I ran across an interesting issue I wanted to share. I had a customer that recently had a migration performed. Previously he was running SBS (Small Business Server) 2011 and is now running Windows Server Essentials 2016. After demoting and removing the SBS 2011 server, he started receiving the following error on every boot.
The error is quickly followed by an informational message indicating that DFSR (Domain File System Replication) successfully connected to a domain controller.
Based on my previous experience with similar issues I posited that the problem was due to the DFSR service starting before either the network stack was fully initialized or before the DNS (Domain Name System) service was running.
I explained that based on the behavior this could safely be ignored. This did not go over very well as the error also shows up in the Windows Essentials health report. This brings us to the solution. And this solution will work for just about any service that needs a little more time at boot. We set the startup type for the DFSR service to Automatic (Delayed Start). We restarted the server and this eliminated the 1202 error.
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