Hi all,
I believe my question is similar to this one: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/735b1cd7-bd92-4ef6-82a1-e4b900f03d36/migrated-sysvol-to-dfsr-successfullydo-i-need-to-stop-and-disable-ntfrs
The short and skinny of it is that a few months ago, I finished migrating my domain controllers away from using FRS in favor of DFSR. The FRS service is still enabled and, they try to locate and share the .\windows\sysvol folder. This generates NtFrs event ID's 13539, 13552 and 13555 on DC's that were around during the migration. As far as I can tell, this doesn't actually hurt anything as DFSR works well.
I have tried to remove the relevant registry entries for the FRS replica sets, but they come back after restarting the FRS service and I get a fresh set of errors in my NtFrs logs.
According to this, http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2008/03/19/sysvol-migration-series-part-5-migrating-to-the-eliminated-state.aspx, the following excerpt describes what should happen regarding the now defunct FRS service.
- If the FRS service is running on the domain controller, it is then stopped. It deletes the Active Directory configuration settings required for the FRS service to replicate the SYSVOL share between domain controllers. Thus, all global settings of the FRS service that pertain to the SYSVOL content set are deleted.
- The ‘SYSVOL’ folder which was being replicated by the FRS service is now deleted. Note that if you have Windows Explorer or the command shell open on the domain controller and if the current directory corresponds to the ‘SYSVOL’ folder location, the DFS Replication service will be unable to delete this folder owing to sharing violations.
The old sysvol folders are definitely gone. But, the service is still running and still have replica sets in the registry. DfsrMig reports the Global state as Eliminated and is consistent.
The bottom line of my question is whether or not I can safely disable the FRS service, assuming that there are no other replica sets for FRS. If anyone would like to expound on that with more information about the replica sets returning (on DC's that were around during the migration) or why the FRS service wasn't stopped by the DFS replication service, et cetera, feel free. I would be interested. But the primary concern is with disabling the FRS service.
Thank you very much in advance.
-Trevor