AD FS Windows 2012 R2: adfssrv hangs in starting mode

Does anyone has the same issue. Installed and configured ADFS with service account. After a server reboot service cannot start anymore and it always stay in "starting" state.
Unfortunately nothing in a log and no Windows Updates for 2012 R2 yet... many holes like Swiss cheese.
Thanks!

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I have HP pavilion p6-2462eo with preinstalled windows 8 and I’m trying to install windows 7 from a disc.
I get stuck on the "Starting windows" screen.
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Word is not responding after pressing save or save as and after a few seconds we see the 'microsoft is looking for a solution and will restart microsoft word'.
We did a complete reinstall of Office 2013 and removed the old installation with the removal tool from the microsoft website, without luck. We have the same saving issues with Office 2010, so it's not an Office 2013 issue.
We were looking in the access/rights on the terminal server, because we thought that it was an access/rights issue. But unfortunately we have the same problem with an domain admin user.
I tried to disable DEP and my AVG 2012 antivirus, but this steps are also not the issue.
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Hi,
In regarding of the issue, it may be caused a lot of reasons. Please check to see whether the following link is helpful:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/313937/en-gb
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921541/en-gb?p=1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271513
Then Office hang when saving the file also may be caused by a printer installation.
Check to see the following link:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/archive/2012/04/12/excel-hangs-or-becomes-unresponsive-when-saving-or-closing-a-workbook.aspx
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2012 R2 server hangs on reboot from Windows Updates

I have multiple Windows 2012 R2 servers which hang on restart after applying Wundows Updates. There are no enries in the logs to explain this.
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Some servers are disconnected from the network, but not all (responds to ping, no alerts in SCOM 2012R2).

Hi,
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if it helps.
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Windows XP PCs installed SCEP 2012 R2 Client hanging

All of a sudden since today morning we are keep getting calls for Windows XP PCs are hanging with issues related SCEP 2012 client. I am not sure if any recent definition update is causing ,this problem.
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Upgrade of Integation Services (Windows 2012 R2) on Windows 2008 R2 with Exchange 2013 SP1 DAG fails

Here is the scenario:
Legacy Host: Windows 2008 R2
Guest VM: Windows 2008 R2 with Exchange 2013 SP1 DAG cluster.
After importing the VM (2008 R2 and Exchange 2013 DAG) into a 2012 R2 host (Cluster). (copy VM files to new 2012 R2host) Everything works fine.
Then upgrading "Installation Services" (for Windows 2012 R2 host) on the imported VM runs fine with no errors to the "Restart" prompt. VM than shows: "Configuring Windows updates 32% complete. Do not turn
of your computer." Hangs there for about 20 minutes until is says "shutting down". Hangs there for 20 minutes until power off. Restart to normal start; "Preparing to configure Windows. Do not turnoff your computer." proceeds slowly
to "Configuring Windows updates 32% complete. Do not turn of your computer." hangs there again indefinite. Sometime hangs at shutdown cycle and "Configuring Windows updates 32% complete. Do not turn of your computer." indefinitely.
I moved 20 other machines from a 2008 R2 host to new Windows 2012 R2 hosts all of these machines install the 2012 R2 Integration services just fine on the 2008 R2 VM. Just the 2008 R2 VMs clustered (DAG) and Exchange 2013 SP1 do not take the Integration
Services upgrade.
Any advise from Microsoft? I know I could decommission the DAG and Exchange machines and install Integration services on the native box before Exchange and DAG and that would sure work, but I'd rather avoid that amount of work for a simple integration layer
upgrade.
Thanks
Gerhard Waterkamp ACSLA Inc.

Hi,
Could you try use the following method to fix this issue first?
1. Run the System Update Readiness Tool, then check if there is any error in the Checksur.log and checksur.persist.log.
1. Please run the System Update Readiness Tool on this affected server. Please download this tool from the following Microsoft article:
Description of the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista, for Windows Server 2008, and for Windows 7
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821/en-us
2. The System Update Readiness Tool creates the log files that captures any issues that the tool found or fixed. The log files are located at the following location:
%SYSTEMROOT%\Logs\CBS\
3. Please paste the checksur.log here for analysis.
If there is no error found, please try the following step.
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2. Use Fix it tool to reset the Windows Update components.
1. Open the following link.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058/en-nz
2. Select Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7 in the product selection box.
3. Click “Run Now” to reset the Windows Update components.
Note: We can reset the Windows Updates manually by following the steps in the KB above.
3. Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files
1. Open the command promote with Administrators.
2. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
sfc /scannow
Any errors are found in the steps above, please let me know.
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Install Remote Desktop Services Failed on Windows 2012 Server

I understand RDS is not recommended on DC due to security consideration. However since I want to play it at home, it is not much a concern. Such scenario works fine on Windows 2008 R2. But on Windows 2012, the RDS (session-based, have not
tried VDI, but expect same result) installation always fails and is incomplete on DC.
In \Administrative Tools\Terminal Services, I only have RD Licensing Diagnoser and RD licensing manager. The remote desktop service management service cannot be started (Error code: 0x88250001). Is there any extra configuration needed for RDS
working on Server 2012 DC or before the installation? Thanks.
Update: this issue has been solved in Windows 2012 R2 Server. According to
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2013/07/09/what-s-new-in-remote-desktop-services-for-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx
"Single server RDS deployment including Active Directory. We now support running our RD Connection Broker role service on the same physical instance as an Active Directory Domain Controller. In addition, we published
guidelines for how RD Session Host could be used without the RD Connection Broker."
The guidelines (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2833839/en-us) primarily apply to Windows 2012 Server.

Asinine. Simply Asinine. Microsoft took it out because of $GREED$.
RemoteDesktop has become so popular, they had to break it to make more money. Thats why they discontinued SmallBusinessServer.   If this practice is so tabooo... Why did MS go the opposite direction with SBS 2011 Premium Cal's? SBS2011
had DC, Exchange, RDS and Sharepoint,SQL, RemoteWebWorkplace, OWA all working in perfect harmony. It is an untrue statement then, that it was "allowed but not recommended"
Now you by Server2012 (core + two virtual) and its not enough for all this.
You need at least another $700 for another sever licence to have it all
and who knows if SQL will run on a DC, or Exchange, or R-DERP server. Another reacherous bridge to cross.
By far, the absloute worse release since Millennium. The product is not ready for production, we broke our rule of waiting until the first SP1 upgrade for this and Exchange 2013. Problems with USB drivers and networking running extreamly slow.
Our 2003 SBS server was at least three times as fast, and this server has SAS and SSD drives running. It can't get out of its own way, and IE10 is the most unstable piece of crap to come out of Redmond. Open wide and swallow - Mother Microsoft
knows whats best for you. YOU WILL EAT OUR SLOP AND LEARN TO LIKE IT.   Server2012 AKA "METRO-SERVER"
Now here I sit after 50 Hours back to back setting up a new R-DERP server 2012, AD, Have my RDP licences in my hand at $100 each, and WTH does Microsoft care if I install it on my DC. ITS MY DC. And the cost savings versus the "risk" was
previously MY decision.
Sure, I can install a couple of Virtual HyperV sessions but they are so tempremental to a power-outage in a small business its not worth it. I have to double up my server hard drive resources, buy a $800 battery backup unit and make sure to attach
the cable, and even then, if that Bi**H does not shut down properly, one bit goes awry in a VHD or VHDX file and you are screwed. Restore from lastnights backup and forget about todays work. Not to mention it will probably take a half day to try
to fix it, then recover it then tell the 30 users they lost a days worth of work.
HYPER-V is for test servers and has no place in a small (micro) business environment. 5-30 users.
Microsoft's solution, buy another server. Need Exchange? Buy another server or take the risky cheapskate route and spin up some VHD's. Might as well put a gun to your head and play russian roulette, at least you know you have a one in six
chance of failure. With MS, its a 100% failure for a dirty shutdown power loss, motherboard blows, memory goes corrupt in a few years, your conventional method of recovery is gone, and you have some upchucked VHD file to try to recover some of TODAYS
data from.
Screw server 2012 forever.
I will sell 2008 and SBS2011 Premium unitl it rots in hell like XP (of which there is NOTHING wrong with for the average, WORD, EXCEL, OUTLOOK and QUICKBOOKS that all SMB's use. Its MS $GREED$ Grab the world by the B**ls and squeeze with all
your might to squeeze every dime you can out of *SMB* because big business is going to run thier 2003 Exchange and 2008 servers into ground before they switch to this garbage.
YOU CANNOT INSTALL EXCHANGE 2013 on DC , OR on R-DERP server.
Go buy another server license and server or MOVE TO THE CLOUD and get fleeced every month.
I have 30 DC/R-DERP/Exchange and SBS2011 Premium servers all running for years in perfect harmony, locked down with security so the users can't even WIGGLE with something they are not supposed to work with. They get their apps, cannot install anything
and all these servers are running just fine behind the firewall and perfectly save. The track record of this combination is 100% stable and is up 24/7/365 with no problems. Do yourself a favor and throw this 2012 into the river, you don't need
any weights because it is LEAD and will sink to the bottom by itself.
Why, you ask? Official is "Its for your protection" The real reason? To sell you more $700 server licences.
Maybe for SMB, we start selling Linux NAS Servers, host the Exchange in the cloud and be hearded like cattle to the Microsoft slaughterhouse. One way or another, you are going to bleed.    A little each month to move to the cloud, or
a small fortune if you want to have it in house. Microsoft wants it to be more expensive to have in house. No more buying a server and running it for six years before you upgrade. They can't have in house servers competing with their cloud,
and small businesses are the low hanging fruit ripe for the pickin'.

Teaming options with Windows 2012 R2 Host for HV Guests

Hi
We are configuring Windows 2012 R2 standard host servers for Win 2008 / Win 2012 Guest servers. We have 3 NICs and using one for host management and other two in windows teaming. We read many blogs and supported configurations, but still not clear about
the options with teaming. Usually with teaming we select the default options such as Switch Independent Teaming mode, Dynamic Load Balancing mode with no standby adapter. Recently with this teaming configuration we faced issues with host servers on multiple
Windows 2012 R2 standard host servers (the guest hang multiple times) and when we removed one of the NICs from team it started working fine. With the switches we didn't find any issues nor with NICs. Is it because of the default team options? Should we go
with Hyper V port Load balancing mode?
Expect support from you guys. Thanks in advance
LMS

Laljeev Madanamma
TCP Chimney is not supported with NIC teaming in Windows Server 2012 R2 since TCP Chimney has the entire networking stack offloaded to the NIC, please check you have disable
it.
More information:
NIC Teaming Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831648.aspx
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Windows 7 Professional PC hangs at "Loading files" when trying to boot with custom capture image on Windows Deployment Services.

I have created a custom capture image in WDS. Now when I try to boot my reference PC into this image the PC hangs at "Loading files". The reference PC is running Windows 7 and I am using Windows Server 2012 Standard on my server.
I have followed the instructions on how to create the custom capture image on the server to a fault. I PXE boot the PC and it shows the capture images after I hit F12. The problem is that it starts to boot and then hangs about 2/3 way through the progress
bar.
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Derrick Logan,
We need know the detail phases your client hang, if it is irregular status, please collect the WDS log then post it. You can refer the following similar thread solution first.
How to enable logging in Windows Deployment Services (WDS) in Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and in Windows Server 2012
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936625/en-us
Windows is loading files... Hangs on WDS
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/baacadc4-830d-43e1-ace8-3292e886958e/windows-is-loading-files-hangs-on-wds?forum=winserversetup
WDS hangs at "Windows is loading files..." on a LAM jhl91 laptop
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Windows 2012 Server Windows Update

Hi all,
I have Windows 2012 Servers that take a long time to do windows update.
All servers are not connected to the internet and I have a WSUS servers where are the 2012 servers are connected to.
Whenever I click on Windows update. The server will sort of HANGED. Open up the windows update log and found it's trying to get the update from the internet world.
2014-07-26 11:42:53:679
932 7e8
Misc WARNING: Send failed with hr = 80072ee2.
2014-07-26 11:42:53:679
932 7e8
Misc WARNING: Proxy List used: <(null)> Bypass List used : <(null)> Auth Schemes used : <None>
2014-07-26 11:42:53:679
932 7e8
Misc WARNING: Send request failed, hr:0x80072ee2
2014-07-26 11:42:53:679
932 7e8
Misc WARNING: WinHttp: SendRequestUsingProxy failed for <http://ds.download.windowsupdate.com/v11/2/windowsupdate/redir/v6-wuredir.cab>. error 0x80072ee2
2014-07-26 11:42:53:679
932 7e8
Misc WARNING: WinHttp: SendRequestToServerForFileInformation MakeRequest failed. error 0x80072ee2
2014-07-26 11:42:53:679
932 7e8
Misc WARNING: WinHttp: SendRequestToServerForFileInformation failed with 0x80072ee2
2014-07-26 11:42:53:679
932 7e8
Misc WARNING: WinHttp: ShouldFileBeDownloaded failed with 0x80072ee2
I leave the W2012 Server for a while and about 15-20 mins. It will find my WSUS and get the updates accordingly..
I am using the same policy WSUS setting on the rest of my servers and do not encounter such issue.
Anyone know what is wrong or how can I stop the server from trying to get the update from the internet?
Thanks!

2014-07-26 11:42:53:679 932 7e8 Misc WARNING: WinHttp: SendRequestUsingProxy failed for <http://ds.download.windowsupdate.com/v11/2/windowsupdate/redir/v6-wuredir.cab>. error 0x80072ee2
I don't see anything in this log snippet where this client attempted to talk to a WSUS server.
I do see where its' trying to use Microsoft Update to selfupdate, and encountering a TIMEOUT -- as it should if it doesn't have a valid Internet connection.
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Integration Service Upgrade of 2012R2 breaks Windows 2012 VM

Hi,
we have setup a new server with Windows 2012 R2 and migrated our VM's over to it.
OS within the VM's are Windows 2008 Server, Windows 7 and Windows 2012.
Everything works fine. Integration Service Update was needed and I could install it on all VM's, except one, that also runs Exchange 2013 on a Windows 2012.
Once I install the Update of the Integration Service, the VM acts weird. It takes about 30 minutes until I could log in. (Probably network problem after the udpate). Once logged in, if I switch to desktop view, the task bar doesn't show items other than
the clock, clicking it results in the question, if I want to end a hanging process no matter if I say yes/no no luck. Server Manager opens (very slow), but it doesn't load data (wanted to check nic).
CMD with ipconfig doesn't show a network adapter, just the tunneling-peudo-interface.
Load of the server doesn't show high CPU or Memory consumption, nor high disk i/o. Using Alt/TAB it shows a window called "Immersive Background" (tried to translate to english).
Starting the network manager via
control.exe /name Microsoft.NetworkAndSharingCenter
doesn't open it either. But I can open like Resourcemonitor, Powershell and quite some other programs.
So something is failing here after the update.
Does Exchange and the new Integration Service break each other?
I rolled back VM to an older snapshot and tried the same thing again, same result. On our Replication host, I did a Testfailover, with no network connectivity, everything fine, again, until new Integration service are installed/updated, the host seems broken.
So I have no clue what's happening here or where to start to search. The main problem is, that backups have to be done offline and not online until new integration services are up and running.
Any guess what to try or what breaks the new integration services? Or is it really in conjunction with Exchange?
We didn't upgrade the VM to 2012R2, just the root node.
Thanks
Patrick

Patrick N. _Futureweb OG,
Please use the following PowerShell to confirm your guest vm integration service has updated successfully, if not try to reinstall the IC.
Get-VM | ft Name, IntegrationServicesVersion
2. Please confirm your exchange vm the following service is running.
3. Please confirm your SYSTEM account have write permission on the following registry,
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Svchost
If not
please add full permission on it.
4. In exchange vm the
System Device manager must have a “Microsoft
Hyper-V virtual machine Bus” device.
More related information:
Assign permissions to a registry key
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc728310(v=ws.10).aspx
Updating Hyper-V Integration Components (IC)
http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2013/06/17/updating-hyper-v-integration-components-ic.aspx
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Windows 2012 Nodes - Slow CSV Performance - Need help to resolve my iSCSI issue configuration

I spent weeks going over the forums and the net for any publications and advice on how to optimize iSCSI connections and i'm about to give up. I really need some help in determining if its something i'm not configuring right or maybe its an equipment
issue.
Hardware:
2x Windows 2012 Hosts with 10 Nics (same NIC configuration) in a Failover Cluster sharing a CSV LUN.
3x NICs Teamed for Host/Live Migration (192.168.0.x)
2x NICS teamed for Hyper-V Switch 1 (192.168.0.x)
1x NIC teamed for Hyper-V Switch 2 (192.168.10.x)
4x NICs for iSCSI traffic (192.168.0.x, 192.168.10.x, 192.168.20.x 192.168.30.x)
Jumbo frames and flow control turned on all the NICs on the host. IpV6 disabled. Client for Microsoft Network, File/Printing Sharing Disabled on iSCSI NICs.
MPIO Least Queue selected. Round Robin gives me an error message saying "The parameter is incorrect. The round robin policy attempts to evenly distribute incoming requests to all processing paths. "
Netgear ReadyNas 3200
4x NICs for iSCSI traffic ((192.168.0.x, 192.168.10.x, 192.168.20.x 192.168.30.x)
Network Hardware:
Cisco 2960S managed switch - Flow control on, Spanning Tree on, Jumbo Frames at 9k - this is for the .0 subnet
Netgear unmanaged switch - Flow control on, Jumbo Frames at 9k - this is for .10 subnet
Netgear unmanaged switch - Flow control on, Jumbo Frames at 9k - this is for .20 subnet
Netgear unmanaged switch - Flow control on, Jumbo Frames at 9k - this is for .30 subnet
Host Configuration (things I tried turning on and off):
Autotuning
RSS
Chimney Offload
I have 8 VMs stored in the CSV. When try to load all 8 up at the same time, they bog down.  Each VM loads very slowly and when they eventually come up, most of the important services did not start. I have to load
them up 1 or 2 at a time. Even then the performance is nothing like if they were loading up on the Host itself (VHD stored on the host's hdd). This is what prompted me to add in more iSCSI connections to see if I can improve the VM's
performance.  Even with 4 iSCSI connections, I feel nothing has changed. The VMs still start up slowly and services do not load right. If I distribute the load with 4 VMs on Host 1 and 4 VMs on Host 2, the load up
times do not change.
As a manual test for file copy speed, I moved the cluster resources to Host 1 and copied a VM from the CSV and onto the Host.   The speed would start out around 250megs/sec and then eventually drop down to about 50/60 megs/sec. If I turn
off all iSCSI connections except one, it get the same speed. I can verify from the Windows Performance Tab under Task Manager that all the NICS are distributing traffic evenly, but something is just limiting the flow. Like what I stated on top,
I played around with autotuning, RSS and chimney offload and none of it makes a difference.
The VMs have been converted to VHDx and to fixed size. That did not help.
Is there something I'm not doing right? I am working with Netgear support and they are puzzled as well. The ReadyNas device should easily be able to handle it.
Please help! I pulled my hair out over this for the past two months and I'm about to give up and just ditch clustering all together and just run the VMs off the hosts themselves.
George

A few things...
For starters, I recommend opening a case with Microsoft support. They will be able to dig in and help you...
Turn on the CSV Cache, it will boost your performance
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/03/22/10286676.aspx
A file copy has no resemblance of the unbuffered I/O a VM does... so don't use that as a comparison, as you are comparing apples to oranges.
Do you see any I/O performance difference between the coordinator node and the non-coordinator nodes? Basically, see which node owns the cluster Physical Disk resource... measure the performance. Then move the Physical Disk resource for the
CSV volume to another node, and repeat the same measure of performance... then compare them.
Your IP addressing seems odd... you show multiple networks on 192.168.0.x and also on 192.168.10.x.   Remember that clustering only recognizes and uses 1 logical interface per IP subnet. I would triple check all your IP schemes...
to ensure they are all different logical networks.
Check you binding order
Make sure you NIC drivers and NIC firmware are updated
Make sure you don't have IPsec enabled, that will significantly impact your network performance
For the iSCSI Software Initiator, when you did your connection... make sure you didn't do a 'Quick Connect'... that will do a wildcard and connect over any network. You want to specify your dedicated iSCSI network
No idea what the performance capabilities of the ReadyNas is... this could all likely be associated with the shared storage.
What speed NIC's are you using?   I hope at least 10 GB...
Hope that helps...
Elden
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2. CSV is turned on, I have 4GB dedicated from each host to it. With IOmeter running within the VMs, I do see the read speed jumped up 4-5x fold but the write speed stays the same (which according to the doc it should). But even with the read
speed that high, the VMs are not starting up quickly.
4. I do not see any difference with IO with coordinator and non coordinator nodes.
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Host 1 - 192.168.0.241 (Host/LM IP), Undefined IP on the 192.168.0.x network (Hyper-V Port 1), Undefined IP on the 192.168.10.x network (Hyper- V port 2), 192.168.0.220 (iSCSI 1), 192.168.10.10 (iSCSI2), 192.168.20.10(iSCSI 3), 192.168.30.10 (iSCSI 4)
The Hyper-V ports are undefined because the VMs themselves have static ips.
0.220 host NIC connects with the .231 NIC of the NAS
10.10 host NIC connects with the 10.100 NIC of the NAS
20.10 host NIC connects with the 20.100 NIC of the NAS
30.10 host NIC connects with the 30.100 NIC of the NAS
Host 2 - 192.168.0.245 (Host/LM IP), Undefined IP on the 192.168.0.x network (Hyper-V Port 1), Undefined IP on the 192.168.10.x network (Hyper- V port 2), 192.168.0.221 (iSCSI 1), 192.168.10.20 (iSCSI2), 192.168.20.20(iSCSI 3), 192.168.30.20 (iSCSI 4)
The Hyper-V ports are undefined because the VMs themselves have static ips.
0.221 host NIC connects with the .231 NIC of the NAS
10.20 host NIC connects with the 10.100 NIC of the NAS
20.20 host NIC connects with the 20.100 NIC of the NAS
30.20 host NIC connects with the 30.100 NIC of the NAS
6. Binding orders are all correct.
7. Nic drivers are all updated. Didn't check the firmware.
8. I do not know about IPSec...let me look into it.
9. I did not do quick connect, each iscsi connection is defined using a specific source ip and specific target ip.
These are all 1gigabit nics, which is the reason why I have so many NICs...otherwise there would be no reason for me to have 4 iscsi connections.

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