DFSR Health Report Problem - 3 methods of generating reports give 3 different outputs

Question

Hello,
I am trying to implement a monitoring solution for DFSR by having a script generate a health report and send it to me. I have one replication group with 2 members and 2 replicated folders.
The script looks like this:
# Write DFS Health Report
Write-DfsrHealthReport -GroupName "RG1" -ReferenceComputerName "SRV1" -MemberComputerName "SRV1", "SRV2" -Path "D:\Logs" -CountFiles
# Get the 2 newest files -- these were just generated by Write-DFSRHealthReport
$new_report = Get-ChildItem "D:\Logs |
Sort-Object -Property LastWriteTime -Descending |
foreach {$_.fullname} |
Select-Object -First 2
# Send email with attachments
$mail_parms = @{'To' = "me";
'SmtpServer' = "";
'Subject' = "DFSR Health Report for $(Get-Date)";
'From' = "SRV1";
'Attachments' = $new_report
Send-MailMessage @mail_parms
Now here's the fun part:
1) When I run a health report using the GUI, I get a nice, clean report with no errors.
2) When I run my script from a non-elevated ISE, I get the following errors:
- Server 1 shows DFS Replication problems due to temporary attributes
- Server 2 shows as unavailable for reporting because, according to that, I am not an administrator
3) When I run the script form an elevated ISE, both servers show errors about replication problems related to temporary attributes.
I can tell you that:
- The account I am using has administrator rights on both servers
- I have checked that the account has proper permissions in WMI
- When I check for the temporary attribute using Get-Childitem cmdlet (from an elevated PS) nothing shows up.
- I have restarted dfsr service on both servers, no change
So my questions:
1) Why am I getting the WMI error of not being an administrator when I AM an administrator? And why am I getting them only when generating a report using the script and not when I am generating it using the GUI?
2) Why am I getting errors about temporary attributes when I have removed them?
Kind regards,
Wojciech

Answer 1

Hello,
A small update on this. I figured out that I can also generate an health report containing errors regarding temporary attributes using the GUI. Those errors appear when I choose the option to count the files in the replicated folder. If I leave the option
unchecked, the report comes back clean.
So one problems is pretty much solved. The question is why do I get those errors?
This is exactly what's shown:
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One or more replicated folders have content skipped by DFS
Replication.
Affected replicated folders:
Homedir
Description:
DFS Replication does not replicate certain files in the replicated folders
listed above because they have temporary attribute set, or they are symbolic
links . This problem is affecting at least 100 files in 1 replicated folders (up
to 100 occurences per replicated folder are reported). Event ID: 11004
Last occurred:
9 marca 2015 at 12:32:14 (GMT1:00)
Suggested action:
Verify that the files you want to replicate are not temporary and not
symbolic links.
<v:vmlframe class="pm1" src="#Minus"></v:vmlframe>Homedir Replicated folder
File path:
D:\Homedir
Files that cannot be
replicated under the replicated folder (100):
Relative path and
file name
\4B66DB44.wmf
\4AA5E9D0.wmf
\49499C1F.wmf
=======
The list contains 100 files, with about 90% of .wmf files, some .emf files and I think one .dat file. What is quite irritating, is that I cannot find any of the files listed in the replicated folder. Let's try to find any .emf files:
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-ChildItem -Recurse -path d:\homedir | Where-Object {$_.Extension -eq ".emf"}
PS C:\Windows\system32>
Nothing...
I have tried 2 methods of checking for temporary attributes, none of them produced any results:
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-childitem D:\Homedir -recurse | ForEach-Object -process {if(($_.attributes -band 0x100) -eq
0x100) {write-output $_}}
PS C:\Windows\system32>PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-ChildItem -Recurse -File -Attributes Temporary -path D:\Homedir
PS C:\Windows\system32>
I'm quite puzzled here, I don't know what else I can try.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Wojciech