Enable Replication on a DFS Namespace

#dfs

Replication requires 2 or more Folder Targets to exist, we will setup the Folder Target then let the Wizard enable replication on that target.

  1. Create another folder following Step 1 from #Add a folder to a Namespace
  2. On each supplemental NamespaceServer you can add target folders through DFS Management. Expand a Namespace and right click a folder > "Add folder target"
  3. Browse to the _share name that you created in Step 1, Select it then press "OK"
  4. When prompted to setup Replication choose "yes"
  5. Press "next" through the guide until you are asked to choose a Primary member, Select the server that has your existing files
  6. Full Mesh topology is fine, "Next"
  7. Replicate using the default Full Bandwidth, "Next"
  8. Review your settings then hit "Create"
  9. You should get a lot of ✅ then be good to go
  10. You will recieve a notice about the following:
Note

Configuration changes are not applied immediately to all members except when using the Suspend-DfsReplicationGroup and Sync-DfsReplicationGroup cmdlets. The new configuration must be replicated to all domain controllers, and each member in the replication group must poll its closest domain controller to obtain the changes. The amount of time this takes depends on the Active Directory Directory Services (AD DS) replication latency and the long polling interval (60 minutes) on each member. To poll immediately for configuration changes, open a Command Prompt window and then type the following command once for each member of the replication group:
dfsrdiag.exe PollAD /Member:DOMAIN\Server1
To do so from a Windows PowerShell session, use the Update-DfsrConfigurationFromAD cmdlet, which was introduced in Windows Server 2012 R2.

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