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DFS (Distributed File System) Replication is a file replication technology originally shipped with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system.

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Domain-joined clients local Administrators group lost Domain Admins member: recovery possible?

On a number of Windows 10 clients joined to a Windows Server 2022 domain and after some serious GPO-related mishandling, the local administrators group contains only the (inactive) administrator. Is ...
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Best practice on deploying MSIs via group policies: from dedicated share or from the AD itself?

For years I have been using GPOs to install MSIs to our Windows clients. All MSIs resided under a single \\fileserver\share, with a GPO assigned to each MSI for installation. Currently, out AD servers ...
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DFS-R not working, error 1753

I would like to ask you about your opinions. I have two servers (both WS 2019, which are not domain controllers) where DFS replication is not working (at all). I'm getting error 1753: "There are ...
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No logs for DFS Replication on Domain Controller

I was testing monitoring DFSR event logs on my DCs and figured there are no logs after event 1210 (The DFS Replication service successfully set up an RPC listener for incoming replication requests.) ...
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Powershell and DfsrConfigurationFromAD - how to check all servers are updated?

I have two Win2012R2 servers (SERVER1 and SERVER2) that uses DFS Replication for keeping a couple of folders synchronized. Using the following Powershell-script that i run on SERVER1 I disconnect it ...
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Invalid method Parameter when calling DfsrConnectionInfo->ForceReplication() with WMIC

In our AD infrastructure the SYSVOL is replicated by DFSR. I want to force replication using WMI (ForceReplication method) via WMIC: wmic /namespace:\\root\microsoftdfs path DfsrConnectionInfo call ...
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Distributed File System Replication Error

We are getting the: The DFS Replication service stopped replication on the folder with the following local path: C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain. This server has been disconnected from other partners for 339 ...
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Windows DFS-R conflict handling between multiple locations

i´m experimenting with the DFS-Replication possibilities in Windows Server 2008 R2. Basic structure is this TestOffice 1 - Fileserver TestOffice 2 - Fileserver Central server location - Fileserver ...
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Hosting single intranet from multiple IIS servers

We have multiple physical locations at our company and each one has its own physical server, subnet, domain controller, Active Directory site etc. I want to set up an intranet site on IIS that can be ...
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Migrate FSMO roles during FRS to DFSR migration

Hello everyone and I hope everyone is well. I have a bit of a special case at one of my clients, we are in the middle of a migration from FRS to DFSR, (step 2) and have to go to step 3, eliminated. ...
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DFS Replication slow to a single server

This is a proper head-scratcher... A customer has a domain with eight DCs. Two (including the PDC) are Hyper-V VMs in our datacentre, four are vSphere VMs at national site offices (not RODCs) and the ...
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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:\...
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Use DFS to replicate file shares to two new servers?

Trying to find the best way to migrate file shares on one server we are deprecating to a new server. We will then use dfs from this new server to replicate with another new machine for our final setup....
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windows 7 domain roaming profiles - can i set it up so that only differences are synced with local copy?

I have read answers regarding roaming profiles that recommend using folder redirection (like Profile Roaming, to make not to copy all the files to the local PC). I don't want the profile dirs to be ...
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Restore-DfsrPreservedFiles on a remote machine

I'm trying to restore preexisting files on a DFS share on Server2012r2. No matter what I do, I get this response. This occurs even if I use -RestoreToPath or if I try to run it with the local admin ...
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How to monitor DFSR backlog more efficiently than dfsrdiag

Is there a way to monitor the DFSR backlog in a manner more efficient than using dfsrdiag.exe backlog? I wrote a program that just slurps in the backlog count via dfsrdiag.exe backlog /smem:alpha /...
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Workstations lose connection to network shares and need to be rebooted in order to reconnect to shared resources

I have a situation where workstations will lose the connection to network shares and printers during the night and have to be rebooted in order to reconnect, afterwards everything works correctly, ...
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DFSR deleted whole folder

I had a folder shared on my windows network. I wanted that folder to by replicated with DFSR, so I created a target folder in a DFS namespace and a replication group with it. One of the targets was ...
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Windows Server 2016 DFS-Replication backlog issue

I have 6 servers running Windows Server 2016 File Server DFS replication. I'm having trouble with my DFS File server replication, the report generated from the health report and dfsrdiag backlog /smem:...
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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, ...
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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....
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Do DFSR replication group act independantly?

I can't seem to find the answer to this. I have 2 replication groups for 2 very different sets of data. We recently had a problem that will cause us to restore about 50GB of data on the 1st group. We ...
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DFS 2008 (Distributed File System) Console Error

I am trying to configure DFS with replication for my employer. We are primarily using Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 servers. I'm getting an error in my DFS Management Console. It is saying "ERROR \domain....
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Can we disable DFS on Windows SBS 2011?

The supplier of our customer's ERP system says that their software gets performance problems when running on a server with DFS enabled. I notice that DFS Namespace and DFS Replication is enabled on ...
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DFS Replication 25000 Event 4308 per minute

TL;DR in bold Hello, I have set up a new DFS Namespace and Replication for a software and user share from an older 2012R2 server to a newer 2019 server that we wish to migrate to. I've left the ...
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Dfsr - replicatedFolderinfo state 3 (in recovery) progression

I have a DFS Namespace currently in auto-recovery due to an unexpected server crash. There's about 600GB of data and it's consisting of small files for the most part. It's been in auto-recovery for ...
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DFS Replication Error 9098 (tombstoned content)

3 servers, DFS replication was working for 2 years. Recently 1 of the member servers started reporting this: The DFS Replication service stopped replication on replicated folder projects at local ...
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NTFS treating files as temporary without T attribute, and not replicating over DFS

I have found a folder of files that are failing to replicate between my DFS servers, and I can't find any documented reason why. Here are some examples: FileName ...
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DFS-R - Set server as master

I would like to set up a 2 server DFS-R for web content. The website is a Learning Management System that holds a few TB of videos and documents. The front end of the website is a Windows Load Balance ...
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DFS-R Server Concerns

What happens when one DFS server goes offline or the connection between the two drops? Specifically, what happens when an existing file is updated. So I just stood up two Win2K12 R2 servers running ...
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Added DFSR to Domain controller, non domain admins can not create shares

My situation is I deployed a couple of domain controllers at some locations. My boss didn't want to spend money on servers, so I reused some servers we were not using. I installed them as domain ...
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FRS to DFSR migration stuck, 1 DC only

I only have one 2008 R2 DC on this domain (domain level 2008), and, I am needing to migrate FRS to DFSR as I need to join a 2019 server to the same domain and then demote the old one. However, I'm ...
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DFS - Basic operation - remove folder target

I'm new to DFS management and I need to know the proper way to delete a target(shared) folder from all the servers. Stop replication and then delete all the copies of the folder in the different ...
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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 ...
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DFS namespace does not show files on servers

Setup 2x Windows server 2012R2 (pwl-dfs01 and pwl-dfs02) DFS namespaces and Replication installed Replication configured (s:\hosting) as "Full Mesh" topology for both pwl-dfs01 and pwl-dfs02 ...
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DFSR Replicate folder wizard targets incompatible error

I have the following setup: DFS namespace host: Windows 2008 R2 Standard server (Server1) Source folder: NetApp CIFS filer share advertising DFS capabilities mapped to the above DFS hosting server (...
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Server 2012 R2-DFS Replication not working one direction-Insufficient Disk Space error but it's not

I have seen several posts on this issue and possible solutions, so far nothing helped in my case. We have two servers S1 (Primary) and S2 connected in LAN. We have users folder in Replication Group. ...
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Folder ACLs lockdown. Unable to take ownership

this should be a trivial issue, except this time it isn't. I have a folder on a non-boot drive in a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine which is completely stuck. Using the domain administrator account, ...
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DFSR Event 2004 With Error: 5 Access Denied

I am running 2 domain controllers and the DC1 will not replicate GPOs to DC2. Upon looking in the logs the DFSR on DC2 is not showing Event 4604 which is the succssfull copy of SYSVOL of DC1. If I ...
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"the value does not fall within the expected range" DFS error on Server 2012

I seem to have run into this bug while attempting to create a DFS replication group: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4049095/value-does-not-fall-within-the-expected-range-error-when-you-...
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DFS - disable folder target stops replication or not?

need quick help. We have recreated the DFS namespace with two targets and replication group but there is a lot of data to replicate and dfsrdiag ReplicationState still shows updates. Seems like the ...
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DFS-R, delete database for replication group without impacting SYSVOL

I have one server, SRVA. SRVA is a Domain Controller and has a SYSVOL type replication group (on the c drive) to SRV1 and SRV2, both also domain controllers. This replication is working fine. I ...
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Parallel life of DFS shared files?

That's a weird one. We have 3 servers (Windows Server 2012 R2) with DFS-N and DFS-R sharing and syncing same folders between themselves. We have those folders mapped on clients as network drives like ...
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Not able to create DFS namespace in a completely new forest

Not able to create DFS namespace in a completely new forest OS: Windows server 2016 DFL: 2003 FFL: 2003 DFS role on member server creating very first namespace server - Errors in : The object ...
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Use the DFSR Module on a Windows 2012 R2 Server Core

I have a standard Windows 2012 R2 box setup with server core. I have the file server roles installed along with DFSR. I want to use the powershell tools like Get-DfsrState and other Get-Dfsr* to ...
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DFSR and site link

From my understanding, DSF uses the site/link information created in Active Directory Site and Services to redirect users to the nearest fileserver (when, of course, users access the share via the DFS ...
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How does DFSR work out costs to other sites?

We have 4 sites - two of which host DFS servers. Site A - DFS Server #1 (namespace member, replication group) Site B - DFS Server #2 (namespace member, replication group) Site C - No servers, just ...
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Rebooting a DFS Server

Server A and B have DFS-R. If I want to reboot Server B and all clients connect to server A, do I need to disable folder targets for Server B still?
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Microsoft DFSR: VersionVectorTombstone backlogged for some DFSR Spokes

When have a DFSR "hub and spoke" setup for a replicated folder. The permissions were set on the folder so no end users could modify the contents. To my surprise, when running a health report on the ...
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Can not access DfsrPrivate

I've set up DFS-R between three servers, and so far, it is replicating everything as its supposed to. The problem is, I can not access the DfsrPrivate folder. Where is it located? So far I see the ...

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