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Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) is a technology that complements the SMB/CIFS based file server role of Windows Servers.

DFS is comprised of DFSN (namespaces) and DFSR (replication). The two technologies can be implemented independently. However, the components are complementary when used together on Windows file servers.

DFSN allows creating "fake" namespaces or paths which when browsed, redirect the client to an alternate location as configured by an administrator. This allows creating a namespace which can apparently merge content which maybe spread across different file servers. 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).

http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2009/12/30/windows-server-dfs-namespaces-reference.aspx provides good details related to DFSN.

See the DFSR tag for more details on DFSR.

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SYSVOL DFS Migration - moving to eliminated state

We are following Microsoft's Migrating SYSVOL to DFS Replication on our Server 2008 R2 servers so we can do move over to Server 2019. We started it on 8/12/2019 and let it run over the week to check for errors. I don't have a test environment to…
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How do I install the DFSR module for Powershell on Windows Server 2012?

I have a full GUI installation of Windows Server 2012r2 2012 with the DFS Management snap-in installed for Server Manager. I want to use the DFSR module for Powershell to monitor DFS replication. However, this module and its associated commands are…
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Centos only taking first DFS referral

$ umount -a: Linux server01 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 29 14:49:43 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I am able to successfully mount a DFS file share using the following command: $ sudo mount.cifs \\\\domain.com\\share…
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Why is it not possible for a DFS domain namespace server to work with shared storage?

I wondered why a stand-alone namespace "Can be hosted by a failover cluster to increase the availability of the namespace." while a domain namespace "[...] cannot be a clustered resource in a failover cluster." The Microsoft doc further states, that…
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How can I find the path in which a file is open

I need to migrate a Server 2008 Fileserver. My problem is, that some Users have access to there data over DFS and other have mapped simple Shares. Now I have migrated the DFS but I don't know which users have manual mapped shares whitout DFS. Is…
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How to build a fault-tolerant Windows file share?

I have a primary and a backup windows 2008 server, and a bunch of windows XP clients that map a drive to a share on the primary server. If the primary server goes down, I want those client machines to automatically re-map their drive to the backup…
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Are users supposed to be able to access the root \\contoso.local location in Windows Explorer when using DFS?

With DFS, are users supposed to be able to access the root \\contoso.local location in Windows explorer? (As opposed to only \\contoso.local\namespace?) I ask because I'm working with a legacy system and I don't know what the people before me set up…
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DFS Namespace Server Configuration

in my environment I have 2 DCs (DC01 and DC02). So, I added DFS roles in both of them. I created a domain based namespaces. The DFS replication role was installed on separate servers which are containing the files to be shared (DFS1 and DFS2). Till…
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Can windows DFS folders co-exist with Citrix

Quick background I have an application that we run on Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 that needs a configuration file for each machine. Currently those files are stored on a file server that is not highly available. I want to move those files to a…
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DFS Namespace unavailable at login

Edit: I was not fully aware of what was going on with my issue, but it has since been fixed. See my answer below. Background We are having some issues with DFS namespaces in our environment after a change to how we configured our environment and I…
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SYSVOL not replicating between DC's

I've been struggling all day trying to fix this issue.. I recently added a secondary DC, everything worked for 2 weeks or so. Now, the last 2 days I noticed it doesn't replicate the policies.. That's the error I get when I run dcdiag: Starting…
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Windows - Item-Level Targeting: Folder Permissions

Overview We have been working in our new environment for a couple of months now and everything works just great. The only problem is management. We have multiple departments, multiple companies, multiple locations/offices, etc. and find it…
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Manually delete ConflictAndDeleted

we're looking to reclaim space on our DCs and have found that the ConflictAndDeleted folder is huge in System Volume Information > DFSR > Private. There is one folder in particular which is the cause of the size which has 600GB worth of disk images…
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DFSR specific folder specific server

I'm considering using DFSR to speed up a slow link between a branch office. I want to know if it is possible to exclude a specific folder from the replication, so that when the branch office accesses it, the data is read/written to the main server?…
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Network DFS Shares Jumping Back To Root

I have a DFS-R namespace with three nodes. Two of the nodes work just fine, but a third node does something very strange. When you are browsing the node through the namespace, when you change into a folder it dumps you out of the folder and back…
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