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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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When we shipped Windows Server 2003 R2 , many customers requested a way to enable and disable referrals for a link target using command line. Neither dfscmd.exe nor dfsutil.exe back then provided a way to do this. In response to those requests, Dan Lovinger
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1. New Command Line Interface (CLI) DFSUtil.exe in Windows Server 2008 comes with a new CLI, which is based on Keywords, Required Parameters and Optional parameters instead of Switches and Arguments. With this change, we intend to make the usage of the
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DFS Namespaces or DFSN management command line tools are available on Windows Server 2008 and also on Windows Vista SP1 as part of the Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). The three available tools are Dfsutil.exe, Dfscmd.exe and Dfsdiag.exe.
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The DFS Namespaces team is excited to announce upcoming support for domain-based namespaces that exceed the previous size recommendation of 5,000 folders with targets in a namespace. Starting in Windows Server 2008, you will be able to use the DFS Management
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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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We've seen an increase in customers asking about permissions required to manage namespaces. We cover this in our DFS FAQ under the question "What permissions are required to manage a namespace? How can I delegate authority to manage a DFS namespace?"
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The DFS Namespaces team would like to talk to customers who manage namespaces that are nearing or surpass the recommended limit of 5,000 links for domain-based namespaces. We would like to understand how customers use and manage these large namespaces,
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DFS gurus might recall that DFS site costing functionality can be negatively impacted when the Bridge all site links option is disabled in Active Directory. Fortunately this has changed for Windows Server 2003 SP1. Details are provided in the How Active
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It’s always interesting to see a hot topic emerge for an established technology like DFS (aka DFS Namespaces). We’ve seen this question come up in our DFS_FRS newsgroup, on internal discussion aliases here at Microsoft, and from our early adopter customers
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This is a common topic in the DFS_FRS newsgroup . Customers will describe how some users are unexpectedly denied access to targets in the namespace whereas other users can access the targets without problems. Customers also ask whether there are DFS permissions
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If you’ve used the Distributed File System snap-in in Windows Server 2003, you might’ve seen the checkbox called “Publish this root in Active Directory.” You might’ve even checked it and wondered what benefits it provides. Does it somehow make a namespace
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A common question among customers using the Distributed File System snap-in in Windows Server 2003 is how to create a namespace more than two levels deep. For example, a customer in the DFS_FRS newsgroup was frustrated because he knew how to create a
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At least once a month a customer asks for a command-line method to enable and disable referrals for a folder target (aka link target). Neither dfscmd.exe nor dfsutil.exe provides a way to do this. In response to the many requests we get for this functionality,
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A blog reader recently contacted us with the following question, “When I was testing DFS failback, the client reconnected to the local site server but the files were still being served at the failover server. Why aren’t the files served from the local
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