Distributed File System (DFS) has been around since Windows NT and comes in a variety of configurations and options. While DFS is available in standalone and domain configurations, this article will ...

On Windows Server 2016 or 2019, how long has "chkdsk /r" taken on large volumes (>2 TB)? I'm thinking through the pros and cons between using NTFS on file servers and replicating the data using DFS, ...

I have been trying to replicate my NY file servers between two other remote file servers TPA and DR sites. For the longest I could not get them to replicate correctly so I thought to call MS support.

Businesses are now scrambling again to get disaster recovery systems upgraded or in place. Why now when the whole winter was available? People procrastinate. IT departments fight with management to ...

The DFS replication service (also known as DFS-R) is responsible for synchronizing updates to files that exist in more than one DFS target location. The version of DFS-R that comes with Server 2008 ...