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All our users kept getting:

There was a problem, but sync will try again.

(0x80c80317)

On the server we kept getting the following event:

The Windows Sync Share service failed to setup a new sync partnership with a device. Database: \\?\S:\users\SyncShareState\WorkFolders\Metadata; User folder name: \\?\S:\WorkFolder\WORKFOLDERS_ROOT\USER.TEST; Error code: (0x8e5e0408) Unable to read from or write to the database.

To fix it:

• I failed the roles over and rebooted both nodes of the cluster, nothing.
• I disabled restarted the sync share through the server admin console,
• I’ve tried to rename the metadata on the client:

C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WorkFolders\Metadata

• I’ve tried repairing a user which seems broken:

Repair-SyncShare -name workfolders -user Domain\test

Repair-SyncShare : (0x80c80317) There was a problem, but sync will try again.

At line:1 char:1

+ Repair-SyncShare -name WorkFolders -user Domain\test

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 + CategoryInfo: NotSpecified: 
(Msft_SyncShare (Name = "MA_Userfiles"):Root/Microsoft/.../Msft_SyncShare) [Repair-SyncShare], CimException    
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x80c80317,Repair-SyncShare

So here’s the weird thing, I tried the following which seemed to fix it (I’ve no idea why):

Get-SyncUserStatus -User domain\test -syncshare WorkFolders

So to apply to all users (which also worked), first I gained the users from the AD group I used (I dont have the AD functions on my work folders server):

Get-ADGroupMember -Identity "Workfolders Users" | 
select SamAccountName | Export-Csv c:\temp\WorkFolders.csv

Then used the CSV to apply the Get-SyncuserStatus to all users:

$List = Import-Csv C:\temp\WorkFolders.csv
foreach ($user in $list) {
Get-SyncUserStatus -User $user.SamAccountName -syncshare WorkFolders}