Hi All,
I am new to DFS-N and DFS-R, I have never deployed and used DFS before. We have different branches where different file servers are deployed on Windows Server 2008 R2, we want to migrate from file server to DFS-N and DFS-R so that users can access all the resources with single name space. Kindly help me for the below:
1. We have File Server in HO and four different file servers in branches, we want to migrate their share and NTFs permissions to DFS server in their each locations.
2. What configurations will be required in each site, Each site there will be a member DFS root server or each site there will be a separate DFS root server
3. We want to have a folder named Apps in each location and want every location users to access a folder named Apps from their DFS server located at their site server how to achieve this.
3a. If the folder is updated in one location then how users from another site will get the same updated folder from their DFS server located at their site, I know the answer is replication but how to design this
4. Some of the branches does not have active directory deployed and they are getting authenticated from another site, is it necessary to deploy the active directory in each location where DFS server will be deployed, what if the WAN connection will go down then will the users will be able to access the DFS server deployed at their location
5. we have some WAN accelerators but that works once encryption is disabled while doing replication from one DFS server to another DFS server in different branches, can we disable encryption between two DFS server while replication.
6. We want to enable DE duplication on disks where files and folders will be placed I believe in 2012 R2 we can enable DE duplication on the disk drive should we need to do any other configuration from storage side
7. We want users to access their own DFS servers instead of going to the DFS server on another site, should I create some thing like contoso.com\public\locaation1 so that users in location one access their data from their DFS server or there is no need to create location1 or location2, the DFS it self will redirect him to the closest location.
8. I want users to not see any other location's DFS data how to achieve this.
9. We want to enable two way replication for specific folders how to achieve this.
10. We want to replicate all data from each location to the HO DFS server for backup purposes but we do not want to replicate HO data to another locations, how to achieve this
11. We want redundant DFS server so that if one DFS server goes down then another one should be available, in this case what actions should I perform.
12. should we go with one DFS root name space and others as a member servers, or should we go with different DFS root name sapces, kindly note that we want users to access one name space and then the location, if we will go with one DFS root name space then will all the servers have the same data through replication if yes then I do not want to replicate all data on all servers.
13. How DFS will redirect users to connect to their own DFS servers in their site.
Any more suggestions are most welcome.
Thank you in Advance