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I just install a DFS system on different servers. My replication group consists of Windows 2003 R2 and Windows 2008 R2 servers. The replication itself works well. On the Windows 2008 R2 server I can enable the membership to read-only, in the Windows Server 2003 R2 not. Is there a way to enable this function, for example to update the DFS system OS independent or with some CLI Commands?

Here is the dialog of Windows 2008 R2 member: enter image description here

And here the same dialog of Windows 2003 R2 member: enter image description here

kockiren
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  • You really should strongly think about upgrading that 2003 server if you can. There are a lot of DFS-R improvements between 2003 and 2008R2 – Zoredache Oct 07 '14 at 06:22
  • Yes we think about and plan the migration of the Servers. The first step is to migrate the replication away from a third party software for replication. because we can't update all server at the same time. – kockiren Oct 07 '14 at 06:30

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One-way replication is not supported or recommended in DFS-R in Windows Server 2003 R2. It is possible to configure it to work in a "read-only" sort of manner, but that wasn't a tested or designed configuration for the product and you may end up with unintended consequences.

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  • I understand that this is a hub and spoke scenario, it is not right that the hub send data to spoke? Send the spoke also data to the hub? What consequences could appear? – kockiren Oct 07 '14 at 06:38
  • This is only for security reasons, normally there write nobody to the spoke's. But if anybody delete something I will protect the other systems. – kockiren Oct 07 '14 at 06:44