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  • Blog Post: “It’s Simple!” – Do the move! Go to DFSR!

    Hi there! I have noticed the following at many customers who had upgraded their Active Directory from Windows 2000/2003 to 2008 and plus: they do not (or forget to) upgrade Sysvol from FRS to DFSR! Several Technet articles covered the steps to do for Sysvol migration, so there is no need to go...
  • Blog Post: SYSVOL on promoted DC not synchronising, but replication looks ok?

    I came across this scenario recently following some network issues. After promoting an additional WS2012 Domain Controller (or a previous version utilising DFS-R for SYSVOL replication), one or more of the following symptoms may present: No content is synchronised to the SYSVOL folder NetLogon...
  • Blog Post: Distributed File System Replication (DFSR)

    Q: (from Lee) If I set up DFS-R and it is scheduled vs all the time, what will happen in the following scenario: Joe makes a change to files.txt at 9am. and saves changes Sandy makes a change to files.txt at 11am and saves changes Vince makes a change to files.txt at 1pm and saves changes The servers...
  • Blog Post: Upgrading Your SYSVOL to DFS-R Replication

    Many papers and KB articles have been posted about the "old-style" SYSVOL replication, or FRS, dealing with the various problems and the difficulty of recovering from an FRS disaster. In light of this, the product group has finally come up with a solution to the "woes of FRS": DFS...
  • Blog Post: Microsoft.com and its ADFS Implementation

    Active Directory Federated Service, ADFS , is a Windows Server 2003 (R2) component that facilitates a trust between two or more organizations that will allow the sharing of multiple resources while maintaining each organization’s ability to manage their own set of users. One of the significant challenges...
  • Blog Post: BDD 2007 - TechNet Magazine article worth reading

    One of my fellow Microsoft Services consultants from the UK Adam Shepherd, has just had an article published in TechNet Magazine. The article provides advice on how to scale BDD. This includes how to to support multiple databases, use DFS-R and how to leverage WDS. The advice is based on learning...