MS DFS – Leveraging the Benefits and Filling the Gaps

 
Here is an interesting White Paper that Peer Software has Co-Published with TechTarget.This e-guide covers the following: 

Why use Microsoft DFS
Problems with FRS – The advantage of DFS R2
DFS R2 improvements – Namespaces and replication
The DFS R2 limitations: No file locking
Tools that add file locking to Microsoft DFS

Microsoft DFS: Leveraging the Benefits and Filling the Gaps

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How do you optimize DFS such that version conflict is limited among multiple collaborative locations?

DFS (Distributed File System) was introduced in Windows 2000 to manage shared resources across a network and to more easily locate and access them. However, its capabilities were limited, particularly in facilitating high availability across distributed environments; generally, users found it cumbersome to replicate shared resources over slow links. DFS in Windows Server 2003 offered [...]