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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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DFS referral cache duration

We have two domain-based DFS servers in our main office. A smaller location is connected through a VPN with the main office and uses the DFS for accessing shared resources in the main as well as at the own location. We would like to increase the…
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DFS with multisite replication

I'm looking at setting up file shares at different sites across the US. Currently there are file shares at HQ that users VPN back to. The problem is, HQ doesn't have (and cannot get) fast enough internet to support this data transfer. The company…
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How to work with Access-Based enumeration in Dfs?

So Windows Server Dfs apparently does support Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) on from Server 2008. But it does not seem to work out-of-the box - mere creation of links in a root does make them visible to everyone in the domain, irrespective if users…
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FSRM Quota in DFS - Windows Server 2012 R2

We have two servers DFS1 and DFS2 which are configured as target for DFS Namespace and DFS Replication. Namespace is \\Domain.com\Files\Users\User1 whose target are \\DFS1\Users\User1 (local path D:\User1) and \\DFS2\Users\User1. We have also…
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How to display root directories for a domain with DFS?

I am working with a DFS setup of the standard form \\domain.local\root. We are sharing these and to navigate to the DFS share users would type \\domain\sales or \\domain\support. How can I setup so that users can type \\domain and see all available…
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Dfs one namespace or two server

My question is similar to "Move DFS Namespace" asked Mar 7 2014 by Alex Mckenzie. I want a fault tolerant server so that users can access folders when one DFS server is not available. So far I have DFS and replication working on both servers. I…
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Windows Server 2008/2012 DFS won't replicate one folder

I have a problem with Windows 2008 DC replicating to Windows 2012 DC. I've been dealing with this for 6 months. The replicated folder contains 15 folders and 0 files in the root. All of the folders except for 1 replicate just fine. Unfortunately,…
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SCOM 2012R2 DFS Replication Managementpack

We have a functional implementation of SCOM 2012R2 running on Windows Server 2012R2. Recently I have begun trying to get the DFS Replication monitoring working; specifically backlog monitoring. However, it seems that only certain monitors are…
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How can I use junctions instead of drive letters to organize DFS replication of multiple shares on multiple disks?

I am configuring a new DFS setup that will utilize Namespaces and Replication. The two member servers are virtual machines running Windows Server 2012 R2. Since many of the shares range from hundreds of gigabytes to several terabytes, I want to…
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Hundreds of event ID 14554 DfsSvc related

i'm experiencing a lot of those errors in the event viewer Namespace DFS Service : initialization of the shared folder that houses the root of the namespace is completed . Shared folder : foldername Eventi ID: 14554 The origin of this event is…
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Windows 7 saving Office files to DFS fileserver has significant delay

There are several moving parts to this. A small section of the company who are connected from a standard floor switch to a wifi bridge to a building across the street are seeing really high save times in things like excel and word only. The…
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Manually move data before enable DFS replication

We have one file server at local office and we want to setup another standby file server at remote data center, the two side will be connected with VPN, instead of enabled dfs on both servers and let the file(200GB) at local office to slowly…
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Is there a way to setup alerts for a failed DFS topology connection?

I have a large DFS structure setup between multiple remote sites and multiple hub servers in a full mesh topology. Each remote site has its own namespace or namespaces and replication group. I have an automated PowerShell script that collects the…
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Compress concrete files on dfs

We work with a lot of Microsoft Access files for different costumers. That files are saved in different folders(also in subfolders) for every year separated by year,costumer ,month, etc. The main thing here is that I want to compress all the access…
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DFS-N Fault Tolerance

I asked part of this question before, but I guess I'm missing something. I'm not clear on HOW to make sure that our DFS-N fault tolerance is configured correctly. We have 2 domain controllers (A and B, both running Win 2008 R2 - domain at 2003…
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