We had 3 shared folders replicating via DFS-R between two servers at two sites over a full T1. The data is ~100GB and 500K+ files. Our requirement was to replace one of the servers, but keep the same ...

I'll try keep this detailed and brief. We use DFS for the distributed name space. We do not use DFS replicas or replicate any data using DFS/FRS. One of our sites clients are continually connecting to ...

Distributed File System (DFS) has been around since Windows NT and comes in a variety of configurations and options. While DFS is available in standalone and domain configurations, this article will ...

In my previous article, “Implementing DFS Namespaces,” we saw how to create a namespace (a virtual folder tree) using the enhanced DFS Management console of Windows Server 2003 R2. This article ...

Many organizations use Windows’ Distributed File System (DFS) to replicate certain shared folders or to make accessing user directories more straightforward (after all, \\DFS\ Users\Don is easier to ...

If you receive the The Replication Group cannot be created error while configuring Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) in Windows Server, it usually indicates ...

The Distributed file system (Dfs), when properly implemented, can help your users get where they want to go. But its usefulness doesn’t stop there. We’ve all encountered it. The LOOK. You know the ...

This week I was busy with a number of things, including trying to deploy a distributed file system (DFS) namespace using several servers running Windows Server 2008. Setting up the namespace was ...