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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 it using DFS Management Console. – Go to ReplicationGroup. – Click on your replication… Read more
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 of “Waiting for the DFS Replication service to retrieve replication settings from… Read more
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 even with nothing backlogged. The reason… Read more
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 of size 336 bytes (2*24*7) which represents a schedule for a week. Each hour… Read more
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! —Malu Menezes… Read more
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, scalability, and performance. This webcast will provide an overview of the changes in Distributed File System (DFS),… Read more
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 used by the DFS Replication service To start with, let’s configure a replicated folder on a… Read more
Hello, Below you have a list of KB articles for Windows Server 2008 released or updated this April. 951007 04/02/2008 An event may be logged after you restart Windows Server 2008: “Event ID: 5 Message: The Virtual Storage Filter Driver is disabled through the registry. It is inactive for all disk drives” 950804… Read more
This article explains how to install the DFS Replication Service on various flavors/editions of Windows Server 2008. It also explains how to install the DFS Replication service on Windows Server 2008 Core editions. First, let’s take a quick look at which editions of Windows Server 2008 ship the DFS Replication service. Editions on which DFS… Read more
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. Let us try to understand why the DFS Replication service uses… Read more