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Wednesday 15 September 2010

NtFrs Event ID 13566

I had a server that had the event ID below

The File Replication Service has detected that the replica set "DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)" is in JRNL_WRAP_ERROR.

Replica set name is : "DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)"
Replica root path is : "c:\winnt\sysvol\domain"
Replica root volume is : "\\.\C:"
A Replica set hits JRNL_WRAP_ERROR when the record that it is trying to read from the NTFS USN journal is not found. This can occur because of one of the following reasons.

[1] Volume "\\.\C:" has been formatted.
[2] The NTFS USN journal on volume "\\.\C:" has been deleted.
[3] The NTFS USN journal on volume "\\.\C:" has been truncated. Chkdsk can truncate the journal if it finds corrupt entries at the end of the journal.
[4] File Replication Service was not running on this computer for a long time.
[5] File Replication Service could not keep up with the rate of Disk IO activity on "\\.\C:".
Setting the "Enable Journal Wrap Automatic Restore" registry parameter to 1 will cause the following recovery steps to be taken to automatically recover from this error state.
[1] At the first poll, which will occur in 5 minutes, this computer will be deleted from the replica set. If you do not want to wait 5 minutes, then run "net stop ntfrs" followed by "net start ntfrs" to restart the File Replication Service.
[2] At the poll following the deletion this computer will be re-added to the replica set. The re-addition will trigger a full tree sync for the replica set.

WARNING: During the recovery process data in the replica tree may be unavailable. You should reset the registry parameter described above to 0 to prevent automatic recovery from making the data unexpectedly unavailable if this error condition occurs again.

To change this registry parameter, run regedit.

Click on Start, Run and type regedit.

Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Click down the key path:
"System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtFrs\Parameters"
Double click on the value name
"Enable Journal Wrap Automatic Restore"
and update the value.

If the value name is not present you may add it with the New->DWORD Value function under the Edit Menu item. Type the value name exactly as shown above
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I have had this error in the past and I have followed the registry edit to request FRS rescans for Active Directory changes, in this instance when I made the change the server had been in this state for so long it removed all files from the SYSVOL Share under SCRIPTS and POLICIES and rendered the server no longer a Domain Controller.

This was a pretty difficult situation as this was a SBS 2003 Server and this meant I had no other DCs to connect to bring AD back online.

I had to use the BurFlags registry changes to rebuild FRS again and start with an empty, to do this I had to perform an Authoritative Restore from this Microsoft KB article.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290762

Once this was complete I had the SYSVOL share back again after about five minutes but I had to manually recreate the SCRIPTS folder for this to be shared as NETLOGON. The Policies folder was missing from SYSVOL so I had no Group Policies and numerous UserEnv errors in the event log.

The next step was to rebuild the Default Domain Controller and Default Domain Policy, this can be done using the DCGPOFIX tool on the SBS Server, I ran this and accepted the Disaster Recovery options and this rebuilt the two Group Policies correctly.

Now I had to recreate all the SBS Custom Policies that no longer existed, for this I was able to export the policies from an existing SBS 2003 Server and then use the Import Settings option to rebuild the policies. As the polices do not reference any Security SIDS directly these policies could be imported.

This now returned the server to a state where the Event Logs were clear of errors, Exchange and SQL Server were working and I had only to recreate the logon script files in the NETLOGON share.

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