network tab), the response to https://www.microsoft.com/software-download-connector/api/GetProductDownloadLinksBySku?profile=606624d44113&ProductEditionId=undefined&SKU=19903&friendlyFileName=undefined&Locale=en-US&sessionID=[guid] ([guid] is a real guid in the request) is: { "Errors": [ { "Key": "ErrorSettings.SentinelReject", "Value": "Sentinel marked this request as rejected.", "Type": 9 } ] } I noticed it's also now blocked in Fido and Rufus (neither of which I've used to download ISOs before), per this GitHub issue: https://github.com/pbatard/Fido/issues/106 There is a guess there that blocked requests to ov-df.microsoft.com might cause it, but in my second test on a remote PC, these wouldn't have been blocked at all (unless a default Edge install with no extensions blocks it).148Views3likes0CommentsRe: Windows Admin Center Preview - 2511 English [MSI Corrupt]
I can confirm this as well. When checking the digital signature in the MSI, it's valid, so the MSI was broken before it even got to download page. Orca also refuses to open the file. The non-MSI executable installer from the blog page does work however. (The corrupt MSI version comes from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewserver.)102Views0likes0CommentsRe: For those with Windows Insider Problems to read please before posting in this Server Insiders Forum
I understand that you are trying to be helpful, but the people you are targeting with this are either not going to read your post, pinned or otherwise, or won't understand it. After all, that's why they would be posting here in the first place.64Views0likes0CommentsRe: Windows Update confused over version being updated
Thomas LeeIn the release notes it says "The label for this flight may incorrectly reference Windows 11. However, when selected, the package installed is the Windows Server update. Please ignore the label and proceed with installing your flight. This issue will be addressed in a future release." My 26052 ISO installed VM hasn't shown anything in WU with Win11, but my real hardware 26040 install that flighted to 26052 said it was Win11 as described in the notes.592Views0likes0CommentsRe: is it possible to update windows server 2022 RTM to build 25977 ?
I don't see how, it's a different product and the keys are different. 25977 is Server vNext, where vNext will likely turn into 2024 or 2025 closer to release. Can you explain a little more on what you're trying to do? Regardless, you can always install the Hyper-V features and use 25977 in a virtual machine to avoid having to upgrade. Also in case you missed it, in the known issues for 25977 and other recent builds, there are a few known issues when upgrading from 2019 or 2022, although those might not matter in your scenario.1.3KViews0likes0CommentsRe: [Server 22538] Deduplication gets stuck, refuses to cancel, while fsdmhost.exe spins indefinitely
LaurentF_CHHey Laurent, wow, I had forgotten about this issue. My apologies, I'm afraid I don't have a solution for you, as this problem was the end of the road for myself and ReFS. Unfortunately there were too many downsides over the years and not enough benefits. I still do have one old disk using ReFS in my personal machine, which doesn't have dedup enabled, but I intend on replacing it within the next month or so. However, when you say "all versions", do you mean all insider versions? If so, I would post a new bug report to hopefully gain more traction than this one did, it might be useful to reference this old one as well.6.3KViews0likes0CommentsRe: I can't create a broadcast port-forward for remote WOL
Greetings Pickles, The manuals for the Decos don't seem to be too comprehensive, so I'm unsure if this feature will exist for you, but most modern router firmware has WoL as a separate option in their web UI that lets you put in a MAC/IP of any machine on the local network, and send the magic packet to wake it up. So instead of forwarding a port, you enable remote web administration mode to log into the router remotely, go to the WoL section, and then wake the PC up from there. Alternatively, if you can get shell access (Telnet/SSH) to the router, and also be accessible from the outside, then you should be able to log in to that and send the magic packet from that. But if that doesn't exist or seems unappealing, it's likely the missing piece you're looking for is ARP Binding/Static ARP to be able to get the magic packet to the machine when it's off. This does appear to be a feature from at least some TP-Link routers, see: https://www.tp-link.com/ca/support/faq/1536/ In addition, they have an entire article covering WoL with ARP Binding enabled: https://www.tp-link.com/ca/support/faq/923/#:~:text=Wake%20up%20a%20PC%20on%20WAN%20side Another workaround is to get a Raspberry Pi and keep that running on your network as a way to get into the LAN from the outside, and send the magic packet out from the Pi.3.8KViews0likes2CommentsRe: How do i get two volumes to be accessible remotly via FTP on one IP?
Pickles Before getting into more, I neglected to mention that if you haven't already found them, there are log files for the IIS FTP Server. The default location is \inetpub\logs\logfiles and the folder names begin with FTPSVC. You can find the exact location by going to the FTP site in the IIS Manager, going to FTP Logging, and pressing the View Logs... link from the right-side Action menu. Given what you've said so far, I expect the USER and PASS commands are what you're most interested in checking. As you debug more, this may provide some hints as to if it's actually connecting or sending the right username, etc. The format you're using for the FTP port should be fine (ie. ftp://192.168.0.1:21). However, your syntax for the virtual names feature is incorrect, the virtual name is part of the username with a pipe character. For example, if I have two FTP sites, one is named blue and the other is named pink, both on port 21, 192.168.0.1, and my username is jon, to access the blue site I would type into Explorer: ftp://blue|jon@192.168.0.1 You should get a prompt for a password and then be allowed to login. To access the pink site: ftp://pink|jon@192.168.0.1 and so on. If your password is not accepted, I would verify that the site(s) that don't work have Basic Authentication enabled in the FTP Authentication section of each in IIS Manager. If you're still having problems, I would recommend you continue testing by using localhost instead of the IP (ie. ftp://pink|jon@localhost) from the server itself (if you weren't already), as you may be trying to solve multiple problems at once, and one problem at a time is usually recommended. As a side note unrelated to the problem, just in case you're not aware, on any client (or the server if you really wanted), if you go into This PC/My PC/My Computer (whatever it's called on whatever version of Windows you're using), right-click in an empty area, choose "Add a network location", and add the FTP link that you're typing into Explorer into the wizard, it will generate a shortcut that will appear alongside your drives in Explorer and any common file dialogs. Then it's easily accessible via an icon in any application.2.9KViews1like2CommentsRe: How do i get two volumes to be accessible remotly via FTP on one IP?
Greetings Pickles. As you probably know, FTP is an old school protocol which was designed with the assumption that either the client (in active mode) or server (in passive mode) has a public IP address and can open multiple ports. To deal with that limitation, routers typically rewrite the IP address and ports within the FTP protocol, which is standardized on port 21, and what I would guess is why it works on 21 but not on 22. Since it does work on port 21, you can utilize the Virtual Host Name feature you've already mentioned. The key to connecting using that feature is to add whatever virtual host name you choose to the username when logging in with the format: `hostname|username`. You'll find this documented on MS Docs with a better example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/publish/using-the-ftp-service/using-ftp-virtual-host-names-in-iis-7#logging-in-to-the-second-ftp-site-using-your-local-user-account The rest of the MS Docs article might possibility cover some other questions too. Depending on your scenario, there may be other protocols you might consider, but I admit most of them have some annoying limitations, no nice GUIs, and/or no nice Windows/Explorer integration like the FTP support does (at least without third party software).3KViews1like4CommentsRe: Problems (again) downloading latest ISO (25099)
Just to answer your question, I have also had this problem downloading the Server builds a few times (albeit not recently and not with 25099). I don't usually notice until I mount the ISO and the setup executable refuses to run ("not a valid win32 application").1.3KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Microsoft Recommendation on Upgrade Path from 2012R2 to 2022?
The official support aside, I've done this upgrade path twice with a 50% success rate. The first, was a quick test with an relatively unused VM, and the upgrade went well. The second, on a server that I didn't have physical access to, never came back onto the network, and a reboot didn't help. As the server was already slated to be repurposed, unfortunately I never got the chance to see what went wrong before someone clean installed it.266KViews0likes0CommentsRe: [Server 22538] Windows Terminal Doesn't be Shown on Context Menu
Houyufeng I guess it depends which context menu you're talking about. From my perspective/memory, the Windows Terminal context menu option has never worked on any Server version in the "Directory\Background" context (i.e. where you right-click in an empty area in Explorer). It has however, always shown up by right-clicking on the folder itself on the left-side navigation folder pane, and you can improve the experience by turning on the pane's 'Expand to current folder' option, albeit it probably ruins the muscle memory of right-clicking on the empty space. With these latest vNext builds (I'm not sure if 22538 had it yet), you can set the "default terminal app" in Settings, Privacy & security > For developers. Once you've done that, you can use the standard method of starting cmd or powershell from the address bar of any File Explorer window. To do that, in File Explorer, you press Alt-D to focus the address bar, type cmd (or powershell), hit Enter, and Windows Terminal will show up, in the correct directory, and in the desired shell. Install gsudo along with this, and you can easily elevate any commands too. At least that's how I do it.2.3KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Start Button
I believe you're talking about the bug with the Win-X menu. Since that bug was fixed in this past week's client build, I would expect it will be fixed in the next server build. As you might already be aware, if you use vivetool and issue "vivetool addconfig 26008830 2" (for details, search and you'll find instructions/guides on that), it will workaround the issue. I did it the day 25066 came out and it's been fine since. As a side note, this bug does illustrate how up-to-date Server is with Client nowadays. I remember when they used to be months (and sometimes years) different.2.9KViews1like4CommentsRe: [Server 22538] Deduplication gets stuck, refuses to cancel, while fsdmhost.exe spins indefinitely
Thanks Thomas, I'm glad I'm not alone on this one. As a small addition to what I wrote above, over this past weekend, I started all over, copied the same data, all the same settings, but used NTFS instead. That seemed to solve the issue, dedup now had no problem, and is working normally.8.2KViews0likes0Comments[Server 22538] Deduplication gets stuck, refuses to cancel, while fsdmhost.exe spins indefinitely
Feedback Hub link On a brand-new disk (WDC WD60EFZX), after creating a storage space, ReFS, bitlocker, copying 3TB of data, and enabling deduplication, the deduplication process begins and starts deduplication, but eventually the threads of the process involved (fsdmhost.exe) appear to start spinning without accomplishing anything. The machine's fans just come up and it goes wild as CPU is consumed, but memory, I/O, and other standard metrics, don't move. I’ve left it running for ~24 hours, and during that time, taskmgr/resmon/procmon show that once the i/o stops, it never continues again. After rebooting the server, running 'Start-DedupJob -Type Optimization', dedup appears to start, but it eventually gets stuck again. Having done it many times now, it seems to be always stuck at the same file or part on disk, per the stats: PS C:\Users\TReKiE> get-dedupstatus FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume --------- ---------- -------------- ------------- ------ 2.98 TB 689.6 GB 17175 17178 E: Additionally, the spinning continues after Stop-DedupJob, and after making the attempt to stop, Get-DedupJob requests refuse to return, and require breaking (Ctrl-C) to even return to PowerShell. PS C:\Users\TReKiE> Stop-DedupJob -Volume E: PS C:\Users\TReKiE> Get-DedupJob Type ScheduleType StartTime Progress State Volume ---- ------------ --------- -------- ----- ------ Optimization Manual 1:13 AM 0 % PendingCancel E: PS C:\Users\TReKiE> Get-DedupJob [stops here, never returns] I attached minidumps taken of fsdmhost.exe and server health ETLs to the bug on Feedback Hub, however, I was unable to attach the full dumps as they seem to be too big (but available on request!). All the event logs Application/System/Deduplication-Operational/Diagnostic, say everything is fine. This identical hardware has previously handled deduplication of a 14TB ReFS Storage Space on previous versions of Windows Server 2019 and 2022 without issue. Of note, I originally wrote this for build 22526, but it still happens on 22538.9.5KViews1like4CommentsRe: Windows Server 2022 Remote Desktop Services installation is failing
Werner2360 My apologies Werner, I missed the part in your original post where you indicated that it "couldn't be started". So it seems the installation process is fine, the problem is starting the service(s) afterwards. As a quick test, I installed all the RDS components (including WID) into a blank updated 2022 RTM VM (US English) and it seems to all work there. However, as you might know, the WID (Windows Internal Database) is just a SQL Server instance. Naturally, it has its own log files too, which you'll find in the C:\Windows\WID\Log folder as "error.log", "error1.log", etc. The naming of the log files is a bit deceptive, as even without errors, they're still the main log files. It's likely the problem will become more clear in these files. If there are no log files in that folder, it means the WID service has never started. The service uses its own service account (NT SERVICE\MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID) to start, but if it doesn't have the rights to start as a service, or some other problem, that may be where you should be looking. I stress this is likely not the solution to your problem, but I found an example of that on Server 2012 R2.13KViews1like1Comment
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