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change quorum file share witness path

Hi,

We have Windows 2012 R2 cluster with 2 nodes and quorum
file share witness. Due to storage change, we need to change
file share witness location. I use configure cluster Quorum
settings and change the file share witness share to the new path.
But, from failover cluster manager, the Quorum still have old path
shown up and in core cluster resources, there are two file share witness
shown up, the one with new path is up and the one with old one is down.

Should I remove the one with old path(down) and then the new one will show up in Witness110432-file-share.png? (see the image)

Please advise ASAP.
Need your help. Thank you!


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Hi,

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Joan

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Hi,

We haven't heard from you for a few days and I would like to check if you have made some pregress on solving your issue and if the reply could be of help? If yes, please help accept answer to any useful replies in this blog, so that others meet a similar issue can find useful information quickly. If you have any other concerns or questions, please feel free to feedback.

Best Regards,
Joan

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jiayaozhu-MSFT answered

Hi,

Thanks for posting on our forum!

Based on your message and screenshot, I think you should firstly check what exactly happened to the quorum configuration of your failover cluster, you can use PowerShell command:
Get-ClusterQuorum
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/failoverclusters/get-clusterquorum?view=windowsserver2019-ps

Then, if you do have two file share witnesses, you can try to remove the old one, with Failover Cluster Manager or PowerShell. The command can be: cluster res "Resource Name" /delete or Remove-ClusterResource. See the article:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/failoverclusters/remove-clusterresource?view=windowsserver2019-ps

Then you can recheck your quorum configuration with the command Get-ClusterQuorum, to see if everything works properly now. Besides, there are two extra possible conditions. Scenario1: If, you encountered any errors when you try to remove the old witness, then you can give me the screenshot for the error message. Scenario2: if you only detect one path (if it is the new one, then you have no issue), the old one, then you should go to %SystemRoot%\System32\winevt to check relevant logs when you tried to change the path, to see if there is any errors or warnings. However, based on your screenshot, I think scenario2 can hardly happen.

Thanks for your support! Besides, would you please help me Accept Answer if you think my reply is helpful. An accepted blog can be put on top of our forum, so people who have a similar issue can get access to your issue more quickly. I would really appreciate it you could support in this way.

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kumarkaushal-1277 answered

@JohnJY-4666 .. I would say best would be for you is to change the cluster configuration to Node majority and then change it back to node and file share majority . This should work

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