In my previous article, “Implementing DFS Namespaces,” we saw how to create a namespace (a virtual folder tree) using the enhanced DFS Management console of Windows Server 2003 R2. This article ...

Just finished troubleshooting an interesting DFS issue. The symptoms were poor client performance and frequent DFS timeouts. About 1500 clients. 3 DFS namespace servers. DFS in domain mode, about 30 ...

Distributed File System (DFS) has been around since Windows NT and comes in a variety of configurations and options. While DFS is available in standalone and domain configurations, this article will ...

Numero Uno, we are required to add the DFS Role from Server Manager and add subsequent features to get it going. Follow the steps mentioned below to do the same. Before we configure DFS Namespace, we ...

A few months ago I created a new Win2K8 DFS namespace containing one shared folder from each of 16 servers, named as follows: "prdbatch1" through "prdbatch8" and "devbatch1" through "devbatch8".