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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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Windows 10 struggles to see files in DFS path after changing the target

A little background: I'm a programmer for a small company, and we have a lot of internal python tools that employees run. Our "deployment" process clones our git repo into a deployment folder at a unc path. After that, we run pytest on it and build…
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DFS using short DN on non domain joined computers?

I just setup a new server for my work. With the server hostname change, this ended up breaking everyones file shares so looking into future proofing solutions and I came across DFS. I set it up and changed all of our group policy to point at the DFS…
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How to install DFSN module in powershell?

I have two machines, one has DFSN available (functions like Get-DfsnFolderTarget, etc) and the other doesn't. I can't seem to find any information online about installing it, and I'm not a powershell expoert. I found references to the powerhsell…
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The access to shared directory using DFS is very slow

I have an Active Directory with 1 DC and 1 DFS deployed on hyper-v VM on a certain machine X. The DFS consists of several shared folders from machine X and folders from machine Z. When I try to access the DFS using network drive all works fine for…
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How to strictly serialize replication of one folder using Windows DFS replication?

I have two locations A+B and need to process one special directory between those branches using Windows DFS replication in the following way: All writes into that directory of A need to be pulled by B. All deletions in that directory of B need to be…
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How to configure DFS Replication group in Active Directory

A newbie question here. I have two Windows 2008 R2 servers. DFS Management installed. When I go to "New Replication Group", and try to create a group in the domain, I get "Insufficient Permissions", which makes sense because I am not a member of the…
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Virtual iSCSI linux -- share as ISCSI ExFat, but have it go to XFS?

I'm building a RAID system based on a dell server with 18 drive bays; I want to use as JBOD and manage with LVM2/MDADM and use XFS as the base filesystem. However... I have a few bits of PC software that only work with iSCSI targets (not a…
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Share DFS location and Change Name of DFS folders

I want to simplify file server access from displaying multiple drives to instead, share the DFS location that lists all of the shortcuts to the actual folders and files my users need access to. The reason being is we have MULTIPLE drives and it…
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Is it possible to deploy a high available file service with two file servers using a shared virtual hard disk and DFS with Windows Server 2019?

In my infrastructure, I have two servers with Windows Server 2019 and Hyper-V installed. A SAN is directly connected to both servers via FC. The SAN provides three volumes to both servers: a volume for the quorum, a volume for VMs and a volume for…
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Why ping-ing to the internal AD domain name sometimes responded by different domain controllers in totally different subnets?

Folks, I have a single forest Active Directory domain, called DOMAIN.COM. AD Site 1 - 10.10.1.0/24 subnet SITE1DC1-VM SITE1DC2-VM SITE1-DFSR-VM SITE1PC1 SITE1PC2 SITE1PC3 ... SITE1PCN AD Site 2 - 10.10.2.0/24…
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Best practice of what folders must not go to DFS-Replication File server?

I'm using The existing Windows Server 2016 DFS-Replicated file servers across 10 different locations. Each site offices in different regions and countries across the globes are replicated. However, there are some files that seem to be stuck or…
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Migrate to new AD domain, but keep old DFS root

I have an Active Directory domain (we'll call OLD.TLD) in production and need to change the name (for reasons I won't elaborate on). There are many, many files with links to a DFS namespace in this domain. They mostly use the NetBIOS Name, so a…
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What is the delay for DFSR before it begins sending a file or files?

I have heard rumor there could be an hour delay between when I could drop a file in the source folder and when it actually begins transmission to the destination. However, I can't find this in any documentation from Microsoft. I imagined it would…
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Unable to delete a folder from server 2012 R2

I had a replication enable a folder which was replicating data to a server 2012 r2 but i have disbale the replication but i'm unable to delete this folder or re-enable the replication. We had a probelm the dfs replication on a folder which we disble…
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Hide a normal share when the share is already under DFS share?

I'm wondering if it is possible to hide the normal windows file server share when that same share has been published via DFS on the same server? To clarify, say I'm running DFS on a server called FILESVR and there are 3 folder in it's storage that I…
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