Software Protection service at Windows Server 2012

Hello
I've faced the issue with Software Protection service. The service is not able to start from Task Scheduler. When I try to run it manually it fails to start to. I found the theoretical solution at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3033200 but it doesn't
work for me. I was mange to start the Software Protection service when I add a user NETWORK SERVICE with Full Control to the C:\Windows\System32 and I allow inheritence of subfolders and files. It would be the great news but our AD policy deletes the NETWORK
SERVICE and the issue occurs again causes for eg. issue with Windows Activation or installation of the Desktop Expirience feature. Is there any other soultion to fix it without adding the NETWORK SERVICE to the system32 directory?

Hi,
Thanks for your post.
What is the error when you try to start the service, access denied?
You could use ICACLS to reset permissions.
Similar thread has been discussed:
Service not start Access Denied, Software Protection, Event Logs,
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/6119d4c0-c3c0-40bf-9c3e-46b46915e738/service-not-start-access-denied-software-protection-event-logs?forum=winservergen
Regards.
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Computer: myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the WSearch service.
I attempted to stop the indexing service, but it didn't stop. I noticed though that the indexing GUI started responding as soon as the
the service stop command failed. The indexing service seems to have picked up where it was (~300K items) and continued indexing.
Logs sequence:
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:01 PM
Event ID: 102
Task Category: General
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine (6.03.9600.0000) is starting a new instance (0).
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:01 PM
Event ID: 300
Task Category: Logging/Recovery
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine is initiating recovery steps.
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:01 PM
Event ID: 301
Task Category: Logging/Recovery
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine has begun replaying logfile X:\IndexingService\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\edb0053D.log.
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:01 PM
Event ID: 301
Task Category: Logging/Recovery
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine has begun replaying logfile X:\IndexingService\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\edb0053E.log.
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:02 PM
Event ID: 301
Task Category: Logging/Recovery
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine has begun replaying logfile X:\IndexingService\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\edb.log.
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:02 PM
Event ID: 302
Task Category: Logging/Recovery
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine has successfully completed recovery steps.
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:02 PM
Event ID: 105
Task Category: General
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine started a new instance (0). (Time=1 seconds)
Internal Timing Sequence: [1] 0.000, [2] 0.000, [3] 0.000, [4] 0.032, [5] 1.046, [6] 0.094, [7] 0.000, [8] 0.000, [9] 0.000, [10] 0.000.
====
Log Name: Application
Source: ESENT
Date: 1/23/2015 3:57:02 PM
Event ID: 326
Task Category: General
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
SearchIndexer (18232) Windows: The database engine attached a database (1, X:\IndexingService\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb).
(Time=0 seconds)
Internal Timing Sequence: [1] 0.000, [2] 0.000, [3] 0.016, [4] 0.000, [5] 0.000, [6] 0.000, [7] 0.000, [8] 0.000, [9] 0.000, [10] 0.000, [11]
0.000, [12] 0.000.
Saved Cache: 1 0

Hi,
Thanks for your post.
To resolve this problem, use the Registry Editor to change the default timeout value for all services.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13765.event-id-7011-service-timeout.aspx
Please note before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data.
Regards.
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Windows Server 2012 Standard - Remote Desktop Management service won't start

Dear colleges, I'm seeking your help in resolving a weird issue with Remote Desktop.
The Remote Desktop Management service gives the following error message any time it is attempted to start:
"The Remote Management Service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs."
The Event Viewer error message is as follows:
"The Remote Desktop Management service failed to start. Error code: 0x88250001"
Whenever I connect to the server with RD I get error message that the Remote Desktop Licensing Server isn't configured and that the RD trill will expire in N-days. The server is up to date updates wise and has been licensed for 5 RD CALs. The server hosts DNS
server and has AD DS role installed, is virtualized to have one Hyper-V server.
I read some blogs about having both DNS and AD DS on one box is a bad sea and a root cause of the issue. Well, that very well may be, but for me that's an option as I'm not going to get a box to just host DNS. There should a solution to this as I shouldn't
only one suffering from this issue.
I also read about KB2871777 - Servicing stack update supposedly addressign this issue. Well, it's on my system and the issue is there too. :)
Will I loose ability to RD when the trial expires or it's just another misleading MS message that can be ignored?
How do I mend Remote Desktop Management service to start?
Appreciate your help!

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server forum.
Can administrators perfectly connect to RDS environment?
In meantime please check that you have properly configured and activated RD License role service and install RDS CAL on it. It might also possible that you have configured RD License server but it server can’t find it and giving you error due to certificate
also. Please check that you have properly configured certificate on your RDS Server. Try to install and update below hotfix for License related issue.
No RDS license when you connect to an RDS farm in Windows Server 2012
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2916846
If you have configured both RDS and AD DS on single server then also you may find some error reading this. If so please try to setup both roles on different server and check the result. In addition to this, please check below articles.
What's New in Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/hh831527.aspx
Install Remote Desktop Services Failed on Windows 2012 Server
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/bbf47aa2-8ae5-4f22-9827-afee5a11417a/install-remote-desktop-services-failed-on-windows-2012-server?forum=winserverTS
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

V3 Printer driver on Windows Server 2012

Hello there.....
I have installed Print services on Windows Server 2012. I have read several forum and found that it is a best practice to install V3 drivers if workstations run on Windows 7.
Our all of workstations have windows 7 so I want to install v3 printer drivers. we have printers of HP and Canon mostly.
So can anyone tell me how can I get V3 drivers of HP Laserjet P4015 for example...
I have installed a driver but found its v4.
Please tell me how can I install V3 driver for HP, Canon printers.....
Thanks
Kind Regards
Namvi

You would need to use the V3 drivers that the vendors provide to Windows Update
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Home.aspx
or from the vendors website
Alan Morris Windows Printing Team

VirtualDisk on Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Pool stuck in "Warning: In Service" state and all file transfers to and from is awfully slow

Greetings,
I'm having some trouble with my Windows Storage Pool and my VirtualDisk running on a Windows Server 2012 R2 installation. It consists of 8x Western Digital RE-4 2TB drives + 2x Western Digital Black Edition 2TB drives and have been configured in a single-disk
parity setup and the virtual disk is running fixed provisioning (max size) and is formatted with ReFS.
It's been running solid for months besides some awful write-speeds at times, it seems like the write performance running ReFS compared to NTFS is not that good.
I was recommended to add SSD's for journalling in order to boost write-performance. Sadly I seemed to screw up this part, you need to due this through PowerShell and it needs to be done before creating the virtualdisk. I managed to add my SSD to the Storage
Pool and then remove it.
This seem to have caused some awkward issues, I'm not quite sure of why as the virtualdisk is "fixed" so adding the SSD to the Storage Pool shouldn't really do anything, right? But after I did this my virtual disk have been stuck in "Warning:
In Service" and it seems to be stuck? It's been 4-5 days and it's still the same and the performance is currently horrible. Moving 40GB of data off the virtual disk took me about 20 hours or so. Launching files under 1mb of the virtual disk takes several
minutes etc.. It's pretty much useless.
The GUI is not providing any useful information about what's going on. What does "Warning: In Service" actually imply? How am I supposed to know how long this is supposed to take? Running Get-Virtualdisk in PowerShell does not provide any useful
information either. I did try to do a repair through the Server Manager GUI but it goes to about 21% within 2-3 hours but drops back down to 10%. I have had the repair running for days but it wont go past 21% without dropping back down again.
Running repair through PowerShell yields the same results, but if I detach the virtual disk and then try to repair through PowerShell (the GUI wont let me do repair on detached virtual disks) it will just run for a split second and then close.
After doing some "Googeling" I've seen people mentioning that the repair is not able to finish unless I have at least the same amount of free space in the Storage Pool as the largest drive in my Storage Pool is housing so I added a 4TB drive as
due to me running fixed provisioning I had used all the space in the pool but the repair is still not able to go past 21%.
As am running "fixed provisioning" I guess adding a extra drive to the pool doesn't do much difference as it's not available for the virtual disk? So I went ahead and deleted 3 TB of data on the virtual disk so now I've got about 4 TB free space
on the virtual disk so there should be plenty of room for Windows Server 2012 R2 to re-build the parity or whatever it's trying to do but it's still the same, the repair wont move past 21% and the virtual disk is still stuck in "Warning: In Service"
mode and the performance keeps being horrible so taking a backup will take forever at these speeds...
Am I missing something here? All the drives in the pool is working fine. I have verified using various bootable tools so why is this happening and what can I do to get the virtual disk running at full state again? Why doesn't the GUI prompt you with any
kind of usable information?
Best regards, Thomas Andre

Hi,
Please run chkdsk /f /r command on the virtual disk to have a try. In the meantime, run the following commands in PowerShell to share the output.
get-virtualdisk -friendlyname <name> | get-physicaldisk | fl
get-virtualdisk -friendlyname <name> |fl
Best Regards,
Mandy
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