Cluster service on node did not reach the running state the error code is 0x5b4

[SOLVED] Can’t add a node to the cluster with error (Exchange 2010 SP3 DAG Windows Server 2012)

Hi there!
I have a problem which makes me very angry already
I have two servers Exchange 2010 SP3 with MB role started on Windows Server 2012. I decided to create a DAG.
I have created the prestaged AD object for the cluster called msc-co-exc-01c, assigned necessary permissions and disabled it. Allowed through the Windows Firewall traffic between nodes and prepared the File Share Witness server.
Then I have tried to add nodes. The first node has been added successfully, but the second node doesn’t want to be added :). Now I can add only one node to the DAG. I tried to add different servers first, but only the first one was added.
LOGS on the second nodes: 
Application Log
«Failed to initialize cluster with error 0x80004005.» (MSExchangeIS)
Failover Clustering Diagnostic Log
«[VER] Could not read version data from database for node msc-co-exc-04v (id 1).»
CMDLET Error:
Summary: 1 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed.
Elapsed time: 00:06:21
MSC-CO-EXC-02V
Failed
Error:
A database availability group administrative operation failed. Error: The operation failed. CreateCluster errors may result from incorrectly configured static addresses. Error: An error occurred while attempting a cluster operation. Error: Cluster API ‘»AddClusterNode()
(MaxPercentage=100) failed with 0x5b4. Error: This operation returned because the timeout period expired»‘ failed. [Server: msc-co-exc-04v.int.krls.ru]
An Active Manager operation failed. Error An error occurred while attempting a cluster operation. Error: Cluster API ‘»AddClusterNode() (MaxPercentage=100) failed with 0x5b4. Error: This operation returned because the timeout period expired»‘ failed..
This operation returned because the timeout period expired
Click here for help… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.3.174.1&t=exchgf1&e=ms.exch.err.ExC9C315
Warning:
Network name ‘msc-co-exc-01c’ is not online. Please check that the IP address configuration for the database availability group is correct.
Warning:
The operation wasn’t successful because an error was encountered. You may find more details in log file «C:ExchangeSetupLogsDagTasksdagtask_2014-11-17_13-54-56.543_add-databaseavailabiltygroupserver.log».
Exchange Management Shell command attempted:
Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer -MailboxServer ‘MSC-CO-EXC-02V’ -Identity ‘msc-co-exc-01c’
Elapsed Time: 00:06:21
UPD:
when Exchange servers ran on the same Hyper-V node, the DAG is working well, but if I move one of VM to another node, It stops working.
I have installed Wireshark and captured trafic of cluster interface. When DAG members on the same HV-node, there is inbound and outbound traffic on the cluster interface, but if I move one of DAG member to another node, in Wireshark I see only outbound traffic
on both nodes.
It’s confused me, because there is normal connectivity between these DAG members through the main interface.
Please, help me if you can.

Hi, Jared! Thank you for the reply.
Of course I did it already I have new info:
when Exchange servers ran on the same Hyper-V node, the DAG is working well, but if I move one of VM to another node, It stops working.
I have installed Wireshark and captured trafic of cluster interface. When DAG members on the same HV-node, there is inbound and outbound traffic on the cluster interface, but if I move one of DAG member to another node, in Wireshark I see only outbound traffic
on both nodes.
It’s confused me, because there is normal connectivity between these DAG members through the main interface.

0x8056530b error enabling disk deduplication on Windows Server 2012 R2 Volume — any ideas why or how to fix?

I’m getting the following error when trying to enable disk de-duplication on a volume on my Windows 2012 R2 file server.  The error is:
«There was an error updating Data Deduplication on volume: MSFT_DedupVolume.Volume=’\?Volume{8dfc4322-9997-11e3-93f5-005056a84b9b}’ — HRESULT 0x8056530b, The specified volume type is not supported. Deduplication is supported on fixed, write-enabled
NTFS data volumes and CSV backed by NTFS data volumes.»
The volume in question is a 1TB VMFS volume mounted to the virtual machine that is the Windows file server.  I could find no info anywhere that references this error as it relates to a standard mounted volume or VMware or VMFS. 
Any ideas on what could be the problem or how to fix it?  I could find nothing in the log files other than an entry which is basically a repeat of the error above.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
— ADEHART
P.S. This is a volume that was previously mounted on an older Windows 2003 server.  Not sure if that may make a difference.

have you compared this issue to the ones that are successful and compared what is different?
Have you made sure of the following:
Servers
See the following list for server requirements for deduplication:
• Server hardware should meet the minimum requirements for running Windows Server 2012. The deduplication feature was designed to support minimal configurations such as a single processor system with 4 GB of RAM and one SATA hard disk drive.
• If you plan to support deduplication on multiple volumes on the same server, you need to plan an appropriately size for the system to ensure that it can process the data. The general rule is that the server needs 1 CPU-core and 350 MB of free memory to run a deduplication job on a single volume, and that job can process about 100 GB per hour or around 2 TB per day. Deduplication scales with additional CPU core processors and available memory to enable parallel processing of multiple volumes.
For example: If you have a server with 16 CPU core processors and 16 GB of memory, deduplication uses 25% of the system memory in the default Background Processing mode, and in this case, that would be 4 GB. If you divide by 350 MB, you can calculate that the server could process about 11 volumes at a time. If you add 8 GB of memory, the system could process 17 volumes at a time. If you set an optimization job to run in Throughput mode, the system will use up to 50% of the system’s memory for the optimization job.
• Data Deduplication supports up to 90 volumes at a time; however, deduplication can simultaneously process one volume per physical CPU core processor plus one. Hyper-threading does not impact this because only physical core processors can be used to process a volume. A system with 16 CPU core processors and 90 volumes will process 17 volumes at a time until all 90 volumes are done, if there is sufficient memory.
• Virtual server instances should follow the same guidance as physical hardware regarding server resources.
Volumes
Volumes that are candidates for deduplication must conform to the following requirements:
• Must not be a system or boot volume. Deduplication is not supported on operating system volumes.
• Can be partitioned as a master boot record (MBR) or a GUID Partition Table (GPT), and must be formatted using the NTFS file system.
• Can reside on shared storage, such as storage that uses a Fibre Channel or an SAS array, or when an iSCSI SAN and Windows Failover Clustering is fully supported.
• Do not rely on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs). You can access data if a deduplication-enabled volume is converted to a CSV, but you cannot continue to process files for deduplication.
• Do not rely on the Microsoft Resilient File System (ReFS).
• Can’t be larger than 64 TB in size.
• Must be exposed to the operating system as non-removable drives. Remotely-mapped drives are not supported.
Note
Files with extended attributes, encrypted files, files smaller than 32 KB, and reparse point files are not processed by deduplication.

Error With Crystal Reports On Windows Server 2012

Hello,
I have a VB.NET exe application created in Visual Studio 2010 that prints a crystal report directly to the printer.  On Windows Server 2008 it worked fine but it does not work on Windows Server 2012.  The report was originally created in Crystal Reports 2011.  I have read elsewhere that in order to run a Crystal Report on WS 2012 that it needs to be created using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio.  So I installed the developer version of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio (v. 13.0.8.1216).  I opened the report in Visual Studio and saved it.  I then installed the CRRuntime_64bit_13_0_8.msi on the WS 2012.  My vb.net exe has the CrystalDecisions assemblies shown below.  When I try to run the exe I get the error below.  Does anyone have any idea as to what I am doing wrong?  Thank you for your input.
Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for ‘PrintWorkOrderAndDrawing.PrintWorkOrderAndDrawing’ threw an exception. —> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for ‘CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.En
gine.ReportDocument’ threw an exception. —> CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.LoadSaveReportException: An error has occurred while attempting to load the Crystal Reports runtime. Either the Crystal Reports registry key permissions are insufficient,
or the Crystal Reports runtime is not installed correctly. Please install the appropriate Crystal Reports redistributable (CRRedist*.msi) containing the correct version of the Crystal Reports runtime (x86, x64, or Itanium) required.  Please go to http://
www.businessobjects.com/support for more information.
   at CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument.CheckForCrystalReportsRuntime()
   at CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument..cctor()
   — End of inner exception stack trace —
   at CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument..ctor()

Hi Thomas
First the info re.;
I have read elsewhere that in order to run a Crystal Report on WS 2012 that it needs to be created using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio.
is incorrect. CRVS will run all reports down to CR 9 without issues. And even reports created in older versions will, for the most part, work just fine.
The error is rather strange as it normally indicates that an incorrect runtime has been installed. However in your case as you are using CR 13.0.8.1216 and  the 64bit_13_0_8.msi that does not look to be the case. I would like you to double check the CR references in the project. Say, crystaldecisions.crystalreports.engine. It should be version 13.0.2000.0.
If that is confirmed, then we may be at the permissions mentioned in the error. And I’d use Process Monitor for that. Filter ProcMon for the app exe and run the app. Look at the logs for «Access denied» messages. In the log, look for CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, see what the exe is doing with it. Where is it trying to load it from? Etc., etc.
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Windows Server Essentials error occurred while configuring on Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard

 am attempting to install the Windows Server Essentials on a new domain controller in a new domain and forest.   I go to add roles and features and select essentials.  The config wizard says it is Updating and Preparing the Server and
That is all the information that you need to provide. Your server is being prepared for use and may restart more than once. This may take up to 30 minutes.
It goes to 3% and the encounters an error saying An error occurred while configuring Windows Server Essentials. Please try again.  I don’t seem to find anything in the log to indicate why it fails.

Hi boe_d,
Based on your description, did you mean that this error was occurred in process of installing the Windows Server
Essentials Experience Role on Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard? If I misunderstand, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
If it is, have you re-tried the role installation? Please check if still go to 3% and then get the same error
message.
In addition, please add
ServerAdmin$ account to the Logon as a service Group Policy, and then monitor the result. For more details, please refer to the following article.
You may be unable to run post-deployment configuration wizard after you install the Windows Server Essentials
Experience role
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2013/12/04/you-may-be-unable-to-run-post-deployment-configuration-wizard-after-you-install-the-windows-server-essentials-experience-role.aspx
If this issue still exists, please navigate to: %windir%LogsCBS folder and check the CBS log file if you
can find any error that depend on the Essentials Experience Role setup time.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

Sharepoint 2013 — Error installing pre-requisite on Windows Server 2012 R2

I have been trying to get my Sharepoint 2013 installed on windows server 2012 R2. I was never able to get past the pre-requisite installer. It keeps failing at «Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role» and was never able to get
past that.
In the last 3 days i tried almost all of the suggestions posted in various forums but was never able to get it work. Any insight in to this error and resolution is greatly appreciated.
Tried all things explained here but didn’t work
KrisS

I voted for the SharePoint 2013 isn’t supported yet link. I spent 4 hours resolving the issue. In my installation, there were many claims by the installer that the application server role is corrupt or unavailable. I dove deep into the installer files and
found 1 file that was not in the correct place. I am not going to mention it, because it is the reason the installer should fail.
Downloading and installing sharepoint 2013 sp1 was the answer. Why? Because Windows Server 2012 R2 was my operating system. Windows Server 2012 R2 was not a supported type of installation for SharePoint 2013 until SharePoint 2013 SP1 was released.
I hope this helps those whom have ben in dire need. Even though Paul was initially correct in his statement, the release of SharePoint 2013 sp1 opens doors.
@Microsoft, as a former PFE I think you could have done better.

Network Connection error when Trying to Install Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials

Thank you to anyone who can help me out here. I have a brand new machine with known working wifi and wired ethernet adapters (works under Windows 8.1) I am attempting to install Windows Server 2012 Essentials R2. During the install process, the system connects
to the internet to download updates to help along the install. No problem here. Further down the road after restarting several times and now during the «Configuring Windows Server Essentials» step of the install, I am told «There is no network
connection. Please fix the connection issue and try again.»
When troubleshooting the connection, I am told that the wifi adapter drivers may not be installed. I have a wireless card in the machine and have also tried disabling the wifi adapter and have been connected successfully via the ethernet port this whole
time.
Help, I’m stuck and have been to this point in the install 4-5 times already.
Thank you.

Is this a laptop?  Can you remove the wifi? Disable it in BIOS?
Does the wifi have an IP and internet when it throws the error?
BTW, when the wizard ask about updates say no.  Takes way too long and does not help anything
Change the binding order and put the wired on top.
The Steps?
Just open your Network and Sharing Center. (Change adapter settings)
Press an ALTkey on your keyboard to show the menu bar.
Click on the Advancedmenu
choose Advanced Settings option
Adjust your binding order for your NICs to ensure your wired ones are at the TOP
http://regularitguy.com/2012/12/06/how-to-change-nic-binding-order-in-windows-8-and-windows-server-2012/
Grey

Create ISO of Windows Server 2012 R2 Physical Server — NOT VM

I have a windows server 2012 R2 installed on a physical server. I have windows patches and other firmware upgrades on it. I would like to create a gold image in the form of ISO, so that i can use this ISO and build my other servers. I have read many many
blogs but none of them have clear steps. I know there are tons of ways to do this for VM, but this is for a physical machine. I have used sysprep, completely messed up my server, i am used there is no warning or anything listed on technet for using this software.
If anyone has able to do this successfully please let me know. Please don’t send me instructions for VM, this is not a VM, it is a physical server. Thanks in advance.

Okay, it’s been a while since I worked with MDT and my memory was bad.  The best thing to do is to download MDT (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40796
for the 2013 version) and its documentation.  One of the documents is a Quick Start Guide.  It gives you step-by-step instructions on how to do what you are asking.  It doesn’t make sense to replicate all that content in a forum when there is
already a published document.
Then, if you have problems with performing the tasks, come back to this forum and ask specific questions about the issues you are encountering.
Note, the documentation assumes working with Windows 8.1, but it also says it supports it for Windows Server. 
. : | : . : | : . tim
Thanks Tim. I started working on it, i do have few questions:
i) Why do i need 3 machines as per the document «Quick Start Guide for Lite Touch Installation.docx»? I am not quite following here, can i just do it on 2 servers, 1 which will capture the image and server 2 will be used to build using captured image.
ii) I was able to get till Step 41. (page 17 from doc ‘Quick Start Guide for Lite Touch Installation.docx’), i do see the ISO created, but it is only 300 MB? My original ISO was 4 gb. I don’t think i can just copy the 300 MB iso and build another machine, i
am lost here, any advice is appreciated.
Thanks

Error code 0X8007007B when activating windows server 2012

error code  0X8007007B when activating windows server 2012

If your key is for KMS activation it will never activate without the KMS server, make it sure that you have KMS server and your server is reachable to the KMS server. Please see this Kb ARTICLE
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929826/en-us
http://www.arabitpro.com

Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2013 — v2.2 install fails on Windows Server 2012 R2

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2013
Version 12.0.21005.1 REL
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.5.51641
The installation completes without any errors on my VM running Windows Server 2012 R2, however its not recognized in VS2013 ? It also breaks the Publish functionality when I try and publish a web site to my hosting provider.

I tried install, uninstall, reinstall cycle several times without success. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
here is my About info:
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Microsoft .NET Framework
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Installed Version: Professional
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Troubleshoot problems with installing updates on Windows Server 2012 Standart Edition

When trying to install last update, receiving next errors:
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 10 for Windows Server 2012 (KB3003057).
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1 and 4.5.2 on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 x64 (KB2978127).
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: Security Update for Windows Server 2012 (KB2982998).
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: Security Update for Windows Server 2012 (KB2993958).
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: Security Update for Windows Server 2012 (KB3002885).
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: Security Update for Windows Server 2012 (KB3010788).
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 for x64-based Systems (KB2978121).
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: Security Update for Windows Server 2012 (KB3006226).
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: Security Update for Windows Server 2012 (KB3005607).
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: Update for Windows Server 2012 (KB2975331).
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: Update for Windows Server 2012 (KB3008627).
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: Security Update for Windows Server 2012 (KB3011780).
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070020: Security Update for Windows Server 2012 (KB3003743).
This problem reproduced on all my web-servers (Windows Server 2012 Std). How can I fix these problems

Hi,
Windows update error 0x80070020 can occur if a program is interfering with the automatic update process.
Restart your computer or restart your computer in safe mode with network, then try to install the updates. Detailed information you may reference the link below(this applies also to Windows Server 2012 ):
You receive error 0x80070020 when you use the Windows Update Web site or the Microsoft Update Web site to install updates
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883825/en-us
If the problem still exits, open Run, type %windir% and hit
Enter, find a text file named WindowsUpdate, uploaded the log file.
Best Regards,           
Eve Wang

Windows Server 2012 GPO setting are not apply on windows Xp clients

Hi
I am create GPO on windows server 2012.  300 clients on domain are working fine, GPO setting apply on all windows 7, 8 clients. But 200 clients of windows XP are not working. GPO setting are not applies on XP. I am trying to Group Policy
Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows XP (KB943729) on one window XP client, all GPO servers 2012 setting is working fine. But is not solution. I have 200 clients of windows XP, Please provide batter solution on one click command and apply all 200
XP clients.
Thanks.

Dear,
I have Windows server 2012 ,  i have install ADDS with Forest functional level 2008 & Domain functional level 2008 .
I have applied GPO to particular OU, when i login to domain user on Windows 7 PC all GPO working fine but when i login on Windows Xp SP3 PC its not applied on XP. 
I am facing issue on windows XP clients it is true. Please see this URL address:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/grouppolicy/archive/2009/03/27/group-policy-preferences-not-applying-on-some-clients-client-side-extension-xmllite.aspx
Please provide batter solution on one click command
Thanks.

Windows Server 2012 Windows Backup failed with following error code ‘0x8078006B’ (Windows Backup failed to create the shared protection point on the source volumes.).

The Volume Shadow Copy service initially was running under the context of System, so we thought that ‘System’ doesn’t have permissions to access network shares. 
When the Volume Shadow Copy service was running under the context of System, this was the error logged:
“failed with following error code ‘0x8078014B’ (There was a failure in creating a directory on the backup storage location.).”
Which is likely due to not having permissions to write to the network location. 
 This is a scheduled backup trying to write to a network location, so we changes the service to run under the context of an account that does have permissions to write to the network share.
  Then the error changed to this:
“failed with following error code ‘0x8078006B’ (Windows Backup failed to create the shared protection point on the source volumes.).”
HRESULT 0x8078006b
DetailedHRESULT 0x8004230f
ErrorMessage %%2155348075
BackupState 12
VolumesInfo <VolumeInfo><VolumeInfoItem Name=»C:» OriginalAccessPath=»C:» State=»15″ HResult=»-2139619228″ DetailedHResult=»0″ PreviousState=»0″ IsCritical=»1″ IsIncremental=»0″
BlockLevel=»0″ HasFiles=»1″ HasSystemState=»0″ IsCompacted=»0″ IsPruned=»0″ IsRecreateVhd=»0″ FullBackupReason=»0″ DataTransferred=»0″ NumUnreadableBytes=»0″ TotalSize=»0″
TotalNoOfFiles=»0″ Flags=»1604″ BackupTypeDetermined=»0″ SSBTotalNoOfFiles=»0″ SSBTotalSizeOnDisk=»0″ /><VolumeInfoItem Name=»D:» OriginalAccessPath=»D:» State=»15″ HResult=»-2139619228″
DetailedHResult=»0″ PreviousState=»0″ IsCritical=»0″ IsIncremental=»0″ BlockLevel=»0″ HasFiles=»1″ HasSystemState=»0″ IsCompacted=»0″ IsPruned=»0″ IsRecreateVhd=»0″
FullBackupReason=»0″ DataTransferred=»0″ NumUnreadableBytes=»0″ TotalSize=»0″ TotalNoOfFiles=»0″ Flags=»68″ BackupTypeDetermined=»0″ SSBTotalNoOfFiles=»0″ SSBTotalSizeOnDisk=»0″
/></VolumeInfo>
We aren’t really seeing anything that gives any hint on what the issue is. 
Any ideas?  Thanks in advance!

We are trying to back up folders/files from 2 local drives (C: & D:), both of which have only 10% space used, and 100 GB free. 
We are attempting to back the files up to a Remote Shared File (and there is 100+ GB free space out there). 
  If we try another network location, we receive the exact same error. 
 This is Windows Server 2012, not running Hyper-V and is a physical server not a VM.
Thank you for the link. 
Looking in: 
Event Viewer / Application and Service Logs / Microsoft / Windows / Backup / Operational
But it doesn’t seem to give any more details: 
Log Name:     
Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Source:       
Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:         
7/8/2013 8:00:12 PM
Event ID:     
5
Task Category: None
Level:        
Error
Keywords:     
User:         
SYSTEM
Computer:     
servername.edu
Description:
The backup operation that started at ‘‎2013‎-‎07‎-‎09T02:00:06.273000000Z’ has failed with following error code ‘0x8078006B’ (Windows Backup failed to create the shared protection point on the source volumes.).
Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns=»http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event»>
  <System>
<Provider Name=»Microsoft-Windows-Backup» Guid=»{1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}» />
<EventID>5</EventID>
<Version>3</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime=»2013-07-09T02:00:12.872602100Z» />
<EventRecordID>30</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID=»3028″ ThreadID=»3996″ />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Backup</Channel>
<Computer>servername.edu</Computer>
<Security UserID=»S-1-5-18″ />
  </System>
  <EventData>
<Data Name=»BackupTemplateID»>{A421E864-A115-4288-8D12-F4878CF8A248}</Data>
<Data Name=»HRESULT»>0x8078006b</Data>
<Data Name=»DetailedHRESULT»>0x8004230f</Data>
<Data Name=»ErrorMessage»>%%2155348075</Data>
<Data Name=»BackupState»>12</Data>
<Data Name=»BackupTime»>2013-07-09T02:00:06.273000000Z</Data>
<Data Name=»BackupTarget»>\servernameBACKUP</Data>
<Data Name=»NumOfVolumes»>2</Data>
<Data Name=»VolumesInfo»>&lt;VolumeInfo&gt;&lt;VolumeInfoItem Name=»C:» OriginalAccessPath=»C:» State=»15″ HResult=»-2139619228″ DetailedHResult=»0″ PreviousState=»0″ IsCritical=»1″ IsIncremental=»0″ BlockLevel=»0″ HasFiles=»1″ HasSystemState=»0″
IsCompacted=»0″ IsPruned=»0″ IsRecreateVhd=»0″ FullBackupReason=»0″ DataTransferred=»0″ NumUnreadableBytes=»0″ TotalSize=»0″ TotalNoOfFiles=»0″ Flags=»1604″ BackupTypeDetermined=»0″ SSBTotalNoOfFiles=»0″ SSBTotalSizeOnDisk=»0″ /&gt;&lt;VolumeInfoItem
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Failover Cluster Manager : Add node wizard Error » This operation returned because the timeout period expired» Windows Server 2012

Hi Everybody,
I have two node cluster and trying to add the third node (which is a Virtual Machine), all nodes are in different subnet and can communication with each other. While adding the third node it gives the error at the end of wizard »  This operation
returned because the timeout period expired «. My domain controller is 2008 Enterprise Server and nodes are all running Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition. Any idea what is causing the issue.
thanks 

Hi,
Before you add a server (node) to a failover cluster, we strongly recommend that you run the Validate a Configuration Wizard for the existing cluster nodes and the new node
or nodes. The Validate a Configuration Wizard helps you confirm the configuration in a variety of important ways. For example, it validates that the server to be added is connected correctly to the networks and storage and that it contains the same software
updates. Please post the error or warning report.
Please try to install the Recommended hotfixes and updates for Windows Server 2012-based failover clusters:
Recommended hotfixes and updates for Windows Server 2012-based failover clusters
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2784261
Hope this helps.
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Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster (Hyper-V) Event Id 1196

Hi All,
I just installed Failover Cluster for Hyper-V on windows server 2012 with 2 nodes. I got following error event id 1196.
reCreated / deleted Cluster Host A record on DNS and nothing happened.
Any suggestion?
There is similar topic but it couldnt help
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverClustering/thread/2ad0afaf-8d86-4f16-b748-49bf9ac447a3/
Regards

Hi,
You may refer to this article to troubleshoot this issue;
Event ID 1196 — Network Name Resource Availability
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd354022(v=WS.10).aspx
Check the following:
Check that on the DNS server, the record for the Network Name resource still exists. If the record was accidentally deleted, or was scavenged by the DNS server, create it again, or arrange to have a network administrator create it.
Ensure that a valid, accessible DNS server has been specified for the indicated network adapter or adapters in the cluster.
Check the system event log for Netlogon or DNS events that occurred near the time of the failover cluster event. Troubleshooting these events might solve the problem that prevented the clustered Network Name resource from registering the DNS name.
For more information please refer to following MS articles:
DNS Registration with the Network Name Resource
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2009/07/17/9836756.aspx
Lawrence
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