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Hi all, Ned here again. Starting in Windows Server 2008 and continuing in Windows Server 2008 R2, DFSR supports a protective mechanism called “Content Freshness”. Today I’ll discuss this protection, how to implement it, and what to do when it swings into
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Hey all. Mahesh from the DFSR development team has new posts up on the System Center Operations Manager 2007 management pack that was released for DFSR. Give them a read, Mahesh always writes good stuff. Installing the management pack Importing the management
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You can stop yelling at me, it's released: Download: DFS Replication Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Overview: The DFS Replication Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 monitors the health of the DFS Replication
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Hi, Ned here again. If you have spent any time in the DFSR debug logs, you’ll probably found that getting a file’s full path is a bit of a pain. For example, examine this sample debug log of a file being replicated – see if you find the folder’s path
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Ned-san here again. Customers frequently call us about configuring their servers to listen over specific network ports. This is usually to satisfy firewall rules – more on this later. A port in TCP/IP is simply an endpoint to communication between computers.
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Ned here. A short while ago I got an excellent question from one of our readers via our email form . To paraphrase: “We are designing our new DFS Replication topology for data collection of remote backups. We plan on replicating this data during off hours.
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Ned here (back from vacation, so don't worry - I'm getting to comments and emails as quickly as I can). If you are planning on doing a DFSR SYSVOL migration, please make sure you give the following KB's a thorough read before starting: SYSVOL migration
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Ned here again. The DFSR development team has posted a new series for anyone wanting top learn more about the new DFSR clustering capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 . It's pretty indepth and walks you through the entire process. Deploying DFS Replication
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Warren here again. The purpose of this blog post is to outline the proper steps to move from an unsupported one-way replication deployment when using DFSR from Windows 2003 R2 and Windows 2008 to a supported configuration of two-way replication. Before
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Ned here again. I recently came across a peculiar SYSVOL migration behavior with DFSR, and I thought I’d fill you in so you don’t chase your tail on this someday. The Scenario You can migrate Windows Server 2008 SYSVOL share from using legacy FRS to DFSR.
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Ned here again. Today’s post is a quick technique I use to show how to slap the DFS Management snap-in around when it acts foolishly. Hopefully you find it helpful someday. Here’s the situation There are multiple administrators at your company managing
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Ned here. It's done, it's out, come get it, stop yelling at me! :-) SYSVOL Replication Migration Guide: FRS to DFS Replication (TechNet Version) SYSVOL Replication Migration Guide: FRS to DFS Replication (Word Doc Version) Be sure to also run through
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Ned again. As promised, here is the complete list of links for the recent 21-part DFSR Debug Log analysis series as well as downloadable versions of the series in Word 2007, Word 2003-97, XPS, and PDF formats. I have also included the debug logs I referenced
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In this final scenario we will see a file being replicated successfully, but where the replication appears to be very slow. A bandwidth throttle has been configured within the DFSR replication group schedule to restrict traffic to 128Kbps. This is useful
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In this scenario we will see a pair of files being created on an upstream server. One of the files is marked with the TEMPORARY attribute and one has an extension of TMP which is being filtered by DFSR. This will show the common scenarios of files which
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