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Configure DFS replication

Configure DFS replication - Windows Server Tutorial

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Configure DFS replication

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- [Instructor] In DFS, there are two types of replication. The first of these is the namespace replication. For a domain-based namespace, you can add multiple namespace servers. This enables you to provide namespace replication and helps to ensure high availability of namespace. If you're using a namespace to point to multiple target folders and the namespace is offline, then although the target folders are still available, you can't connect to them unless you happen to know what they're individually called. And the whole point of DFS is to obscure that from your users to simplify the process of connecting to UNC shared folders. So DFS namespace replication is pretty important, which is the reason why you'll almost always use domain-based DFS namespace and not standalone. DFS Replication, however, is the replication of folder content. It enables you to synchronize copies of folder content between instances of folder targets throughout your organization, and that'll help you to address…

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