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It’s common to find forum questions about DFSR not replicating *.bak files. By default DFSR has file filter on replicated folder that excludes the files with names starting ~ or files with extension *.tmp or *.bak from replication. You can change...
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Hello, everyone Below you have a compilation of some very interesting blog posts from AskDS and Extreme on DFS-R. · What is the purpose of the 'Deleted' folder in DFSR? · DFSR and Bitlocker work together + performance tests · Five Common Causes...
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Some customers might look at their staging folders with several GB, and wonder if this is normal. I guess normal depends on how many GBs is several GBs, and how big you configured your staging folders to be :) You may have a few GB in your staging folder...
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Some customers ask why the 15 minutes interval limit for DFS replication and bandwidth throttling. This is determined by the way that the operation system stores the information of DFS replication. The DFS Replication schedule is stored as a binary attribute...
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For those who missed Drew McDaniel’s Live webcast “Deep Dive into Windows Server 2008 File Services”, you now can now view the recording: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032381104&role=attend&pw=3B160CB1 Enjoy...
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IT Manager Webcast: Deep Dive into Windows Server 2008 File Services (Level 300) Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:30 AM Pacific Time The Windows Server 2008 operating system contains many changes to core file services components that dramatically increase availability...
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The previous post referred to some basic backup/restore jargon. Now, let us investigate what the footprint of the DFS Replication service looks like. The following steps have been performed on a server running Windows Server 2008. Locate working directories...
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Backing up data is never a bad idea since it can provide handy insurance against accidental data loss. The DFS Replication service is designed to interoperate with the backup/restore interfaces exposed by the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)....
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We have been asked by a couple of customers whether it is possible to turn off the use of encrypted RPC by the DFS Replication service. Some of these customers were evaluating WAN acceleration solutions which do not work well with encrypted RPC traffic...
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Our friends in the AskDS blog promised, and here it is: The KB article on how to configure DFSR file-type compression in Windows Server 2008 is live! On Windows Server 2003, there was a pre-defined list of file extensions that DFSR didn’t compress in...
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An ‘under the hood’ change on Windows Server 2008 A previous blog post mentioned some of the more end-user visible new features in Windows Server 2008. There is another less visible design enhancement on Windows Server 2008. Let us explore this change...
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The previous article in this series explained how to migrate replication of the SYSVOL share to the ‘REDIRECTED’ state. In this article, we examine how to complete migration of all domain controllers to the ‘ELIMINATED’ state. Before we begin … Remember...
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The previous article in this series explained how to migrate replication of the SYSVOL share to the ‘PREPARED’ state. In this article, we examine how to migrate all domain controllers to the ‘REDIRECTED’ state. Before we begin … Before migrating to the...
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Previous articles in this series contained an introduction to the SYSVOL migration procedure and explained how the Dfsrmig.exe tool can be used for SYSVOL migration. Keeping this background information in mind, we’re now ready to start the actual SYSVOL...
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Hello, Everyone Ned Pyle just wrote a very interesting post on Customizing file compression in DFSR on Windows Server 2008. Here’s a quick excerpt: When you added a file to a DFSR content set and it was at least 64KB in size, the DFSR service placed a...
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In our first post in this series, we examined the SYSVOL migration process and understood how things work at a high level during the process of migration of the SYSVOL share from the FRS service to the DFS Replication service. Windows Server 2008 includes...
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The File Replication Service (FRS) is used for replicating the contents of the SYSVOL share between Windows domain controllers. However, Windows Server 2008 domain controllers, which are operating in the Windows Server 2008 domain functional level, can...
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In Windows Server 2008, the DFS Replication service can be used for replication of the SYSVOL share between domain controllers operating in the Windows Server 2008 domain functional level. The DFS Replication service supports replication of the contents...
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We’re starting to see more and more questions about how to establish a “master” or source server in a DFS Replication topology. In this blog post, we explain what one-way connections are and why they are not a recommended configuration to solve these...
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We've updated our Current Hotfixes for DFS Replication and DFS Namespaces page with a new hotfix for DFSR and new column to describe where each hotfix is available. We do keep this page as up-to-date as possible so check back periodically for new updates...
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If you have custom replication schedules configured that will be in place on Sunday, March 11 at 2AM when DST kicks in, consider the following scenario: DFS Replication is configured to block replication on Sundays except at 2AM Local Time. File object...
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We’ve added two new hotfixes to our DFS Hotfix List . One hotfix ( 919633 ) fixes a problem I’ve seen numerous times in the newsgroups where you receive an error message when trying to create a new replication group or add an existing replication group...
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