I am migrating DFS from a 2003 standard server to 2008R2 standard. Moving shares and folder structure is not a problem but the DFS does function diferently in 2008 Since the domain and forest are still at a 2003 functional level I see that new DFS domain namespace roots are created with type = Domain(Windows 2000 Server mode). This can be upgraded at a later date but I thought it worth mentioning in case it has bearing on my issue.
Previously we had DFS shares with unc reference such that the share was flat, no tree hierarcy.
Ex. \\domain\Home \\domain\data
I have many applications that use this scheme. I may be doing something wrong but it appears that the new DFS does not allow for this type of reference, where we need to be able to point to\\domain\data and have files/folders already in a share appear. The new scheme requires that I add folders to the namespace\\domain\data\folder which would require a great deal of work on the application level to account for the change.
Hopefully I am missing something and it will be possible to populate data in the actual namespace reference without requiring sub folders.
Thanks,
Jim