Friday, August 30, 2013

EMCOPY | ERROR (1722) Unable to get the domain SID info from DomainController

Scenario:

While using EMC Utility EMCOPY following errors get encountered.

Errors : 
- ERROR (1722) : Unable to get the domain SID info from DomainController
- ERROR (1722) : Unable to retrieve the primary group of the default user Domain\User from \\DomainController
- ERROR (1727) : Lookup account sid from \\SHARE failed

Resolution :
- Make sure that the Source and the Destination is pingable.
- Make sure that the DNS Server is having both Source and Destination entries.
- If you dont have permission to do the chages on DNS Server, then you can make HOST File entry of source and destination in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\Hosts file from where you are running the EMCOPY Command.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Windows Server 2008 R2 always boots in recovery mode

If you are facing below Issues : 
- You faced the Windows Server 2008 R2 Clean boot issue
- Windows Server 2008 R2 starts in recovery mode
- After installing windows updates on Windows server 2008 R2 system goes in recovery mode after reboot
- Safe mode also doesn't work in above case and get stuck at classpnp.sys

Then this is the solution for all above:

1. Boot into Windows Recovery Mode
2. Open Command Prompt
3. Type:

sfc /SCANNOW /OFFBOOTDIR=C:\  /OFFWINDIR=C:\Windows

4. Goto following location :

C:\Windows\winsxs\
 Check out for pending.xml file.
If it is present, then DELETE it.

5. Reboot the system.

6. Select normal boot mode. 

You have done it!

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