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 ...

Think about how users normally access data. Normally, you map a letter to a share on a server as part of a logon script or other policy. If users have to access multiple shares on a server, they have ...

We currently run an AD hub and spoke topology. As we start to consolidate servers into regional "hubs", and change AD topology appropriately, I'm trying to test DFS namespace failover. The new AD ...

My company recently merged with another company. Both companies had AD and DFS in place. However, users in one forest/domain can not reference the other forest's DFS namespace. -Internal DNS is being ...

A distributed file system (DFS) enables clients to access file storage from multiple hosts through a computer network as if they were accessing local storage. Files are spread across multiple storage ...