Server 2012 R2 FSRM Event ID 8197 Error: GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint, 0x800700001, incorrect function

Solution 1:

After a good month of going back and forth with Dell and Microsoft I received an "answer" about this error. Here was Microsoft's response:

Our escalation engineer has debugged the issue and found this is a by-design behavior on EFI system. We have reproduced this issue on both of the hardware machine & VM.

We would like to explain that we can safely ignore this event. The error message happens when FSRM service checks the system partition. On EFI system, the EFI system partition is a FAT system which will fail with the function call GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint(). This is normal and the FSRM service is expecting this will fail on EFI system in its internal code. The error message is just logged for information purpose for such situation and that is why you can safely ignore it.

Personally, I think this is a go away response. I replied back reminding them that this does not occur with Server 2008 R2 on UEFI so if this is truly "by-design" due to the formatting of the EFI partition Server 2008 R2 would also have the same error...

If I happen to hear a pertinent response to this I will update. For now I just wanted to get this info out there in case I'm really not the only person who has seen this problem :}