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DFS (Distributed File System) Replication is a file replication technology originally shipped with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system.

DFS (Distributed File System) Replication is a file replication technology originally shipped with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system.

DFSR allows creating multiple replicas of the content which thereby allow a level of resiliency. In the older versions of DFS (first introduced in Windows 2000 Server), the replication was handled by FRS (File Replication Service).

See the DFS tag for more info on DFS and DFSN (namespaces).

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Change DFS Replication scheduled time?

Is it possible to change the scheduled time for DFS replication between replication partners on Windows Server 2008? We have a backup that runs hourly and interferes with the replication. I then get the event ID 5002 DFSR until the connection is…
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Using Domain Controller from Azure VM

I have setup a couple or Windows 2012 instances on Azure VM. I am trying to configure DFS-R, which requires the instances to be members of a domain. I signed up for Azure Active Directory, which does not seem to be the right solution. Do i have…
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Rebooting a DFS Server

Server A and B have DFS-R. If I want to reboot Server B and all clients connect to server A, do I need to disable folder targets for Server B still?
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what happens to dfs when the domain controller is offline?

Windows Server 2008 R2 DFS Replication across two locations If the domain controller is offline what happens? Are users still able to access the DFS namespace? Does replication still occur?
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Windows workstations go offline when one Domain Controller restarts

We run a small wired LAN with 3 DCs (W2k8) and about 25 workstations (most of which are XP SP3, some are 7 SP1.) People use roaming profiles with folder redirection for Desktop & My Documents, Application Data and Start Menu. The redirected folders…
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DFS trying to replicate back to source folder?

I'm not very familiar with how DFS works, and since someone else administers the servers in question I don't know what the DFS setup looks like. I'm just wondering if something is possible. Basically we have 3 servers setup as a replication group…
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Weird Active Directory behavior after ADMT migration

We have multiple sites with multiple DC's. Since performing the migrations we have been experiencing all sorts of problems with DFSR etc. We have multiple objects in the AD .. DCNAME DCNAMECNF:f9f56ebd-0883-4905-a82e-e152f3ba402c anyone…
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Can't find wdfsrres.dll on Windows 2003 R2 disk 2?

I am trying to install DFS replication on Windows 2003 R2 which asks for the Windows 2003 R2 disk 2 but can not find wdfsrres.dll on there. Where can I get it?
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DFS Replication not "snappy" enough (Missing files)

I have two Domain Controllers. DC01 usually contains everything and is doing great (AFAIK), however DC02 is constantly "missing" files that are clearly visible on DC01 and should have been replicated over. The following errors can for an example be…
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Rsync or DFS-R for remote backup over slow links of Windows 2003 R2 SP2?

I need to backup many sites over slow, high latency satellite links. We are talking pings of 650ms to each site. I can get a dump of the initial data by sending out USB disk to site and restoring it at central office. From then on I intend to use…
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DFS just not replicating?

I have been using DFS quite a lot in the past always to good success. Now I have a funny issue and I am lost. 2008 R2 Sp1 on both ends. Same domain. There is a folder on A that is replicated. It has a folder Data in it (and in some tim other…
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DFS keeps constantly replicating almost all files

We have always had problems with DFS, but recently it has gotten worse with no apparent cause and it's becoming harmful. We have one master server and DFS connections to other four servers. The four severs don't modify any files, so all replications…
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Can someone correct me about Windows 2008 DFS implementation

I have 2 two Windows 2003 file servers using DoubleTake at the moment. They are in an 2003 AD domain. And each server has it's own disk set. It is time to replace the servers... I want to use Windows 2008 64bit Ent. I was thinking of using DFS-R to…
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DFS Replication across Hyper-V servers - duplicate GUID's

4 Hyper-V instances of Win2003 Server with 2 VHD's each (All based on same Win2003 VHD that i copied 4 times, everything seems to run just fine) Trying to use DFS replication to keep some folders in sync but it fails with an error saying that a…
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DFS-R pre-populated target folders STILL overwrite. How to avoid that?

I have 2 servers that I'm testing with, before I do this in live environment. Server 2003 R2, fully patched. I have 20 gig of data on server1 and I want to replicate that to a folder on server2. If I use robocopy to make an exact copy of the…
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