Jason Yoder, MCT

Today while doing a demonstration on deploying a server-to-server replica group on Windows Server 2016, I had a new error message pop up. New-SRPartnership : Unable to create replication group RG02, detailed reason: The system cannot find the file specified. What threw me off was the “ The system cannot find the file specified ”.  Well, here is the command that I used: New-SRPartnership `     -SourceComputerName LON-SVR1 `     -SourceRGName RG01 _`     -SourceVolumeName M: `     -SourceLogVolumeName N: `     -DestinationComputerName LON-SVR4 `     -DestinationRGName RG02 `     -DestinationVolumeName M: `     -DestinationLogVolumeName N: `     -Verbose I did not specify any file. I logged into LON-SVR4 and tried to look for the StorgeReplica log.  It was not present.  When I executed Get-WindowsFeature –Name Storage-Replica, it returned a state of InstallPending .  Problem solved. My code was executed from the other member of t