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Here is the sample VB code to migrate FRS configuration to DFSRadmin commands (from ReadFRS.vbs mentioned in the webcast). The script migrates settings from FRS to DFSR – a one-to-one mapping between FRS replica sets and DFS Replication replication groups. All memberships are disabled. After verifying migration, you will need to stop FRS, enable DFS Replication memberships, and… Read more
Recently Shobana Balakrishnan, our DFS Replication program manager, hosted a webcast to discuss migrating FRS replica sets to DFS Replication in Windows Server 2003 R2. In this webcast she describes a script (ReadFRS.vbs) that can be used to migrate FRS configuration settings. Lots of people have asked us for this, so we’ve provided the sample… Read more
Dustin Fraser, a senior Systems Engineer within Microsoft IT, has created an audio podcast discussion of DFS Replication in R2. Enjoy! –Jill … Read more
A customer recently asked about how to restore DFS Replication replicated folders after a bare metal restore. Shobana Balakrishnan provided the following answer: DFS Replication does not depend on the cached configuration (xml files) and obtains its configuration from Active Directory. If you have set some machine-specific parameters, such as RPC port, you may need… Read more
A customer migrating from FRS to DFS Replication recently asked our DFS Replication PM, Shobana Balakrishnan, the following question: For FRS we are using one logical drive (the S: drive) for all FRS replicas on the server. The S: drive is 50 GB, which should be large enough to manage the 300+ GB of replicated… Read more
The updated version of the BOIS was released in early February. This new version includes the new DFS-related features in R2 (DFS Replication and DFS Namespaces). –Jill… Read more
A customer recently asked us to clarify the 1-TB DFS Replication limit described in an earlier post. Shobana Balakrishnan, our DFS Replication program manager, explains: There are no architectural underpinnings of the 1TB limit – it is merely what we tested. The Jet limits are much larger. The theoretical limit comes from the number of… Read more
A customer recently asked whether he can use NTFS compression on volumes or folders where replicated files are stored. The answer is yes, you can compress replicated content using NTFS compression, but we recommend against using NTFS compression on the Jet database for reasons described in KB article 318116. So avoid using NTFS compression on… Read more
Our very own Shobana Balakrishnan, a program manager on our Windows Longhorn Server team, takes you through the server roadmap and demonstrates Windows Server 2003 R2. Think you know everything about Windows Server? You might be surprised by the innovations this team has shipped and is planning on shipping in Longhorn Server. See the video!… Read more
On several occasions we’ve seen customers enable DFS Replication on the root of a volume, such as C:. Although DFS Replication supports configuring a volume root as the local path of a replicated folder, we don’t recommend this configuration for the following reasons: DFS Replication replicates metadata (including ACLs and attributes) that are set on… Read more